Favourite Protestant/non-Catholic Hymns!

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Oumashta said:
All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name.
To be honest, I really wish we would sing this on the feast of Christ the King. It would be perfect!😃 But then again… It’s a protestant hymn.

youtube.com/watch?v=w_-OOjRv01o&feature=related
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Oh yeah, I was thinking the same thing on Christ the King! But I prefer the lesser-known “Diadem” music over the “Coronation” music of that one (the words are the same). I’ve only ever sung “Diadem” in one place - the chapel of the Protestant graduate school I went to.
Here’s a beautiful version that intersperses the two versions:
youtube.com/watch?v=HLhGv8m0rn0&feature=related
And as a bonus, here’s a beautiful organ-only version of Diadem.
youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_871JaeIY&feature=related

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence is another favorite - the words are based on an ancient (Byzantine) Eucharistic chant, but Anglican Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged it to the form that we sing as such a beautiful English hymn.
youtube.com/watch?v=UcXl6OtXfTg&feature=related
And another bonus: the actual ancient Greek chant!
youtube.com/watch?v=_pr77XYguS8
 
This verse always gets me:
And our eyes at last shall see him,
through his own redeeming love;
for that child so dear and gentle
is our Lord in heaven above;
and he leads his children on
to the place where he is gone.
 
Thanks again - just seeing some of those hymn titles brings a tear to my eye!

I hope we are all having holy fun with this - I certainly am!

I am reluctant to select another favourite from all these wonderful hymns, but I can’t resist:

Breath on Me Breath of God

I recall singing that as an ten year old in an Anglican High Church Choir, and even then it moved me deeply, and I felt “lifted” to imitate Christ ("… till I am wholly thine").

There are so many other wonderful hymns in your responses: All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name; Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence; Hark the Herald Angels Sing (I didn’t know that was Wesley!)…

I hope to eventually look up most of those youtube clips you’ve posted. It will be nice background music for while I’m working, or as a few minutes of prayer.

~ Edmundus
 
My favorite setting of the 23rd Psalm is “The King of Love My Shepherd Is” – the words are a paraphrase by an Anglican Vicar of the psalm.
cyberhymnal.org/htm/k/i/kinglove.htm

Of course, this doesn’t count as a “Protestant Hymn” since it is a setting of a psalm. (Now this has me wondering if any protestant hymns are based on Deuterocanonical texts.)
 
“All That Thrills My Soul is Jesus”
“In the Garden”
“There’s Power in the Blood”
 
Reading all this posts has put a big smile on my face-oh-how nostalgic I feel reading these posts-and yet many wonderful songs on mainstream radio-those were the days. I did came to one conclusion, though-that we catholics and protestants have one big thing in common-and that is our love of Jesus. I was on both sides of the fence as both lutheran/baptist and catholic and attending catholic schools for 12 yrs-yet the love of Jesus is there except with the catholics-we also have the wonderful sacraments. As for Sister Janet Meade-wow-she is still alive?! I would have been privilege to have met her. I sure miss the good old early '70s with these wonderful Christian music on mainstream radio-it really helped me with my Christian growth, that’s for sure 🙂
 
lauraabarlow said:
I did came to one conclusion, though-that we catholics and protestants have one big thing in common-and that is our love of Jesus. I was on both sides of the fence as both lutheran/baptist and catholic and attending catholic schools for 12 yrs-yet the love of Jesus is there except with the catholics-we also have the wonderful sacraments.
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Actually since Vatican II the lines between Catholics and Protestants have become very blurred (Friday meat, the music, liturgy facing the people, the “And also with you” responses to most events, no Latin, little fasting, method of receiving communion, etc. etc.) Maybe a lot of people think it’s good but a sign on the Church shouldn’t be the only way you’d recognize a Catholic Church, IMO.

By the way are non-English hymns allowed in the discussion?
 
Edmundus1581 said:
Some of them are wonderful!

We’ll take original hymns by protestants, or hymns written by protestants from a Catholic inspiration. We’ll also take mistakes - but please make the correction kindly 🙂

Some may be by authors, or be submitted by posters, who would reject the term “protestant”. I apologise if the term offends, but it is getting a bit tricky to write for every sensibility - and I would like to give credit to the hymn anyway!
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Some of my favorites.

My Hope is Built on Nothing Lesshymntime.com/tch/htm/m/y/h/myhopeis.htm
All three listed tunes are wonderful, but the second, but Dykes’ Melita (the Navy Hymn), is absolutely marvelous for this hymn.
youtube.com/watch?v=Ew3yXqdMF1o

Ah Holy Jesus
A moving, emotional Lenten hymn
hymntime.com/tch/htm/a/h/h/ahholyje.htm
youtube.com/watch?v=r6SgJ2LMZXc

More later,
Jon
 
ProVobis said:
By the way are non-English hymns allowed in the discussion?
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I had hoped for a very free discussion here - and that is what we’ve had. When I first posted, I was thinking of church hymns, but other people thought of popular and commercial songs as well, and their posts have been most welcome.

We’d love to see some non-English hymns - anything that touches the heart and soul. 🙂
 
I like a lot of the one’s we have already had mentioned - I go to a high Anglican parish, so that is the musical background I tend to gravitate to.

But one I love that I think is Presbyterian is* This Is My Father’s World*.

And I really love gospel music as well. This version of How I got Over is one of my favorites.
 
PbloPicasso said:
Rescue
We Have Seen His Glory
He Gave Her Water
I Feel Good
I still sing Rescue everyday

This is another one I catch myself singing.
As A Deer Pants For Water
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Pblo.
The title of your last one got me to thinking of one we used to sing in my youth.

As Pants the Hart. the words here are the same, though not the tune.
hymntime.com/tch/htm/a/p/h/aphfcoos.htm

My favorite Martin Luther hymn:
Lord, Keep Us Steadfast
hymntime.com/tch/htm/l/k/lkusitwo.htm

My favorite Christmas hymn - particularly the second verse, which is usually left out of secular renditions. What Child Is This
Why lies He in such mean estate,
Where ox and *** are feeding?
Good Christians, fear, for sinners here
The silent Word is pleading.
Nails, spear shall pierce Him through,
The cross be borne for me, for you.
Hail, hail the Word made flesh,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.
hymntime.com/tch/htm/w/h/a/whatcist.htm

Finally,

The Church’s One Foundation It was one of my dad’s favorites, too.

hymntime.com/tch/htm/c/h/o/chofound.htm

Jon
 
Jon,
If you noticed the congregational singing, you could easily guess that we were members of the Church of Christ. I still sing the songs. i also like Jeremy Camp.
 
What a refreshing thread!! Usually the liturgical music threads seem to be reduced to complaining about this or that hymn, but this is great!!
I come from a Fundamental Baptist background and some of my faves are:

There is a Fountain
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Shall We Gather at the River
Onward Christian Soldiers
 
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