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 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 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

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

In these days of monetary difficulties and agricultural depression the frequency of offertories is often a question difficult of solution. 

From Churchwardens' Manual their duties, powers, rights, and privilages by George Henry Sumner

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

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

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