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What is your favourite hymn? (thread borrowed from Mumsnet)

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whatisamashedupphrase Mon 06-Feb-12 22:58:56

This is one of mine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q8ESzK5pCw

Fantastic visuals on this video too!

whatisamashedupphrase Mon 06-Feb-12 23:04:58

Here's another lovely one. Music by Sibelius.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ2b8oqmfgw

gracesmum Mon 06-Feb-12 23:08:07

Can't rise to a Youtube link but we tradtionally belt out "Thine Be The Glory" to Handel's Judas Maccabeus at weddings and funerals in this family.

glassortwo Mon 06-Feb-12 23:10:17

Make me a channel of your peace.

whatisamashedupphrase Mon 06-Feb-12 23:14:13

Yeah! Thine be the glory!

This vid's got the words to it so you can belt along with it! Fantastic!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbBOOmkMLmI

whatisamashedupphrase Mon 06-Feb-12 23:15:29

Glass, Susan Boyle, Daniel O'Donnell or little choir boys?

gracesmum Mon 06-Feb-12 23:17:07

I should think little choir boys every time?

Annobel Mon 06-Feb-12 23:20:11

And choir girls, please.

whatisamashedupphrase Mon 06-Feb-12 23:22:14

No. Better not have the choir boys. It's from the funeral of Diana!

Daniel O'D sings it really nicely. And it's got the words to sing along.

Graphics are a bit hard going though.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q660KO2hTD0

glassortwo Mon 06-Feb-12 23:23:02

No preferred it when DD had it for her wedding with all the family singing it. grin

whatisamashedupphrase Mon 06-Feb-12 23:24:53

That would have been nice Glass. smile

My sil had Dear Lord and Father of Mankind at her wedding. (Forgive our Foolish Ways) grin

Noone else found it funny!

glassortwo Mon 06-Feb-12 23:29:08

My ILs had 'For those in peril on the sea'. Dont know whose choice it was grin And no FIL was not a sailor.

gracesmum Mon 06-Feb-12 23:34:01

It's a classic! smile- in fact, I think we had it!

numberplease Mon 06-Feb-12 23:37:58

Make me a Channel of Your Peace, sung by Andrew Johnson, the young lad who was on Britain`s Got Talent about 3 years ago.

granto7 Mon 06-Feb-12 23:40:30

my favourite hymn is "Oh Lord my God When I in awesome wonder"
My seven year old gs told me of the newest hymn at school "Find us together Lord"smile

yogagran Mon 06-Feb-12 23:54:11

Onward Christian Soldiers

Ariadne Tue 07-Feb-12 06:52:22

"How great thou art.." same as yours, I think, granto7?

tanith Tue 07-Feb-12 07:55:40

Jerusalem every time.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ0oCmDXrVk

tanith Tue 07-Feb-12 07:56:34

Sorry that link doesn't work..

susiecb Tue 07-Feb-12 08:27:24

I love all the Wesleyan hymns but cant do the modern ones at all. Always loved

Oh Jesus I have promised (to serve thee to the end).

We sang this on Songs Of Praise in St James Church Clacton on sea when I was 11.

Libradi Tue 07-Feb-12 08:32:54

I Love 'Make me a channel of your peace' www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHVz45n5a9M and also 'How great though art'

Grannylin Tue 07-Feb-12 09:12:08

'Lift up your hearts' school hymn,always lifts mine!

Tosh Tue 07-Feb-12 09:13:53

susieb ... Oh Jesus I have Promised is my favourite too. My Mum loved it and she went to a a Wesleyan Church (i went to the Sunday school) and we often used to sing it while we were washing up together when I was a child.
The night before she died she was heavily sedated and I sat with her all night holding her hand trying to remember the words to her favourite hymns (can't sing for toffee..but no-one could hear me).
Oh Jesus I have Promised was one I could remember and we also had it at her funeral.

I also love 'Now thank we all our God' which we had at our wedding.

effblinder Tue 07-Feb-12 09:29:10

I love Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day - here it is sung by King's College Cambridge www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3DX4tu7DkE

whatisamashedupphrase Tue 07-Feb-12 09:33:23

granto7, the first link up there is "Oh Lord my God".

Can't find a "Find us together". There is a "Bind us together". Could it be that? No you tube but you can do-t-yourself if you play the guitar. smile

tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/m/misc_unsigned_bands/bob_gillman_-_bind_us_together_crd.htm