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

Banks forked over more than $7 billion when Justice passed the offertory plate, but Quicken fought back.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2019

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

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

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

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 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

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