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 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

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

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

Piano voluntaries, preludes, offertories, and postludes for religious services and Sunday schools. © 30Jul28; A1084933.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1955 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

I take great exception to your statement that the offertories both in the morning and in the evening were sent by me to Father Rowley regardless of the wishes of my parishioners.

From The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie

How well they all sang—how beautiful was the service of those young voices, and what praises were showered upon them for their work by the congregation for their anthems, chants, hymns and offertories!

From Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake Alverson

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