consecration

Like all guild members, they're very touchy when a layman practices magic without having undergone the prescribed rituals of consecration.

From the article, he built a house of worship which he intended to offer for consecration.

Spaces aren't holy because of the consecration, they're holy because of the people that come there to worship together regularly over many years.

Surely if the church was just the people such a ritual of consecration would have fallen by the wayside a long time ago.

Because the canon contains the words of consecration, by which we dedicate ourselves to divine purpose.

What really is the point of a consecration that doesn't change you?

I think we agree, because I did mention the de-consecration as a crucial step.

The bells would go off every few hours or more for the Angelus, the start of Mass, the consecration, and the end of Mass multiple times a day.

However, re-consecration and construction continued after that.

The piece you're missing is de-consecration.

> Spaces aren't holy because of the consecration, they're holy because of the people that come there to worship together regularly over many years.

At a very clerical supper one night we mused about the possibility of a mouse dashing across the altar after the consecration and making off with a Host.

Here is a village called Großenwiehe, easy to be translated as "Great Consecration", and that was the commonly accepted meaning.

Once you've removed a small handful of sacred items and done the de-consecration-ritual, it is "just a building" to them too.

Web 2.0 was the consecration as it allowed "comments" under blog posts (and so called "community" knowledge).

Hassig states "between 10,000 and 80,400 persons" were sacrificed in the ceremony.[15] The higher estimate would average 15 sacrifices per minute during the four-day consecration.

Consecration: The Final Recordings It's recorded weeks before his death.

It is bound in black faux leather, it is illustrated in color, and it is inscribed with the dates of my Sacraments, including space for future Matrimony, Religious Consecration, or Holy Orders.