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Offertory   Listen
noun
Offertory  n.  (pl. offertories)  
1.
The act of offering, or the thing offered. (Obs. or R.)
2.
(R. C. Ch.)
(a)
An anthem chanted, or a voluntary played on the organ, during the offering and first part of the Mass.
(b)
That part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to offer up the elements for consecration.
(c)
The oblation of the elements.
3.
(Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.)
(a)
The Scripture sentences said or sung during the collection of the offerings.
(b)
The offerings themselves.






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"Offertory" Quotes from Famous Books



... only tolerated there through Margery's intervention, because it would have broken his loyal little heart to be separated from Angel and me. He was highly ornamental too, as he collected the choir offertory in a little velvet bag, his tiny surplice jauntily bobbing, and the back of his neck, as an old lady once said, was ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche

... thanks to God, according to the teaching of St. Paul [1 Cor. 10:30, 31]. The second, when the people after the Gospel proceed to the offering; from which the chant which is sung at that time is called "Offertory," that is, an offering. The third, that the priest elevates in the paten and offers to God the still unblessed host, at the same time that the offertory is being sung and the people are making their offering; by which is shown that the sacrament is not offered to God by us, ...
— Works of Martin Luther - With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) • Martin Luther

... solemn profession, the abbot vests to say mass, and after the offertory the abbot ...
— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.

... entered, but found standing-room only, and that only with the greatest discomfort. Yet the congregation was so happy and the scene was so animated that I stayed on and on—long enough at any rate for the offertory box to reach me three separate times. Every one present was either poor or on the borders of poverty; and the fervour was almost that of a salvation army meeting. And why not, since the religion both of the Pope and of General Booth was pre-eminently ...
— A Wanderer in Venice • E.V. Lucas

... another week. The superintendent of the Women's Mission is waiting with a bundle of accounts, complicated as only ladies' accounts can be. The churchwarden has come with a face full of gloom to consult on the falling off in the offertory. The Scripture-reader has brought his "visiting book" to be inspected, and a special report on the character of a doubtful family in the parish. The organist drops in to report something wrong in the ...
— Stray Studies from England and Italy • John Richard Green

... the time immediately after the death of S. John the Evangelist (Justin Martyr, Apology i. 65-67, {3} see p. 58) shows us a form which provided for the essentials of such a service, with prayers, praises, lessons, offertory, Consecration, Communion, in order, although he who conducted the Service had a certain amount of liberty ...
— The Prayer Book Explained • Percival Jackson

... brought here by the Black Prince "gave an oblation of twelve nobles at the shrine of St. Erkenwald, the same at that of the Annunciation, twenty-six floren nobles at the Crucifix by the north door, four basins of gold at the high altar; and, at the hearing of Mass, after the Offertory, gave to the Dean then officiating, five floren nobles, which the said Dean and John Lyllington (the weekly petty canon), his assistant, had. All which being performed, he gave, moreover, in the chapter-house, fifty floren nobles to be distributed amongst ...
— Old St. Paul's Cathedral • William Benham

... and heir of Stoke Revel of whom Mr. Lavendar had so often spoken, but the startling and unconventional nature of his appearance was not at all what one expected in a member of his family. Robinette stole more than one look at him as the offertory went round; a robust boy with a square chin, a fair face burnt red by the sun, a rollicking eye and an impudent nose; not handsome certainly, indeed quite plain, but he looked honest and strong and clean, and Robinette's frolicsome youth was drawn to his, all ready for fun. Carnaby ...
— Robinetta • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... must feel so strong an interest. I do hope to hear that the new Bishopric may soon be founded, on which Mr. Robertson and you and others have so set your hearts. That good man! I often think of him, and hope soon to send him, through you, 10 from our Melanesian offertory. ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... another voice, separate from the choir, intoned upon the steps of the chief altar, this melancholy offertory,—"Qui verbum meum audit, et credit ei qui misit me, habet vitam oeternam et in judicium non venit; sed transit a morte ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo



Words linked to "Offertory" :   Eucharist, offering, oblation, Holy Eucharist, liturgy, Eucharistic liturgy, Holy Sacrament, sacrament of the Eucharist, Lord's Supper, religious offering



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