Desert Island Hymns

[angli_fan]

We had a similar hymn-related thread a while back on EV, so I thought you might enjoy this one from Anglicans Online.anglicansonline.org/special/hymns/index.html

[Swick]

Almost all are good choices. "Immortal Invisible" is probably my favorite hymn, but there are so many good ones.

I know that it's very popular with children, but I really dislike "I Sing a Song of the Saints of God." Good theololgy, sacharin melody, it just sets my teeth on edge!

[Carl]

Ye Watchers and ye holy ones.

Lo, he comes with clouds descending.

Manifest.

Let all mortal flesh keep silence.

I agree with Swick about "Saints of God." I always sing it as "One was slain by a fierce wild priest."

I kind of like "Earth and All Stars" - but it's REALLY easy to make fun of. And I canNOT sing "Loud, boiling test tubes" without laughing. Not possible.

[Canadian Phil]

Hmm, I think I would have to say:

Be Thou My Vision

Come Thou, Fount of Every Blessing (just keep the Ebenezer in the second verse, will ya'. Taking it out is just lame)

lot and lots of Taize (easy to learn and remember. Great for taking walks or when my brain is fried at the end of a day. Okay, okay, they aren't really hymns

And, for Advent, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (glorious and haunting)

Peace,
Phil

[Pete]

"Now the Silence".

One of the most contemplative tunes I know.

[raphael]

i'm sorry not to see "in the bleak mid-winter", which not only has beautiful music, but very meaningful words

for someone who is alleged to be as liberal as folk tell me i am, i also miss from the hymnal 1940, "once to every man and nation"

and for contemplation, there are the hauntingly beautiful, "ah holy jesus" and "drop, drop slow tears"

r