offertory in English
noun
1
the offering of the bread and wine at the Eucharist.
2
an offering or collection of money made at a religious service.
At the cathedral teachers were secured for the boy's school through seat rents supplemented by church offertories and school fees.
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1. The Antiphonal chants of the mass are the introit, offertory and communion
2. However, the sung introit, offertory, and communion verses of the Mass are also Antiphons, whose psalms have for the most part disappeared.
3. My reservations about the Western Rite Orthodox is that they dare to Byzantinize the Roman Mass, by doing liturgically ridiculous things like introducing a Great Entrance (even moving the Offertory prayers to before the Mass), let alone thinking themselves better than Cabasilas, et al., by inserting an Eastern Epiclesis into the Roman Canon.