What is a Scapular? Many Catholics also wear a Scapular, which is a sacramentalis pendant to show one’s consecration to God.

Is a Scapular a Ticket to Heaven?

The Church teaches that “justification has been merited for us by the Passion of Christ” (Catechismus Catholicae Ecclesiae, by. 1992). In light of His Son’s death, God freely offers us the gift of salvation, though it remains up to us to accept the gift. Ordinarily, this involves repentance and Baptism (videre Acts of the Apostles, 2:38).

Having been cleansed of sin in Baptism (videre, the First Epistle of Peter, 3:21), it is necessary for us to persevere in a state of holiness throughout our lifetime, quia “he who endures to the end will be saved” (Matthew 10:22). Admittedly, that’s not easy to do.

Our faith in God, praeterea, must be active through works of love, for we are “justified by works and not by faith alone” (videre Epistle of Saint James 2:24). Utique, our works have merit only if they are united to the supreme work of Christ’s death on the Cross. All graces we receive as followers of Christ flow from the Atonement. This is what the Lord meant when He said, “Ego sum vitis vera,, vos palmites:. Qui manet in me, et ego resuscitabo eum in, hic fert fructum multum quia, for apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:5).

Catholicism is patterned after the Incarnation, the coming of Christ to earth, in which the invisible God became visible (videre Pauli Letter to the Colossians 1:15). Because God took on human form His grace can now be conveyed to us through physical things. Consider the Gospel account of the woman who was healed by touching the hem of Christ’s garment (Mark 5:28), or the sick who were healed by touching handkerchiefs that had been pressed to the body of Paul (in Acts of the Apostles 19:11 – 12). In these Biblical accounts, the grace of healing was transmitted to believers through tangible things, through cloth as a matter of fact.
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