Hallow isn’t a word we ever really use. We encounter it sometimes in church and that’s about it.
To hallow is to regard something as holy. So notice that we “hallow” God’s name in the Lord’s Prayer, and on October 31, we remember All Hallow’s Eve, or Hallowe’en.
How little we regard the profundity of the act; to choose to regard something or someone as holy, divine, or otherwise even “touched by God.”
It is an incredible gift to consecrate! To name the gifts of bread and wine as the body and blood of Christ. To declare that humans who come before us to be washed of sin are blessed by God.
And likewise, to name any human ever to be so remarkable that they may be called saint.
Such a remarkable gift given to such a seemingly normal existence.