What's Your Favorite Hymn?

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Fortunately I have no such restriction. I use it every year two or three times, then we live in a Protestant rich, and convert rich, parish. I don’t have “It is Well With My Soul” in our hymnal, but my wife a couple of times. “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” I do not use because of it is fairly unknown and difficult to take up from scratch.
 
I’ve always been fond of “Just As I Am Without One Plea”.
 
I’ve been meditating on this one a lot, lately, because reasons.
Supposedly, Thomas Dorsey (not Tommy Dorsey the big band leader, although they lived at the same time) wrote this song after his wife died in childbirth and the baby died too. He grieved very deeply. He wrote this song…
 
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We also don’t sing Amazing Grace because of the not-really-compatible-wth Catholicism lyrics. We do play it at funerals though because every family on earth requests it. Pretty tired of it frankly.

My hubs makes fun of me because I love to watch the Gaither Gospel Hour. I keep threatening to buy the CD’s LOL. Unclouded Day is a huge favorite of mine. Not for Mass, but FUN for “sing in”.

 
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I thought I was replying to the first, original post.
Song I am referring to is “Take My Hand, Precious Lord”
 
A great personal devotional hymn, it is complete with personal humility and trust in God’s grace.
 
The words are scriptural, the historical theology perhaps a bit confrontational to some. Remember a song must always be subservient to the immediate glorification of our Lord. If your lovely hymn was rejected for some reason it may only have been for the immediate purpose not for its’ quality. Your love for this hymn does not lessen value or beauty as a prayer to our Lord.
 
Beautiful devotional hymns for drawing close by His Holy Spirit.
 
From the West -Be Thou My Vision


From the East: Beneath Thy Compassion


And my favorite from Southern Gospel: In the Garden

 
Alan Jackson’s songs are wonderful for personal daily devotionals. They are well established in American Christian culture and are sweet in loving Jesus and not being confrontational.

In general, his songs are more about our Savior and less about “me”.
 
Does anybody else remember when the Lourdes hymn went:
Immaculate Mary
Our hearts are on fire
That title so wondrous
Fills all our desire

Now it’s:
Your praises we sing
You reign now in splendor
With Jesus our King

I like the first one better. Prettier and more poetic
 
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Does anybody else remember when the Lourdes hymn went:
Immaculate Mary
Our hearts are on fire
That title so wondrous
Fills all our desire

Now it’s:
Your praises we sing
You reign now in splendor
With Jesus our King

I like the first one better. Prettier and more poetic
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Hmmm…🤔 It’s been the second way as long as I have known it as a child. And that was in the 60s.
 
Of course, I’m a Calvinist. However, the challenge for the faithful in Jesus is to examine songs for their eternal worthiness over personal pleasures. In all Christendom so many great hymns are Roman Catholic, I rejoice in the goldmines discovered on this blog alone.

Are you questioning ‘Protestant’ hymns, Those written to challenge Rome so to speak? If so you are wise to resist. Are you questioning hymns written by protestants but otherwise honoring Jesus and consistent with scripture, then perhaps you should at least examine wisdom within your own circles of authority.

One of the best pieces of advice for me on this subject came from a Catholic priest. Ultimately the music must serve God, otherwise, it is serving man and is idolatrous.
 
Going back to this first post, this hymn, “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” is one of my favorites for funerals and anytime we have anointing of the sick or something similar, like on the Feast of St. Blase.
 
However, we must rejoice in well chosen, hymns to sing in service of our Lord.

It is a special personal blessing to ourselves when we love a worship hymn, it is also a great Godly blessing when we sign something we hope He will appreciate.
 
Your observation is indeed interesting. Sometimes changes like this are part of deliberate revisionism, it is hard to tell.

Do the best you can to preserve the authenticity of what you know so it may be passed on to others. You may never know how truth does its’ work.
 
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