Share Your Favourite Hymns! :musical_note:

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How beautiful! I’ve never heard that solo before. So much beautiful Catholic music I need to learn about.
 
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I don’t know…it’s just the queen of hymns. 😍 This rendition with the bagpipes makes me feel like Jesus is going to come striding out of the heavens at any moment. Bagpipes are just so dang stirring, lol.
 

Here’s my favorite version of my favorite Latin hymn. The organist at church plays several versions or puts little sections of it in his playing. As he plays I hear the Carmelites of July 17, 1794. The anniversary is coming. Ora pro nobis.
 
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Here’s my favorite version of my favorite Latin hymn. The organist at church plays several versions or puts little sections of it in his playing. As he plays I hear the Carmelites of July 17, 1794. The anniversary is coming. Ora pro nobis.
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That is absolutely beautiful!
 
I have now officially lost track of what music I’ve posted. See what you’ve started @ShowersofRoses! 🤨

Anyway, the Sequence of Pentecost is one of my favorite chants. We used to sing this as a novena when I was in the monastery.

 
I started looking at all the beautiful music people were posting. As I saw the songs I thought someone must have posted Veni Creator Spiritus. Not many songs have the endorsement of 16 guillotined martyrs or were part of ending a Reign of Terror. And then I saw your posting and your tribute to the Carmelites. Seeing your post made my day!

And those words…

"Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blest,
and in our souls take up Thy rest;
come with Thy grace and heavenly aid
to fill the hearts which Thou hast made.
O comforter, to Thee we cry,
O heavenly gift of God Most High,
O fount of life and fire of love,
and sweet anointing from above.

"Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known;
Thou, finger of God’s hand we own;
Thou, promise of the Father, Thou
Who dost the tongue with power imbue.

"Kindle our sense from above,
and make our hearts o’erflow with love;
with patience firm and virtue high
the weakness of our flesh supply.

"Far from us drive the foe we dread,
and grant us Thy peace instead;
so shall we not, with Thee for guide,
turn from the path of life aside.

"Oh, may Thy grace on us bestow
the Father and the Son to know;
and Thee, through endless times confessed,
of both the eternal Spirit blest.

“Now to the Father and the Son,
Who rose from death, be glory given,
with Thou, O Holy Comforter,
henceforth by all in earth and heaven. Amen.”
 
We sang this choral arrangement at the mass at which Archbishop Aquila was installed as archbishop of Denver. 😃

 
Four versions of “Be Thou My Vision”





What I like about all of these versions is the combination of quiet reverence that moves into spiritual power. About as good as it gets!

Here is the full text and history of this 8th-century prayer from medieval Celtic Christianity.
 
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