Most are "Free-to-use" 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.
Suggestions about other free-to-use hymns that could be included are welcome:
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Readings
First: Deuteronomy 8: 2-3, 14-16 - Moses reminds the people that God fed them in the desert with manna, and brought them out of slavery in EgyptPsalm: 147 - O praise the Lord Jerusalem / He established peace on your borders / He makes his word known to Jacob.
Second: I Corinthians 10: 16-17 - The blessing cup that we bless is a communion with the blood of Christ ... there is only one loaf - thought there are many of us, we form a single body.
Sequence: Sing forth, O Zion, sweetly sing ...
Gospel: John 6: 51-58 - I am the living bread come down from heaven ... Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I shall raise him up on the last day.
Themes
Jesus, bread of life. Food and drink of eternal life. Manna in Old Testament times is equivalent to Christ today.Free-to-use artwork
Free-use hymns
- Ave verum corpus - Unknown 13th / 14th century
- Alleluia Sing to Jesus
- Anima Christi
- Bread of Heaven (Behold the Bread of Angels) - Jesse Manibusan, Sarah Hart
- Bread of the World in Mercy Broken
- Come my Way my Truth my Life - Herbert
- Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
- Draw us in the Spirit’s Tether
- Godhead Here in Hiding
- Guide me O Thou Great Redeemer / Jehovah (Bread of Heaven)
- He Lives in Us (Through the bread) - Amelia Acosta
- I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say - Horatius Bonar (1808 - 1889)
- Jesu the Joy of Loving Hearts - Palmer (1808-1887)
- Jesus my Lord my God my All
- Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Alleluias of St James)
- Let us Break Bread Together on our Knees
- Lord Enthroned in Heavenly Splendour - George Hugh Bourne (1840-1925)
- Lord Who at thy First Eucharist Did'st Pray
- My God and is Thy Table Spread / My God Thy Table Now is Spread - Philip Doddridge (1702-1751)
- O Bread of Heaven (beneath this veil) - Edmund Vaughan (1827-1908)
- O Bread of Life from Heaven
- O Food to Pilgrims Given - Riley - trans from Aquinas
- O Godhead Hid - Edward Caswall (1814-1878)
- O Praise our Great and Gracious God - Harriet Auber (1773-1862)
- O Sacrament Most Holy
- O Salutaris Hostia - Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
- Of the glorious body telling - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
- One in Body, Heart and Mind - Christopher Walker (b. 1947)
- Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium - Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
- Panis Angelicus - Various settings
- Praise to the Lord the Almighty - Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878)
- Remembrance (Grant peace, O Lord, across our strife-torn world) - Charles Henrywood (2009)
- Shepherd of Souls (refresh and bless) - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
- Sweet Sacrament Divine
- The Church's One Foundation - Samuel John Stone (1839–1900)
- The King of Love my Shepherd Is - George Herbert (1593-1633)
The Easter Sequence, Lauda Sion, written by Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), and its English translation, Sion, praise the Saviour, are set to various tunes - some free-use, some not.
Hymns which may still be copyright
- Amén. El Cuerpo de Cristo / Amen. The Body of Christ - John Schiavone (b. 1947)
- All Who Hunger Gather Gladly - Dunstan
- Among us and Before Us - Bell (b. 1949) / Maule (1958-2019)
- At This Great Feast of Love - James Quin (1919-2009)
- Behold the Lamb of God - Maher - Matt Maher ()
- Beyond The Days - Ricky Manalo
- Blest are you Lord (God of all creation) - Aniceto Nazareth
- Bread Blessed and Broken - Michael B. Lynch (1946-2018)
- Bread For the World ( a world of hunger) - Bernadette Farrell (b 1957)
- Bread of Angels (we receive you) - Stephan Curtis
- Bread of Life Hope of the World - Farrell - Bernadette Farrell (b 1957)
- Bread of Life Truth Eternal - Joanne Boyce, Mike Stanley (1965-2013)
- Christ, Our Peace - Marty Haugen (b. 1950)
- Christians let us Love one Another - Foltz / Nigro
- Come and Eat This Living Bread - Rob Glover (b. 1950)
- Come and Take the Flesh of Christ (Sancti Venite) - Donal Murray (1940-2024)
- Come, Christ's Beloved (Here is salvation) - James Quinn (1919-2010)
- Do this in Memory - Cyril Murphy (b. 1962)
- Do This in Memory of Me (I am the bread of life) - Chris Muglia
- Eat This Bread Drink This Cup - Jacques Berthier / John Bell
- Eucharist Song (This is my body, take now and share) - Frank Andersen
- Feed Us, Lord (Thank you for this bread we break) - W. Clifford Petty
- Gift of Finest Wheat - Omer Westendorf (1916-1997)
- Heavenly Bread (Laud, O Zion your salvation) - Aaron Thompson
- Here at this Table (Come and be filled) - Janèt Sullivan Whitaker, Max Whitaker
- I Am the Bread of Life (Come and Follow Me) - Steve Angrisano and Tom Booth
- I am the Bread of Life -Toolan - Suzanne Toolan (b. 1927)
- I Am Yours (Consume Me Completely) - Trevor Thomson
- I Received the Living God - Various
- In the Breaking of the Bread - Ward - Michael Philip Ward ()
- Jesus, the Bread of Life - Grayson Warren Brown (1948-2023)
- Laud, O Zion (Lo the angel's food) - Randall deBruyn
- Make of Our Hands a Throne - Steven C. Warner (b. 1954)
- Miracle of Grace (Bread of Life) - Curtis Stephan
- Now in this Banquet - Marty Haugen (b. 1950)
- O Food of Exiles Lowly - M Owen Lee CSB (1930-2019)
- O How Blest - John Schiavone (b. 1947)
- O Praise the Lord, Jerusalem - Warner, Steven C.
- O Salutaris Hostia, O Saving Lamb - Verses: Edward Caswall (1814-1878). Refrain: Tom Booth
- One Bread One Body - John Foley (b. 1939)
- One Bread, One Cup - Ken Canedo, Bobby Fisher, Greg Lee, Craig Aven
- One Love Released - Kevin Keil and Robert H. Frenze
- Our Blessing Cup (Is a Communion) - Bob Hurd
- Paschal Mystery (Bread of life, broken for the world) - Bradley Knuckles (2017)
- Praise We Christ's Immortal Body - Melvin Farrell ()
- Praise, O Zion, Voices Raising - Alan J. Hommerding (. 1956)
- Remembrance (Communion Song) - Matt Maher, Matt Redman
- See us Lord about Thine Altar - John Greally (b. 1934)
- Seed Scattered and Sown - Dan Feiten (b. 1953)
- Seek Ye First - Karen Lafferty (b. 1948)
- Shepherd of Our Hearts - Verses:James Montgomery (1771–1854), Chorus: James Chepponis (b. 1956)
- Take and Eat (I am the Word that spoke) - Quinn - James Quinn (1919–2010)
- Take and Eat this Bread - Francis Patrick O'Brien (b. 1958)
- Taste and See - Moore - James E Moore
- Taste and See (the goodness of the Lord) - Francis Patrick O'Brien (b. 1958)
- The Body of Christ - Brian Boniwell
- The Bread That we Break - Roger Ruston, Stephen Dean
- The Feast Meant for Everyone - Tom Booth, Sarah Hart
- The Supper of the Lord (Precious Body, Precious Blood) - Laurence Rosania (b 1957)
- Unless a Grain of Wheat Shall Fall - Bernadette Farrell (b 1957)
- We Adore You - Brian Tucker, Cody Stowe
- We are One Body - Dana Scallon
- We Come as Guests Invited - Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-2024)
- We Come to You (By Your body and blood) - Josh Blakesley
- We Gather as the Body of Christ - John Angotti
- You Are Our Living Bread - Michael Joncas
Other suggestions:
ReplyDelete* Beyond the Days (Ricky Manalo)
* I am the Bread of Life (Suzanne Toolan)
* One Bread, One Body (John Foley)
Thanks Bart, I've added those now.
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