An oldie but goodie from
Crisis:
It usually starts with the missalettes
— those lightweight booklets scattered around the pews of your parish
church. They contain all the readings of the Sunday Masses, plus some
hymns and responses in the back. There’s nothing between the covers that
would offend an orthodox sense of the faith, and most of the songs are
traditional by today’s standards. So, what’s the problem?
Well, if your missalettes are like
those issued in more than half of American parishes, they’re copyrighted
by the Oregon Catholic Press (OCP) — the leading Catholic purveyor of
bad music in the United States. Four times a year, it prints and
distributes 4.3 million copies of the seemingly unobjectionable booklets
(which OCP doesn’t call missalettes).
But that’s just the beginning of its
massive product line, where each item is integrated perfectly with the
others to make liturgical planning quick and easy. To instruct and guide
parish musicians and liturgy teams, the OCP prints hymnals, choral
scores, children’s songbooks, Mass settings, liturgy magazines (with
detailed instructions that are slavishly followed by parishes around the
country), and CDs for planning liturgies and previewing the newest
music. (
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