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How to pronounce offertory in English?

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Type Words
Type of offering
Type Words
Type of religious offering, oblation

Examples of offertory

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The little cave has been rendered a soot hole by millennia of offertory candles.
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Oh, there will be a few women in the offertory processions, or serving as readers or cantors.
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Through its influence, the offertory was restored, though not without protracted controversy.
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A visiting minister waxed eloquent during the offertory prayer.
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The offertory box was smashed and the contents of a fire extinguisher also were discharged into an office.
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A liturgical dance will be performed during the offertory.
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Even after he has stilled the keys, the jangling resounds up in the arches, faintly, ghosts of the offertory bells.
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By the altar, she performed a symbolic offertory.
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Living Word Fellowship's service will not have an offertory, as a donation box will be placed at the back of the room.
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More examples
  • The offerings of the congregation at a religious service
  • The part of the Eucharist when bread and wine are offered to God
  • The Offertory is the portion a Eucharistic service when bread and wine are brought to the altar for consecration into the Body and Blood of Christ by the presiding priest or bishop. ...
  • Money offered or donated during a church service; the part of a church service when offerings are collected; music sung or played during the offertory of a church service
  • The most elaborate of the antiphonal chants from the mass. The offertory has shed its psalm verse, so the antiphon stands alone. (As usual, the choir sings the antiphon.)
  • The music played or sung while the offering is being received. This is a time when the people of the church can thank God for his blessings and offer back to Him their money, their time and their lives to be used for God's work in the world.
  • This is the part of the worship service where we make an offering of ourselves, our treasures, our lives and labors, for the purposes of God.