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
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
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
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
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 P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
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
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
