The fruits or effects of the sacramentals may be similarly divided into three categories. Consecration results in the eefecive withdrawal from profane use the person or thing upon whichit is betstowed, and its dedication to the purpose of divine worship. Benediction....(having four distinct effects) and ... Lastly, material benefits.-Joseph Pohle and Arthur Pruess, The Sacraments: A Dogmatic Treatise. Vol.1. (St.Louis:B. Herder Book, 1945), 119.
The order that these distinctions are made is significant because it gives another schema by which all of the separate issues concerning sacramentals/blessings which need to be addressed in order to explain the analogy.
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