From Anne C.
Congregational music is one of the most significant things I am missing during this time of isolation, besides sharing the Eucharist. Singing hymns along with a host of other voices has always been am important part of my worship, and Easter has such a wealth of joyful songs of life. In an effort to scratch this itch, I have created a YouTube playlist of my favorite hymns and other songs for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.
I hope being able to listen to and sing along with these songs will bring you comfort, as they do for me.Below is the list of songs, including the hymn numbers from the 1982 Episcopal Hymnal. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbvaA9GwLWG4Gazeg1BviqzjZMSz0liqA
140 Wilt thou forgive
143 The glory of these forty days
150 Forty days and forty nights
154 All glory, laud, and honor
156 Ride on! ride on! in majesty!
158 Ah, holy Jesus
166 Sing, my tough, the glorious battle
168 O sacred head, sore wounded
172 Were you there
175 Hail thee, festival day
179 Welcome, happy morning
180 He is risen
192 This joyful Eastertide
204 Now the green blade rises
205 Good Christians all, rejoice and sing
206 O sons and daughters
207 Jesus Christ is risen today
208 The strife is o’er
544 Jesus shall reign
Love’s redeeming work is done
In Christ alone
It was finished
I just had a blessed time listening to the J. S. Bach Foundation’s rendition of Cantata 147, “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben” (Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evnzhg_9frs
Text and translation here, to follow along (highly recommended; the text is beautiful): https://bach-cantatas.com/Texts/BWV147-Eng3P.htm
I just had a blessed time listening to the J. S. Bach Foundation’s rendition of Cantata 147, “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben” (Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evnzhg_9frs
Text and translation here, for following along (highly recommended; the text is beautiful): https://bach-cantatas.com/Texts/BWV147-Eng3P.htm