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This collection of products, however,
does not include a hymnal — or anything else — designed to appeal to
traditional sensibilities (its Heritage Hymnal is deceptively
misnamed). The OCP’s experts never tire of promoting the new, rewriting
the old, and inviting you to join them in their quest to “sing a new
church into being” (as one of their hit songs urges). The one kind of
“new” that the OCP systematically avoids is the new vogue of traditional
music that has proved so appealing to young Catholics.
The bread and butter of the OCP are
the 10,000 music copyrights it owns. It employs a staff of 150, runs
year-round liturgy workshops all over the United States, sponsors
affiliates in England and Australia, and keeps song-writers all over the
English-speaking world on its payroll. In fact, it’s the preferred
institutional home of those now-aging “St. Louis Jesuits” who swept out
the old in 1969 and, by the mid-1970s, had parishes across the country
clapping and strumming and tapping to the beat.