Hymns for Proper 12 (17th Ordinary) (10th Sunday after Pentecost, 28 July 2024) - Revised Common Lectionary

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A selection of hymns and songs, based on themes from the Revised Common lectionary for the Sunday of Proper twelve (seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary time), Year B.

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 which are, or may be, still copyright are also included where they are a particularly good fit for the theme(s).

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.





Proper 12, Year A

Readings

First:  
2 Samuel 11:1-15 - David saw a beautiful woman, Bathsheba the wife of Uriah.  David made her pregnant, and she told him of this.   He tries to get Uriah to be with his wife, but Uriah refuses because of his loyalty to the ark and the people.   So David organises for him to be killed in battle
OR
2 Kings 4:42-44 -  Elisha insists that the people be fed. God multiplies the food so that all can share.
with Psalm 144 (145) - You open wide your hand, O Lord, and grant our desires

Second:   Ephesians 3:14-21 - Paul tells the Ephesians of his prayer that they may be strengthened with... power through his Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in their hearts through faith, as they are being rooted and grounded in love - and that they may know the the breadth and length and height and depth, and ... be filled with all the fullness of God.

Gospel:  John 6:1-21 -   The miracle of the loaves and fishes.


Themes

God who feeds us and makes us one body, one spirit - unity, Eucharist, community / communion.  Sharing.   Generosity.

See also:  Hymns about the miracles of loaves and fishes.



Free-use artworks

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


Free-use hymns

  • Be Known to Us in Breaking Bread - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
  • Be Still my Soul
  • Be Thou my Guardian and my Guide - Isaac Williams (1802-1865)
  • Be Thou my Vision
  • Bread of Heaven, On Thee We Feed - Conder (1789-1855)
  • Break Thou the Bread of Life - Lathbury
  • Give Me Jesus - Unknown
  • Give to the Winds Thy Fears - Wesley, trans from Gerhardt (1656)
  • God is Love: Let Heaven Adore Him - Rees (1874-1939)
  • God Moves in a Mysterious Way
  • God of All Power and Truth and Grace - Wesley
  • God of Grace and God of Glory - Fosdick (1878-1969) - free-use in the USA
  • God the Omnipotent - Henry F. Chorley (1808-1872) and John Ellerton (1826–1893)
  • God Will Take Care of You (Nunca Desmayes) - Martin
  • God's Word Throughout the Ages (The Daughter of Jairus) - Wesley
  • Gracious Spirit Holy Ghost - Wordsworth
  • Great is Thy Faithfulness - free-use in the USA
  • Guard and Guide - Hewitt (1851-1920)
  • Guide me O Thou Great Redeemer / Jehovah (Bread of Heaven)
  • O Breath of Life Come Sweeping Through Us - Head (1850-1936)
  • O Breathe on Me O Breath of God
  • O Come and Dwell in Me - Wesley
  • O Food to Pilgrims Given - Riley - trans from Aquinas
  • O God of Bethel By Whose Hand - Doddridge
  • O Jesus I Have Promised
  • O Lord Your Tenderness - Kendrick
  • O Love Divine How Sweet Thou Art! - Wesley
  • O Love How Deep How Broad How High - Webb, trans from á Kempis
  • O Master Let me Walk with Thee (You) - Gladden
  • O Perfect Love all Human Thought Transcending - Gurney
  • O Sing a Song of Bethlehem
  • O Spirit of the Living God - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
  • O the Deep Deep Love of Jesus - Francis (1834-1925)
  • O the Depth of Love Divine - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
  • O Thou Who Camest From Above - Wesley
  • O Young and Fearless Prophet - Harlow (1885-1972) - free-use in the USA
  • Our Blest Redeemer - Auger (1773-1862)



Hymns that are or may be copyright

  • All Who Hunger - Dunstan
  • Before I Take the Body of my Lord - Bell (b. 1949)
  • Bread is Blessed and Broken - Bell (b. 1949) / Maule (1958-2019)
  • Come let us Eat for now the Feast is Spread - Miller, trans from Kwillia / Doan
  • Eat This Bread Drink This Cup - Porter
  • For the Fruits of His Creation - Pratt Green (1903–2000)
  • Jesus the Lord Said 'I Am the Bread' - Monahan (1906 - 1957)
  • Let Love be Real in Giving and Receiving - Forster (1946-2023)
  • Let us Break Bread Together at the Altar
  • Love Incarnate (With a prayer You fed the hungry ) - Stuart Townend (b. 1963)
  • Not Far Beyond the Sea, Nor High - George Bradford Caird 1917–1984)
  • One Bread One Body - Foley
  • Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness - Rusty Edwards (b. 1955)
  • The Communion Hymn (Behold the Lamb who bears our sins away) - Getty / Getty / Townend
  • The Power of Your Love (Lord I come to you) - Bullock (b 1955)
  • Walk With me O my Lord - Estelle White ()
  • We Have Come Into His House - Ballinger
  • What Does the Lord Require - Strathdee (b. 1941-)

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