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Priest:
Show us, O Lord, Thy mercy.
All: And grant us Thy salvation.
Priest: O Lord, hear my prayer.
All: And let my cry come unto Thee.
Priest: The Lord be with you.
All: And with thy spirit.
Priest: Let us pray:
All: O Lord Jesus Christ, Savior of mankind, * by Thy right hand
sanctify +
these Scapulars (this Scapular) which Thy servants will devoutly
wear for the love of Thee
and of Thy Mother; the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. Carmel; so that,
by her intercession,
they may be protected from the wickedness of the enemy and persevere
in Thy grace until death;
Who livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen.
The priest now sprinkles the Scapular with Holy Water, after which
he places the Scapular
on each one saying:
Priest: Receive this blessed Scapular and ask the Most Holy Virgin
that, by her merits,
it may be worn with no stain of sin and may protect you from all
harm and bring you into everlasting life.
All: Amen.
Priest: May Almighty God,
All: Creator of heaven and earth, bless + you whom He has been pleased
to
receive into the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount
Carmel. * We beg her
to crush the head of the ancient serpent in the hour of your death,
* and, in the end,
to obtain for you a palm and the crown of your everlasting inheritance.
Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
The priest now sprinkles those enrolled with Holy Water.
The BROWN SCAPULAR and John Paul II
When Pope John Paul II was shot and operated on in
1981, he told doctors not to remove the brown scapular
he was wearing. [The brown scapular is] One of the two
"most recommended" devotions of the Church ...
(Inside the Vatican, July 10, 2001)
"... I therefore learned with deep joy that the two branches
of the Order of Carmel,
the ancient and the reformed, intend to express their filial love
for their Patroness by
dedicating the year 2001 to her, invoked as the Flower of Carmel,
Mother and Guide
on the way of holiness. In this regard, I cannot fail to stress
a happy coincidence:
the celebration of this Marian year for the whole of Carmel is taking
place,
according to a venerable tradition of the Order itself, on the 750th
anniversary of the
bestowal of the Scapular. This celebration is therefore a marvellous
occasion for the
entire Carmelite Family to deepen not only its Marian spirituality,
but to live it more and
more in the light of the place which the Virgin Mother of God and
of mankind holds
in the mystery of Christ and the Church, and therefore to follow
her who is the
"Star of Evangelization" (cf. Novo millennio ineunte,
n. 58) ..."
I, too, have worn the Scapular of Carmel over my heart for a long
time! Out of my love for our
common heavenly Mother,
whose protection I constantly experience, I hope that this Marian
year will help all the
men and women religious of Carmel and the devout faithful who venerate
her with filial
affection to grow in her love and to radiate to the world the presence
of this
Woman of silence and prayer, invoked as Mother of Mercy,
Mother of Hope and Grace ..." Pope John Paul II, March 25,
2001
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