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

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

The service itself incorporated many Indigenous elements and peoples, including an emotional moment when a woman in Native dress wept in front of Francis as she brought him the offertory gifts.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 28, 2022

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

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 Coleridge, Henry Nelson

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 Sumner, George Henry

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)

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

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