offertory
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As the priest then began the offertory portion of the liturgy, which often is accompanied by quiet music, the organist played a reflective piece very slowly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Whidden, a tenor, sang an offertory song titled “The Anchor Holds.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2025
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales also says there should be no offertory procession or collection, and parishioners should be encouraged to give online instead.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2020
At the worship services, he usually plays the prelude, an offertory and the postlude, as well as accompaniments to congregational singing.
From Washington Times ● May 13, 2018
Sister read Doña Laura's note explaining that this was an offertory bank, and everyone got to work a penny in the cloud and watch the little figure rise.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
These offertories varied from the simplest, such as milk and fruits, to the costliest, such as gold and jewels.
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder
They regularly adorned their pew in the parish church, were liberal at offertories, exerted themselves, not without expense, in the Sunday school feast, and the like.
From A Life's Morning by George Gissing
In these days of monetary difficulties and agricultural depression the frequency of offertories is often a question difficult of solution.
From Churchwardens' Manual their duties, powers, rights, and privilages by George Henry Sumner
No offertories, which in towns greatly help the clergy, can make the country deficiency good.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
How well they all sang—how beautiful was the service of those young voices, and what praises were showered upon them for their work by the congregation for their anthems, chants, hymns and offertories!
From Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake Alverson
