OFFERTORY

[Lat.,=offering], in the Roman Catholic Mass and in derived liturgical forms, the preparation of bread and wine on the altar and their formal offering to God. It takes place after the gospel and the creed and before the preface. A short psalm verse from Scriptures is appointed to be said or sung at the beginning; it varies from day to day. This is called the offertory verse. From ancient times it has been customary to collect the alms of the worshipers about the time of the offertory, hence the term has been transferred to the collection taken up in services in Protestant churches and to the music played or sung during the collection. The choice of this selection is usually left to the musicians of the church, and in many Protestant churches the offertory is the choir's principal musical selection in the service.

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books on: Offertory  - 657 results

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The Advent Project: The Later-Seventh-Century Creation of the Roman Mass Proper
Book by James McKinnon; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: Church Music--Catholic Church--500-1400, Gregorian Chants--History And Criticism, Mass (Music)--500-1400, Propers (Music)--500-1400--History And Criticism
...of respond and verse in the offertory is that so many of the responds...psalmic respond or verse. An offertory verse like Ego autem, for...separate out those psalmic offertories with plausible responds and...format, one unique to the offertory psalm. This is a task, however...
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The Early Middle Ages to 1300
Book by Richard Crocker, David Hiley; Oxford University Press, 1990
Subjects: Music--500-1400--History And Criticism
...musical use as Offertories. What gives the...links with the Offertory chants in other...Gregorian or Milanese Offertory. A satisfactory...plausible one sees such Offertories as originating...connection with the Offertory ceremonial. The...Further on these Offertories in the Roman repertory...
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Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley
Book by Richard Kieckhefer; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Church Architecture, Liturgy And Architecture
...mainly in two other processions: at the offertory and at communion. (There might be a...blessed not consecrated bread.) The offertory procession has a complex history. 24...offerings did not necessarily imply a lay offertory procession: they could be collected...
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Music in Worship: The Use of Music in the Church Service
Book by Joseph N. Ashton; Pilgrim Press, 1943
Subjects: Music In Churches
...and subjective section. A hymn and the offertory constitute the remaining parts of this...period of worship. At the time of the offertory, there may be a congregational hymn...Generally it is better to have the offertory precede the hymn. Both offertory and...
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Early Medieval Music, up to 1300
Book by Dom Anselm Hughes; Oxford University Press, 1954
Subjects: Music--500-1400--History And Criticism
...Gregorian manuscripts the Offertory has already taken the form...part. For many centuries the Offertory in the Roman rite has been...frequent. The text of the Offertory and its place in the liturgy...Jubilate Deo omnis terra . Some offertories have the unusual feature of...
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journal articles on: Offertory  - 113 results

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Exodus and Easter Vigil in the Ashburnham Pentateuch
Journal article by Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Christianity, Judaism
...liturgical practice: specifically, the offertory procession and the recital of names during...the fourth century in the West, the offertory procession took place immediately before...receiving them at the chancel in the offertory." but insists that the East had an...
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"You Who Once Were Far Off": Enlivening Scripture in the Main Portal at Vezelay
Journal article by Peter Low; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, 2003
Subjects: Catholic churches, Sacred texts, Sculpture
...presentation of offerings, commonly known as the Offertory procession, originated in the Early Christian...traditionally been seen as the exact counterpart of the Offertory, in the sense that the Offertory initiates lay involvement in the sacrifice element...
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Researching Place, Emplacing the Researcher: Reflections on the Making of a Documentary on a Pilgrimage Confraternity
Journal article by Barbara Ambros; Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 36, 2009
Subjects: Documentary films, Filming, Japan, Nostalgia, Pilgrimages, Religious studies, Rites & ceremonies, Shrines
...m., and the mountain-opening and offertory rites at the Outer Shrine that morning...Shrine after the mountain-opening and offertory rites. During lunch the next day, the...hidden from view. Mountain-opening and Offertory Rites Eventually, the other members...
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Seeking to Welcome the Multi-cultural Society in Which They Are Placed: Impressions of Four New York City Parishes
Journal article by Harry W. Shipps; Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 71, 2002
Subjects: Architecture, Catholic churches, Church of St Mathew & St Timothy-New York City NY, Church of the Resurrection-New York City NY, Church of the Transfiguration-New York City NY, Neighborhoods, Religious congregations, St Michaels Church-New York City NY
...setting to the peace. After the choir offertory anthem, "Give us the Wings of Faith...take the place of a formal sermon. An offertory anthem is sung by the choir, and as...of central Anglican theology. At the offertory the celebrant moves to the altar. Sursum...
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Eucharistic Faith and Practice
Journal article by Ralph F. Smith; Interpretation, Vol. 48, 1994
Subjects: Christianity, Rites & ceremonies
...few samples, such texts would include offertory prayers, thanksgiving (eucharistic...11) No distinction is made between offertory prayer and eucharistic prayer. In the...and presence. Compare the following offertory prayers (prayers said when the bread...
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magazine articles on: Offertory  - 114 results

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Two-Minute Offertories: Concise Hymn Settings for Piano
Magazine article; American Music Teacher, Vol. 55, December 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Lord, Be Glorified: Timeless Hymns in Classical Settings (Book), Morning Has Broken: Classic Hymns in Classical Settings (Book), Rocky Mountain Praise: Hymns of Ascent for Solo Piano (Book), Two-Minute Offertories: Concise Hymn Settings for Piano (Book)--Book reviews
Two-Minute Offertories: Concise Hymn Settings for Piano. Two-Minute Offertories: Concise Hymn Settings for Piano, by Cindy...concise arrangements in her volume, Two-Minute Offertories. Useful for purposes other than offertories...
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Crossing the Threshold
Magazine article by Bruce Croteau; Pastoral Music, Vol. 34, May 2010
...What role does music play? Whats "offertory" got to do with it? Two resources can...procession was all but extinct, but the offertory chant remained intact. This chant was...accompany what had come to be called "the offertory." The offertory prayers so much anticipated...
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Commentary
Magazine article by Haig Mardirosian, Chuck Josephson; The American Organist, Vol. 41, January 2007
...prelude!" "I could use that for an offertory." "What a rouser for a postlude...Why do we choose a particular prelude, offertory, or postlude for a particular service...Offering: Holy Ground-Davis During the offertory we are to consider the sacredness and...
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King of Kings
Magazine article by Calvert Johnson; The American Organist, Vol. 44, July 2010
...excellent quiet preludes or offertories, and Ive even used them during...b. 1922) "Prayer: An Offertory" in Volume 2, from his MMB...Leslie Adams (b. 1932) "Offertory" (originally "Offering...indications. Leslie Adams "Offertory" was originally published...
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The Search for John Tresilian, Master Smith to Edward IV
Magazine article by Jane Geddes; History Today, Vol. 52, April 2002
Subjects: Architectural metalwork--United Kingdom, Blacksmiths--Conduct of life, Historic buildings--United Kingdom, Tresilian, John--Conduct of life, United Kingdom--History, 1461-1485 (Yorkists), Windsor Castle--History
...south sides of the choir, and Henry VIs offertory. The vizzy (spy hole), with its tiny...fronting Edward IVs chapel above. The offertory was probably made soon after 1484 when...Both its date and quality suggest the offertory is part of the same group of furnishings...
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newspaper articles on: Offertory  - 154 results

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Money from the Offertory Was Used to Pay Abuse Bills
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 14, 2011
Subjects: Collection (Accounting)--Economic aspects, Costs (Law)--Economic aspects, Legal fees--Economic aspects
Money from the Offertory Was Used to Pay Abuse Bills. Byline...took out loans and syphoned money from offertory collections to pay abuse bills. An...5 per cent of their annual door or offertory collection. In 2005/6 the Stewardship...
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Deaths
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 10, 2010
Subjects: British Heart Foundation
...please, donations in memory may be given if desired via the offertory plate towards the I.T.U. at Wrexham Maelor Hospital...please, donations if desired may be given in memory via the offertory plate for the Stroke Association. All enquiries please to...
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Deaths
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), January 19, 2010
...please. Donations if desired may be given in memory via the offertory plates for Menlli Ward, Ruthin Hospital. All enquiries please...Nightingale House Hospice and The Plas Madoc Nurses, via the offertory plate at The Church o r a t The Crematorium. Enquiries to...
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'I've No Doubt He Will Continue to Protect Us' TRIBUTE TO HERO FLOOD GARDA AS HE IS LAID TO REST
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), October 29, 2011
Subjects: Floods
...the service. Mary Kennedy also addressed mourners as the offertory gifts were brought to the altar. She told them how it was...had lifted the Junior A County Championship for Kilbride. Offertory gifts included a rugby ball, a rugby jersey from Clondalkin...
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Facing Life in Jail, Priest 'Who Skimmed Millions'; Guilty: John Skehan Took a Young Woman on Drunken Irish Trip Cash Claims: St Vincent Ferrer Church. Inset, Francis Guinan
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 22, 2009
...was counted and strapped, would pay himself $2,000 from offertory cash. A second woman, Rene Wardrip, was prepared to testify...country as the scandal emerged. They are accused of stealing offertory money from St Vincent Ferrer parish - home to some of the...
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encyclopedia articles on: Offertory  - 3 results

 
 
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Offertory
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OFFERTORY Lat.,=offering, in the Roman Catholic...from day to day. This is called the offertory verse. From ancient times it has been...the worshipers about the time of the offertory, hence the term has been transferred...
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Mass , in Christianity
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the mystery of the Eucharist before the offertory and from the words Ite, missa est Go...continues with the creed (sometimes), the offertory (anthem with offering of bread and wine...alleluia, gradual, tract, or sequence), offertory, and communion. The five ordinary choral...
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Antiphon , in Liturgical Music
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...a psalm or canticle. The main use is in group singing of the Divine Office in a monastery. However, the sung introit, offertory, and communion verses of the Mass are also antiphons, whose psalms have for the most part disappeared. Certain festival...


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