Renewing My Brown Scapular Investiture

[Romans1513]

[quote name='Blessed Imelda Pray for Us' post='1407213' date='Oct 22 2007, 01:59 PM']I read a couple of posts that mentioned this. Now...the last time I put mine on was, I guess around a year ago. I was not aware we are supposed to remove the scapular? Are we not supposed to wear it to bed or something? Considering what Mary has promised to do through it, most people I know (including myself) just never take it off.[/quote]
Yeahhh... I was wondering that too. I take mine off every day, when I shower, but don't pray any specific prayers when I put it back on.

[-I---Love]

I vote no, for reasons of tackiness, a waste of money, and the tatoo as a possible hinderance to ppl concerning the faith (just as swearing about inanimate objects in and of itself is mostly wrong b/c of the harm done to other ppl hearing).

Nevertheless I hope your idea is a HUGE tatoo, so that it would be the original LARGE scapular, covering most of your back and chest/stomach. If you want to do it, you have to go all out

[Spamity Calamity]

[quote name='Blessed Imelda Pray for Us' post='1407213' date='Oct 22 2007, 12:59 PM']I read a couple of posts that mentioned this. Now...the last time I put mine on was, I guess around a year ago. I was not aware we are supposed to remove the scapular? Are we not supposed to wear it to bed or something? Considering what Mary has promised to do through it, most people I know (including myself) just never take it off.[/quote]

See now thats interesting I had just assumed everyone took it off to sleep. When I use to wear one as a child I would always take the thing off to sleep because otherwise it would get all wrapped up around my neck or lost in the sheets. Hmmmm I wonder what the rules are concerning this?

[Aloysius]

When I wore mine, I never took it off, not for sleep, not for showering, not for nothing. I don't think there are official rules... but it's not meant to be something taken on and off (some previous posts made it seem as if that was part of the devotion, that it ought to be taken on and off)... the idea is that you always wear it.

I don't understand it being a hindrance to the faith, leah. That seems pretty ridiculous. You don't go around appeasing everyone's puritan sensibilities

Yeah, I definitely made it clear I'd wear the cloth still.

Oh.. and did somoebody say the Church said something against the scapaular medal? As far as I know, it's still approved for use as long as your first scapular was a cloth scapular; but the cloth is preferred.

To me, the body is the corporeal manifestation of your true self, you should not arbitrarily tattoo it with any old random thing, but you ought to be free to put on it something which reflects deeper into your true self. I feel like, on the last day when our bodies are risen and glorified, the body will reflect so much more vividly your true self; that those who were faithful to the scapular in life will have a sort of scapular mark on their body to show that, that the various devotions you adorned yourself with spiritually will be visible corporeally. Tattooes which are of this nature, then, are to me a great thing. This would apply mainly to stuff like family crests or anything which shows your connection to your culture and to religious symbols.

[-I---Love]

so you still didn't tell us how big it's going to be... dimensions, please lol