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Derivation

• Latin: offero, to offer up

Article

• that part of the Mass in which the unconsecrated bread and wine are offered to God
• the oblation itself
• the prayers that accompany this offering
• the verse or antiphon that forms a part of the proper of the Mass which is sung by the choir while the priest is making the offering

MLA Citation

• “offertory”. New Catholic Dictionary. CatholicSaints.Info. 23 March 2010. Web. 29 November 2020. <http://catholicsaints.info/offertory/>