Brown Scapular & 'Holy Tonys' Booklet

By Fr. Ed Roche

The wonders of the Brown Scapular include that it is like to Eternal Life Insurance without having to pay a single premium, yet to observe whatever chastity pertains to whatever ones vocation is in life. Clear sharing too on the only Brown Scapular and Rosary martyr known by name in history: Blessed Isidore Bakanja of Africa. Shared too are the officially known Holy Tonys [St. Anthonys] in history with prayers to them for lost subjects -- to become reverts or converts -- and objects with emphasis mainly on lost subjects to be found or re-found in the faith.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 27, 2015
• ISBN: 9781514436615

Fr. Ed Roche

Seminarian all 5 years in Rome, including when Blessed Isidore was beatified by Pope St. John Paul II. It was my honor to spread the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel mainly there in Rome, yet in other European countries during those years and later. Missionary priest with the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity in Texas, USA, then in Honduras with Hurricane Mitch victims [including 20+ missions that I had there], followed by 9 years in the shoot-out zone of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where drug cartelists have been killing people, even attempting my life once. What a joy shortly after becoming a priest to have had one of my first Masses overseas in the Basilica of the most miraculously famous ‘Holy Tony’ -- St. Anthony of Padua -- and to have my first assignment in Texas at his Church in the city of Robstown.

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Brown Scapular &

‘Holy Tonys’ Booklet

FR. ED ROCHE

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*The Saving Scapular for any Shepherds or ‘Sheep’

‘Holy Tonys’ too for any Lost Subjects or Objects

by Fr. Ed Roche, SOLT

[While no book or booklet can match Brown Scapular protection, writings can serve to spread it.]

The Cloth of SALVATION is for any person: Catholic or non-Catholic — if respectfully worn.

How can a non-Catholic be blessed by this Cloth? Here’s a main explicatory saying that God gave me:

The brown scapular is ‘eternal life insurance’ without even having to ‘pay’ a single premium.

Mary promised to the Carmelite St. Simon Stock that anyone who dies wearing this Cloth of Hers will not suffer the flames of hell.

[In the lingua franca of English, ‘Tony’ works well for ‘Anthony.’ In overtone, it recalls how pious people humbly place prayers ‘at the feet’ of Holy Ones. How? Toe-knee for Tony – from the toe to the knee as on a kneeler – though sending prayers to their very souls as they departed from their holy bodies.]

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Fr. Ed’s Emmanuel Chaplet imprimatured per Archbishop Gonzalez of Puerto Rico - to my left

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Holy Mother Theresa with me, Fr. Ed, just behind her

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Mystical Rose Rosary of Fr. Ed at the Lourdes Grotto

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St. JP II with me serving on Good Friday in Rome

Non-Marian people may doubt the Great Scapular Promise, yet God can do wonders through others, even as He did with the 10 Commandments per Moses – etc. gifts and peoples – and Mary Herself gifted mankind with Our Savior. She Herself would avow that the brown scapular is Her gift yet per God ‘via Maria’ and all for the glory of God with greater assurance of our salvation. No other sacramental can compare with this one. The Great Scapular promise was prophesied by St. Dominic in Rome to a Carmelite preacher, Brother St. Angelus (who told St. Francis there and then that he’d receive the stigmata, too). St. Dominic also knew then that Mary, the Mother of God and the Church, would gift himself with the most holy rosary; too, that with Her Son Jesus, of course, and later the rosary with this scapular, Mary would help to save the world.

Anyone who receives the Carmelite scapular is at least a ‘tertiary member’ of it. The first Carmelite tertiary — who received the Carmelite habit in 1265 from St. Simon Stock (yet living at home, then later as a recluse, and thus a tertiary) — is a saint. Who? St. Joan of Toulouse who died in the 14th c. Holy popes officially proclaimed the brown scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel as the Sign of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and any holy hearts are one with Mary’s (and Her scapular). Why? God Our Heavenly Divine Father wanted us to have a perfectly Human Heavenly Mother.

How needful for the end times, apocalyptic as things are getting now, to have the help of Mary’s Cloth spread all the more throughout the world. Many nations are not only suffering disastrous wars, so many others are being bombarded by evils of cultural contaminants, especially with raw media and more. How Providential that Our Lady of Fatima’s last apparition — pointing to end times and evils (as prophesied in the Bible) — has Her with the brown scapular, indicating the greater needs of end times to try to ensure our salvation.

The 1st Commandment of Love, known as the Shema, begins its Commandment verse with the call to love God with all our heart. A melody for the Shema and in many languages came to me from the H.S., and it is about the best aspiration for a chant to be offered with any heartbeats and in harmony with the Holy Hearts especially of the Holy Family. The holy mystic Mary of Agreda knew that Mary received the Logos (Jesus the Word) per 3 drops of Blood from Her Immaculate Heart that passed from there into Her womb. Thus, even the Blood of Christ associates much with Mary’s Blood. A contract may get hauled off or more, but not the New and Everlasting Covenant: Marian-Trinitarian as it is, Jesus having been conceived by Mary’s FIAT.

The brown scapular is not any contract: it is an alliance with God via Maria of the very lightest kind possible. How? (Not just by its light weight of woolen cloth.) It encompasses much of the saving grace of all of the other covenants if properly worn; i.e., by not negating any covenantal ‘lights’ that Our God of all good and great Lights wants turned on. How can that be if one is not even receiving the Body and Blood of Christ at the Holy Mass? The ‘Angelic Doctor,’ St. Thomas Aquinas explains it by how we’ll be judged according to the lights we have and not the lights we don’t have: especially of Jesus the Light of the world. Again, though, if God is trying to ‘turn on the lights’ for someone to come to Mass, even if he/she has any goodwill, Judgment Day can be more difficult for rejecting God’s efforts: yet goodwill can be enough at least to make it to purgatory.

How? By the light of true goodwill (if even ignorant of the Last Supper and need for the Eucharist), any person can be saved, according to the natural covenantal law ‘written on hearts,’ as prophesied by Jeremiah (included, too, in my 5th decade of the ‘Prophetic Mysteries’ Mary gave me for 7 distinct sets of Rosary Mysteries for the week: 3 new ones to the other 4 in the Church). That is, any person of whatever religion or philosophy or way of life can be saved, yet by oneness too with the natural law of the 10 Commandments in hearts (whether known ‘by heart’ or not – i.e., by memory). For any goodwill person would not aim to profane God or violate one’s neighbor. So, any person of goodwill would also be in oneness with the natural law: against abortions (knowing unborn babies have souls), murders, adulteries, stealing, worshipping pagan gods (goddesses, idols, etc.) – even if the ‘lights’ of Christ Our LIGHT are yet to be illuminating one’s life. Too, even if one isn’t yet convinced or a believer in the good of the Holy Rosary, feel free to at least privately pray that 5th decade of the Prophetic Mysteries: i.e., 1 Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, and the Glory Be. Those prayers for rosary decades are easy to find by anyone if not already known by some: even if not by heart (in memory). That 5th one is: the Babylonian Captivity, Jeremiah, and the New Covenant on hearts.

While anyone under 7 years of age who dies doesn’t yet typically have personal sin, it’s because they haven’t reached the age of reason. Still, it’s good to let them have the medal of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel to have them already more prone to wanting the scapular when maturing. Also, with the medal there’s less risk of an accident (immature as they are of age) with the string around their necks. The medal less tiny is great as it typically has a wondrous image of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. Even if they don’t live life to the age of reason, they are of innocent souls: as even I like saturn to be called the INNOCENTS planet, and with its 9 rings symbolizing 9 different kinds of innocent persons. Thus, my brother Danny, who didn’t live to even 7 months, is in a far better place even than this wondrous earth. Even the famous pop song of Elton John is memorable of my brother, yet more accurately for him it’s like this (as I privately sing it so): Daniel my brother, you were older than me yet you don’t feel the pain, living only two months in your lifetime on earth, baptized too by desire: Daniel you are ever and ever with God Above. He was our only sibling who died before being born.

The same Angelic Doctor knew that there’s a ‘gift of confirmation,’ meaning that God can confirm to a person that he or she will absolutely be saved. Yet he knew that this gift is rarely given, even to saints. Still, the brown scapular (if properly – chastely – worn on the person) is a sign of confirmation of at least making it to purgatory: especially if seen on a person passing from this life into the next. While the H.S. Sacrament of Confirmation is more than a sacramental – as this cloth is not a sacrament – this sacramental scapular yet is a clear sign that the soul did not go forever down to the devils. Some Englanders call it the ‘Sacrament of Mary,’ yet that expression is of what is no more than a sacramental: yet it is a sign of a soul in the state of grace, even as some also call it ‘the Garment of Grace.’ So, in a sense, as sacraments are signs of grace, that expression of certain Englanders is in a far lighter sense not incorrect.

While God knows how to remove the brown cloth from anyone not respecting it by trying to live in a state of grace, should anyone in a state of grace especially accidentally lose it this prayer can help to find it (especially if more need be – as in an emergency): ‘Holy Tonys please turn around for what is lost might be found. Thank you, Holy Tonys.’ This prayer helped a priest find his lost keys, today, too. He came back and thanked me for the prayer, finding the keys only a couple of minutes later. Even more than that prayer for an object can be a similar prayer for a (subject) person in need of conversion. In that version, the main change is in ‘what is lost’ to ‘who is lost.’ For that one, this prayer can work the more: "Holy Tonys please turn and search around to have them [him/her, etc.] found: as anyone back-turned to Christ may turn back around [and get set in faith]. Thank you, Holy Tonys." It refers not only to St. ‘Tony’ of Padua. Among other ‘Tonys’ – the exorcist St. Anthony of the desert, who died in 356 at 105 years of age(!) – there’s a ‘Holy Tony’ Turner, too. Who? Martyr of England.