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The Green Scapular by Bishop Dolan (Traditional Catholic Sermon) Online transcript (written mistakes to be considered as so): 0:01 In the Gospel today our Blessed Savior 0:04 tells us other sheep I …More
The Green Scapular by Bishop Dolan
(Traditional Catholic Sermon)

Online transcript (written mistakes to be considered as so):

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In the Gospel today our Blessed Savior
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tells us other sheep I have that are not
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of this fold them also I shall bring and
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that they shall hear my voice in the
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name of the Father and of the Son and of
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the Holy Ghost amen when I was in high
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school seminarian in Detroit I used to
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go on Sundays to the Latin Mass at a
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little Italian Church in downtown
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Detroit and I got to know some people
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who would give me a ride and I'd walk
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down the street and I would meet them at
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a certain corner by the expressway and
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they would pick me up well it was a good
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introduction to what the world calls the
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traditional movement what we know as the
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Catholics who are left because they were
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a carload of characters and probably one
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of the most colorful was an old Italian
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lady when it was Marie
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Adamo and she introduced me to the
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wonders of the mystical City of God the
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venerable Mary of Agreda she also had a
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practice much to my chagrin at that time
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I'll admit now instead of giving a tip
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we course naturally he'd go out to
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breakfast after Sunday Mass instead of
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giving a tip she would leave a green
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scapular on the table and she would be
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all the time giving out green scapulars
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to attendance at stores and back then
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they used to pump gas actually at a gas
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station now as a high schooler that
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embarrassed me but now I realize that
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she was sharing the greatest possible
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riches with all of these people whom she
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would meet perhaps only once in her life
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and I thought of old Marie
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Adamo Easter Sunday P Cable told me a
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story after the 1130 he was on his way
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to church Easter Sunday morning and he
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stopped at Thorntons gas station down
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the street on 747 and got talking to the
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man who was the attendant he told him in
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turn that a lady had come earlier that
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morning
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with license plates from Rhode Island
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and he got talking to her and asked her
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what brings what brought her out Easter
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Sunday
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all the way from Rhode Island she said
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why to go to Mass and he said well don't
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you have Catholic churches in Rhode
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Island and she said no we don't and then
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Pete started to explain a little bit
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himself about the differences the
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Vatican Council the ecumenical movement
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the watering down of our faith
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supposedly to draw others into the
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Catholic Church and the gas station man
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allowed as to how something like that
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wasn't right and and that would never
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work and then he mentioned to Pete the
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man dead that this lady mrs. Givens is
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her name if I'm not mistaken this lady
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had given him a green scapular which she
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had hidden he showed it to him and then
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she said he said to she also gave me a
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rosary and then he said I take this as a
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sign from God I'm not a Catholic he said
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but I'm going to say the rosary isn't
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that a wonderful tale for Good Shepherd
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Sunday our Blessed Mother the mother of
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the Divine Shepherd is always going
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about to gather up some stray sheep and
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get them back to her son's sheepfold our
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Blessed lady is truly under all of her
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titles a pilgrim virgin think of this as
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we honor our mother of Good Counsel
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today our lady is always reenacting the
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mystery of the visitation she's a
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traveling Blessed Mother seeking sheep
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to save souls to get to heaven for her
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son someone gave the mother of Good
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Counsel to us a few years ago and how
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grateful we are how much our lady has
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given us ever since we have honored her
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under this
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title and I thought that I would tell
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you today about the gift that the
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Blessed Mother of the Divine Shepherd
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has for each one of us it is agreeing
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gift but it's not ecological it is
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theological it is not for Earth it is
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for heaven we're not talking about
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carbon footprints but the footprints of
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the Good Shepherd overall the face of
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the earth to seek the souls that are
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lost and in this devotion it's not
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required that you should get a picture
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framed and hang it in an honourable
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place in your home but rather you just
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get a hold of a little postage
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stamp-sized well it's a pledge card
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really from Mary to us our participation
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at this late date in the work of the
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Good Shepherd seeking his stray sheep a
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little green badge half a scapular if
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you will
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carried in the wallet or worn with your
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other metals and devotions and you can
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hide it in the homes or even in the
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clothing of the recalcitrant who
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wouldn't use it themselves and we call
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it the green scapular I think most
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Catholics are familiar with it this is
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the scapular you use for conversion and
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the brown we wear as our sign of
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consecration to Mary's Immaculate Heart
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the story of it is a marvelous one and
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it starts near Lourdes a few decades
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maybe 20 years or so before Bernadette
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Soubirous was born in the same region of
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France a young lady from a well-to-do
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family who is orphaned at a young age
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Justine biscuity who's her name and she
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is raised by an aunt
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the aunt gives her permission
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to enter the Daughters of Charity the
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order of st. Vincent DePaul you know the
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nuns used to wear the big Coronets of
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starched linen and she later on in life
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would become a teacher first and then a
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wonderful nurse in the Crimean War so
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much so that Florence Nightingale
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admired her and wanted to imitate her
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but she had a secret whereby she could
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nurse not only bodies but souls this is
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how the secret started she too went to
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the Rue de Bock the famous convent in
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Paris for her novitiate and there whilst
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she was at prayer January the 28th 1840
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the Mother of God appeared to her so
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beautiful she didn't have a veil on her
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head and her heart was emitting
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beautiful Ray's heavenly light that same
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vision was repeated several times that
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year but on Our Lady's birthday she
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appeared to her holding in one hand her
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heart all ablaze with rays more dazzling
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than the Rays of the Sun as transparent
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as crystal and then the other hand our
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lady held out the green scapular with a
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little prayer around it Immaculate Heart
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of Mary pray for us now and at the hour
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of our death amen
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and then she was given to understand
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that's how these heavenly locutions work
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that this scapular would be the means
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for the conversion of infidels
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especially to procure for them a good
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death and that copy should be made and
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distributed this is important with
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confidence especially infidels in
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preparing the sermon I was struck by
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that I think that the green scapular is
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the other half of the story of the
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mother of Good Counsel
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remember how our lady up
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her son and Upton left Albania when the
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Moslems were on their way they weren't
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sticking around to see what would happen
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next and our lady installed herself in
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Italy not too far from Rome how God took
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the holy house of Nazareth where the
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Incarnation took place and translate
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pour - that - from the Holy Land which
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had fallen into the power and put
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it - in the Holy Land of Italy but I'm
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thinking the Blessed Mother would never
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leave her children even her infidel
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children without help so what does she
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do in 1840 she gives a green scapular
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for their conversion and in 1917 where
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does she choose to appear a little town
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in Portugal with a Muslim name you say
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Fatima and a Muslim listens that's the
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name of the daughter of the prophet of
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their wretched sect but remember that
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the poor benighted followers of this
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false religion have a certain devotion
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to Our Lady and that they believe in her
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Immaculate Conception which is wondrous
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beyond all telling it must be that they
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are meant to be converted by the mother
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of God well back to the story there were
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the usual delays and our Blessed lady is
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patient but sooner or later she came as
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you wanted to know what was going on and
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what was taking so long because she was
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eager to get this wonderful sacramental
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distributed father al-adel the same one
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who worked with the miraculous medal of
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st. Catherine Laboure was in charge in
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due time it was approved and passed out
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and the Pope in Rome Pius the ninth
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twice gave it his blessing the
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particular power of this little half
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scapular the green scapular is to bring
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wandering sheep back but not only
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infidels but heretics asthmatics
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Catholics who haven't done their Easter
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Duty and those who have fallen away from
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church there there are two parts then to
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the program of the green scapular you
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use it carry it with you at all times
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easiest as your wallet or else put it
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with your brown scapular and then you
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give it to those who are in need of
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God's grace if they cannot or will not
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take it from you
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why then you hide it someplace as best
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you may and then the second part of it
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is that somebody must say the prayer
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each day you say the prayer once a day
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for yourself Immaculate Heart of Mary
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pray for us now and the hour of our
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death amen
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and then for anyone to whom you've given
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it say that little prayer for them each
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day won't you but remember it's
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important because this is a scapular
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that comes from the heart of God the
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Sacred Heart through his mother's
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Immaculate Heart you've got to do it
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with confidence the Rays that that this
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nun saw sister Justine she says stand
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the rays of light from Mary's heart they
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stand for confidence your prayer will be
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heard in proportion to the degree of
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your confidence as you pray so as you
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use the green scapular frequently say
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Sacred Heart of Jesus I place my trust
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in thee or my mother my confidence
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little prayers like that very important
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so carry it wear it yourself then have
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some extra it's in your pocket probably
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the easiest things keeps them in the car
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and when you get talking to somebody you
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don't need to sit them down for a sermon
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or a catechism lesson you could just say
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something to the effect of look it's
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been nice meeting you our nice talking
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to you here's something I would like to
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give you it's a gift from God's mother
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the Virgin Mary when it's rough for you
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ask Mary for help here's a little prayer
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and you show them the prayer I'm a kid
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how to Mary pray for us now and at the
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amen and then say I'm going to pray for
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you every day and then with a smile you
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may take your leave try to keep track
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though of those to whom you've given the
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scapular so you may fulfill your promise
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to saying that little prayer for them
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each day remember st. James told us just
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yesterday in the Epistle for the greater
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litanies mass if you convert anyone from
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the error of his ways you will save your
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own soul from death and you will cover a
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multitude of sins what a wonderful
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promise that is to us and st. Denis the
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areopagus rights of all divine things
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the most godlike is to cooperate with
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God in the conversion of sinners and it
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is so simple God wants that pagan you'll
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meet once in your life at Walmart
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God wants the Protestant next-door who
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sent over the cookies God wants that
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modestly dressed Muslim family new in
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your neighborhood whose presence has
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troubled you so and the nice Jewish lady
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to God wants all of them to be converted
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and to be saved oh and don't forget your
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husband or your wife or your children or
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your grandchildren and your cousins and
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your uncle's inter aunts God wants them
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to for his heart through his mother's
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heart
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the pledge and the promise is not just
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for others it is also for yourself the
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devil has no power over anyone who makes
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our wares or spreads the green scapular
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of Mary's Immaculate Heart a few years
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ago I came across and was charmed by a
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song on a CD of all things bluegrass
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gospel music and one of the songs has a
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charming refrain which i think of ever
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so often it is that the refrain is don't
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you want to be a shepherd for the good
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god almighty for the good god almighty
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for the good God Almighty
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don't you want to be a Shepherd for the
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good God Almighty don't you want to go
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to heaven when you die don't you god
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bless you in the name of the Father and
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of the Son and of the Holy Ghost amen

Source:
The Green Scapular by Bishop Dolan (Traditional Catholic Sermon)