"Hi, Marty!" "Hey there, Francine," Costello says, swallowing the consecrated host.
The Vatican has said that those who cannot eat wheat can skip the wafer and drink the consecrated communion wine, another way to partake in the ritual.
In the sacrifice the consecrated life of an offering is liberated as a sacred potency that establishes a bond between the sacrificer and the sacred power.
The point of the ritual was to purify the guilty and to re-establish the holy bond with God through the blood of the consecrated victim.
This is why Apollinaire is the modernist that the consecrated English war poets never were; his work is far more assimilable to that of TS Eliot, who published "Prufrock" in 1917, just a year before Calligrammes.
Crosses or crucifixes are frequently placed upon the Christian dead, and sometimes in the Middle Ages the consecrated bread of the Eucharist (the Lord's Supper) was buried with the body.
But the toll of the crisis overwhelming the island this year has seen the bodies of men, women and children come in at a previously unprecedented rate, filling the consecrated ground.
William Keith completed construction of the tower house at Dunnottar, but was excommunicated for building on the consecrated ground associated with the parish church.
In the narrow city streets draped in flags and shawls, a hush followed the gigantic flower-covered silver float, borne by a couple dozen men, carrying the consecrated host.
First known as the Consecrated Gospel Singers, the group was soon singing in churches all along the East Coast.
In The Consecrated Urn, Bernard Blackstone observes that "Indolence" has been variously thought the first, second, and final of the five 1819 odes.
