(n.) The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.
Example Sentences:
(1) His consecration took place at an ice hockey stadium in Durham, New Hampshire, and he wore a bulletproof vest under his gold vestments because he had received death threats.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wagner saw it not as an opera but as "ein Bühnenweihfestspiel" ("a festival play for the consecration of the stage").
(3) And now, the US supreme court just consecrated one of the most corrupt acts of the US government over the past decade: its vesting of retroactive legal immunity in the nation's telecom giants after they had been caught red-handed violating multiple US eavesdropping laws.
(4) But never before has a new bishop walked down the aisle at her consecration ceremony flanked by her husband.
(5) In April 2008, overzealous Heathrow security officials frisked Shenouda while on his way to consecrating St George's Coptic Cathedral , Shephalbury Manor, Stevenage.
(6) On both occasions, he said, the then archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, told electors that people in civil partnerships were not eligible to be consecrated.
(7) The consecration at York Minster on Monday of the Rev Libby Lane as the new bishop of Stockport shows that the Church of England has got at least one foot in the 21st century; the consecration next week of the Rev Philip North as bishop of Burnley shows that it still has a rump in the fifth.
(8) Williams will be replaced by 56-year-old former oil executive the Rt Rev Justin Welby, the bishop of Durham, who will be consecrated in March at Canterbury Cathedral as the new archbishop of Canterbury.
(9) In a statement the archbishop of Sydney, the Rt Rev Peter Jensen, said: "It is true that his consecration was one of the flashpoints for a serious realignment of the whole Communion.
(10) In 2003, John was nominated as bishop of Reading, but was asked by Williams to stand aside after some traditionalists threatened to leave the Church of England if his consecration went ahead.
(11) Members of Gafcon, a group of conservative Anglicans deeply opposed to same-sex marriage and gay rights, have been agitating for sanctions to be imposed on the US Episcopal church for 12 years, since the consecration of a gay priest, Gene Robinson, as bishop of New Hampshire.
(12) Welby spoke in the same interview about the very moving experience of being present earlier this year in a South Sudanese town in the aftermath of the massacre of Christians, where he was asked to consecrate the ground before the bodies of murdered clergy and others were placed into a mass grave.
(13) Lane, who will be consecrated in a ceremony at York Minster on Monday, reveals that being squeezed between two siblings had a formative influence that made her strive that much harder.
(14) Of course the national focus will rightly be on her consecration, and not on his.
(15) The Archbishop of Canterbury blamed liberal North American churches yesterday for causing turmoil in the Anglican communion by blessing same-sex unions and consecrating gay clergy as he attempted to chart a way out of the crisis that has been engulfing the church.
(16) I'm just the bishop," he and Andrew had to wear bullet-proof vests at his consecration.
(17) While prosecuting as witches those women careproviders who were matrons and sages, the Church instituted consecrated women to provide what she expected from care-giving, and had them recognized as the socialized model of care-providers.
(18) At Leonard's own consecration in 1964, an Old Catholic bishop from the small churches that have separated from the Roman Catholic church, but are in full communion with the Church of England, had joined the bishops who consecrated him.
(19) These are the Anglican provinces which the current policy is seeking to appease and keep on board, while the American and Canadian Anglican churches that now openly bless gay unions and consecrate gay bishops are condemned for daring to treat gay people equally.
(20) Women have been consecrated as bishops in many parts of the worldwide Anglican communion since 1989, and as priests in England since 1994, but opponents put up a long resistance to their further promotion in the Church of England, which only became possible last autumn.
Salvation
Definition:
(n.) The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.
(n.) The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness.
(n.) Saving power; that which saves.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a moral swamp, but it's one the Salvation Army claims to be stepping into out of charity .
(2) She says even before the SBS report went to air she had tried to alert her boss at the Salvation Army to the abuse, because she felt staff at the centre were not doing all they could to prevent it from happening again.
(3) About 100 people put in résumés for a casual – and low-paid – job at the Salvation Army homeless shelter.
(4) In tracts and treatises they furiously debated such issues as the nature of man, the powers of God, and the true path to salvation.
(5) According to internet security experts our salvation lies in passwords.
(6) One is why people become entranced by the idea of the end of times, and the other is how they make sense after the event, when the predictions of salvation and catastrophe have failed to materialise.
(7) For the Salvation Army and the careworn guys outside the unused Saint Martin station, however, there are much more important priorities.
(8) In Australia, where an estimated 54,000 of Asia-Pacific’s 21 million-plus domestic workers are based, a Salvation Army report catalogued 16-hour days without breaks, non-payment of wages and physical violence.
(9) As evidence of this new-found fondness, the album features a guest appearance from a local Salvation Army band.
(10) Born into a Salvation Army family, Taylor became a "junior soldier" aged five, pledging allegiance to the charity – the organisation has a military-style structure – and by 16, she was a senior soldier.
(11) That television news report by the BBC's Michael Buerk in 1984 framed Ethiopia for a generation as a place of famine and in need of salvation.
(12) In July, PNG police arrested G4S guard Louie Efi and Salvation Army worker Joshua Kaluvia, charging them both with Barati’s murder.
(13) Community groups such as the Salvation Army have warned: “These laws will disproportionately affect marginalised young people, people experiencing homelessness, poverty and mental health issues.” They fear that the vulnerable people might be excluded from public spaces by the new system, but have nowhere else to go, and find themselves imprisoned as a result.
(14) Passages in the Bible attribute one and the same 'life' ('soul') to both (Book of Proverbs 12: 10) and presuppose 'salvation' or 'preservation' of the two (Psalm 36:7c).
(15) We’re not very kind to people who come up with their hand out and say, ‘Where’s your shelter?’” Indeed, every day, newcomers to Williston get off the bus or train and wander up Main Street to the Salvation Army, expecting to stay there while they find work or an apartment.
(16) Sure enough, a block later, there are a group of people waiting for the doors of the Salvation Army to open at 10pm.
(17) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
(18) Suddenly, China’s stock exchanges have become wards of the Chinese Communist party – and their fate hardly bodes well for Xi’s declaration that the nation’s economic salvation will lie in allowing market forces to play a greater role in the allocation of resources.
(19) She recalls being pleased when an older male Salvation Army member was friendly at the charity's local youth club.
(20) It felt like an adventure.” In London, Ali Abuzeid helped to set up the National Front for the Salvation of Libya.