Crossword clues for offertory
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Offertory \Of"fer*to*ry\, n.; pl. Offertories . [L. offertorium the place to which offerings were brought, in LL. offertory: cf. F. offertoire.]
The act of offering, or the thing offered. [Obs. or R.]
--Bacon.
--Bp. Fell.-
(R. C. Ch.)
An anthem chanted, or a voluntary played on the organ, during the offering and first part of the Mass.
That part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to offer up the elements for consecration.
The oblation of the elements.
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(Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.)
The Scripture sentences said or sung during the collection of the offerings.
The offerings themselves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the part of a Mass at which offerings are made," late 14c., from Medieval Latin offertorium "place where offerings are brought," from Vulgar Latin offertus, corresponding to Latin oblatus, past participle of offerre (see offer (v.)). Meaning "part of a religious service" is first recorded 1530s; sense of "collection of money" is from 1862.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Christianity English) An anthem formerly sung as part of the Roman Catholic Mass or during the corresponding part of the Anglican Communion. (from 14th c.) 2 (context Christianity English) The part of the Eucharist service when offerings of bread and wine are placed on the altar and when any collection is taken; also, the money or other things collected. (from 15th c.)
WordNet
n. the offerings of the congregation at a religious service
the part of the Eucharist when bread and wine are offered to God
Wikipedia
The offertory (from Medieval Latin offertorium and Late Latin offerre) is the part of a Eucharistic service when the bread and wine for use in the service are ceremonially placed on the altar.
A collection of alms from the congregation, such as may take place also at non-Eucharistic services, often coincides with this ceremony.
The Eucharistic theology may vary among those Christian denominations that have a liturgical offertory.
In the Roman Rite, the term "preparation of the gifts" is used in addition to the term "offertory".
Usage examples of "offertory".
A dropped hymnal during rehearsal of the Sunday offertory evoked biting remarks.
And when the Holy Communion was celebrated, nobody knew what the offertory meant, and scarcely any one was prepared to respond.
The endeavour, by the wish of the Bishop, to establish a weekly offertory, was angrily received by the colonists, who were furious at the sight of the surplice in the pulpit, and, no doubt, disguised much real enmity, both to holiness of life and to true discipline, under their censure of what they called a badge of party.
One time I caught Ma following his movements, too, lip-synching to the offertory prayer rather than praying it.
Figures poured from her red lips like blood from an offertory bowl after the sacrifice.
The only other light came from rows of offertory candles along the walls.
He rubbed his eyes and focused on the offertory candles burning at the bare ceramic feet of the Virgin Mary.
Two of the windows came from the Offertory on the Consecration day, one three-light was given by Mrs.
But the body of the church was dark, lit only by a bank of offertory candles burning before an ornate crucifix in an alcove.
The little mound of money left on the landing like an offertory on an altar.
But the upwards flight of her spirits was short-lived, for the voice of Huy Ben-Amon was uplifted in the offertory of the sacrifice.
Sano bowed to the inner sanctuary and placed a coin in the offertory box for good luck.
He remained tightly shuttered until, at the offertory, he squeezed her hand, with a whisper bade her stay in her place, and went forward to remove his crown and lay it on the altar before the startled Archbishop Hubert.
Javan and Rhys Michael serving Archbishop Orris at the altar while Alroy led the offertory procession, presenting the bread and wine to be consecrated.
Forced back on herself, she dissipated her offertory in a vortex of countercurrents and destructive spreading overflow.