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

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

This was a phalanx of protection, a way to consecrate and protect the place he was raised.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021

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

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

What’s actually there behind another list that consecrates the same albums that always appear on such lists, plus, for some godforsaken reason, Travis Scott’s Astroworld?

From Slate ● May 24, 2024

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

Childlike in all that makes a child so dear To God and man, and ever consecrates Its cradle and its grave, my Grahame, wert thou!

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by John Lyde Wilson

On Wednesday, however, the group went ahead and consecrated the four bishops in a Mass in Switzerland before thousands of followers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

When Bishop Dyer was consecrated in March 2018, Jen Bressers was in her final year of training to be a priest.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 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

These were foundations more in line with the literal meaning of the word museum—that is, places consecrated to the worship of the Muses.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

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

Later that evening, Rocky himself made an appearance, effectively consecrating his own corner of the fair and Design.Space as a whole.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025

As the song came into bloom, an Eddie Vedder-shaped shadow led what felt like a secular hymnal consecrating the proceedings.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 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