It is the original and for a long time was the only offertory prayer.

After the presentation of the gifts lead the Offertory Prayer.

The present offertory prayers are late additions, not made in Rome until the fourteenth century.

The long Offertory prayers of the Greek Rite do not occur.

Many of the old Roman Secrets (really Offertory prayers) contain the same ideas.

In the Gallican Rite there was also a variable offertory prayer introduced by an invitation to the people; it had no special name.

The Offertory prayers and the litany are much longer than those in the Apostolic Constitutions.

The Offertory prayers.

Offertory Prayer (Unison) Your abundance fills our lives, O God.

Crory, performed the blessing of the club, with the help of youth ladies, and team officials, who took part in the reading and offertory prayers.

The most extensive changes, however, were made in the first part of the Liturgy of the Eucharist: almost all of the Offertory prayers were altered or shortened.

The Celebration of the Eucharist: The gifts of bread and wine are received, along with other gifts (such as money and/or food for a food bank, etc.), and an offertory prayer is recited.

To Andr the Latin words, the Gospel, the Creed, the Offertory prayers seemed like sounds out of dreamland, phrases belonging to the land of memory, to a land which he had not visited since boyhood and which seemed divided from the present by an ocean of injustice and wrong.

Before the reform of Pope Pius XII, only the priest received Communion in the framework of what was called the "Mass of the Presanctified", which included the usual Offertory prayers, with the placing of wine in the chalice, but which omitted the Canon of the Mass.

Most of the prayers that the priest says are spoken inaudibly, including almost all the Mass of the Faithful: the offertory prayers, the Canon of the Mass (except for the preface and the final doxology), and (apart from the Agnus Dei) those between the Lord's Prayer and the postcommunion.