Sentence examples for that consecration from inspiring English sources

Consecration in the strict sense is distinguished from blessing, benediction, or dedication in that consecration effects an intimate transformation in the essence of the object and that it is permanent and can be neither revoked nor repeated.

The young lovers, with their innocent, daring, intensely sincere, and consecrated love (and the ultimate proof of that consecration, as one spiritually awakened young character says, is their willingness to die for each other), have provoked a scandal.

Woods says that the consecration ceremony sent the message that Taylor believes in juju.

The bishops contend that the consecration of women bishops reflects the majority wish of the members of the Church of England — how do they know?

The Windsor report called for an apology for the divisions that the consecration caused, but did not ask Mr Robinson to step down.See articleEnd of term limitsA referendum and parliamentary elections in Belarus were widely condemned as fraudulent.

On her insistence that only consecration at Reims could make a true king, chosen by God (a view doubtless supported by the chancellor Regnault, archbishop of Reims), it was decided to advance boldly across the Île-de-France to Reims.

Local authorities in Córdoba have dealt a blow to the Catholic church's claim of legal ownership of the Spanish city's mosque-cathedral, declaring that "religious consecration is not the way to acquire property".

Medieval Latin theology, however, allowed for the disappearance of the epiclesis since it was believed that the consecration of bread and wine and their transubstantiation into the body and blood of Christ took place when the priest pronounced the words of institution.

Despite the huffing and puffing from this month's Lambeth conference at which 37 churchleaders warned that his consecration (but not, apparently, his continuation as a lesser priest) would tear the fabric of the communion, not one has been in touch to ask him to step down.

Duns Scotus and Ockham, on the contrary, had claimed that after consecration the substance of the bread (and wine) was annihilated by God, while the accidents of the bread (and wine) remained the same as before because of an intervention of divine omnipotence.

The United Methodist's Judicial Council, its highest court, has declared that the consecration of Bishop Karen Oliveto violated church law.