FUNERAL WORTHY HYMNS
All the Way, My Savior Leads Me
Be Still, My Soul
By Grace I Am An Heir of Heaven
For All the Saints (Ralph Vaughn Williams tune – sung at the end, triumphantly.)
Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
Hark the Voice of Love and Mercy/It is Finished
I Belong to Jesus (someone arrange this one – great for kids and adults)
My Jesus I Love Thee
On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand
The Sands of Time are Sinking
This Joyful Eastertide (if it is the season of Easter, especially)
Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand
Search This Classical Life:
categories:
in the middle of:
read in 2016:
Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins
Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969
Mandel, Station Eleven
Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty
Shakespeare, As You Like It
Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saintsarchives:
I’d put the two hymns I’ve blogged about today (for St. Michael and All Angels) on my list, as well as the Spenser poem on there too (this one as an anthem):
http://www.knowtea.com/?p=331
I’m having movements from John Rutter’s Requiem sung at my funeral.
How Firm a Foundation
Rock of Ages (neither theToplady nor the Ward version, the other one)
And that’s it. Yes, I think about these things too, they’re important.
We sang “By Grace I Am an Heir of Heaven” in church last Sunday. What a great text! Too bad the Trinity Hymnal botched the rhythm on the tune, both with this text and the other hymn often sung to NEUMARK, “If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee.” I often give the Psalter Hymnal (CRC) to our accompanist when we do that one.
Mrs. Butler, check out my friend Lee Scott’s Requiem. You can hear clips (I think) and order a copy of the CD on his web site: http://www.kleescott.com .