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
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
I watched them as they came up for offertory.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
They regularly adorned their pew in the parish church, were liberal at offertories, exerted themselves, not without expense, in the Sunday school feast, and the like.
From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George
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
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 Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
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 Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
