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The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself

The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself

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As attested in ch. 5 of his autobiography, Bl. Henry Suso, O.P., inscribed the Name of Jesus into his breast with a stylus, but there is no indication that he or anyone else considered it a sacramental. It seems for him to have had the effects of a sacramental, conferring grace not ex opere operato ("from the work performed," as in the sacraments) but ex opere operantis (from his pious dispositions, as in the sacramentals).

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CHAPTER XXXV. Of the Servitor’s spiritual daughter [the Dominican nun Elizabeth Staglin].