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Hey there, sprouts, today is Friday, May 16th, 20205. Today is also the feast day of an important Carmelite saint named St. Simon Stock. St. Simon Stock lived in the 12s, and that's about the time that the Carmelite

order arrived in England. St. Simon Stock had been a hermit, but he joined the order, became a leader,

and one day, while praying and fasting, Mary appeared to St. Simon's stock and gave him the scapular.

Now, if you know a religious person, like a monk or a nun, they wear a scapular, which is a long

piece of fabric down their front and down their back, reaches from their neck to their feet.

Mary gave this to St. Simon Stock as a sign of devotion to her and also a promise that anyone

who died wearing the scapular would not be sent to hell. So it's an incredible promise.

Now, for centuries, only the religious war as scapular.

But because they knew about this promise, lay people like you and me would sometimes go and cut off a

little piece of a monk or a nun's scapular, put a hole in it, put it around their neck, because they wanted that

promise too. So after a while, it became officially available for lay people to wear a scapular as well.

I wear a scapular. It's very simple. It's two small pieces of brown fabric with a string connecting them.

One piece on the front, one piece on the back.

You wear it under your clothing.

But you can only begin to wear a scapular if you are enrolled

and if you are invested with the scapular by a priest.

So if you are interested in wearing a scapular and being part of this very powerful devotion, you can purchase a scapular anywhere. You can ask your priest to

bless it, and you can ask your priest to invest you with a scapular. Now this week on the Catholic Express podcast, we have been talking about why is for

Yahweh.

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