“Whosoever dies clothed in this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire.” – words of Our Lady to Saint Simon Stock
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Mary being our mother wants us to be saved, for which she gave us a wonderful gift of the “Brown Scapular” with a promise that those who wear Her Brown Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire. Only a fool can doubt about Mother Mary’s promise and refrain from wearing the Carmelite mantel.
Wearing the Scapular, a Form of Consecration
Wearing Mary’s Scapular is a way to consecrate ourselves to Her service. Consecration sets apart a person or thing for a sacred purpose. Every Catholic should be consecrated to Mary.
Our Lady of Fatima, on October 13th, 1917, held the Brown Scapular in Her hand, making Lucy, Jacinta and Francisco understand that She wants all of us to wear the Scapular.
A Sign of Salvation and Protection
Wearing the Brown Scapular is a sign of predestination just as reciting the Holy Rosary is a sign of predestination.
Miracles of the Brown Scapular
The devotion to the Brown Scapular was authorized by miracles. God uses miracles as a witness to the truth of His promises and those of His Mother. Miracles are used by God to confirm the solid foundation of the devotions that the Church proposes to the faithful. The greater the number of miracles obtained by a particular devotion, the more it draws our attention to this devotion and authenticates the truth that the practice is pleasing to God. Of all the devotions adopted by the Church, none has been confirmed by more authenticated miracles than that of the Brown Scapular.
Saved in a Plane Crash
A Jesuit missionary in Guatemala relayed the following
incident of Our Lady’s Scapular protection. In November of 1955 a plane carrying 27 passengers crashed. All died except one young lady. When this girl saw the plane was going down, she took hold of her Scapular, and called on Mary for help. She suffered burns, her clothing was reduced to ashes, but her Scapular was not touched by the flames.
Importance of Scapular to us – an experience
One day as I was attending a christening ceremony, I witnessed this strange thing. As usual for the party there were games organised for the kids. One of the game was that an object would be named and the children had to get the object from someone in the crowd. Suddenly I heard the compere saying “Scapular, go get the Scapular”. Children just ran and all the elders quickly removed the scapular from their neck. I quickly said to the lady sitting in front of me “Scapular is not a playing object”, She immediately put it back.
Let’s wear the Scapular with profound gratitude and reverence to our Lady.

Neville Fernandes