LiturgyTools.net: Hymns for Proper 22 (27), Year C (5 Oct 2025)

Hymns and songs ideas based on themes from the Revised Common lectionary for the Sunday of Proper 22 (Ordinary 25) 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 which are still copyright may also be included, if they are particularly relevant.

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

16th Sunday after Pentcost, Year C

18th Sunday after Pentecost, C

Readings

First:

Lamentations 1:1-6 - Reflection on Judah which has gone into exile with suffering and hard servitude; she lives now among the nations, and finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress ... The roads to Zion mourn ...From daughter Zion has departed all her majesty.

Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 - How long Lord am I to cry for help .. the Lord answered "Write the vision down ... see how he flags, he whose soul is not at rights, but the upright man will live by his faithfulness".

Second: II Timothy 1:1--14 - I am reminding you to fan into a flame the gift [of the spirit] that God gave you ... you have been trusted to look after something precious.

Gospel: Luke 17:5-10 - If you had faith the size of this mustard seed, you could move a mulberry tree. Do what you have been told to do and say "We are merely servants, we have done no more than our duty".

Themes

Faith. Service. Doing God's will. The new vision that faith gives.

Free-use hymns

A Charge to keep I Have - Wesley
All Ye (You) Who Seek a Comfort Sure - Edward Casswall (1814-1878)
Alleluia Song of Gladness / Sweetness
And are We Yet Alive - Charles Wesley
Awake, O Spirit of the Watchmen - Winfred Douglas (1867-1944) and A. W. Farlander (1898-1952)
Be Thou my Vision
Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands - Massie
Christ, above All Glory Seated - James Russell Woodford (1820-1885)
Close to Thee - Crosby
Come Let Us Use the Grace Divine - Wesley

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
Dear Lord for All in Pain
Draw us in the Spirit’s Tether
Eternity (Time soon will end) - Unknown, pre 1927
Faith of our Fathers
Father Hear the Prayer we Offer - Willis (1824-1908)
Fill Thou my Life - Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)
Firmly I Believe and Truly
Forth in Thy Name O Lord I Go - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Forward Through the Ages - Hosmer

Give Me Jesus - Unknown
Give Me the Faith Which Can Remove - Wesley
Give me the Wings of Faith to Rise - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
God is Working His Purpose Out / As the Waters Cover the Sea - Arthur Campbell Ainger (1841-1919)
God of Grace and God of Glory - Fosdick (1878-1969) - free use in the USA
Great is Thy Faithfulness - free use in the USA
Guide me O Thou Great Redeemer / Jehovah (Bread of Heaven)
Hear My Cry O Lord - Unknown
Help us to Help Each Other Lord - Wesley
Holy Fortitude (Am I a soldier of the cross) - Watts
Holy Spirit Truth Divine - Longfellow

I Cannot Tell (why he whom angels worship)
I Greet Thee, who my Sure Redeemer Art - Elizabeth Lee Smith (1868)
I Know not Why God's Wondrous Grace - Daniel Webster Whittle (1840-1901)
I Know Whom I have Believed (I know not why God’s wondrous grace) - Whittle
I Love Thy Kingdom Lord - Dwight
I'm Not Ashamed To Own my Lord - Watts
In Christ there is no East or West - William A. Dunkerley (pseudonym John Oxenham, 1852-1941)
Jesus Priceless Treasure - Catherine Winkworth
Lead Kindly Light
Let Us Plead for Faith Alone - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Lift Every Voice and Sing - John R Johnson (1873–1954)
Longing to be Established in Love ( My God, I know, I feel Thee mine) - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)

Maker of Earth to Thee Alone - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
My Faith Looks up to Thee - Palmer (1808-1887)
My God Accept my Heart This Day
My God I Love Thee (My Eternal King) - St. Francis Xavier's Hymn of Love - Edward Caswall (1814-1878)
My Hope is Built on Nothing Less (On Christ the Solid Rock) - Mote
My Song is Love Unknown
New Every Morning is the Love - Keble (1792-1866)

O Come O Come Emmanuel
O Jesus I Have Promised
O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go - Matheson
O Master Let me Walk with Thee (You) - Gladden
O Thou in Whose Presence my Soul Takes Delight - Swain
O Thou Who Camest From Above - Wesley
Of the Father's Love Begotten - Neale / Baker
Oh I Know the Lord's Laid His Hands on Me - Unknown
Out of the Depths / From Depths of Woe I Cry to Thee (De profundis)

Praise for the Fountain Opened - Cowper (1731-1800)
Put Thou Thy Trust in God - John Wesley (1703-1791)
Spirit of Faith Come Down - Wesley
St Patrick's Lorica (I Bind Unto Myself Today) - Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895)
Stand Up Stand Up for Jesus - Duffield (1818-1888)
Standing in the Need of Prayer - Unknown
Standing on the Promises of Christ my King - Carter
Strengthen For Service Lord The Hands - Humphreys
Stupendous Height of Heavenly Love - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)

Teach Me my God and King - Herbert
The Church's One Foundation
The Saints In Glory (Give me the wings of faith to rise) - Isaac Watts (174-1748)
The Voice of God is Calling - Holmes (1879-1964) - free use in the USA
The Work of Faith (Author of faith, eternal Word) - Wesley
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)
Thy hand, O God, has Guided - Edward H. Plumptre (1821-1891)
Thy Kingdom Come O God - Hensley
To God be the Glory