consecrate

“It is defined by our congregants and by the strength of our shared purpose. Our crisis, our grief, our loss also contains within it the seeds of a rebirth that we consecrate this evening.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026

Capote perfectly captures the sacramental quality of the holiday—how, through the exhaustive labor of polishing and scrubbing, we consecrate the routine rooms of daily existence into a sanctuary for celebration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Bean boots and a hooded sweatshirt, Rabbi Rachel Isaacs paused to consecrate the ice beneath her feet before she commandeered it for a higher purpose.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

Early converts to what was originally called the Church of Christ, organized in 1830, were encouraged to consecrate all their goods to their new religious community so it could redistribute resources to those in need.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2023

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate... we cannot consecrate ... we cannot hallow this ground.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

An America that euphemizes this grievance as a matter of “race relations,” and in the process consecrates race as a natural category, is an America that still isn’t confronting its reality.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2016

In her exaltation of women, she purifies and consecrates their desires.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 30, 2015

Male domination in the leadership of the Church of England is coming to an end, as the 500-year-old institution consecrates its first female bishop.

From Time ● Jan. 26, 2015

In its most traditional form, the priest consecrates the bread and wine in a whisper with his back to the congregation: anathema to those who think openness is the spirit of the age.

From Economist ● Dec. 13, 2012

A few places in the world are to be held holy, because of the love which consecrates them and the faith which enshrines them.

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona

Their presence may allude to the hymn “Panis Angelicus,” or “bread of angels,” written by St. Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century as a poetic reference to the presence of Christ in the consecrated host.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Presiding over the service was Cardinal Robert Prevost, who is now Pope Leo XIV and whose devotion to Guadalupe is such that he was consecrated as a bishop 11 years ago this Dec. 12.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

It consecrated a swathe of measures, including climate finance and resilience goals, to help those who are least responsible for warming but often hardest hit.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025

He uncovered relics inscribed and consecrated nearly 2,000 years ago.

From BBC ● May 3, 2025

“About those two lovers to whose memory I have consecrated myself.”

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

The Vatican declared a formal schism with the Society of St. Pius X, excommunicating its bishops and priests for consecrating four bishops without papal consent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Decades after triggering a rift with the Vatican by consecrating bishops in 1988, the Society of Saint Pius X is doing it again on Wednesday in defiance of Pope Leo XIV.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

These are the kinds of things you hear in line at Telluride, attendees hoping to do some consecrating and electing of their own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2024

In circles that emphasize biblical patriarchy, often rooted in the Calvinist or Reformed wing of Christianity, some have suggested that civil government should have no role in consecrating marriage.

From Salon ● May 26, 2024

After dinner we all went to the front room where the priest took a small book from his jacket to recite some prayers, consecrating our house and our family.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez