Old hymns that you still love

We both love Dear Lord and Father of Mankind. I love Christmas carols.

Lord of all Hopefulness.
Morning Has Broken which I chose for my parents funerals.

I love
Sweet Sacrament Divine,

O Sacred Heart,
and
For ever with the Lord, Amen! so let it be
and
Bring flowers of the rarest
The last hymn, to Our Lady, can be heard here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWMEsCT8xZw you should listen the sisters sing it so lovely.

I’m a lapsed Methodist too. The words of many hymns come back even when not sung for decades- but I can’t seem to remember what I went upstairs for! Dear Lord and Father of mankind was a favourite and still is. Lord dismiss us with thy blessing, God be with us till we meet again.

By cool Siloam's shady rill
There is a green hill far away
Channel of your peace
I come to the garden

And most of the ones mentioned above.

I'm also a lapsed methodist so I have a huge repertoire of wonderful hymns to call on
I have so many favourites but can probably claim these three as the top ones

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
The day thou gavest
O Love that will not let me go.

I often ask Alexa to play hymns for me and sing along while working from home.

Forth in Thy Name
Good one to start the day..

I also love
The day Thou Gavest.

I'm not religious, but I'll go to church IF I feel like it, which is rare or for funerals. But I do like -
.Onward Christian Soldiers (it was my dads favourite)
.Morning Has Broken
.All Things Bright and Beautiful
& lots of Christmas carols

I’ll have that as an ear worm now, Skye17, you can bet!!

Gosh yes! ‘Hills of the North’ was one of my favourites at school. How could I have forgotten it!

So many! Especially:

I heard the voice of Jesus say
Amazing grace
Here is love, vast as the ocean
O for a thousand tongues
And can it be
My Jesus, I love thee

I do remember some from school that other people have mentioned, like

When a knight won his spurs
Hills of the North, rejoice
Daisies are our silver
He who would valiant be

I like ‘ We Plough the Fields and Scatter’ it reminds me of school harvest festival and all the lovely baskets of produce decorated with colourful crepe paper. Also, How Great Thou Art, Elvis’s version is brilliant.

It’s good just reading the names of all these wonderful hymns, which seem far away from me now but just their titles invoke lovely memorable feelings, and I’m singing them silently to myself now with Joy. Thanks Nanna 8

My late husband, though a very much lapsed catholic, loved
''Ave Maria''.
We had it at the beginning of his funeral service.

Oops, should be Praise My Soul the King of Heaven.

Immortal, Invisible
Praise Him Still, the King of Heaven
The Lord's My Shepherd
The King of Love My Shepherd is.

I worked in a small care home. After a resident died we all sang ‘All things Bright and Beautiful’. The years rolled back and many, staff as well as residents, were smiling through tears.

At at 11 in secondary school we each given a little hardback ‘Songs of Praise’. I still have mine 70 years later. So many memories. I especially liked ‘Lord of all Hopefulness’, ‘I Bind Unto Myself Today’ and many Christmas carols.
When I began teaching in 1960 the children enjoyed ‘When a Knight Won his Spurs in the stories of old’ and ‘When lamps are lighted in the town, The boats sail out to sea’.

I often find I’m humming a hymn when I walk my dog, I haven’t been to church for many years but still enjoy so many hymns.

? don’t know where he came from !!!

Sorry bit of a repetition there - can’t tell my redeemers from my Jehovah’s??

Guide me oh thou great Jehovah;
He who would valiant be;
Eternal Father strong to save;
Guide me oh thou great redeemer;
For all the Saints who from their labours rest;
Jerusalem;
I heard the voice of Jesus say (to the tune of Vaughan Williams Variations on Dives and Lazarus (though I don’t know which came first!)).

A friend’s husband wanted to have Onward Christian Soldiers at his wedding because it reminded him of his days at boarding school. The vicar persuaded him against it as not being particularly appropriate for a marriage! I like:
Make me a channel of thy peace.
Majesty.
I don’t think these are particularly old .
I like Jerusalem as well .

Lord for tomorrow, Just for today, wonderful hymn.

and at xmas, we three kings of oreey and tar.
which i presumed were some far off places beyond persia.
as a child my dear late partner used to sing,
do y'know silvia blackshirt...
well he didn't, whoever she was, and thought no more about it until years later on taking up church, discovered a hymn to the same tune which began,
do no sinful action...

MrsKen33

As a lapsed Methodist I love all the old hymns, such a shame not to hear them so much now