Consecration

As builders raise a wall by a ruler or plummet that no unevenness may spoil their work, so must we make the sincere attention to the divine glory our rule in our prayers, fasts, eating, drinking, buying, selling, silence, and discourse. This must be our great staff, our arms, our rampart, our immense treasure: wherever we are, and whatever we say or do, we must bear this motto always written in our heart, "To the glory of God".

-- St. John Chrysostom in his homily on the Calendar's First Day of the Year