Sentence examples for with a consecration from inspiring English sources

The 14th musicians' competition sponsored by the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz began on Saturday with a consecration.

The process begins at 10 a.m. with a consecration of the site, involving music, chanting and mantra recitation in a ceremony free and open to the public on a first-come basis.

For him morality rested not in reciting creeds but in weighing evidence for events; it was a consecration of doubt that vested his new professionals with the priests' old power.

Coronations, however, are a consecration only in the broad sense.

"Such a consecration of a nation's power and resources to a sentiment, the world has never seen," wrote one of the officers charged with recovering the bodies.

At a consecration, holy oils are normally used; at blessings, customarily holy water.

The ordinary minister of a consecration is a bishop, while the ordinary minister of a blessing is a priest.

The main argument was put forward by Grosjean, who claimed that Bede had the consecration date wrong, as 26 May was Maundy Thursday in 655, not a date that would normally have been chosen for a consecration.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Nov. 2 — By more than a two-to-one vote, members of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh voted Friday in favor of separating from the national church because of a theological rift that began with the consecration of an openly gay bishop in 2003.

The breakaway votes have come after a long-running debate over church reforms that culminated with the consecration of an openly gay bishop in 2003.

I watched and listened with the consecration of a yogi.