Sentence examples for consecrate for from inspiring English sources

No cigarettes were burning, though, just the incense that the Rev. George Greiss was wafting over the nine loaves of bread he was preparing to consecrate for communion.

Charles Inglis (1734 1816), rector of Trinity Church in New York City and a loyalist who returned to England in 1783, was consecrated bishop of Nova Scotia in 1787, the first bishop consecrated for work outside the British Isles.

The next day a group of people come and dress you for breakfast and you sit on your throne, which is a stump of wood built by your godparents and consecrated for your seven-day stay.

In its charter, historical Palestine — the territory min al-nahr ila al-bahr, from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean — is declared part of the Islamic waqf ("endowment"), "consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgment Day," and indivisible.

Now, in a move that is intended to increase membership in the fledgling organization but that also suggests a further challenge to the Episcopal leaders, four more bishops are to be consecrated for the mission.

Their duties, however, were generally those of members of a household engaged in everyday affairs, rather than of a caste or sacerdotal order set apart and consecrated for the performance of sacrificial and other rites, functions, and practices.

He shows me a cathedral that Ivan the Terrible got built in record time by denying food to the workers when they progressed too slowly; soon after the cathedral was finished, it began to fall apart, and it wasn't consecrated for many years.

In a "humble petition" to the House of Commons, the council says that works authorised to bring in the project will involve the destruction of three burial grounds consecrated for the burial of the dead in accordance with the rites of the Church of England and the removal of human remains and monuments from them.

In later times, the number of episcopi vagantes was increased by bishops driven out of their dioceses by war, especially in Spain, or by bishops consecrated for dioceses controlled by Muslims who would not allow Christian bishops to take up residence.

The cardinal agreed that one bishop would be consecrated for the society.

Temples were to be consecrated for Christian use, and feasts, if possible, moved to days celebrating Christian martyrs.