offering http://oxforddictionaries.com/vi ... 4980#m_en_gb0574980
noun
-a thing offered, especially as a gift or contribution:
-a thing produced for entertainment or sale
-a contribution, especially of money, to a Church.
-a thing offered as a religious sacrifice or token of devotion.
2. Christian ChurchChrist's offering of himself in the Crucifixion.
-the Eucharist regarded either (in Catholic terms ) as a propitiatory
offering of the body and blood of Christ or (in Protestant terms )
as an act of thanksgiving
verb
1. offer or kill as a religious sacrifice:
the goat was sacrificed at the shrine