For those parishes livestreaming their Masses and using copyright music, there are different laws that apply to these livestreamed Masses. You must ensure that the parish’s license for music used during in-person liturgy also covers the use of said music when live-streaming Masses online (via the parish website, Facebook, YouTube, etc.).
There are FREE music alternatives. Parishes may simply sing the Mass and not add other music. If parishes want to add songs to their Masses, there are options in the public domain, which can be found on the following two sites. Should you provide a digital worship aid, you still need to print any required copyright acknowledgement.
• http://www.icelweb.org/musicfolder/openmusic.php • Sample copyright acknowledgement: The English translation and chants of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.
• https://musicasacra.com/music/ Otherwise, we advise that the parish obtain an annual license from ONE LICENSE: https://onelicense.net/options-and-prices. This license covers hundreds of publishers, including the most popular publishers such as OCP, WLP, GIA….
The above comes from an April 27 release from the Sacramento diocese.
Try Gregorian chant, which is public-domain, never sappy, and truly spiritual.
Trust me, that’s a sure way to run a parish into the ground. People will leave the parish for a different one. I know what I’m talking about. I watched it happen when a new pastor took over and went too fast in that direction. Parishioners left, the offertory collapsed, and the parish suffered. Then the pastor was reassigned by the bishop after only two years.
Never a better time to use Gregorian chants. Enough of those awful protestant influenced songs.
Gregorian chant is beautiful, as is Byzantine chant! That said, Charles Wesley wrote some inspiring, beautiful (and true) Christmas hymns that Christians of all traditions sing. Honestly guys, does Hark the Herald Angels Sing never pass your lips? Even a heretic penned A Mighty Fortress is our God, which is in many Catholic hymnals. So, do you think Amazing Grace, Bach’s Mass and Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus should go? It’s difficult to think of a funeral for a Catholic firefighter or police officer not accompanied by a piper playing Amazing Grace. And, at such times, that is most appropriate. Years ago, when I was still a layman, a wise priest shared something with me, which has served me (and others) well over the years: “Be dogmatic where the Church is dogmatic and don’t be where She is not.”
Gregorian Chant is great for those who prefer it. However, in my humble opinion, poorly done Chant is worse than terrible.
Sounds like a silver lining, to me.
All you saying that parishes should change to Gregorian chant, do you live in normal places? Almost nobody wants that and almost no choirs can sing it besides. The only parish near me that does it is FSSP, and the choir doesn’t do a good job. The people who go to that parish would attend Mass there without music because they just want the old Mass, they don’t care about good music. They also don’t believe in evolution, so that tells you it’s a backwards mindset.
You might have descended from apes, but I did not. I am RH negative and do not have the Rhesus monkey factor.
That was in reply to Henry’s post April 29 at 7:38 am concerning evolution — at least Darwin’s theory.
I made a joke. I am not going to tell anyone my blood type on here.
I tried the live-streaming thing, but it left me cold and empty. Even if I dispatch my guardian angel to be there in my stead, I’m still not actually there.
“Because the Mass is truly a supernatural event whose heart is the mystery of the offering of the Son to the Father, the image on the screen is Nothing, in the sense that it is not The Mass. It is watching Father going through the motions of The Mass. It cannot be and is not The Mass. … Those who watch cannot ‘join in the act’ because their physical presence is required to be part of the supernatural event that is The Mass.”
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