This is called the offertory of the Mass, and takes place after the boy presents the wine and water. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine] Reference
The offertory is the part of the service when the offerings of the people are collected and brought to the altar. From Wordnik.com. [An Instructed Eucharist] Reference
"Is this the little brother that sang the offertory?". From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
Here are two videos of the offertory and the preface. From Wordnik.com. [Mass at My Parish II - Reminiscere with German Seminarians] Reference
A ring made out of the offertory money was a cure for fits. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
To sing the offertory hymns, the responses, the hallelujahs. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The offertory collection amounted to just one pound English money. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians] Reference
Even in our times the offertory still finds a place in temple services. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
At such churches there is often a great deal of cash from the offertory. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Church Shooting Underscores the Need for Security] Reference
The little cave has been rendered a soot hole by millennia of offertory candles. From Wordnik.com. [Zion's Vital Signs] Reference
We have commenced a weekly offertory, and it amounts to nearly two dollars a Sunday. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians] Reference
Ony road, ye con try it if yo 'like; it'll save us summat i' th 'offertory if yo' do. '. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
And I heard my Angel's voice, strong and clear above me, announcing the offertory hymn. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
All that has been contributed has been 'offertory money' in the truest sense of the word. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians] Reference
The choir was excellent in its performance of the offertory anthem and the service music. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
This part is not the elevations at the Consecration but rather at prayers at the offertory. From Wordnik.com. [Feast of Corpus Christi] Reference
Crowds had gathered before the offertory tables, and priests were collecting the petitions. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
Communion, the General to count the offertory and Hubert to inspect the village cricket pitch. From Wordnik.com. [Flowering Wilderness] Reference
As far as the liturgy is concerned, there is much detail about the offerings and the offertory. From Wordnik.com. [To elevate or not to elevate] Reference
They're prayers that are given up in offertory in what they call the Procession of the Faithful. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2005] Reference
At offertory in my stead Take all I am and own And place it as a sacrifice Upon the Altar throne. From Wordnik.com. [SEND YOUR ANGEL TO MASS] Reference
They're prayers that are given up in offertory (ph) and what they call the Procession of the Faithful. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2005] Reference
The offertory verse, for instance, includes the line "I have cried in the day and in the night before Thee...". From Wordnik.com. [SSCS Study Day for priests] Reference
We played a symphony at the offertory and sung a motet at the elevation, concluding with four wind instruments. From Wordnik.com. [The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.] Reference
Once they got through the hymn singing, announcements, and offertory, the congregation settled in for the sermon. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness]
Here is a video of the epistle and gradual, and one of the offertory; more are to be found on Nowy Ruch Liturgiczny. From Wordnik.com. [Videos of Pontifical Mass in Poznań, Poland] Reference
Forced back on herself, she dissipated her offertory in a vortex of countercurrents and destructive spreading overflow. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Not much, as it turns out, but he did tell me how the number of hosts to be sent up in the offertory procession is computed. From Wordnik.com. [Sacristan's Secrets] Reference
In contrast to the 1928 edition, the 1979 Prayer Book does not give much guidance for how to go about handling the offertory. From Wordnik.com. [To elevate or not to elevate] Reference
Our hopes are elevated in an offertory of understanding – but did the children dressed with forebears ribbons know our peace?. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn Parade] Reference
There's a rather attractive triptych, a small polychrome lamp, an offertory cloth, and so on, with a teak case to carry them in. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
Incense is used, as is customary at high masses, before the introit, at the Gospel, after the offertory and during the elevation. From Wordnik.com. [The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome] Reference
They reached a spacious gravel courtyard, bounded by the outbuildings, the haiden, the oratory and the heiden, the offertory hall. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
The royal choir sang a motet by the Abbe de Ganzargue; after the offertory the dauphin and dauphiness went to make their offering. From Wordnik.com. [Marie-Antoinette's Wedding] Reference
This book is a complete Graduale for Sundays in the ordinary form: entrance, gradual and Alleluia, offertory, and communion chants. From Wordnik.com. [The Offertory Proper, Latin and English (updated)] Reference
There was an impressive musical program, conducted by Sheldon Smeeth, educational director of the Y.M.C.A., who also sang the offertory. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
After Amarilly had explained the use to which the collection was to be put, Gus passed a pie tin, while an offertory solo was rendered by. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
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