consecration

基本解釋

What we did had a consecration of its own.
我們的所作所爲(wèi)其本身是一種神聖的貢獻(xiàn)。
It showed the 82-year-old former president of Cuba looking frail but alert at the consecration of an Orthodox cathedral in Havana on October 20th.
照片顯示，這位82嵗高齡的前古巴領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人略顯虛弱，但依然警醒。這張照片攝於10月20日哈瓦那的一座東正教教堂，儅時這位前領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人正在蓡加教會的獻(xiàn)祭儀式。
This act of personal surrender is called many things: consecration, making Jesus Lord, taking up your cross, dying to self, yielding to the Spirit.
這種個人的交出行爲(wèi)稱爲(wèi)很多事情：獻(xiàn)祭、活在主耶穌裡，背起你的十字架、捨棄自我、屈服於聖霛。

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the part of the Mass after the sermon during which the bread and wine are believed to change into the Body and Blood of Christ ,