How do Catholics interpret this?

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In the hymn Som en härlig gudomskälla we sing:
Under över alla under,
allt förlät han mig en gång.
Om hans underbara godhet
glad jag sjunger nu min sång.

Love divine, so great and wondrous,
all my sins He then forgave!
I will sing His praise forever,
for His blood, His power to save.
He the pearly gates will open…

This is a Protestant but found in the Catholic hymbook Cecilia. How can a Catholics sing all my sins He then forgave? Isn’t that a bit Protestant?
You are forgiven of all your sins at Baptism and Confession but this does not include future sins. At the Crucifixion Jesus died for us sinners but He didn’t forgive our sins back then I am told.
How would a Catholic interpret this text?
 
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I would interpret it as a song that speaks Protestant heresy. And you changed the translation as I was typing, so, now it sounds fine.
 
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Can’t really tell if the writer was grateful for current sins forgiven or future ones too…Either way praise would be in order.
 
Jesus didn’t forgive sins at the Crucifixion? Or maybe he did as we are present at the Crucifixion when praying for forgivness and confessing sins?
Thus all forgivness happens at the Crucifixion. We are all like Dismas when asking forforgivness?
What does the Church say about this?
 
Forgiveness is won for us. Some of us care and some don’t-and it does no good if we don’t care and respond. And if we do respond then we’ll walk in His ways, and if we fall again we can still repent and rise anew-or, alternatively, remain in our new sins, forfeiting our justified state to the extent that those sins are so serious that they constitute a turning away from love of God and neighbor.
 
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Humans are restricted by time, God is not. Jesus died once and for all for our sins. We are saved by his blood. The saving grace of Christ’s crucifixion continues through time and our sins are forgiven by it if we repent and resolve to amend our ways. Catholics and Orthodox Christians have the benefit of the Sacrament of Penance to help us achieve this.
 
Wonders of all wonders,
everything he forgave me once (forgave me one time).
About his wonderful goodness
glad i sing my song now. (I used google translate)

This is a Protestant but found in the Catholic hymbook Cecilia. How can a Catholics sing about all sin being forgiven at once (one time

This was your first post, it says the same as many protestant songs, that all of a person’s sins are forgiven one time. This is called “Once Saved Always Saved”
 
OP. I had a look in the previous edition (3rd) of Cecilia and the hymn is in the “ecumenical part” which consisted of 325 hymns all approved by 15 denominations and were in all denominations hymnbooks printed in the 1980s. Of those 325 we have about 170 something left in the edition (2013) we use today. Several were not sung in the Catholic parishes, content that wasn’t 100% in according to the Catholic faith, to difficult to sing, there is one with similar content that is of Catholic origin or there is a new and better translation from the original language. When we have hymns more suited to the Catholic tradition written in Swedish or translated into Swedish, those hymns with a “not as suited content” will be left out in the next edition.

I have never sung Som en härlig gudomskälla in a Catholic parish and I don’t expect I will either. As it was written and composed by two persons belonging to the Salvation army, a guitar and accordion are more suited instruments than an organ.


One of the better I found where the instrument is an organ.


This is the way it is often played and sung by Salvation army when they are on the streets/squares evangelising.


And the “entertainment” version which is what most Swedes will recognise.
 
I see no differnce between my first version and the second version when it comes to the meaning of the words. How are they different?
 
My favourite version is this Spotify
I like it when it is sung with a classical vocal technique and with piano accompaniment.
But I see why one would see it as a guitar and accordion tune. Maybe I should play it on my accordion.
Did the author refer to once saved always saved or Jesus Christ forgave us on the cross (which is a Catholic understanding). In the Sacrament of Confession it is the crucified Christ who forgives us, right?
How do we make a Catholic interpretation of this text?

På något sätt finns det en djup tröst i denna låt.
 
“I committed sin yesterday, I repented and was forgiven!!”

“I got saved and every sin I have ever committed was forgiven at that moment”

Two different things.
 
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