"Let All Mortal Flesh..." during Lent

[Evan]

Lots of protestants sing this hymn during advent and Christmas because, to them, the Real Presence is both disgusting and simply false. So making the hymn about the nativity makes more sense for them. But originally it is about communion amd the truth that the consecrated Host truly is the body of Christ!

I don’t know:

1 Let all mortal flesh keep silence,
And with fear and trembling stand;
Ponder nothing earthly minded,
For with blessing in His hand,
Christ our God to earth descendeth,
Our full homage to demand.
…Seems to refer to the incarnation to me.

1. King of kings, yet born of Mary,
   As of old on earth He stood,
   Lord of lords, in human vesture,
   In the body and the blood;
   He will give to all the faithful
   His own self for heavenly food.
   …Seems to speak of the incarnation. And one day, there would be the holy Eucharist.

3 Rank on rank the host of heaven
Spreads its vanguard on the way,
As the Light of light descendeth
From the realms of endless day,
That the powers of hell may vanish
As the darkness clears away.
…Seems to refer to the heavenly host and the shepherds.

1. At His feet the six winged seraph,
   Cherubim with sleepless eye,
   Veil their faces to the presence,
   As with ceaseless voice they cry:
   Alleluia, Alleluia
   Alleluia, Lord Most High!
   …Can refer to any Sunday or Holy day.

I really see no indications that this is a Lenton song, except that it is in a minor key.
So it invokes either penetance or great awe.

 

[DeaconsSon87]

I would sing it…I’d just skip Verse 4 during Lent.