LiturgyTools.net: Hymns for the 3rd Sunday in Advent, Year C

Hymns and songs, based on themes from the Revised Common lectionary for the third Sunday of Advent 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 hymns that are still be copyright may also included where they are a particularly good for for the theme(s).

2nd Advent, Year C

4th Advent, Year C

Readings

First: Zephaniah 3:14-20 - Shout for joy ... the Lord is in your midst ... he will exalt with joy over you.

Psalm: Isaiah 12 - Sing and shout for joy for great in your midst is the Holy one of Israel / God is my salvation / Give thanks to the Lord / Sing a psalm to the Lord

Second: Philippians 4:4-7 - I want you to be happy ... God is very near, pray for what you need.

Gospel: Luke 3:7-18 - People asked John "what must we do" - he told them to act justly - and "I baptise with water but someone is coming who will baptize with the Holy Spirit"

Themes

Rejoicing, preparation and right-living.

Free-use artworks

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

Free-use hymns

According to Thy Gracious Word - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
Be Still my Soul
Come Down O Love Divine
Come O Precious Ransom - Crull, from Olearius
Come Thou (O) Long Expected Jesus
Comfort, Comfort Ye my People - Winkworth, trans from Oleariu
Depth of Mercy - Wesley
Drop Down Ye Heavens From Above - Unknown

Fill Thou my Life - Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)
From All that Dwell Belowthe Skies - Watts
Give Peace - Unknown
Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken
God, Who Has Caused to Be Written - Rhodes
Good Christians all, rejoice - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
Guide me O Thou Great Redeemer / Jehovah (Bread of Heaven)
Hail to the Lord's Anointed
Hark a Herald Voice is Calling
Hark the Glad Sound the Saviour Comes - Doddridge
Hark What A Sound and Too Divine For Hearing - Myers
Hills of the North Rejoice
How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds

I am not Worthy Holy Lord - Baker
I Will Trust in the Lord - Unknown
I’ll Praise my Maker While I’ve Breath - Wesley / Watts
In the Bleak Mid-winter - Rossetti
In the Cross of Christ - Bowring
Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
Jesus the Name High Over All - Wesley
Jesus the Very Thought of Thee - Caswall
Joyful Joyful we Adore Thee
Judge Eternal, Throned In Splendor - Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918)

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Alleluias of St James)
Let all the World in Every Corner Sing
Let the Earth Now Praise the Lord - Catherine Winkworth, trans from Heinrich Held (1643)
Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates - Winkworth
Lo He Comes with Clouds Descending
Lo in the Wilderness A Voice - Percy Dearmer (1867-1936)
Lost in the Night (do the people yet languish) - Olav Lee (1859-1943)
Love of the Father, love of God the Son - Robert S. Bridges (1844-1930)
Make me A Captive Lord - Matheson
May the Mind of Christ my Saviour - Wilkinson
Now Thank we all our God

O Brother Man Fold to Thy Heart Thy Brother - John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
O Come all ye Faithful - Oakeley / Brooke, trans from Wade
O Come and Dwell in Me - Wesley
O Come O Come Emmanuel
O Crucified Redeemer - Rees
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing - Wesley
O Jesus King Most Wonderful - Edward Caswall (1814-1878)
O Lord of Heaven and Earth and Sea - Wordsworth
O Lord, How Shall I Meet Thee - Winkworth
O Morning Star How Fair and Bright - Winkworth, tr from Nicolai
O Spirit of the Living God - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
Of the Father's Love Begotten - Neale / Baker
On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand - Stennett
On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry
Once He Came in Blessing - Catherine Winkworth, trans from Johann Roh (1487-1547)
Open my Eyes that I May See - Scott

Peace Like a River
Praise to the Lord the Almighty
Prepare the Royal Highway - Franzen
Rejoice in the Lord Always (and again I say rejoice)
Rejoice the Lord is King
Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart - Plumbtree
Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers - S. L. Findlater (1854), trans from Laurentius Laurenti (1700)
Saviour of the Nations, Come - Reynolds
Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above - Cox
Sing we the Praises of the Great Forerunner - Charles Stanley Phillips (1883-1949), translated from Paul the Deacon approx (720-799)
Spirit Divine Attend Our Prayers - Reed
Stand Up and Bless the Lord - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
Standing in the Need of Prayer

Take my Life and Let it Be
The Advent of our God - Chandler
The Day Is Surely Drawing Near - Peter, trans from Ringwaldt
The Lord is King Lift up Your Voice - Conder
The Lord Will Come and Not be Slow - Milton
The Lord's Messiah Comes - Beswick
The Parting Hymn (Saviour again to Thy dear name) - Davis / Ellerton
The People that in Darkness Walked - Morison
The Voice of God is Calling - Holmes (1879-1964)
There's a Light Upon the Mountains
Thy Kingdom Come O God - Hensley
To God be the Glory

Wake Awake for Night is Flying (Zion Hears the Watchmen / Sleeper’s Awake)
Wake O Wake With Tidings Thrilling - Burkitt, trans. From Nicolai
Watchman Tell Us of the Night - Bowring
What a Friend we have in Jesus
Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life - North
Ye (You) Holy Angels Bright
Ye Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)

Hymns which may still be copyright

Christ is the King O Friends Rejoice - Bell
Come, Rejoice in God Our King - Tietze
Christ the Way of life Possess Me - Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-2024)
Christ When for us You were Baptized - Tucker (1895-1984)
Down by the Jordan - Gillette (ref)
For Mary, Mother of our Lord - Peacy
He Came to Earth in Poverty - Leckebusch (b 1962)

Like the Murmur of the Dove's Song - Daw
Living Hope - Brian Johnson (1978) and Phil Wickham (1984)
Make Way, Make Way - Kendrick
O Bless the God of Israel - Perry
O Comfort my People - Waddell
O God, the Things That Make for Peace - Gillette
Our God Reigns - Leonard E Smith Jnr

People Look East (Carol of the Advent) - Farjeon (1881-1965)
Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness - Rusty Edwards (b. 1955)
Praise to the God who Clears the Way - Berry
Prepare ye the Way of the Lord / I Hear a Sound Coming from the Mountain
Put Peace into Each Other's Hands - Fred Kaan (1929-2009)
Sanctuary (Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary) - Scruggs / Thompson
Shout to the Lord - Zschech
Song of Zechariah (Praised be the God of Israel) - Bert Frederick Polman (1945-2013)
Surely it is God Who Saves Me - translator unknown

Tell Out my Soul
The Clouds of Judgment Gather - Unknown - from the Lutheran Book of Worship, 1978
The First song of Isaiah (Surely, it is God who saves me; I will trust in him) - Jack Noble White (1938-2019)
The Kingdom of God is Justice and Joy - Rees
The Trees of the Field (will clap their hands) - Rubin / Dauermann
The Voice of God Goes out to all the World - Connaughton / Inwood
There’s a Voice in the Wilderness - Milligan (1876-1961)
There's a Spirit of Love in This Place - Mark A. Miller (b. 1958)
Until Jesus Comes - Crouch