Favourite Protestant/non-Catholic Hymns!

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pnewton said:
Let me totally switch styles and say another one of my favorite composers is Andrea Crouch. He has won two Grammies and is a prolific writer. His “My Tribute” is in my top ten inspirational songs of all times and his “Soon and Very Soon” has made it to many Catholic hymnas.
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“My Tribute” one of my all time praise songs…

How can I say thanks
for the things You have done for me?
Things so undeserved,
yet You gave to prove Your love for me;
the voices of a million angels
could not express my gratitude.
All that I am and ever hope to be,
I owe it all to Thee.

Chorus 1
To God be the glory,
to God be the glory,
to God be the glory
for the things He has done.

Chorus 2
With His blood He has saved me,
with His power He has raised me;
to God be the glory
for the things He has done.

Bridge
Just let me live my life,
let it pleasing, Lord to Thee,
and if I gain any praise,
let it go to Calvary.
 
JonNC said:
Somewhere in the garage, in one of 2 large boxes of old vinyl LP’s, I have one of Andrae Crouch and the Disciples, which I bought in '71 at a Lutheran Youth conference in San Antonio. He is quite a talented artist.
Jon
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I saw him in concert twice in Houston. I too have my old vinyl. I went to youtube last night and found some clips. I still find his music (especially My Tribute) very moving.
 
Thank you, again, for all the contributions! So many wonderful hymns and songs, and happy and holy memories. We have all done a little bit for ecumenism here, and for acknowledging the best in Christian music.

Pax Christi,

Edmundus
 
You’ve got to give it to the Anglicans and Wesley for writing some great hymns! I didn’t know that “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence” was Anglican! We sing it every year at our Catholic parish during Advent.

Some of my favorite non-Catholic hymns include:
“O Worship The King,” probably Anglican in origin.
“Jesus, Lover of my Soul,” the arrangement in D-minor with four part harmony. I wish there was an acapela version of it out there!

And who can forget this one, sung in this video in the Catholic parish I attend, and it somehow even snuck it’s way into the old St. Gregory Hymnal!
youtube.com/watch?v=phQj7qDpAVA
And the organ behind the last verse is awesome! I think our music director may have arranged the organ part for the last verse himself.
 
gcnuss said:
Josh,

Thanks for that link. It was great!!
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Thanks Pastor Gary. You would probably like our 11:00 Mass, since our music director loves those high church Anglican hymns, which work very well in a Catholic setting, and there’s nothing like hearing a whole parish full of 300 or more people singing them. I have a version of “Crown Him with Many Crowns,” which I recorded from down in the pues last year, and the congrigation can be heard even better. If you’d like a copy of it, please send me a PM, and I can send it to you. The video I linked to isn’t mine, but it was filmed by one of our Novus Ordo choir members.
 
I’ve loved John Stainer’s “God So Loved the World” since I first heard it in the late 1990s. I have yet to find it in a hymnal of any denomination. Fanny Crosby’s “I Am Thine” is also quite good, although I’ve heard it with two different rhythms, and I’m not sure which is the original. Robert Lowry’s “Shall We Gather at the River” is another one I enjoy. There are more that I could list, but I’ll wait to see if anyone else mentions them.
 
Contarini said:
And he was apparently in the process of becoming a Catholic. At least I have heard this repeatedly claimed.

However, I’m enough of an old (or young) fuddy-duddy that I would really just as soon not hear any of the songs you mention as part of the Sunday liturgy. Stuart Townend’s hymn is fine, but why sing it when you can sing “The Strife is O’er” or “Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain”?

I’m not against contemporary church music altogether–in fact, my wife and I have made very modest steps toward making our parish’s hymnody a little more diverse. But I don’t understand why so many Catholics are so deaf to the rich liturgical and musical traditions of the Western Church.

Edwin
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One of my favorites is “The Strife is O’er”. If we are speaking of hymns sung during Mass, I think that the Anglicans have the very best hymns included in the1940 Hymnal of all the churches. You really can’t beat them.

I don’t like contempory music played in church. If I wanted to hear some of the choices named I would just attend evangelical or fundamentalist churches.

I recall a rule our priest had while in TEC, if the hymn is all about “me” or “I” it is not one focusing on Jesus it is focusing on self.

There also are beautiful hymns in the Catholic Church, but it seems they are rarely sung, except at my parish.

Yours in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary

Bernadette
 
I have some ones I really like, I’m not sure if you’ll like them though.

Rich Mullins - Awesome God
Cory Asbury and Mat Gilman - Holy
Phillips, Craig, and Dean - Let my words be few
Nichole Nordeman - Holy
 
BernadetteM said:
I recall a rule our priest had while in TEC, if the hymn is all about “me” or “I” it is not one focusing on Jesus it is focusing on self.
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That eliminates the Twenty-third Psalm, and most of the Psaltry.
 
Amazing Grace,
Down By the River to Pray,
many from the African American tradition…

Even though it teaches some stuff I can’t ever agree with, there’s that one that goes “Go sing it from the mountine, that Jesus Christ is Lord”… Obviously the essential premise is OK despite the fact that it then runs off a cliff, and it’s just so happy. Can’t help but like it.
 
StTommyMore said:
For some Psalms, perhaps, but not the 23rd. The focus in that psalm is definitely on the actions of the LORD.
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I was referring to the “I, me, my” rule that some think important. That one short Psalm contains 16 personal pronouns. “The Lord” and associated pronouns occur 11 times. Thus, I think grammatical point of view to be a shaky measure of song choice. I think a similar hymn that I really like is Just a Closer Walk With Thee; a type of modern 23rd Psalm.
 
crazzeto said:
Amazing Grace,
Down By the River to Pray,
many from the African American tradition…

Even though it teaches some stuff I can’t ever agree with, there’s that one that goes “Go sing it from the mountine, that Jesus Christ is Lord”… Obviously the essential premise is OK despite the fact that it then runs off a cliff, and it’s just so happy. Can’t help but like it.
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Though I like the music for Amazing grace, the lyrics are not appropriate for Mass, as they are Calvinist in theology. I am not saying that we should reject hymns just because they were not written by Catholics, but we need to take a close look at the theology presented, especially if the song is to be used as part of Liturgy.
 
StTommyMore said:
Though I like the music for Amazing grace, the lyrics are not appropriate for Mass, as they are Calvinist in theology. I am not saying that we should reject hymns just because they were not written by Catholics, but we need to take a close look at the theology presented, especially if the song is to be used as part of Liturgy.
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I have heard this argument many times, however I (respectfully as not to run this thread off a cliff) disagree. Perhaps the difference is in how you interanlize what is being expressed, but I feel personally it manages to keep from running of the cliff.
 
hs_hopeful said:
**I’ve loved John Stainer’s “God So Loved the World” since I first heard it in the late 1990s. ** I have yet to find it in a hymnal of any denomination. Fanny Crosby’s “I Am Thine” is also quite good, although I’ve heard it with two different rhythms, and I’m not sure which is the original. Robert Lowry’s “Shall We Gather at the River” is another one I enjoy. There are more that I could list, but I’ll wait to see if anyone else mentions them.
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I’ve loved this piece as well. We used to sing it in our choir at my previous parish. It’s a beautiful piece. I found it on YouTube that includes the music.
youtube.com/watch?v=dLvthjDEUnQ

I’ve also liked “Shall We Gather at the River”. Copeland’s arrangement of it for recital use as an art song is also very nice. It’s the second song in the couplet. (The Little Horses, first song in the couplet, is also lovely, although not a hymn)

youtube.com/watch?v=jDX4TMQTU8w
 
StTommyMore said:
Though I like the music for Amazing grace, the lyrics are not appropriate for Mass, as they are Calvinist in theology.
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I use this hymn quite often at Mass and it is one of the most beloved songs in my parish. Yes, it is a little on the Thomist side and might be imprudent if a parish is not well catechized, but it works well for us. It is included in both our hymnal and our missalette.
 
pnewton said:
I use this hymn quite often at Mass and it is one of the most beloved songs in my parish. Yes, it is a little on the Thomist side and might be imprudent if a parish is not well catechized, but it works well for us. It is included in both our hymnal and our missalette.
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Any hymn that suggests that God’s grace is dependent on our belief is not appropriate. Neither is any hymn which implies OSAS. There are good hymns out there. Amazing Grace is not one of them.
 
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