Sacramentals for the End Time
"WEAR IT AND RECEIVE MY PROTECTION IN TIME OF DANGER”
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It's the middle of the 13th century, the age of Gregory X and the Crusades, chivalry and the Knights of the Round Table. Another moment of glory is about to happen inside the crude cell of a Carmelite Monastery in the middle of a small English village named Aylesford.
A 90-year old priest is huddled on the floor, his back bent under the weight of his years, his withered lips murmuring the words of what will soon become one of the most legendary prayers in the history of the Church. "O Most Beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel, Splendor of Heaven . . . O Star of the Sea, help me!"
The old man's room is suddenly flooded with light. He jolts upright with a spryness that hints of the vigorous young man who gave his life to the "Order of the Virgin" and spent his youth living in solitude in the tree trunks of an English forest. And now here She is, the love of his life, standing in an almost blinding radiance with a babe clutched in one arm and the other extending toward him, a strip of plain brown wool clasped in her hand. "TAKE THIS SCAPULAR AND WEAR IT," She says, "AND WHOSOEVER DOES SO SHALL RECEIVE MY PROTECTION IN TIME OF DANGER; IT SHALL BE A PLEDGE OF PEACE BETWEEN THEM AND ME, AND WHOSOEVER DIES IN IT SHALL NOT SUFFER ETERNAL FIRE." St. Simon Stock takes the cloth, clutches it to his heart and watches the heavenly vision fade back into eternity.
- Sue Brinkmann (catholicplanet)
PROTECTION FROM EPIDEMICS, CALAMITIES and WAR
- Rev. M. D'Arville, Apostolic Prothonotary (The Year of Mary or The True Servant of the Blessed Virgin, 1865)
1 Epidemics
"All nature, all the elements, seem to respect the virtue of that Holy Habit. Maladies before unknown, defying the skill of the physicians, depopulate the cities and towns of the province of Anjou. The Scapular appears; the mortality ceases.
"One beholds all Provence (France) ravaged by a terrible pestilence and Marseilles, alone, putting its trust in the Scapular is saved. Then it consecrates the memory of that signal favor by a monument worthy of the greatness of Mary and the piety of its inhabitants.
2 Storms
"The powers of the air have formed a frightful tempest, which threatens to devastate, far and wide, the plains of Savoy and Sardinia (Italy). By virtue of that Celestial Habit, the unchained winds, the hail, the lightning and thunder are instantly dispelled. The sea dares to cross the boundaries that the finger of God has marked out for it. The Scapular is the dyke opposed to it. The pride of the waves is instantly broken, and they retire within their usual limits.
3 Drought
"In Spain, the heavens are closed up, as in the days of Elias; there is a dearth as in the days of Joseph. Mary is appealed to, Her Habit is carried in procession. The sky, before of brass, melts into water, and the people find the granaries more abundant than those of Egypt.
4 War
"At the siege of the island of Malta in 1565, and at that of the city of Gueldres (Netherlands) in 1597, nations were seen armed against nations, breathing naught but blood and carnage. Mary is invoked; the Scapular is borne in procession. At sight of that new standard the people are disarmed, the torch of war is extinguished and the charms of peace appear once more."
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