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General

Liturgy.com is a trusted planning tool that allows you to find the perfect music for every day of the liturgical year. Its intuitive design and comprehensive resources make it the easiest way to plan liturgically correct Masses with music that your parish loves in just minutes.

  • Easily drag and drop songs into dynamic Outlines that are pre-populated with all the correct liturgical moments
  • Get expert suggestions for each liturgy during Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time, Lent, Holy Week and Easter
  • Keep track of your parish’s favorite Mass settings and songs with Playlists and easily add them to your Outlines
  • Organize, reference, and import previously planned liturgies to make planning a breeze
  • Effortlessly email, print and share music with your ministry team
  • Integrate with a digital library to quickly pull all your sheet music together in the click of a button
The three subscription levels are Basic (Free), Plus ($44/year), and Premium ($145/year).

The Basic subscription is intended for people who either want to try out Liturgy.com or only plan music for liturgies occasionally. With the Basic tier you will be able to plan for Sundays and solemnities with the full music list in Liturgy.com at your disposal, including popular Mass settings. You will also get three song suggestions for each liturgical moment to help you choose and can print out your Outlines. You are limited to five saved Outlines so if you reach that limit, you will have to delete outlines to plan more. You cannot use a digital library with a Basic account, so you will need to upgrade if you want to purchase a digital library.

The Plus subscription is intended for those who more regularly plan music for liturgies, but don’t need to have multiple users or a complete planning history. Compared to Basic, you get the full set of Today’s Liturgy and Liturgia y Canción recommendations, the ability to email Outlines directly to your choir, and the ability to plan special liturgies like funerals and weddings. You will also be able to listen to the audio of the songs you are planning and see a preview of the sheet music, right in the tool. To make planning quicker, you can also save songs in Playlists and create custom Mass settings. Lastly, you can keep up to 25 outlines at a time.

The Premium subscription is for those who want all the features. It comes with unlimited Outlines so you can save and reference every Outline you have ever made and you can have up to five users on your account. You can also see all the suggestions ever made for each liturgical moment for a huge list to choose from. There is also the option to plan daily Masses on the Premium tier.
Our digital libraries provide easy access to all the accompaniment sheet music and audio recordings your choir needs! We provide a simple interface to browse all the songs, view/download/print the sheet music for guitar or keyboard, and listen to the audio recording. You simply buy it as an add-on to your Liturgy.com subscription. It is priced by how many people you want to have access to it, so you can save money by only purchasing it for the people who need it.

Additionally, when you prepare for a liturgy by populating an outline with songs from your digital library, you can quickly and easily download all the sheet music for that celebration. Choose your instrumentation and whether you want it all in one PDF or separate PDFs and you are good to go!

The best part is you can also share your outline with your choir where they can download the sheet music themselves making it super simple to get everyone playing from the same sheet of music.
Simply call in to 1-800-LITURGY (548-8749) to place an order with our excellent Customer Success team! They are available 7:00 am – 4:30 pm PT, Monday – Friday. We sell ‘seats’ to the digital library, so you can save money by only purchasing it for the people in your organization who need it.
With a Basic subscription you are limited to five saved Outlines and with a Plus subscription you have 25. Once you reach those limits you will have to delete saved Outlines to be able to continue to create new Outlines. You will get notifications when you are nearing your limit and when you have reached your limit.

The Premium subscription has unlimited saved Outlines.
Under Special Liturgies, we include templates for the following celebrations:
  • Weddings
  • Baptisms
  • Anointing of the Sick
  • Confirmation
  • Reconciliation
  • Funerals
  • Quinceañeras
  • Adoration
On Premium you can also plan for any and all of the daily Masses on the U.S. liturgical calendar, including memorials and optional memorials.
Liturgy.com has a feature where you can manage the personnel in your choir with their emails and assign them to an Outline. When your Outline is complete, you can email the Outline to your personnel directly from Liturgy.com.

If you have a digital library, your choir members can click on the link in the email to access a page that will let them download the sheet music for any songs in the digital library for that outline.
Under My Resources, you can select which resources your community uses or has access to. Once you have selected these, a small badge will appear on every song that appears in your resources, so you quickly know which songs you have access to. Additionally, once you add these songs to an Outline, the song numbers in your resources will populate automatically.

Liturgy.com has the full suite of OCP missals and hymnals as well as many of the most popular non-OCP missals and hymnals.
The Basic subscription gets a sample of our suggestions consisting of the top 3 suggestions for each liturgical moment from Today’s Liturgy and Liturgia y Canción as well as songs that reference the scripture readings in that liturgy. Plus users will have the full set of suggestions from these resources. Meanwhile, Premium users get an expanded list of suggestions consisting of the full history of these resources as well as songs that are trending across Liturgy.com users.
Premium and Plus users can access the archives of all the Today’s Liturgy and Liturgia y Canción articles. Additionally, Premium and Plus users can download the PDF for the annual planning resource on the Additional Resources page.
Plus and Premium users can create custom Mass settings and templates that can be used to quickly populate an Outline with commonly used arrangements of songs. Additionally, these users can adjust which liturgical moments show up by default (e.g. Preludes or 2nd Communion song), the default list in the Song Suggestion pane, and which information shows up on the printed Outline.
The Song Suggestions and OCP Staff Picks are selected from songs that are in OCP products. However, many of these songs can also be found in non-OCP products. If you select these products in My Resources, they will be identified in the Song Suggestion pane just like an OCP product.
On the My Subscription page, you can quickly and easily upgrade your account. If you are upgrading from a Basic subscription, you simply click the "Upgrade" button under Plus or Premium and purchase a year’s subscription.

If you are currently on Plus, you can select the button to upgrade to Premium. If you are partially through your Plus subscription, you will pay a pro-rated amount to access Premium features for the remainder of your subscription. If you are near the end of your Plus subscription, you will immediately get access to Premium features if you purchase Premium for the next year.
Right now, Liturgy.com requires you to go to your account settings and choose to renew your subscription as you approach your end date. If you decide you no longer want to pay for a subscription, simply do not renew and you will not be charged. Your account will be changed to a Basic account, which is free.

If you would like to change from Premium to Plus, simply click the "Renew" button under Plus on the My Subscription page.
If you downgrade your subscription, you it will lower the number of Outlines you can have, and you may lose access to your content in certain features like Playlists, custom songs, etc. Don’t fret! We have archived all of these items so, if you decide to upgrade again, they will be restored and there waiting for you.

However, if you delete Outlines to make room to create more Outlines, those will be deleted forever and cannot be retrieved.
You can find a song by entering the name in the search field located in the Song Catalog tab in the Songs & Suggestions feature next to your Outline. When you find your desired song drag and drop it onto your Outline.
You can find a song by entering the name in the search field located in the Song Catalog tab in the Songs & Suggestions feature next to your template. When you find your desired song drag and drop it onto your template.

Click the action menu on the slot you want to add a song and select Edit. From there you can manually enter a song.
Click the action menu on the slot you want to manually enter a song. Select "Edit" which will open a modal where you can manually enter a song.
Click the action menu on the slot that you want to edit the song numbers. Select "Edit" which will open a modal where you can update or remove the song numbers. To clear them completely click on X. If you cleared them by mistake you can click the circular arrow and the preset numbers will appear.

Features

Click the “Sign Up Today” button on the landing page or the “Create Account” link on the Sign In page. Follow the on-screen directions to choose a subscription level and enter your information. For a paid subscription (Plus and Premium), you will then have to check out to purchase the subscription.
On the left navigation pane, choose “Plan Music.” Scroll to the celebration you wish to plan and click the “New Outline” link for that celebration. You can also select “Create a New Outline” near the top of the dashboard to quickly create an Outline for the upcoming celebration.
When working on an Outline planning page, look for the music list to the left of your Outline. Choose your desired song and simply drag the song onto to your Outline or use the action menu. To find different songs, choose the drop down for different suggestion lists or choose the “Song Catalog” tab to search the entire music database.
On the left navigation pane, click on your name to activate the drop-down menu, then click on “Mass Settings.” You can select an existing setting or click the “Create Mass Setting” button to start a new one.

This feature is available for Plus and Premium users.
On the left navigation pane, click on “Plan Music.” Each celebration on the “Plan Music” landing page has an Overview link. You can also click on the "Overview" link from the top of any Outline. The "Overview" page offers a summary of the celebration along with reading synopses. At the bottom of the page, there is a "View Full Readings" button which will take you to usccb.org, the official United States Conference of Catholic Bishops website where you can review the readings in their entirety. For information on including reading texts in projections or worship aids, visit the usscb.org website.
Working from an existing Outline, you can click on the gear in the top right corner and select “Copy to New Outline.”

Additionally, when creating a new Outline for a celebration, you can choose to copy from a past Outline of the same celebration on the Outline setup page.
On the left navigation pane, click on your name to activate the drop-down menu, then click on “My Playlists” to access. Think of My Playlists like a digital notebook where you can jot down song ideas for a certain liturgy or season and easily apply them to any of your Outlines. There are several ways you can add songs to your Playlists (from a search, the dashboard, suggested songs, etc.).

This feature is available for Plus and Premium users.
You can access past celebrations in two different ways.

First, you can select “Plan Music” or “My Outlines” from the left navigation pane and use the tabs and menus at the top of the page to select the year and season you’d like to view.

Additionally, from a celebration Overview page, you can select the “View Past Outlines” button. Celebration Overview pages can be found by clicking on the “Overview” link at the top of any Outline or by clicking on “Plan Music” on the left navigation pane, then clicking on the “Overview” link for the celebration you are interested in.
Yes, in the song suggestion panel on the Outline planning page.
Yes, when you are in an Outline, simply click on the “Notes” pencil icon at the top of the screen and a text box will appear for note taking. Anything you type in the Notes box will appear on the PDF or printed Outline.
Yes, you can save a PDF of an Outline and email it yourself by clicking the print icon button at the top of any Outline. Additionally, you can click the email button which will allow you to send the email directly from the site.

This feature is available for Plus and Premium users.
On the left navigation pane, click on your name to activate the drop-down menu, then click on “Custom Songs.” Click on the “Add a Song Not Listed” button on the bottom right of the page. Once you have added a custom song, you can add it to one of the My Playlists or an Outline right away but it may not appear in search results for up to 24 hours.

This feature is available for Plus and Premium users.
It will take 24 hours for a newly added song to be imported into your search results. However, it will appear immediately in your Custom Songs list found by clicking on your name on the left navigation pane and selecting “Custom Songs” from the drop-down menu. From there, you can add the song to one of the My Playlists for use in a celebration.
From a celebration Overview page, click the “Other Resources” button and you can download a PDF of Prayer of the Faithful in both English and Spanish.

Celebration Overview pages can be found by clicking on the “Overview” link at the top of any Outline or by clicking on “Plan Music” on the left navigation pane, then clicking on the “Overview” link for the celebration you are interested in.

This feature is available for Premium users.
On celebration Overview pages. These can be found by clicking on the “Overview” link at the top of any Outline or by clicking on “Plan Music” on the left navigation pane, then clicking on the “Overview” link for the celebration you are interested in.
From a celebration Overview page, click the “Other Resources” button and you can download the PDF of the ordo under the heading “Celebration Summary.”

This feature is available for Premium users.

Celebration Overview pages can be found by clicking on the “Overview” link at the top of any Outline or by clicking on “Plan Music” on the left navigation pane, then clicking on the “Overview” link for the celebration you are interested in.
On the left navigation pane, click on your name to activate the drop-down menu, then click on “Account Details.” On the left side of your screen under “Account Details,” select “Custom Settings.”

This feature is available for Plus and Premium users.
You can add a new slot to your Outline by scrolling to the bottom of the Outline and clicking "+Add Liturgical Moment or Heading." You can also add a slot to all future Outlines by adjusting your custom settings.

On the left navigation pane, click on your name to activate the drop-down menu, then click on “Account Details.” On the left side of your screen under Account Details, select “Custom Settings.” Here, you can choose to make changes to your Outlines that will remain in your custom settings.

Custom Settings is available for Plus and Premium users.

Digital Libraries

On the left navigation pane, there will be a menu item called “Digital Libraries”. Selecting this will reveal all the digital libraries you have access to. By clicking on one, you will see a comprehensive list of all the songs in the library. Select a song to view and download sheet music or listen to the recording.

Additionally, when you plan an Outline in Liturgy.com there is a convenient way to download all the sheet music for that Outline. Simply click the “Share Music Files” button in the header to open a panel to guide you through downloading the files. When sharing an outline, this ability will also be available to all of your choir members as well.
Digital library access is just for the people who have been assigned access. You can change this in the Account section, under “Manage Users”. There you will see a separate section for Digital Libraries users. Click ‘Assign User’ to add someone in your Liturgy.com organization to the digital library. To remove someone, click the Action Menu next to their name and select ‘Remove Access’. Please note that you must be an owner or admin to perform these actions.
If you do not have a seat, you will not see the “Digital Library” menu item and there will not be the opportunity to download files from Outlines. You can always add seats to your subscription if more people need access.
To use a digital library you must have a Plus or Premium Liturgy.com account. Since Plus only allows one user, you can only have one seat for a digital library with that subscription level.
You may! Please call 1-800-LITURGY (548-8749) to place your order and they will pro-rate the cost based on how much time is left on your subscription.
When it is time to renew your Liturgy.com subscription, simply do not renew your digital library. No effort is needed!
We recommend visiting https://www.ocp.org/en-us/reprint-permissions for an explainer on licensing, because it can be complicated. Generally, if you are playing the music at your parish for liturgies or other events, you do not need any additional licensing. However, if you want to project or livestream or print (e.g. handouts) the music, you will still need to have licensing in place.
You may share what you download with members of your choir, parish, or school. We ask that you practice prudence and not share broadly on the internet. The intent of the digital library is to provide accompaniment pieces to your organization, and your organization only.
You will have to make the following selections when clicking “Share Music File” on an outline:
  • First, if you have another digital library on ICRMusic.org, you will have to select which libraries you intend to use.
  • Select which songs to include. All available songs are selected by default.
  • Choose file type. Options are PDF (for sheet music) or MP3 (for recordings)
  • Choose instrumentation (only for PDF). Choose which arrangement you would like for the sheet music.
  • Choose whether you want all the sheet music to be combined into a single PDF, in the order specified in your Outline; or as a zip file of individual PDFs for each song
When you purchase a digital library it will be automatically selected as one of your resources. This means there will be a badge next to every song in that resource so you can quickly identify it.

All of our digital libraries support one of our physical products. Please visit the product pages on www.ocp.org to learn more about the song selections in those products.

Account

Yes. You can find songs from a select number of third-party hymnals and songbooks through the search feature; these songs can be added to any celebration Outline from “Resources” in the dropdown menu under your name in the left navigation pane.

To see which third party resources are available, click here.
Yes, up to five users can be associated with one Premium account. Basic and Plus accounts are limited to one user.

If you have a Breaking Bread or Spirit & Song Digital Music Library subscription with multiple users, all of them will automatically have access to Liturgy.com with a Premium subscription. Digital library subscriptions should manage their users on ICRmusic.org.

Note: all users on an account will be able to view all the activity of any other user on the account.
There are three (3) user roles: Standard, Admin, and Owner. For Premium accounts, these are assigned. Since Basic and Plus have one user, they are always assigned the Owner role.

Standard users can access ALL the functionality of Liturgy.com, but are not able to make purchases or manage other users. Admins have the ability to add/remove users and change their roles (with the exception of the Owner). They cannot make purchase decisions for the organization, such as enabling/disabling auto renew, upgrades, changing payment methods, etc. Those abilities are restricted to the Owner. The Owner has all the permissions of the Admin, plus the ability to make all these purchase decisions. There can be multiple Admins, but there can only be one Owner.
Your initial login will be the email address and password associated with your ocp.org account. If you don’t have an existing ocp.org account, one will be created for you when you set up your account. Your login and password for both Liturgy.com and ocp.org will be identical.
To change your password or email, click on your name in the left navigation pane to activate the drop-down menu and select "Account Details.” On the left side of your screen under “Account Details,” select “Login & Security.”
If you have a Premium subscription you can add up to five users to your account. To add a user to your account, click on your name in the left navigation pane to activate the drop-down menu and select "Account Details.” On the left side of your screen under “Account Details,” select “Manage Users.” If you choose to make the new user an admin, they can add and remove other users.
Your Liturgy.com subscription will automatically expire at the end of your year-long term. To view the end date of the subscription, click on your name in the left navigation pane to activate the drop-down menu and select "My Subscription.”
To renew your subscription, click on your name in the left navigation pane to activate the drop-down menu and select "My Subscription. When you are within 60 days of the end of your subscription, “Renew” buttons will be available. Click the “Renew” button for the subscription level you would like to purchase as a year-long subscription.
Yes, simply select your parish’s billing account when checking out. If your parish’s billing account does not appear at checkout, contact OCP Customer Service at 1-800-548-8749.
When you purchase or renew a Liturgy.com subscription, you will receive a transaction receipt via email from ocp.org. You can print this receipt at your convenience.

Misc.

Unfortunately, there is no way to recover deleted Outlines.
Yes. Liturgy.com does not provide copyright licenses or report usage. If you have a copyright license through One License, CCLI, etc., you must report usage through those tools. Learn more about licensing at OneLicense.net.
Choral and instrumental arrangements, if available for a song, can be purchased at ocp.org.
Liturgy.com recommends music using verbatim psalm texts for the psalm response from OCP resources Respond & Acclaim, A Lectionary Psalter and Spirit & Psalm.