Most Appealing Hymns

[Adrestia]

O Come, Emmanuel - love the prophetic themes

Soon and Very Soon - the way we sang it at St. Mark in Baltimore

Ubi Caritas - might be at the top of the list

Veni Sancti Spiritus - also the way we sang it at St. Mark in Baltimore

Hail to the Redskins - that's for after mass

[rkwright]

I really like the Taize songs; I have a version of the Kyrie they sing thats really good. I've never actually sung it at mass, but at a few retreats and I bought some off itunes.

Jesu Dulcis Memoria
The Sanctus to pretty much any tune
Salve Regina
My soul in stillness waits
Holy God, we praise thy name
Holy, Holy, Holy
Pretty much any advent music

[missionseeker]

[quote name='StThomasMore' post='1428295' date='Dec 2 2007, 07:27 PM']Non-Gregorian hymns:
Adeste Fideles
O Sanctissima
Puer Natus in Bethlehem
Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming[/quote]


Puer natus in Bethlehem is most definitely a Gregorian melody.

[quote name='Cathoholic Anonymous' post='1428306' date='Dec 2 2007, 07:55 PM']Recently I fell under the spell of this communion hymn, originally by Thomas Aquinas. I do not know the translator.



The music is haunting. I feel prayer rising from right inside me when I so much as hear one strain.[/quote]

Gerard Manley Hopkins. (and if the melody is the one I'm thinking of (which is also used for sing we now of Christmas...) it IS haunting. I LOVE IT!)


He was a poet priest. Alll of his translations of latin hymns and chants are phenomonal. Here is his translation of Jesu Dulcis Memoria. One of my favorites.

How sweet is the memory of Jesus,
Giving true joys to the heart
But above honey and all sweetness
is His sweet presence

Nothing more lovely can be sung,
nothing more pleasant can be heard
nothing more sweet can be thought of
Than Jesus, Son of God

O Jesus, hope of penitents,
How faithful Thou art to those who beseech Thee!
How good Thou art to those who seek Thee!
But what to those who find?

(and here's the answer...)

No tongue deserves to tell it,
Nor can written word express it;
Only those who experience it can believe
What it is to love Jesus

Be Thou, o Jesus, our joy
Who art our future reward;
May our glory be in Thee
Foever and ever.

[iggyjoan]

"How Great Thou Art" always makes my grammama cry.. she loves it so much

[elizabeth_jane]

[quote name='iggyjoan' post='1428369' date='Dec 2 2007, 10:06 PM']"How Great Thou Art" always makes my grammama cry.. she loves it so much[/quote]

Funny story about "How Great Thou Art" (well, OK, it illustrates stupidity on my part, but oh well)

For the longest time, I thought "art" meant actually art, like works of art.
it wasn't until I was 18, at my high school baccalaureate, that I finally realized what it really means.
Yup, sometimes I can be reaaaaalllly slow.

[MissyP89]

Let There Be Peace on Earth
O Holy Night (EPIC!)
O Come All Ye Faithful
You Are Mine
The Sanctus in any minor key makes me shiver...
Agnus Dei (in major...picky I know)
Canticle of the Sun
Rain Down
Gift of Finest Wheat (please don't hurt me)
Jesus
Pie Jesu
etc etc.

[Mary'sBaritone]

Joyful, Joyful
Sing of Mary
many more, but am rushed for time.

[bonoducchi]

Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
Come Thou Font of Ev'ry Blessing
Ave Verum (Mozart K. 618)
Pange Lingua (mode III)
The Love of Christ Urges Us On (written by a friend of mine, published by WLP)
We Are One In Christ (tune: THAXTED)
Lord, You Give the Great Commission (tune:HYFRYDOL)
There Is A Light (Consiglio)

[Carolyn]

Oooooo! I'm liking all of the hymns listed!

I'm also a fan of Gaudete.

[azaelia]

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent
All Creatures of Our God and King
Ave Verum
Tantum Ergo
Salve Regina
Crown Him With Many Crowns
Pange Lingua
Love Divine All Love's Excelling

And for Christmas:
Lo How a Rose E're Blooming
The Holly and the Ivy
The Seven Joys of Mary
On Christmas Day
Good King Wenceslaus
Once in Royal David's City
What Child is This
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
The First Nowell
In the Bleak Mid Winter
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
O Come, All Ye Faithful
I Saw Three Ships
Rise Up Shepherd and Follow
Ave Maria (Bach)
Ave Maria (Schubert)
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

and that's just the beginning of the list...

[jeffpugh]

[quote name='StThomasMore' post='1428295' date='Dec 2 2007, 06:27 PM']The Gregorian melodies for:
Dies Irae
Pange Lingua
Ave Verum
Ave Maria
Regina Coeli
Adoro Te Devote
Savle Regina
Victimae Pascali Laudes
Veni Sancte Spiritus

Non-Gregorian hymns:
Adeste Fideles
O Sanctissima
Puer Natus in Bethlehem
Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming

Favorite Gregorian Mass settings:
Requiem
Orbis Factor
De Angelis[/quote]
Typical tha tyou put them in order of "gregorian" and "Non-gregorian" melodies. I'm watching you... Gregorian chant is the highest form of worship music, but everything else is "not gregorian". Polyphony is the next closest in style... anywho I'll stop ranting at you for your transparent elitism...

[quote name='whiskeyrunner' post='1428310' date='Dec 2 2007, 07:18 PM']This is an easy one to reply to. Mine's a toss up though. O Sacrum Convivium or O Bone Jesu.[/quote]
Good songs.

[quote name='azaelia' post='1428614' date='Dec 3 2007, 12:53 PM']Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent
All Creatures of Our God and King
Ave Verum
Tantum Ergo
Salve Regina
Crown Him With Many Crowns
Pange Lingua
Love Divine All Love's Excelling

And for Christmas:
Lo How a Rose E're Blooming
The Holly and the Ivy
The Seven Joys of Mary
On Christmas Day
Good King Wenceslaus
Once in Royal David's City
What Child is This
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
The First Nowell
In the Bleak Mid Winter
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
O Come, All Ye Faithful
I Saw Three Ships
Rise Up Shepherd and Follow
Ave Maria (Bach)
Ave Maria (Schubert)
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

and that's just the beginning of the list... [/quote]
At least they're all good...


Okay my list

De Pacem (plainchant)
Ave Verum Corpus (Byrd)
Ave Maria (Victoria)
Sicut Cervus (Palestrina)
Holy God we Praise Thy Name
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Adoramus Te Christe (Th. Dubois)
O Bone Jesu

And more...

[corban711]

[quote name='soccer girl =D' post='1428320' date='Dec 2 2007, 08:35 PM']overflow by matt maher[/quote]


i love that song! one of my favorites to play/sing at adoration.

Let all Mortal Flesh Keep Silence is one of my favorites. I also love the Salve Regina that the brothers of St. John sing at the close of their night before the great silence....i think it is the same one the dominicans sing.

[catholicinsd]

Amazing Grace

How Great Thou Art

All Creatures of our God & King

On Eagle's Wings

Santuary

Hail Holy Queen

The Prayer of St. Francis- Make Me a Channel of Your Peace

[son_of_angels]

Hymn= a song intended for integration in the liturgy, especially the Divine Office.
A good hymn= one that is written for theological depth and drawn for the patrimony of the Church.

Reflect on those criteria.

Favorite Hymns-
1. Veni Creator Spiritus
2. Rorate Caeli Desuper
3. Crux fidelis inter omnes
4. Let all mortal flesh keep silence (My solution for "Sing a New Church")

Favorite religious songs (of any tradition)-
1. Sweet Angels (a shaker hymn)
2. Jerusalem (also a shaker song)
3. Once in Royal David's City
4. Personent hodie
5. Put Thy Hands to Work and Thy Heart to God (another Shaker hymn)

At least, at this moment in time.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='missionseeker' post='1428353' date='Dec 2 2007, 07:56 PM']Puer natus in Bethlehem is most definitely a Gregorian melody.[/quote]

you're right. stupid me