offertory
OFFERTORY
*ea pars cultus divini qua pecuniam in usum pauperum conferimus; *ea pars cultus divini qua oblationes populi offeruntur; or it may be necessary to retain *offertorium astechnical term. ☞ Offertorium in ecclesiastical Latin was the place where the oblations were offered: fertum enim dicitur oblatio quae altari offertur (Isid. Orig. 6 19). Freund assigns this meaning to the word in his first edition; but in his latest edition he makes offertorium = oblation also elevation of the host (with Roman Catholics).
*ea pars cultus divini qua pecuniam in usum pauperum conferimus; *ea pars cultus divini qua oblationes populi offeruntur; or it may be necessary to retain *offertorium astechnical term. ☞ Offertorium in ecclesiastical Latin was the place where the oblations were offered: fertum enim dicitur oblatio quae altari offertur (Isid. Orig. 6 19). Freund assigns this meaning to the word in his first edition; but in his latest edition he makes offertorium = oblation also elevation of the host (with Roman Catholics).
offertory: offertōrium (late): Isid. Or. 6, 19, 24: where it is enumerated among the parts of public worship: in the R. Cath. service, the term denotes that portion of the service of the mass in which the host is offered, oblatio missae: Preces Missae. (Acc. to Forcell. the word denotes the place of offering: but this sense is not supported by the passage in Isid. to which he appeals.) (N.B.--Avoid such roundabout exprr. as, *ea pars cultus divini qua pecuniam in usum pauperum conferimus: but the term offertorium may be properly qualified by, quod [apud nostrates] dicitur, quod [nostrates] dicunt)