LiturgyTools.net: Hymns for Proper 26 / Ordinary 31 in Year B (24th Sunday after Pentecost, 3 November 2024)

Hymns and song suggestions, based on themes from the Revised Common lectionary for the Sunday of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31 in Year B.

Many are free-to-use (ie public domain or copyright-free) and so 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 may still be copyright are also included, if these are particularly appropriate.

Suggestions about hymns that could be included are welcome: leave a message in the Comments box near the bottom of the page.

Readings

First:

Ruth 1:1-18 - Ruth's husband and sons died - she was left without them in a foreign land. She tried so send her daughters-in-law back to their mother's house - one went, but the other Ruth siad "Where you go, I will go ... your people shall be my people, and your God my God."

Deuteronomy 6:1-9 - Moses said to the people ... you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and strength.

Psalm: 17 - I love you Lord, my strength

Second: Hebrews 9:11-14 - Christ ... entered once for all into the holy place, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.

Gospel: Mark 12:28-34 - Which is the first commandment? Love the Lord your God ... love your neighbour as yourself.

Themes

Loving God. Loving other people as yourself - justice, charity, reconciliation. Christ the priest of the new covenant.

Free-use hymns

A Charge to keep I Have - Wesley
A New Commandment
All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
All People that on Earth do Dwell
All Praise to Our Redeeming Lord - Wesley
Alleluia Sing to Jesus
And Can it Be that I should Gain - Wesley
Be Still my Soul
Bear Ye One Another's Burdens (Thou God of truth and love) - Wesley
Before the Throne of God Above (The Advocate) - Charitie Lees Smith Bancroft (1841-1923)
Blessed be the Ties that Bind / Blest be the Tie that Binds
Blest are the Poor in Heart
Brethren we Have met to Worship - Askins

Christ From Whom All Blessings Flow - Wesley
Christ's Compassion to the Weak - Isaac Watts
Come, Let Us Join Our Cheerful Songs - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
Eternal Light Eternal Light - Thomas Binney (1798-1874)
Exhortation to Worship (Before Jehovah's awful throne) - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
Father of Peace and God of Love - Doddridge
Fill Thou my Life - Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)
For all the Saints - How

Glory be to Jesus
God is Love His the Care
Great is Thy Faithfulness - free use in the USA
Hail Redeemer King Divine
Happy Are They - Robert S. Bridges (1844-1930)
Help us to Help Each Other Lord - Wesley
Here O my Lord I See Thee Face to Face - Bonar
How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds
I Know that my Redeemer Lives - Samuel Medley
I’ll Praise my Maker While I’ve Breath - Wesley / Watts

Jesus Calls us O’er the Tumult - Alexander
Jesus Invites His Saints to Meet Around His Board - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
Join all the Glorious Names - Watts
Just as I Am Without One Plea
King of Glory King of Peace
Lift up Your Heads you Mighty Gates - Winkworth
Lord Enthroned in Heavenly Splendour
Lord in the Strength of Grace - Wesley
Lord Thee I Love with all My Heart - Winkworth, trans. From Schalling
Lord Thy Word Abideth - Baker
Lord You Have Been Our Dwelling Place - Unknown - from The Psalter 1912
Lord, Speak to Me that I May Speak - Havergal
Love Divine all Loves Excelling
Love God with all your soul and strength - Isaac Watts

More Love to Thee O Christ - Prentiss
My God I Love Thee (My Eternal King) - St. Francis Xavier's Hymn of Love - Edward Caswall (1814-1878)
My God, How Wonderful Thou Art - Faber
My Hope is Built on Nothing Less (On Christ the Solid Rock) - Mote
My Jesus I Love Thee - Duffell / Featherston
My Saviour how Shall I Proclaim - John Wesley (1703-1791)
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing - Wesley
O God of Bethel By Whose Hand - Doddridge
O Love How Deep How Broad How High - Webb, trans from á Kempis
O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go - Matheson
O Thou Who Camest From Above - Wesley
Once Only Once and Once For All - Bright (1824-1901)

Power in the Blood - Lewis E. Jones (1865-1936)
Praise for the Fountain Opened - Cowper (1731-1800)
Praise for the Fountain Opened (There is a fountain filled) - William Cowper (1731-1800)
Praise the Lord, Ye Heavens Adore Him
Priesthood of Christ (Entered the holy place above) - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Put all Your Trust In God - Wesley
Put Thou Thy Trust in God - John Wesley (1703-1791), translated from by TBA 1607-1676)
Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above - Cox
Sing Praise to the Lord - Henry Williams Baker (1821-1877)
Spirit of God Descend Upon my Heart - Croly

The Church Triumphant in thy Love - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
The Church's One Foundation
The God of Abraham Praise - Olivers
The Lord our Righteousness - Wesley, trans from Nicolaus Ludwig, Graf von Zinzendorf
The Spirit's Quickening Influences (Come now, everlasting Spirit) - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (Souls of men, why will ye scatter) - Faber
This Little Light of Mine - Unknown
Victim Divine - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)

We Come Unto our Fathers’ God - Thomas Hornblower Gill (1819-1906)
We Give Immortal Praise - Isaac Watts
We Praise, we Worship Thee O God - Unknown: in Philip Gell's A Church Hymn Book, 1815
We've A Story to Tell to the Nations - Nichol
What a Friend we have in Jesus
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
When Love Shines in (Jesus comes with power to gladden) - Breck
When Morning Gilds the Skies - Caswall
Where High the Heavenly Temple Stands - Bruce (1746-1767)
Ye Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)