LiturgyTools.net: Hymns and songs for the 3rd Sunday of Lent, Year C

A selection hymns and songs, based on themes from the Revised Common lectionary for the third Sunday of Lent in Year C.

Most are free-to-use (ie public domain or copyright-free) meaning the words can be copied and sung to at least one tune with no concerns about copyright or performance licensing. Many such hymns are old/traditional - but where possible a variety of styles / genres are included.

A small selection of particularly-relevant hymns that are still subject to copyright may also be included.

2nd Sunday of Lent, Year C

4th Sunday of Lent, Year C

Readings

First: Isaiah 55:1-9... everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat ... Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? .... Seek the Lord while he may be found ... return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Psalm: Psalm 63:1-8 O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you;

Second: I Corinthians 10:1-13 - Remember how the people under Moses were guided by a cloud - the one who thinks he is safe must be careful not to fall. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength.

Gospel: Luke 13:1-9 - Repent or you will perish - the parable of the fig tree, giving it one more chance.

Themes

Repentance. God's mercy and love.

Artworks

See lectionary art for this Sunday for suggested pictures and art-works based on today's readings.

Free-use hymns

A Charge to keep I Have - Wesley
A Tender Conscience - Wesley
Abide O Dearest Jesus (Among us with your grace)
All my Hope On God is Founded - Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
Amazing Grace
As Surely as I Live God Said - Loy, trans from Herman
Be Still my Soul
Be Thou my Guardian and my Guide - Isaac Williams (1802-1865)
Be Thou my Vision
Bread of Heaven, On Thee We Feed - Conder (1789-1855)
Bread of the World in Mercy Broken

Christ is the Heavenly Food That Gives - Timothy Rees (1874-1939)
Christ Whose Glory Fills the Skies - Wesley
Come Down O Love Divine
Come Let us to the Lord Our God - Morrison
Come Out the Wilderness - Unknown
Come Sinners to the Gospel Feast - Wesley
Come Ye (You) Sinners Poor and Needy (I will arise and go to Jesus)
Come Ye that Love the Lord - Watts
Come, Ye Disconsolate - Moore / Hastings

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
Delay Not (Delay not, delay not: O sinner draw near;) - Thomas Hastings (1784-1872)
Depth of Mercy - Wesley
Disposer Supreme, and Judge of the Earth - Isaac Williams (1802-1865), trans from Jean-Baptiste de Santeul
Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
Faith of our Fathers Taught of Old - Thomas Alexander Lacey (1853-1931)
Faithful Shepherd Feed Me - Pollock
Firmly I Believe and Truly
For all the Saints - How
Forth in Thy Name O Lord I Go - Wesley

Give me Oil in my Lamp / Give me Joy in my Heart / Sing Hosanna - Unknown
Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken
God Moves in a Mysterious Way
Grace Greater Than Our Sin - Johnston
Great is Thy Faithfulness - free use in the USA
Guide me O Thou Great Redeemer / Jehovah (Bread of Heaven)
Hark a Herald Voice is Calling
He (All) Who Would Valiant be / to be a Pilgrim
He Leadeth Me: O Blessed Thought - Gilmore
How Can I Keep from Singing (My life flows on in endless song)
How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds

I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
I Hunger and I Thirst - John S B Monsell (1811-1875)
In the Cross of Christ - Bowring
It Passeth Knowledge - Mary Shekleton (1827-1883)
Jesus – the Name High Over All - Wesley
Jesus Lead thou On - Jane L. Borthwick (1813-97)
Jesus Priceless Treasure - Winkworth, trans from Franck
Jesus Sinners Will Receive - 1941 Concordia Publishing House, trans from Erdmann Neumeister (1671-1756)
Jesus the Very Thought of Thee - Caswall
Jesus Walked this Lonesome Valley - Unknown
Just as I Am Without One Plea

Leaning On the Everlasting Arms - Hoffman (1839-1929)
Let Us With a Gladsome Mind - Milton
Lift Every Voice and Sing - John R Johnson (1873–1954), adapt from James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
Lift up your Hearts (We lift them, Lord, to Thee) - Henry Montagu Butler (1833-1918)
Lord Dismiss us with Thy Blessing - Fawcett (1740-1817)
Lord Enthroned in Heavenly Splendour
Lord Jesus Think on Me
Lord who Throughout These Forty Days - Claudia Frances Hernaman (1838-1898)
Lord, I have Made Thy Word my Choice - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
Love Divine all Loves Excelling
Make me A Captive Lord - Matheson
May the Grace of Christ Our Saviour - John Newton (1725-1807)
My God and is Thy Table Spread / My God Thy Table Now is Spread - Philip Doddridge (1702-1751)

Nature With Open Volume Stands - Watts
Near the Cross - Crosby
O Bless the Lord my Soul - Montgomery - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
O Bread of Life from Heaven
O For A Heart to Praise my God - Wesley
O God Unseen Yet Ever Near - Osler
O Jesus I Have Promised
O Jesus, Thou Joy of Loving Hearts - Ray Palmer (1808-1887)
O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go - Matheson
O Stay With Us Lord Jesus - Crull (1845-1923),translated from Tegmann (1588-1632)
O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus - Francis (1834-1925)
O Zion Haste - Thomson
Of the Glory of God in the Starry Heavens - Addison
Oft In Danger, Oft In Woe - Henry Kirke White (1785-1806)
Once He Came in Blessing - Catherine Winkworth, trans from Johann Roh (1487-1547)

Parting Hymn (Saviour, again to Thy dear name we raise) - John Ellerton (1826-1893)
Praise my Soul the King of Heaven
Praise the Lord, Ye Heavens Adore Him
Rock of Ages Cleft for Me - Augustus Toplady (1740–1778)
Saviour like a Shepherd Lead Us
Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling
Speak, O Lord, Thy Servant Heareth - Rygh, trans from von Hessen-Darmstadt
Standing in the Need of Prayer - Unknown

The Church's One Foundation
The Excellency of Scripture (Father of mercies, in Thy word) - Anne Steele (1717-1778)
The Heavens Declare Thy Glory Lord - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
The Pardoning God (Great God of wonders! all Thy ways) - Samuel Davies (1723-1761)
There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (Souls of men, why will ye scatter) - Faber
Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow - Baring-Gould (1834-1924)
Today Thy Mercy Calls Me - Oswald Allen (1816-1878)
Victim Divine - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Victory Chant - Vogels

Walking with God - Cowper
Watch, My Soul, And Pray - Carl Døving (1867-1937), trans from Johan Olof Wallin (1779-1839)
We Love the Place O God - Bullock
We Sing the Praise of Him Who Died - Kelly
We Walk By Faith
What a Friend we have in Jesus
When we Walk with the Lord (Trust and Obey)
Where Shall my Wondering Soul Begin - Wesley
Wrestling Jacob (Come, O thou traveler unknown) - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Your Ceaseless Unexhausted Love - Wesley

Hymns that may still be copyright

Almighty God we Come to Make Confession - Ellis
As the Deer - Nystrom
As Water to the Thirsty - Dudley-Smith
Change my Heart O God - Espinosa
Christ is Surely Coming Bringing his Reward - Idle
Create in me a Clean Heart

Faithful One so Unchanging - Doerksen
Father of Mercy God of Consolation - James Quinn (1919-2010)
Father We Have Sinned In Word and Deed and Thought - Getty / Stuart Townend (b. 1963)
Fruitful Trees the Spirit’s Sowing - Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-2024)
Give Me A Clean Heart - Douroux (b. 1941)
Here I Am Lord - Schutte
Holy Ground - Beatty