passing the plate
Congregation donation moment
Passing the plate is the practice of circulating a collection container during a religious service for congregants to contribute money.
The phrase evokes the literal gesture—an usher or volunteer moving a plate, basket, or bag down each pew.
By extension, it can describe any communal solicitation of donations: Every meeting ends with passing the plate for the legal defense fund.
- offeringSomething presented or given
- titheTenth for clergy
- collectionGathered set of items
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- loose changeMiscellaneous small currency
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- church offeringscollection basket, weekly offering, church collection, offertory, tenth
- church serviceschurch service, weddings, high mass, funerals, communion