#this is a hugely incomplete list but.

[meltorights]

What are your favorite hymns?

i love hymnody so this is too hard.... i have to break it up by season and even then i feel like im leaving things out

ordinary time/general O God Beyond All Praising - just a perfect hymn... and whether our tomorrows be filled with good or ill / we'll triumph through our sorrows and rise to bless you still!!!!! this arrangement is a bit overdone imo but it still brings me to tears.

advent - tossup here! one of my favorite seasons for music so it's hard to pick only two.

People Look East - such a fun hymn.... this is what gives me the excitement of advent every year.

Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending - INSANELY fun to sing. gives me chills.

christmas - another place where it's impossible to pick only 1 and painful to limit myself to two.

O Little Town of Bethlehem (Forest Green) - forest green is the correct tune. perfect piece of music. i sang the descant as a kid and it changed my life.

What Child Is This? - catholic hymnals Butcher this hymn by cutting the bits about nails and spears piercing him through. brings me to tears every time.

lent

Crux Fidelis / Sing My Tongue, The Glorious Battle - I can't find a recording of the english translations set to the tune PICCARDY which fits perfectly. but the chant tune is wonderful. venetius fortunatus went off when he personified the cross, saying, "and the king of earth and heaven / gently on your bosom tend"

Vexila Regis / The Royal Banners Forward Go - the cross of defeat is also a banner of triumph.......

easter

ad cenam angi providi / the lamb's high banquet we await - this is one of the few chant hymns that i think you should really speed through and none of the recordings get it right. really exciting hymn.

christ is alive! - perfect hymn. perfect summation of easter. "christ is alive, no longer bound / to distant years in palestine"

come ye faithful raise the strain - another perfect hymn

at the lambs high feast we sing - popular but worthy of it

ascension

crown him with many crowns - CROWN HIM THE LORD OF LOVE BEHOLD HIS HANDS AND SIDE RICH WOUNDS STILL VISIBLE ABOVE IN BEAUTY GLORIFIED

alleluia sing to jesus - not as orphans are we left in sorrow now...

hail the day that sees him rise - see he lifts his hands above. see he shows the prints of love.

pentecost

come down o live divine THE pentecost hymn.

not a season but eucharistic devotional hymns slap

jesus my lord my god my all