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Hymn of the Week

Stop in every Tuesday to hear and learn more about the hymn of the week, and hymnody in general.

Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, 1696 | Our Hymn of the Week is one of the most moving of all the psalms, the forty-second, “As the hart panteth after the…
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Charlotte Elliott (1836) | here is our Hymn of the Week, sung by the Kings’ College Choir to a melody specially composed for the poem, the sweet…
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Our hymn is a song of longing for that place so near to those who seek it. We don’t know the author’s name, but he lived in the time of Queen Elizabeth…
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When Lent arrives, Christians who follow the liturgical season will often sacrifice minor pleasures, like sweets, or, better still, will try to perform…
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Charles Wesley (1747) “Nevermore thy temples leave,” we cry, for when that beloved disciple John says that God’s dwelling shall be with men, he really…
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Isaac Watts (1674–1748). We believe what Jesus has said to us, when he promises to us the kingdom of God. “This day,” said he to the repentant thief…
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Samuel Longfellow, 1864. I love this hymn of petition, “Holy Spirit, Truth Divine,” written by Samuel Longfellow, the youngest brother of the famous…
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John Henry Newman, 1833. Have you ever noticed that hymns of repentance are among the gentlest of all? For with repentance comes the sweetness of…
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If you lived southwest of London, in the late 1700’s to mid-1800’s, you might know some of the most fervent and self-denying Christian reformers in the…
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Henry Francis Lyte, 1847
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A Hymn for Epiphany (William Chatterton Dix)
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Hymn of the Week
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Philip Nicolai, 1599; translated by Catherine Winkworth
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Basque Folk Carol; translated by Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould
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Charles Coffin (1736); Translation by John Chandler
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Charles Wesley
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Ash Grove
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1872)
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John Arkwright (1919)
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Alexander Pope, 1712 | When Jesus approached the blind beggar in Jerusalem who was begging for alms, he asked him what he wanted from him, and the…
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Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, 1696 | Our Hymn of the Week is one of the most moving of all the psalms, the forty-second, “As the hart panteth after the…
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3
Charlotte Elliott (1836) | here is our Hymn of the Week, sung by the Kings’ College Choir to a melody specially composed for the poem, the sweet…
Anthony Esolen
3
Our hymn is a song of longing for that place so near to those who seek it. We don’t know the author’s name, but he lived in the time of Queen Elizabeth…
Anthony Esolen
11
When Lent arrives, Christians who follow the liturgical season will often sacrifice minor pleasures, like sweets, or, better still, will try to perform…
Anthony Esolen
2
Charles Wesley (1747) “Nevermore thy temples leave,” we cry, for when that beloved disciple John says that God’s dwelling shall be with men, he really…
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Isaac Watts (1674–1748). We believe what Jesus has said to us, when he promises to us the kingdom of God. “This day,” said he to the repentant thief…
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