Today’s Catholic must-reads: 14/11/12

‘creation of a new office for liturgical music ‘with
‘fresh impetus to promote the sacred liturgy’
The changeover to the ‘new’ English translation and the decision by publishers to bring out new editions caused a lot of needless difficulty for our choir.
In our modern world and using a pc we can download any music in the printed form from the net and pay for it.
What we need is an open source of Catholic liturgical music, downloadable so we can print it off, use it at mass, and not have some police type problem with its use.
 Any diocese could set up its own site .When any music is commissioned, say for the successful world youth days, pay the author a fee one off and put it on the web.
Have competitions for music the winner gets a prize and it goes on the web.
Start crowd sourcing.Put up all the hymns that are out of copyright, or have copyright simply because some publisher bound them and put a typeface on them and charges a fortune for us to buy them, together with a whole lot of other hymns we never use, a bit like the old days when you had to buy a whole record just to get the track you wanted.
 The music needs to be affordable, per copy print, royalty problems sorted and open sourced or paid for one off by purchase of one copy for liturgical use so no music police in church.
 This would mean fresh impetus.