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

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales also says there should be no offertory procession or collection, and parishioners should be encouraged to give online instead.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2020

Participating in the offertory procession Saturday were Joao Baptista and his wife, Lucila Yurie, of Brazil.

From Washington Times ● May 13, 2017

I watched them as they came up for offertory.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

No offertories, which in towns greatly help the clergy, can make the country deficiency good.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott

"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

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

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