offertory

They gained a precarious living from the offertory, and in no single case was there a dwelling-house.

There is no music during the offertory in these churches, and this, too, pleases my sense of the fitness of things.

He sang an Offertory solo, accompanying himself on the harmonium.

After the offertory, the imperial deacon presented the water to the pontiff.

These pieces, we learn later, were to be an offertory, a graduale and a Tantum ergo.