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
In its federal bankruptcy court filing, the diocese said that about 40 percent of its annual revenue typically comes from offertory collections at its parishes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
The mainstream churches are complying and many are offering online services, which include provisions for offertory to be made through mobile money donations.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2020
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
Piano voluntaries, preludes, offertories, and postludes for religious services and Sunday schools. © 30Jul28; A1084933.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1955 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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
Among his greater works are ninety-three masses, a very large number of motettes, forty-five hymns for the whole year, sixty-eight offertories, and a large number of litanies, magnificats and madrigals.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
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
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
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