Favourite hymn

Make me a channel of your peace

How Great Thou Art and Make Me a Channel of Your Peace.

I now have “Hills of the North” as a bloomin’ ear worm!!

Just thought of another one, our school him was O Jesus I have promised to serve thee to the end, be thou forever near me, my master and my friend.

Back to my Evangelical upbringing ... Blessed Assurance.
I want this at my funeral even though I'm thinking no one will know it!

Just remembered " Oh Jesus I have promised " which as I recall had a rather funky piano accompaniment, most uplifting as the sleet formed puddles on the wooden school floor.

Hill of the North, Rejoice!

For All the Saints

Now the Green Blade Riseth

Lord of the Dance

Atheist here....but love all hymns, just for the community. So I’d choose.... I Vow to thee My Country. Magnificant.

Trust and obey and the Old Rugged Cross.

Let all mortal flesh keep silent

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

The Lord's my Shepherd, but to Brother James' Air

Sorry, but loathe How Great Thou art with a passion

I was organist/choirmistress at local Catholic church and midnight mass at Christmas was a pain - we came in to O Come all Ye Faithful, then during Holy Communion we had an annual choir setting of Adeste Fideles where I had to sing the tenor solo as our only man was totally deaf. Finally we finished with a congregational Adeste. The first year I discovered that this was the traditional order of service and said that once or at most twice was enough. I was shouted down with the immortal words, the answer to end any dispute, "But Father likes it". As it happens, Father also liked "How great thou art",so he and I did not get on too well!

Showergelfresh I'm sorry you had such a sad experience, please look around for a church that shows real love, there are some, I'm sure you won't regret it when you do find one, they aren't all bad. .

Great is Thy Faithfulness

And so many more that have already been listed here.

This has been a lovely post to follow, it's brought back so many memories :-) Thank you all.

Jerusalem and morning has broken.
I do love the Beatles song blackbird.

Eternal Father, Strong to Save. ( For those in peril on the sea). This is also known as the Armed Forces Hymn.
I was born and brought up in a town were fishing was the life blood of the community and often lives lost through a trawler running into difficulties, we used to sing this every Friday morning in school assembly in recognition of this. Later on when I married to a serviceman this hymn had a significance again. I live again by the sea, far from my home town but still think on stormy nights of any ships out there, and am reminded of the hymn that has been always in my life.

I vow to thee, my country.

One more step along the way I go....

When a knight won his spurs.....

Probably should be When a gender neutral person went on a trip really?

Jerusalem may not be a hymn, but it is in the C of E Hymnal and it must be in the Church of Scotland hymn book as well because I remember singing it at school.

My favourite is O, come all ye faithful with Child in a Manger as a close second.

A big thank you to all who took the trouble to either remember or look up the name of the hymn ‘Hail Queen Of Heaven’ ( the ocean star.) I remember singing this in school assemblies during either May or June, surrounded by the fragrance of displays of flowers.

Lemongrove - the hymn you're thinking of is called Hail Queen of Heaven.

I like Abide with me, Ave Maria, I, the Lord of sea and sky and Dear lord and Father of Mankind.

I do enjoy a good hymn!

There is also Jerusalem the Golden, grandtante
1Jerusalem the golden,
with milk and honey blest,
beneath your contemplation
sink heart and voice oppressed;
I know not, O I know not
what joys await us there,
what radiancy of glory,
what bliss beyond compare!

But it's not one of my favourites.

Does anyone know the title of the hymn that started Shine Out Great Sun, flood all the pasture bright? That was the one which had a long, meandering piece in it!

Sorry, hijacked the thread but perhaps allowed as it's sort of relevant!
I think it is relevant Jessity (I probably hijacked the thread first!)

I wonder if they have threads like this on Mumsnet?

Lord, for the years

Great is thy faithfulness

I cannot sing Eternal Father, Strong to Save any more - I'm too busy biting my lip to stop myself from crying. It has been adapted and adopted as the Corps Hymn of The Royal Marines and was the introductory hymn at my son-in-law's funeral. There are three verses and by the third verse his comrades were singing their hearts out with tears streaming down their faces; I couldn't allow myself to cry then as I was about to give a reading, but I've made up for it whenever it's been sung since!