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Hey there, sprouts, today is Tuesday, May 16th, 2020. Today is also the feast day of an English Saint, St. Simon Stock. Now, St. Simon Stock was a Carmelite eventually, because the Carmelite order was founded in the Middle East,

but because of empires and armies moving around, they fled, and they moved to England.

St. Simon's Stock lived during that time. He was a very holy man. In fact, legend tells it that he got the last name, Stock, because he was a hermit that went and lived in the trunk of a tree, which in England at the time was called the Stock, that he lived there for years in prayer and contemplation. Before the Carmelites arrived, he joined that order and became a leader.

Now, one of the things that we remember St. Simon's stock for most of all is that Mary appeared to him and gave him the scapular.

Now, many people wear the scapular.

It's two small pieces of cloth connected by two strings on each side that you wear around your

neck with a special blessing and a special commitment. So that's how lay people wear them.

But several religious orders that are habited have the scapular as part of their habit. It's very long. It's a big long piece of fabric in the front,

a big long piece of fabric in the back. But this is a beautiful devotion to Mary, where she promises

her love and protection throughout life and at the moment of death. If you have ever considered wearing a scapular, it's something available to all lay

people.

Do some research.

Get a scapular, make a scapular.

Have a priest help you become invested with that scapular and wear it for the rest of your

life.

So we're in May and we are learning the memorare, one of my favorite prayers to Mary.

So if you will enjoin me and praying that together.

The name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.

Remember, almost gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known, that anyone who fled to

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