This is a special edition of Ministry Monday featuring pastoral musicians across the United States sharing their current realities in light of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The novel Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has spread like wildfire across our world in the past few months. What seemed looming and distant in China and Korea quickly made its way to the United States. Within a span of just 2-3 weeks, what seemed unrelatable became our very tangible reality.
Many of us are hopefully safely within our homes as we listen to this episode. (And if you aren’t, we encourage you to consider the risk of infecting others. The best way to love your neighbor at the moment is to avoid your neighbor!)
Today’s episode hopes to give you some insight into the thoughts and hearts of pastoral musicians across the country right now. We’ll hear from different Dioceses, from publishers and copyright licensing companies, and lastly, we’ll hear from our NPM president, Steve Petrunak.
This is a hefty, much longer episode than usual because we wanted to make it chock full of stories, perspectives, and practical tips for you to apply in your music ministry. And besides, we all have plenty of time right now anyway, so sit back, relax and listen to our special episode ahead.
Note: please keep in mind that all interviews were recorded on Tuesday, March 17. From the time I interviewed two of my participants to the time I went to script this episode, their Dioceses changed from allowing Masses, to suspending Masses indefinitely.
SHOW NOTES
Thank you so much to the following people who were willing to be interviewed for this podcast:
Andrea Ramos (Diocese of Austin, TX)
Roy Spicer (Archdiocese of Los Angeles, CA)
Christopher Ferraro (Diocese of Rockville Centre, NY)
Angela Stramaglia (Archdiocese of Chicago, IL)
Todd Baltz (Pocahontas, AR)
Jessica Koch (Archdiocese of Chicago, IL)
Brenna C. Cronin (ONE LICENSE)
Matt Reichert (GIA Publications/Diocese of St. Cloud, MN)
Lisa Bagladi (Oregon Catholic Press)
Steve Petrunak (NPM HQ- Silver Spring, MD)
Resources- ONE LICENSE
ONE LICENSE has released two extremely beneficial articles about the temporary gratis license, and ways to get creative
https://news.onelicense.net/2020/03/12/creative-solutions-to-growing-concerns-covid-19/
Resources- OCP Publications
GRATIS OPTIONS
OCP is for a limited time granting permission for live streaming our copyrighted materials until April 15, 2020 – for details see: https://www.ocp.org/en-us/blog/entry/resources-from-home
OneLicense - Gratis license options for reproduction and projection, or Podcast / Streaming, both good until April 15, 2020. OneLicense.net
SPECIAL DEEP DISCOUNTS
Today’s Missal / Unidos en Cristo/United in Christ / Breaking Bread / Choose Christ Missal / Heritage Missal / Misal del Día Purchase up to four personal copies of the missal used at your parish at 50% off. Use the coupon code 50OFF on ocp.org
https://www.ocp.org/en-us/missals
https://www.ocp.org/en-us/blog/entry/resources-from-home
STREAMING PRAYER EXPERIENCES
Iván Díaz started a facebook page “Oremos y Cantemos” which will provide regular moments of prayer which he will post. He had a Holy hour last night with Fr. Edmundo Zárate from San Diego and this evening (5:00pm ET) it will be a mass with Fr. Edmundo
Steve Angrisano is doing the Chaplet of Divine Mercy daily at 3:00pm ET https://www.facebook.com/steve.angrisano.3
Pedro Rubalcava is starting a bilingual night prayer 8:00pm pacific /11:00 eastern, starting 3/17 and is planning a Spanish language rosary with his mother on Saturday morning. https://www.facebook.com/prubalcava
Sarah Hart is planning an online concert (no date or time yet, but she’s taking requests for songs) https://www.facebook.com/sarahhartmusicofficial/
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