** Anyway, I think the offertory is underappreciated in many of our Masses. It's a bigger deal than just "taking up the collection".**
No rant apology needed. The offertory is very important, but I think you would agree with the article that the Consecration is the summit of this part of the Mass.
Well, yeah! Maybe that needs to be stressed. I don't know. One nice thing about being a convert is that I wouldn't have conveerted if I were troubled by doubts about the Mass. (That would be like being a Republican but favoring tax increases ... okay, bad example.)
All I'm saying here is that the prosphora is unappreciated and under-explained. Stewardship drives are presented as "doing our fair share" or things of that kind, but the mind-blowingly great privilege of being allowed to join the offering of ourselves and our labors with the self-bestowal of our Lord is overlooked.