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Minister vs Offertory - What's the difference?

minister | offertory |

As nouns the difference between minister and offertory

is that minister is a person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a protestant church while offertory is (christianity) an anthem formerly sung as part of the roman catholic mass or during the corresponding part of the anglican communion.

As a verb minister

is to attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.

minister

English

Noun

(en noun) (minister)
  • A person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church.
  • A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).
  • * (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
    • Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man.
  • At a diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
  • A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
  • * Bible, (w) xxiv. 13
    • Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • I chose / Camillo for the minister , to poison / My friend Polixenes.

    Related terms

    * ministerial * ministry * ministerium

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.
    • A newspaper headline: Couple leaves business world to minister to inner-city children
  • to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship
  • (archaic) To afford, to give, to supply.
  • * Bible, 2 Corinthians ix. 10
    • He that ministereth seed to the sower.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • We minister to God reason to suspect us.
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
    • I do well believe your highness; and did it to / minister occasion to these gentlemen [...] (to give opportunity to these gentlemen)

    See also

    * cleric * father * parson * pastor * priest * vicar

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    offertory

    English

    (wikipedia offertory)

    Noun

    (offertories)
  • (Christianity) An anthem formerly sung as part of the Roman Catholic Mass or during the corresponding part of the Anglican Communion.
  • * c.1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Canterbury Tales :
    • But alderbest he sang an offertory : / For well he wiste, when that song was sung, / He muste preach […].
  • * 1922 , (Sinclair Lewis), Babbitt :
    • There was an impressive musical program, conducted by Sheldon Smeeth, educational director of the Y.M.C.A., who also sang the offertory .
  • (Christianity) The part of the Eucharist service when offerings of bread and wine are placed on the altar and when any collection is taken; also, the money or other things collected.
  • * 1914 , (Stephen Leacock), Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich :
    • Before a month had passed the congregation at the evening service at St. Asaph's Church was so slender that the offertory , as Mr. Furlong senior himself calculated, was scarcely sufficient to pay the overhead charge of collecting it.
  • * 1922 , (Upton Sinclair), They Call Me Carpenter :
    • I sat through the sermon, and the offertory , and the recessional.
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 30:
    • Even the coins in the offertory were accredited with magical value; there were numerous popular superstitions about the magical value of communion silver as a cure for illness or a lucky charm against danger.

    Related terms

    * offering