BROWN SCAPULAR PROMISES

AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

"And because all the forms of our love for the Blessed Virgin, all its various modes of expression cannot
be equally agreeable to her and therefore do not assist us in the same degree to Heaven, I aver without
a moment's hesitation that the scapular is the most favored of all."
------Bl. Claude de la Columbiere, S.J.
In the year 1251 the Order of Carmel was in grave danger of extinction because of persecutions from
within and without. Saint Simon Stock, the General of the Order, prayed thus to the Queen of Carmel:
"Flower of Carmel Blossoming vine Splendor of Heaven Mother Divine None like to thee Peerless and
fair Thy children of Carmel Save by thy care Star of the Sea!" Suddenly the cell was flooded with a great
light. Surrounded by a concourse of Angels, the Queen of Heaven descended toward him, holding forth
the brown scapular of the friars and saying: "Whoever Dies Piously Wearing This Scapular, and having
worn it (Piously) according to the rules of the order, Shall Not Suffer Eternal Flames". This is the first and
the better known of the two scapular promises. One must die in the State of Grace for God is not
mocked !!!!!

THE SECOND PROMISE "As a tender mother, I will descend into Purgatory on the Saturday after their
death and will deliver them and bring them to the holy mountain, into the happy sojourn of life
everlasting." (Words of the Blessed Virgin to Pope John XXII): NOTE: This second privilege requires: (1.)
Observance of chastity according to one's state of life. (2.) For all who can read, the recitation of the
Little Office of the Blessed Virgin; otherwise, abstinence from flesh meat on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The latter conditions can be commuted by a priest possessing the faculties (which is any true priest
ordained in the pre-Vatican II Roman Ritual - in this our time during the Great Apostasy) into other good
works -----such as the daily recitation of the (full 15 Decade) Rosary, or 5 full decades of the Rosary as
assigned by the Church for that day (Joyful, Sorrowful or Glorious.) (.3.) One must (of course) maintain a
themselves in a state of Grace always.

One who wears the Scapular thus partakes in all of the spiritual benefits of the whole Carmelite Order
of all Carmelite Saints and Martyrs !!!!!This promise is what is known as the Sabbatine Privilege, from
the Hebrew word Sabbato, or Saturday.

Oh And what a Lovely Mother, I wish that I had one like her, I really, really do, with everything about
her and looking I find that I have been a foolish child, a school boy whod wandered out of line and lost
his little way the little way of God Alone. She is my Most Precious Mother through and through, my

Patroness and Lady, surely, but my Precious Mother, who would do anything for me, who loves me and
all my ways and with all things about me, she just Loves me with the Love that the Very Most Perfect
Mother has for her littlest, weakest and most needful child. Thank You to my Heavenly Mother, and to
God for giving My Heavenly Mother to me, my Gift of Gods Dear Mercy and Grace, my all in all after
God Himself. My Salvation in bringing Salvation to me, and in her ceaseless prayers and gifts to me, her
favored one. I thank Thee my truest and only Mother, with all my heart I thank Thee and I Love Thee
above all things after God, Amen. Michael Sean Glennon