Post your favourite hymn

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Hi I’m a singer and have been making recordings of hymns and I’m looking for ideas of what to record next. So post your favourite hymn! 🙂
Here is mine
 
Lead Kindly Light by St. John Henry Newman
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Lead, Kindly Light, amidst th’encircling gloom,
Lead Thou me on!
The night is dark, and I am far from home,
Lead Thou me on!
Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene; one step enough for me.

I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou
Shouldst lead me on;
I loved to choose and see my path; but now
Lead Thou me on!
I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears,
Pride ruled my will. Remember not past years!

So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still
Will lead me on.
O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and torrent, till
The night is gone,
And with the morn those angel faces smile,
Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile!
 
“I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say”, always brings tears to my eyes.

 
I was going to put “Gather Us In” but everybody hates it except me, and on top of that the arrangements of it on Youtube range from mediocre to awful.

So have this one instead.

 
From the passages you have indicated I understand that “hymn” has a nuance of different meaning in our two languages, certainly more informal in English.

Obviously there is no better and no worse.

My choice, however, follows what the word recalls to me.
 
I enjoyed your a cappella rendition of How Great Thou Art. Keep singing! This hymn has a special significance to my daughter and me. She and I used to sing in our local Catholic Church choir until she went away to college. Being that our voices were so similar they often blended together as one. How Great Thou Art was a favorite of ours to sing but it was a God moment that occurred following the sudden death of my husband, her Father, that makes it special. The day following his funeral having said good byes to family and friends, we both felt forlorn in our grief. We knew we should pray but couldn’t. As we sat out on the porch watching the waning day light my daughter gathered up our hymnal and a hurricane type of candle. The singing of favorite hymns such as Be Not Afraid and Angels Wings brought us comfort. A wind stirred the trees as dusk fell and a storm approached. We began singing How Great Thou Art and the storm increased in its intensity. The flashes of lightening pierced the night sky and the booming thunder accompanied us through the song. It was as if God felt our anguish and was responding in kind by using nature to let us know that we were not alone. The thunderstorm got so bad that we had to go inside to finish the hymn. Once the hymn was done, the outside turmoil gradually began to calm down. We both sat in silence until my daughter asked, “What was that”? I just replied that was a God moment. I can never hear How Great Thou Art without reflecting on how He never abandons us even at the lowest times of our lives. So keep singing and praising Him. You will be blessed!
 
Anesti33 said:
Except for the Akathist Hymns, and the output of four great Orthodox hymnographers, and my CDs full of Serbian Orthodox hymns…
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You’re right. I was thinking of “hymn” in the American context (Hymnal book in a pew written by some dead Puritan).
 
Ubi Caritas is a beautiful hymn that I love to listen to and sing to praise God. ‘Where there is love, there is God’, is what the Latin words mean. There is an older Ubi Caritas hymn that is sung in Latin and is also wonderful. A friend of my daughter who is a cantor at various churches sang it to me as a birthday gift one year. A most unique gift of himself to lift me up. Music especially religious music has the power to do that.

 
RN69 said:
This hymn has a special significance to my daughter and me. She and I used to sing in our local Catholic Church choir until she went away to college. Being that our voices were so similar they often blended together as one.
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There’s something really rich in family voices together isn’t there. My sister is a great singer and I’m just mediocre but can keep a tune. But when we sing together, somehow she brings my voice up to par and it’s amazing and the song resonates through me.
 
Gorgeous! Beautiful singing and stunning venue. Thanks for sharing. I can see why your mother would want that. I’ve been reviewing hymns for that same reason. Music has always been an important part of my life.
 
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