Oregon Catholic Press


Oregon Catholic Press is a major publisher of Catholic liturgical music based in Portland, Oregon. The not-for-profit company publishes liturgical music, books, choral collections, hymnals, missals, and support materials serving the universal and multicultural church in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean and Chinese.
OCP also publishes music for youth and young adults, through its Spirt and Song imprint and religious education materials and academic and inspirational books through its Pastoral Press imprint. It also publishes the Catholic Sentinel, the diocesan newspaper for the Archdiocese of Portland.
OCP represents well-known contemporary Catholic liturgical music composers Dan Schutte, and the other members known as the St. Louis Jesuits, Bernadette Farrell, Carey Landry, Michael Joncas, Bob Hurd, Tom Kendzia, and Christopher Walker.
Along with GIA Publications, OCP is a co-owner of OneLicense.net, having merged LicenSingOnline.org with OneLicense.net on January 1, 2017.

History

As part of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company received between $2 million and $5 million in federally backed small business loan from Zions Bank as part of the Paycheck Protection Program. The company stated it would allow them to retain 157 jobs.

Products

Missals
Hymnals
OCP also publishes Respond & Acclaim, a yearly subscription-based psalm resource, which includes a responsorial psalm and a gospel acclamation for every Sunday and Holy Day. The music for the Respond & Acclaim psalms was written by former publisher Owen Alstott.

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