LiturgyTools.net: Hymns for Proper 23 (Ordinary 28), Year C (12 Oct 2025)

Hymn and songs ideas based on themes from the revised common lectionary for the Sunday of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28 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 - sometimes in a limited setting. Many of these hymns are old / traditional - but where possible a variety of styles and genres are included. A small selection of hymns that are still copyright may be included in they are particularly relevant.

Suggestions about hymns that could be included are welcome: leave a comment below.

Sunday of Proper 22, year, C

Sunday of Proper 24, Year C

Readings

First:

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7

The prophet tells the remaining exiles in Babylon that the Lord wants them to make homes there and to seek the welfare of the city.

II Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c - Naaman the leper is healed in the Jordan after following Elisha's instructions. He returns to Elisha, and acknowledges there is no God except the Lord.

Second: II Timothy 2:8-15 - Paul reflects that he is suffering - but they cannot chain up God's good news ... If we have died with him then we shall live with him. Encourages Timothy to be steadfast.

Gospel: Luke 17:11-19 - Jesus heals the ten lepers - only one returns to give God thanks. ... Go, your faith has saved you.

Themes

Gratefulness. Suffering. Recognizing God. Thankfulness. God's faithfulness in spite of our unfaithfulness.

Art for this week

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

Free-use hymns

A Man There Lived in Galilee - Lowry (1855-1932)
Abide with Me
Ah Holy Jesu How Hast Thou Offended - Bridges
Alas and Did my Savior Bleed - Watts
All Depends on our Possessing - Catherine Winkworth
All my Hope is Firmly Grounded - Jacobi
All People that on Earth do Dwell
All Praise to Our Redeeming Lord - Wesley
Amazing Grace
Are Ye Able - Marlatt (1892-1976) - free use in the USA
As Pants the Hart for Cooling Streams - Tate and Brady's New Version, 1696, 1698
At Even, Ere the Sun Was Set - Twells (1868)
At the Name of Jesus

Be Still and Know that I Am God
Be Still my Soul
Be Thou my Guardian and my Guide - Isaac Williams (1802-1865)
Be Thou my Vision
Blessed be the Ties that Bind / Blest be the Tie that Binds
Brother You On Your Heart Did Bear - Thomas (1848-1924)
Brotherly Love - Wesley
Christ is Made the Sure Foundation
Dear Lord for All in Pain

Faith of our Fathers
For all the Saints - How
For the Beauty of the Earth
From All that Dwell Below the Skies - Watts
Give to Our God Immortal Praise - Watts
God of Grace and God of Glory - Fosdick (1878-1969) - free use in the USA
Great is Thy Faithfulness - free use in the USA
Holy Fortitude (Am I a soldier of the cross) - Watts
How Can We Sinners Know - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds

I Waited for the Lord My God - Unknown - from the Scottish Psalter (1929)
I Want Jesus to Walk With Me - Unknown
I’ll Praise my Maker While I’ve Breath - Wesley / Watts
I'm Not Ashamed To Own my Lord - Watts
I'm so Glad Jesus Lifted Me - Unknown
Immortal Love for Ever Full - Whittier
In the Cross of Christ - Bowring
Jesu, Lover of my Soul / Jesus, Lover of My Soul - Wesley - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Jesus Priceless Treasure - Catherine Winkworth
Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
Jesus the Very Thought of Thee - Caswall
Jesus Thy Boundless Love to Me - Wesley
Joyful Joyful we Adore Thee
Just as I Am Without One Plea

Lead Kindly Light
Leaning On the Everlasting Arms - Hoffman (1839-1929)
Let us Break Bread Together Withthe Lord - Unknown - Afro/American
Let Us Plead for Faith Alone - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Lift Every Voice and Sing - John R Johnson (1873–1954)
Lord from the Depths to Thee I Cry'd / Lord Jesus I Belong to Thee
Lord of Our Life and God of Our Salvation - Philip Pusey (1799-1885)
Lord, Speak to Me that I May Speak - Havergal
Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone - Shepherd
My Faith Looks up to Thee - Palmer (1808-1887)

New Every Morning is the Love - Keble (1792-1866)
Not so in Haste my Heart - Torrey
Now Thank we all our God
O Bless the Lord my Soul - Montgomery - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
O Food to Pilgrims Given - Riley - trans from Aquinas
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing - Wesley
O Jesus I Have Promised
O Master Let me Walk with Thee (You) - Gladden
O Thou in Whose Presence my Soul Takes Delight - Swain
O Worship the King (all glorious above) - Grant
Oft In Danger, Oft In Woe - Henry Kirke White (1785-1806)
Onward Christian Soldiers

Praise my Soul the King of Heaven
Praise the Lord, Ye Heavens Adore Him
Praise to the Lord the Almighty - Winkworth
Rock of Ages Cleft for Me - Augustus Toplady (1740–1778)
Saviour like a Shepherd Lead Us
Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above - Cox
Soldiers of Christ Arise - Wesley
Spread O Spread Almighty Word - Winkworth
Stand By Me (When the storms of life are raging) - Tindley
Stand Up Stand Up for Jesus - Duffield (1818-1888)

Take up Thy Cross / Take up Your Cross (the Saviour Said)
The Head that Once Was Crowned With Thorns - Kelly
The Immensity of His Grace (What shall I do my God to love) - Wesley
The Lord is King Lift up Your Voice - Conder
The Spirit's Quickening Influences (Come, Thou everlasting Spirit) - Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
There is A Balm In Gilead - Unknown
There is A Land of Pure Delight - Watts
There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (Souls of men, why will ye scatter) - Faber
Thine Arm, O Lord, in Days of Old - Edward H. Plumptre (1821-1891)
Through all the Changing Scenes of Life - Unknown - from Tate and Brady's New Version. 1696, 1698
Through the Love of God our Saviour - Peters
Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow - Baring-Gould (1834-1924)
To God be the Glory
To Thee Our God We Fly - William Walsham How (1823-1897)

We Thy People Praise Thee - Page (1873-1963) - free use in the USA
We Would See Jesus - Warner
What a Friend we have in Jesus
What Shall we Offer Our Good Lord - Wesley
When all Thy Mercies O my God - Addison
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Where He Leads me I Will Follow - Blandly (1849-?)
With Christ we Share a Mystic Grave - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
Ye Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)

Hymns that may still be copyright

An Outcast Among Outcasts - Richard D Leach (b 1953)
Awake O Sleeper Rise From Death - Tucker (1895-1984)
Call The Seeker (You're calling us) - Graham Kendrick (b. 1950)
Give Thanks to the Lord Our God and King - Tomlin

Give Thanks with a Grateful Heart
Heal me Hands of Jesus - Perry (1942-1996)
Healer of Our Every Ill - Haugen
I Thank You Jesus - Morris (1917-1988)
I'm Forever Grateful (You did not wait for me to draw near to You) - Mark Altrogge (b. 1950)
In the Lord I'll be Ever Thankful - Communaute de Taizé

Jesus Christ is Waiting - John Bell (b. 1949), Maule (1958-2019)
Jesus’ Hands Were Kind Hands - Cropper
Lord I Lift Your Name On High - Founds
O Christ the Healer we Have Come - Pratt Green (1903–2000)
Song of the Ten Lepers (author unknown, tune ST CATHERINE)

Ten Lepers (Ten men, lepers in a Hebrew town) - Winter
Thank You for Giving me the Morning - Walter Van Der Haas and Peter-Paul Van Lelyreid (1964)
Thank you Lord / Right Where we Are
Thank You, Lord - Dennis L. Jernigan (b. 1959)