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
I watched them as they came up for offertory.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
They consist chiefly of church music, 17 masses, besides litanies, motets, offertories, &c., being amongst the number.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
Even in the eighteenth century, church offertories in England were asked and given to loose captives out of prison.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)
"I know he can write, for he signed a petition to uncle in favour of more frequent offertories in aid of the poor and needy," George muttered.
From A Drake by George! by Trevena, John
After the ceremony we heard mass and contributed to three distinct offertories.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
I venture to say that a parish which confines its offertories to local and parochial purposes will lose by the very contraction of its sympathies.
From Churchwardens' Manual their duties, powers, rights, and privilages by Sumner, George Henry
