offertory

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

Documents filed with the bankruptcy court on Thursday show that COVID-19 and social distancing restrictions led to smaller offertory collections at the 135 parishes on Long Island since March.

From Washington 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

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 George Henry Sumner

"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 John Trevena

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

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

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