Offertory

The offertory (from the Latin offerre , 'to counteract', 'to bring', 'to offer', 'to offer', to 'present') is a liturgical chant for the preparation of gifts at Holy Mass . During the offertory, the gifts of bread and wine are brought to the altar and the collections are collected. This is followed by the preparation of the gifts, the washbasin and the prayer of the gifts .

The offertory belongs to the proprium , i.e. the texts of Holy Mass that change according to the day or time in the church year . It is a Latin antiphon for which the Schola originally recited a psalm as an accompaniment to the procession for the preparation of gifts. In the Domine Jesu Christe Offertorium of the funeral mass ( Missa pro defunctis ), the longer form with the versicle and repetition of the antiphon is preserved, since the sacrifice of all believers took place in such services until modern times and was initially accompanied by the chant of the offertory.

In mass celebrations in the local language today, a song for the offering of gifts is often sung instead of the offertory. If there is no singing, there is no offertory.

In music, literature emerged Offertories as a choral or instrumental accompaniment the offertory.

Significant offers

Choir

• Orlando di Lasso , Sacrae Cantiones (1582 and 1585);
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina , Offertoria totius anni (1593)

Choir, organ, trumpets and congregation

• Ralph Vaughan Williams , All people that on earth do dwell ( The Old 100th ), Offertory at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

organ

• Louis Lefébure-Wély , several offerings a . a. in the L'Organiste Moderne collection .
• Jean Langlais , Deux Offertoires pour tous les temps (1943)

See also

• Domine Jesus Christe

literature

• Rebecca Maloy: Inside the offertory. Aspects of chronology and transmission. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-531517-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aimé-Georges Martimort (ed.): Handbook of liturgical science. Vol. I, Herder Verlag, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1963, p. 395.
2. ↑ General introduction to the Roman Missal No. 50, [1] .