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Use "consecrating" in a sentence
"It appears, from this passage, that the imposition of hands was a ceremony used in consecrating persons to holy offices in the ancient, as, from the example of our Lord and His apostles, it has been perpetuated in the Christian Church."
"But if I chose to tell you what I could relate of women from my own knowledge, you would make more signs of the cross than they do in consecrating a church."
"When the altar boy poured water from a cruet into the chalice, it was over the joined fingers and thumbs of the priest — the so-called consecrating fingers which hold the eucharistic host when pronouncing the words that transform it into Christ's body."