Any important undertaking gets sanctified: priests bless factories, department stores, office buildings, ships, airplanes, banks, and tanks.
As one resident says at a contentious community meeting: "We all like getting sanctified, but we don't like being gentrified!" But the genius of David Simon is that he doesn't give us clear heroes and villains; instead, everyone inhabits their own moral shade of gray.
Sadly, we live in a strange place and time where it seems that publicly assenting to the right dogma is some sort of sanctified Get Out Of Living Like Jesus Card.
Will children see Christmas as a celebration of charity, family, good will, and peace on earth, or as a rare opportunity for sanctioned (and even sanctified) greed, where getting presents is the only thing that matters?
Judaism has a religious divorce ceremony: the get, which is a way to sanctify the end of a relationship.
Secular R&B penitence ("These are my confessions: just when I thought I said all I can say/ My chick on the side say she got one on the way") alongside sanctified hip-hop swagger ("To the hustlers, killers, murderers, drug dealers, even the strippers/ Jesus walks with them").
Sanctified self-enterprise doesn't get more urgently soulful than on this three-CD boxed set on the Tompkins Square label, subtitled "Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM (1957-1982)." Assembled by the Pacific Northwest music journalist Mike McGonigal, it's a survey of mostly obscure 45s made by singing groups, itinerant preachers and assorted others on the gospel circuit.
The sanctified soil will draw the spirit in.
Many times when I sit and wipe my feet at the dojo my mind travels elsewhere to places like, what I have to do after practice or what are we packing for Bodhi's school lunch; mundane things that hopefully, when I get to them, will get transformed in my consciousness to something sanctified.
Rituals performed at home in order to get Saint Mary's support during delivery and the use of holy water sanctified by a priest were named as labour facilitators.
