Offertory (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The offertory (from ecclesiastical Latin offertorium, French offertoire, a place to which offerings were brought) is the point in a eucharist when the bread and wine are brought to the altar, often coinciding with the collection of alms from the congregation. By extension, it is sometimes used for the collection of alms at non-eucharistic services. At this point in a eucharist bread and wine are brought to the altar or communion table. In some churches it is the custom for members of the congregation to bring the bread and wine from the nave of the church to the sanctuary. The altar is prepared and, in some churches, censed.