You may have seen on social media people who carry out some services in church music, doing something completely different in life, and who are scandalized by those musicians who demand to be treated as professionals and therefore fairly paid.
They deprecated because what we do for God must be done for free, perhaps the same people who, when they demand payment in their profession, want every last cent.
After all, if you work as a garbage collector and then sing in church, good for you, when you come home you have your lunch and your dinner. But how should a church musician who dedicates years of study to what he does, years in which he has to pay for lessons, for books, live? Maybe begging?
Those who pretend to be spiritual by making people believe that they are closer to God because they do things for free, are actually further away from Him because they believe that praising God is a pastime and not a very high mission to which to dedicate time, effort and resources.
Let's be clear: there is nothing wrong with offering your service for free if you are able to carry it out well and if you do not denigrate those who dedicate years and years of study to this very important task.
The sacristan can be paid, the florist can also be paid, the priest gets a certain sum when he says Mass, but the musician can't, he will eat the air. And we have seen the results obtained where choirs have been destroyed and professional musicians sent away, a spiritual desolation that truly cries out for vengeance before God.
Then a question comes to me: but must the social doctrine of the Church be valid everywhere except in the liturgy? How do they imagine communicating the beauty that is God if this beauty in art is not entrusted to those who have made it a reason for living?