Anybody Remember or Still Sing This Old Hymn?

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Back in the 70s, I heard this hymn “Keep in Mind” so much that I got tired of hearing it. It was a perennial favorite for Lent. For a while the “Keep in mind, that Jesus Christ, has died for us…he is joy for all ages” part was even used as an acclamation between the consecration prayers. It was printed in the Monthly Missalette official publication as acclamation option #5, so I know it was okayed for that use.

Since I started going back to church a few years ago, I have been to dozens of churches and I have maybe heard this hymn once, if at all. I can’t figure out what happened to it.

(The guy singing it in the video clip is either not a very good singer, or is using a different musical notation for the first verse (the second verse “If we endure with the Lord” is closer to how I remember it went) but he is close enough to the original for people to recognize it.)

Anybody’s church still sing this?

Feel free to post any old and seemingly forgotten hymns you are wondering about in the thread also.

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He is Our Saving Lord Keep in Mind was written by Fr. Lucien Deiss C.S.Sp. (1921-2007). It was first published in 1965 as part of the...
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I sure do remember this! Haven’t heard it in my present church but then again, I’ve only been back for two years. I recall it from the 70s but not so much from the 80s (left mid 90s).
 
That’s about the same time I bailed. I stayrd in the Church long enough to get married in it and then I started slacking off after I was married. My bad.

I don’t remember it much from the 80s either but I was attending a different Catholic parish by then which had all guitar music, whereas this was primarily an organ hymn in the 70s.
 
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I certainly remember it. Haven’t heard it sung in a long time.
 
I too, feel like I have heard it recently. ( In the last few years.)
 
I heard it like, once last Lent. I can’t remember where now.

Wish they’d play it a bit more often instead of constantly introducing new hymns that are often old hymns with unnecessary (to me) new lyrics. I’ve heard “All Hail to St. Patrick” rewritten as so many other bland things I’ve lost count.
Oh, and somebody rewrote “Faith of our Fathers” as something else too…I don’t even sing when I hear stuff like that.
 
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I always loved to hear this and to sing it.

We used to sing this in the last parish that I attended.

I always thought that it was a very pretty piece of music, and when I was in the Adult Choir, we learned the different parts for it for harmonizing so that they could be sung.

I would sing the Alto part. It sounded so lovely when we harmonized. 🙂❤️
 
I remember the first part being sung as part of Sunday Mass liturgy a few decades ago. I can’t remember where we sang it. Maybe the Mystery of Faith?
 
Yes, for a while it was added to the Memorial Acclamations as #5.

The first 4 were:
1 - Christ has Died, Christ is Risen, Christ will come again.

2 - Dying you destroyed our death, rising you restored our life, Lord Jesus come in glory.

3 - When we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim your death O Lord, until you come in glory.

4 - Lord, by your cross and resurrection, you have set us free, you are the savior of the world.

I actually remembered 3 and a half of those from memory before I had to google 🙂
 
Humbly, we adore thee.

This is one of the first hymns I remember from my childhood, always used during communion. Slow like this version, but Thou instead of you as this one changed it to.

 
I’ve heard this one somewhere in the past year or two. It may have been at a Benediction or an Adoration.
We don’t hear it enough IMHO.
 
That sounds about right, meaning Benediction or adoration. I haven’t heard it at mass in a really long time. Might have to ask our choir leader for a special request. 😉
 
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