beautify, beatify

Beautify or beautify means to make pretty or prettier--
This magazine article promises an easy way to beautify your home.
Planting flowers along the roadside will beautify the whole town.

Beatify or beatify means to elevate to a sacred status, worthy of religious veneration--
There will be a special ceremony to beatify a misionary who died for his faith.
If the church decides to beatify someone, the next step is sainthood, called canonization.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"The service to beatify him will look plain, unless they beautify it with flowers and candles."