Hymns for Christening

[NattyCraig]

Hello Mumsnetters,

Myself and hubby have been asked to be godparents to my friends little boy.

We have all been asked to suggest some hymns for the christening. Now I am not religious and neither is hubby and I only know three which are;

All things bright and beautiful
Morning has broken
The one they sing in the film Titanic

Any ideas of lovely hymns to fit the occasion?

Many thanks

O guide me O thou great redeemer (Bread of Heaven).
To be a pilgrim. (He who would valiant be).

Both are older, more classic hymms that many people will know.

Lord of all hopefulness
here
Lord of the dance here

At the name of Jesus here

All good hymns!

Shine Jesus shine - nice and upbeat

On Eagle's Wings -- sometimes sung at funerals but lovely for baptisms too
For the Beauty of the Earth -- 'Lord of all to you we raise/This our hymn of grateful praise'

We had the butterfly song at dgrandd christening. With all the actions.

http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/o/o797.html one more step By Sidney Carter. Lovely.

- very well known hymn, very singable, and appropriate for baptism.

Trying again! one more step By Sidney Carter. Lovely.

You have called us by our name by Bernadette Farrell. Not well known but very lovely and perfect for a christening.

it's different in my church because the minister picks the hymns just like normal, but we had a baptism yesterday. Baptismal hymns were:

By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill (omit verse 3 and 4) {bleurgh)
One More Step Along the World I Go.

other ones that we often have for baptisms are:
He's Got the Whole World In Hid Hands
A Little Child the Saviour Came
Be Still for the Presence of the Lord
Jesus I have Promised
Now Thank We All Our God

I know - the music in my church is hopelessly old fashioned.

we had:
fight the good fight
water of life (have you seen the raindrops)
one church, one faith, one lord.

a couple who were booking their baptism that were at church when dd was baptised also asked for water of life.

stressed - give me old fashioned any day.
bloody HC "songs"

(i assume you were being sarcastic)

in our church, you get to choose a hymn if you get in on time.

i chose all of our music married to the music director

Only half sarcastic, nickel. I do love a good, rousing Redemption type hymn, but, honestly, when you've just sang O God of Bethel for the 5th week running, it gets a bit much.

What we need is a better mix, to be honest. Even if God of Bethel was followed by At the Name of Jesus, Onward Christian Soldiers or something, but no, it's surrounded by other equally dreich stuff from CH3 (Ye Gates anyone?)

Second Be Thou My Vision

Love Divine is a good one
And can it Be
Oh Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder

stressed - i'd say you need a new music director!

DH tries to give a good mix (tell them to use Sunday by Sunday from the RSCM), using the themes from the bible readings/season.
there is no need to repeat songs/hymns any more often then every 3 months! (except by request)

NattyCraig - I have to ask, though, why are you agreeing to be Godparents if neither of you is religious?

seriously - the role of a Godparent is to help the child grow up with Christ.
If you aren't religious, just how are you going to do that role?

I'm CoS, Nickel and the organist doesn't have any input into the music, except if they have a choir, then he/she picks the introit.

It's the minister who picks the hymns, so we are subject to his/her whims. Our last minister used to have us sing I Want to Walk with Jesus Christ at least once a month and Great is Thy Faithfulness every other week. This one gives us O God of Bethel, Thou Whose Almighty Word and other such joyous stuff ALL the time. He picks the same offering hymn every week for at least a month at a time, as well, so recently we had 5 weeks of singing Angel Voices Ever Singing, 4 weeks of singing Love Divine and another 4 of Come With Me, Come Wander

When I tell my friends who go to other churches about our hymns, none of them can believe it. We have Ye Gates every single communion, for instance and ones with Thy/Thee/Thou all the time. Thank goodness for the choir, at least I get to sing some upbeat stuff then.

bloody ministers choosing music when they have no jeffing clue!

we had a priest that did that - she decided to choose the hymns at 1/4 to 10 on sunday morning, because they didn't fit in with her theme (except one - they were all chosen according to the lectionary!), and all the choir had learned the others, the organist had learned the others, and DH had to go round all the pews (because the choir can't see the hymn boards) writing in the new choices 10 minutes before the service started!

I wish they would just stick to their jeffing job! what' the sodding point of having a sodding organist if you don't let them do the job they've been assigned!

Shine Jesus Shine is my favourite.

can you do that again, please mhd ?
I think Tequila's just set me back again

sorry nickel!

My favourites are:

?The Father's Song? - by Matt Redman

'Hosanna'

?King of This Heart? - by Matt Redman

I guess the first is most appropriate.

Hope you enjoy the Christening.