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
A collage of photographs from his time on work experience was presented in the church as one of the offertory gifts during Requiem Mass.
From BBC ● May 17, 2025
Whidden, a tenor, sang an offertory song titled “The Anchor Holds.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2025
Banks forked over more than $7 billion when Justice passed the offertory plate, but Quicken fought back.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2019
I watched them as they came up for offertory.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
His church music, consisting of six masses, many offertories, and the great "Hallelujah" of Klopstock, is still performed in Germany.
From The Great German Composers by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
I take great exception to your statement that the offertories both in the morning and in the evening were sent by me to Father Rowley regardless of the wishes of my parishioners.
From The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie
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 P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
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
After the ceremony we heard mass and contributed to three distinct offertories.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
