Simon Stock

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St. Simon Stock of the Brown Scapular, so you'll be able to tell me a little bit about that, too.

Do you know when that is coming out, Sean?

It's probably next summer.

But yeah, I'll leave a li- leave a link in the show notes for all this as well, as well as seanmcafee.com. Can't forget that.

Thank you.

Uh, and then we'll stay tuned for next summer for St. Simon Stock and the Brown Scapular.

Amen.

Simon Stock.

Okay.

Yeah, I went to St. Simon Stock right there in the Bronx off of 183rd across Grand Concourse.

You

went to St. John Chrysostom on Ho Avenue.

We have St. Andrew the Apostle in Gibbsboro.

We have St. Simon Stock in Berlin, Christ the Redeemer in Acco, and Incarnation in Mantua, and they all have had, uh, senior ministries for quite a few years, the day centers.

And so this is our third year, like I said, of going out and visiting, kind of doing like a kickoff to the ministerial year.

Uh, the day centers don't necessarily close over the summer, but similar to how, you know, all the kids and all the new students-

They're a lovely bunch

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St. Simon Stock.

So it's this morning we visited Incarnation bright and early even before aerobics started.

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel appearing to St. Simon Stock in England, July 16, 1251.

Five, the miraculous transfer of the Holy House of Loreto from Croatia to Italy in 1294.

This is the Holy House where the Blessed Virgin Mary was born and raised.

But she's also dear to all of us who love the Blessed Mother.

We celebrate this feast day today because it was on July 16th that Our Lady of Mount Carmel appeared to Saint Simon Stock in England with the scapular and the extraordinary promise of the scapular.

When we think of a scapular today, most of us think of two little pieces of brown cloth connected by two strings worn over our shoulders.

But the original scapular was much larger.

The original scapular was basically like a long brown rectangular apron that covered the back and the front that was worn over the brown Carmelite habit.

And the Carmelites already wore the scapular before Mary ever appeared to St. Simon Stock.

It was actually meant to keep the habit from getting dirty.

So if you ate and you messed up the scapular, you would throw that in the wash and you could keep wearing your normal habit.

Turn every place into a Mount Carmel.

In 1242, they established a settlement in England, in 1244 another in Southern France, and in 1245 and at the age of 80, St. Simon Stock was chosen as their leader and the Blessed Mother appeared to St. Simon giving him the scapular.

St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Pope John Paul II, and many others had a great devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

The annual outdoor service of the novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel at the Carmelite Monastery in Clayton is a memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

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St. Simon Stock, who lived from 1165 to 1265, was born in Kent, England.

He was strongly drawn to God as a child, and at the age of 12, he began to live as a hermit in the hollow of an oak tree.