We should even give the Scapular to non-Catholics as Our Lady will bring conversions to those who will wear it and say one Hail Mary each day as the following true story will show: An old man was rushed to the St. Simon Stock Hospital in New York City, unconscious and dying. The nurse, seeing the Brown Scapular on the patient, called the priest. As he was saying the prayers for the dying, the man became conscious and spoke up: "Father, I am not a Catholic." "Then why are you wearing the Brown Scapular?" asked the priest. "I promised my friends to wear it," the patient explained, "and say one Hail Mary a day." "You are dying," the priest told him. "Do you want to become a Catholic?" "All my life I wanted to be one," the gasping man replied. He was baptized, received the last rites and died in peace. Our Lady took another soul under Her mantle, through Her SCAPULAR!
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https://olrl.org/pray/rosary.shtmlIf you think that wearing the scapular is a badge signifying your faithfulness and merits then you have the wrong idea about it. It is a badge signifying the merits and power of Our Lady. It is true that those who wear it insincerely, presumptuously or with the intention of mocking the devotion will not benefit from it but in that case Our Lord will see to it that the scapular is removed before death. Consider the story of the woman who wore the brown scapular but fell into mortal sin and then into despair. She determined that she would commit ѕυιcιdє by casting herself off a bridge into a river to be drowned. She jumped and submerged into the water but soon bobbed up to the surface. Realizing that she was still wearing the brown scapular, she tore it off and cast it aside. Whereupon she sank into the water and drowned.
She didn't die until she took the scapular off. Think about it. If you wear the brown scapular in sincerity, Our Lady will obtain for you all the graces necessary to save your soul. Even if you are a wretched sinner beyond all humanly reasonable hope she can save you. Don't trust in your own strength. Trust in Our Lady's merits.
Our Lady will save even those presumptuous Catholics who think they have merited to wear the brown scapular. No it's not a lucky charm but neither is it a reward for good behavior. It is a grace freely given by a loving God to whom He wills or to whom His Mother wills.
By the way, I recommend that if you do wear the brown scapular you should wear it at all times, even while bathing. It is far too easy to slip and fall or be electrocuted in the tub or shower.
Also, don't wear the felt scapulars. Make sure you have a woven scapular. You should be able to see the weaving.