consecration
IPA: kɑnsʌkrˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.
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Examples of "consecration" in Sentences
- This is what the term consecration properly means.
- The consecration is the corporate act of the whole Church.
- The first Sunday in every month we have what we call our consecration meeting.
- That which makes men capable of consecration is not a disorder of the mind and body.
- Capitol Hill police barred them from entering the room to continue what they called a consecration service.
- This constitutes a special consecration, which is deeply rooted in that of baptism and expresses it more fully.
- As a new solemnity, the feast of consecration is to prepare for the passover; so the passover itself is to have different sacrifices from those of the Mosaic law.
- So the letter had been delivered and the sacrifice was accomplished: a deathlike sweat broke out upon his forehead, and as he raised his hands in consecration his secret prayer was that the offering of his own flesh and blood might be accepted.
- May God bless you every day and give you soon the blessed assurance that your consecration is accepted and that your name is registered with the sanctified and pure of earth and the Redeemed and happy in heaven, is the humble and fervent prayer of your Devoted and Loving
- In the future, there may be opportunities to have many variations of the one family of the Roman Rite (cf. the liturgies of the different Religious Orders), as there had been throughout the long history of the Latin Church, but it would be necessary that the Ordinary Form of the Roman rite should rediscover the classical sources of Roman liturgy as such -- for example, practically, the use of the Roman Canon has to be strengthened in the newer form and, further, adopting into it the words of consecration from the Extraordinary Form in order to show the unity between the two forms.
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