Resources for Advent and Christmas
Resources for Advent and Christmas
Discover music, choral resources, tools for Advent and Christmas liturgies, and more to help you celebrate these joyful seasons.
Free Liturgy Planning Outlines for Advent
Prepare music for your Advent liturgies with help from OCP. Get free PDFs of liturgy outlines created by veteran music director Angela Westhoff-Johnson and other OCP experts using Liturgy.com. Fill out this form to receive free liturgy outlines for Advent.
Resources for your music ministry
Find octavos of Advent and Christmas music suited to both choir and assembly in the OCP Christmas Series, and anthems and motets for more accomplished choirs in the Trinitas series.
Christmas Series (OCP): Octavos for Advent and Christmas for choir and assembly
Christmas Series (Trinitas): Christmas anthems and motets for accomplished choirs
Advent & Christmas music for small choirs
Discover exciting choral arrangements that can be sung with limited personnel — including English, Spanish and bilingual titles, in 2-part, 3-part, SAB, SAT and unison.
Want help selecting the right music for your parish?
OCP’s Choral Review Service delivers choral octavos to your door three times a year, providing a range in style, difficulty and instrumentation for each liturgical season. Explore the Advent and Christmas music featured in the recent Choral Packet 111.
Discover the right music for your choir
Simplify your search for high quality sacred choral music with ocpchoral.com. OCP Choral provides thousands of songs suited to choirs of all sizes and skill levels. Start browsing now.
Preparing for the season
Get helpful examples and practical tips for planning Lessons and Carols at your parish.
Christmas season liturgical tips for Catholic parishes
To aid in your preparations for the season, we are sharing these liturgical directives and suggestions to consider during the Christmas season.
How to make a parish Advent wreath
Make sure your parish’s Advent wreath is beautiful and made correctly for use in church.
Learn how to create a beautiful, reverent and seasonally appropriate liturgical environment for Advent and Christmas.
Preparing for Advent and Christmas
Get a jump start on planning this year with thoughtful reflection and practical advice from OCP's Matt Reichert.
Advent liturgical tips for Catholic Parishes
To aid in your preparations for the season, we are sharing these liturgical directives and suggestions to consider during Advent.
Playlists
Select a playlist below and start listening on your favorite streaming service. Be sure to follow OCP on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music.
Advent Meditation
This hour-long meditative playlist features contemporary songs for the season of Advent from some of today's most popular Catholic artists.
This 30 minute long meditation for the season of Advent is filled with beautiful choral arrangements of some of the most beloved hymns and songs.
Collections and resources
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Thanks and Praise: A Keyboard Anthology
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A Hi God Christmas
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Winter Birth
Advent & Christmas: Prayer for the Journey
Amanecerá el Señor
Born To Us
El Señor Nos Invita, Vol. 2
Gentle Night: 40th Anniversary Edition
Las Posadas
Like Winter Waiting
Maranatha
Novena a la Virgen de Guadalupe/Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe
Peace at Christmas [CD]
Prince of Peace
Songs for Advent and Christmas
The Chants of Mary: Gregorian Chant
Waiting for Love
Tools for Preparing the Liturgy
Stay organized while preparing for Christmas Masses. OCP offers print planning books, digital liturgy preparation tools, digital libraries of accompaniments, and more to help you prepare beautiful liturgies for the season.