What is your favorite hymn?

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I think the title is " How Can I Keep from Singing"

No storm can shake my inmost calm when to that rock I’m clinging…
 
I like a lot of contemporary hymns, a lot of chant…but I have absolutely no doubt that my favorite hymn is sung once a year at the Easter Vigil: The Exsultet.
 
There are so many! Probably Ave Maria if I have to choose (since that’s the ringtone on my cell). 🙂
 
i like the sanctus in Japanese and the credo in Latin. Sorry if those dont count as hymns:)
 
Holy God, We Praise Thy Name. I liked it so much, I taught myself the words when I was seven.
 
I’m also a huge fan of “Of the Father’s Love Begotten”
 
I love any version of Ave Maria; from Pavarotti to Aretha Franklin, its the most beautiful hymn to me and I have loved it since I was a child.

May this day, the Lord bless you with abundant joys and minimum pain!

Pam :crossrc:
 
I have several.

All Glory, Laud and Honor (this is the quintessential Palm Sunday hymn)
How Firm a Foundation
Jesus Christ is Ris’n Today
Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether
Veni Creator Spiritus
By All Your Saints Still Striving
O Sun of Justice
Attende Domine
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Lift Up Your Heads, O MIghty Gates
Regina Caeli
Salve Regina
Alleluia, Sing to Jesus
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
I Received the Living God
Come, Holy Ghost
Sing My Tonge the Song of Triumph
Pange Lingua (the song par excellence of Holy Thursday)
O Sacred Head Surrounded
Our Father We Have Wandered
Christus Vincit
Tu es Christus, Fili Dei Vivi
Tu es Petrus
Word of God Come Down on Earth
On Jordan’s Bank
Christ is Made the Sure Foundation
The Church’s One Foundation
At the Name of Jesus (Version found in Worship III hymnal)
All Creatures of Our God and King
A Hymn of Glory Let us Sing
Tis Good Lord to be Here
What Wondrous Love is This
Ye Watches and Ye Holy Ones
For all the Saints
The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns
Go, Make of All Disciples
God, We Praise You
Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
Te Deum
Donde Hay Caridad Y Amor
Cantemos al Amor
Tu Reinaras
Altissimo Senor
Shepherd of Souls
Eat This Bread, Drink This Cup
At that First Eucharist
Amen, El Cuerpo de Cristo
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
O Sons and Daughters
Christ is Alive

I know you said one, but, these songs are like Lays Potato chips. You can’t have just one.😃
 
EUCHARISTIC HYMN OF ST THOMAS AQUINAS

PANGE lingua gloriosi
Corporis mysterium,
Sanguinisque pretiosi,
quem in mundi pretium
fructus ventris generosi
Rex effudit Gentium.

SING, my tongue, the Savior’s glory,
of His flesh the mystery sing;
of the Blood, all price exceeding,
shed by our immortal King,
destined, for the world’s redemption,
from a noble womb to spring.

Nobis datus, nobis natus
ex inacta Virgine,
et in mundo conversatus,
sparso verbi semine,
sui moras incolatus
miro clausit ordine.

Of a pure and spotless Virgin
born for us on earth below,
He, as Man, with man conversing,
stayed, the seeds of truth to sow;
then He closed in solemn order
wondrously His life of woe.

In suprema nocte coenae
recumbus cum fratribus
observata lege plene
cibis in legalibus,
cibum turbae duodenae
se dat suis manibus.

On the night of that Last Supper,
seated with His chosen band,
He the Pascal victim eating,
first fulfills the Law’s command;
then as Food to His Apostles
gives Himself with His own hand.

Verbum caro, panem verum
verbo carnem efficit:
fitque sanguis Christi merum,
et si sensus deficit,
ad firmandum cor sincerum
sola fides sufficit.

Word-made-Flesh, the bread of nature
by His word to Flesh He turns;
wine into His Blood He changes;-
what though sense no change discerns?
Only be the heart in earnest,
faith her lesson quickly learns.

Tantum ergo Sacramentum
veneremur cernui:
et antiquum documentum
novo cedat ritui:
praestet fides supplementum
sensuum defectui.

Down in adoration falling,
Lo! the sacred Host we hail;
Lo! o’er ancient forms departing,
newer rites of grace prevail;
faith for all defects supplying,
where the feeble sense fail.

Genitori, Genitoque
laus et jubilatio,
salus, honor, virtus quoque
sit et benedictio:
procedenti ab utroque
compar sit laudatio.

Amen. Alleluia.
To the everlasting Father,
and the Son who reigns on high,
with the Holy Ghost proceeding
forth from Each eternally,
be salvation, honor, blessing,
might and endless majesty.

Amen. Alleluia.
 
EasterJoy said:
Holy God, We Praise Thy Name. I liked it so much, I taught myself the words when I was seven.
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Love, Love, Love this hymn!

I also love Adoro Te Devote, such a beautiful hymn about (and to) Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. That hymn is not only beautiful and moving, it’s also a mini-lesson on the theology of the Real Presence.
 
benedictgal said:
I have several.
I know you said one, but, these songs are like Lays Potato chips. You can’t have just one.😃
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:amen: to that. Can’t pick just one, so I’ll go with my top 10;)
  1. Be Not Afraid(best church song ever)
  2. You Are Mine(close 2nd)
  3. One Bread, One Body
  4. Here I Am, Lord
  5. Yahweh, I Know You Are Near
  6. On Eagle’s Wings
    7.Rejoice, and Be Glad
    8.We Remember
    9.City of God
    10.Christ Be Our Light
 
My all time favorite, since before I became Catholic, is this version of “All Creatures of our God and King.”

I also love a more obscure hymn called “Personent Hodie,” aka “Ideo” because of the chorus. Here’s the English, and the tune. (I’m not sure how good the translation is; I don’t know the Latin.)

Funny that these two hymns I’ve loved all my life should turn out to be Catholic, isn’t it?

Ruthie
 
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