Some people are quite disciplined in the matter of wearing a
scapular. This comes from Latin scapulae, shoulder blades. Scapulars are
garments, usually associated with religious habits, which fall down
from the shoulders, mostly over the rest of the habit. Another kind of
scapular is small, on strings, which symbolically substitutes for the
larger scapular. There are different kinds of scapulars which are
spiritual aids in various ways. They generally are a symbol of a
relationship through which we derive spiritual protection and aid.
Probably the most commonly used scapular is the brown Scapular of Our
Lady of Mount Carmel.BTW… once you are “enrolled” and given the brown scapular, if and when your scapular wears out, simply replace it. You don’t have to have the new one blessed.
I am not sure if Eastern Catholics and Orthodox have such things, but a reader alerted me to something which she thought was rather like a Western scapular.
At The Daily Mail there are many photos concerning the destruction of a Russian jet fighter by the Turks. The pilots were killed as they parachuted. Among the photos are the pilots’ effects, including this, which I flipped and cropped:
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