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
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
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
He that is intrusted with our precious souls may much more be intrusted with the offertories of faithful people.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
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
Father Burrowes was even more successful as a preacher than he hoped; ascribing the steady flow of offertories to Divine favour, he instituted during the next four years, priories at Aldershot and Sandgate.
From The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie
"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
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