Hymns for the seasons and occasions of the church year

• Advent

  Advent is the four Sundays before Christmas, when the church prepares to celebrate the coming of Christ.

  Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus, Comfort, Comfort Ye My People, Creator of the Stars of Night (Conditor Alme Siderum, Stylized) and 11 more

• Christmas

  Carols and hymns for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and the twelve days that follow.

  Angels from the Realms of Glory, Away in a Manger, Good King Wenceslas and 22 more

• Epiphany

  Epiphany, on 6 January, remembers the wise men who followed the star to the child Jesus.

  As with Gladness Men of Old, Songs of Thankfulness and Praise, The People That in Darkness Sat and 3 more

• Lent

  Lent is the forty days before Easter, from Ash Wednesday, kept with prayer, fasting and repentance.

  When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, I Walk in Danger All the Way, Just as I Am Without One Plea and 6 more

• Holy Week

  Holy Week runs from Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem, through Maundy Thursday and Good Friday to Easter Eve.

  'Tis Midnight and on Olive's Brow, 'Twas on That Dark, That Doleful Night, All Glory, Laud, and Honor and 9 more

• Good Friday

  Good Friday, the Friday before Easter Day, remembers the crucifixion of Jesus.

  When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, Jesus, in Thy Dying Woes, O Sacred Head, Now Wounded and 2 more

• Easter

  Easter Day celebrates the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, and the Easter season runs on for fifty days to Pentecost.

  Jesus Christ Is Risen Today, Thine Be the Glory, Awake, My Heart, with Gladness and 5 more

• Ascension

  Ascension Day, forty days after Easter, remembers Jesus being taken up into heaven.

  A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing, Lo, God to Heav'n Ascendeth, Look, Ye Saints, the Sight Is Glorious and 1 more

• Thanksgiving

  Hymns of thanks to God, for a thanksgiving service, a harvest, an anniversary or any Sunday a church sets aside to give thanks.

  Come, Ye Thankful People, Come, And Can It Be, How Can I Keep from Singing? and 3 more

• Holy Communion

  Hymns for the Lord's Supper, also called Holy Communion or the Eucharist, sung before and while the bread and wine are shared.

  At the Lamb's High Feast, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, O Lord, I Am Not Worthy and 2 more

• Evening

  Hymns for the close of the day, for evening prayer or an evening service.

  Abide with Me, All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night, God, That Madest Earth and Heaven and 2 more

• Funeral

  Hymns of comfort and of the hope of the resurrection, for a funeral, a wake or a memorial service.

  Abide with Me, A Pilgrim and a Stranger, Come Forth! Come on, with Solemn Song! and 2 more

Every hymn here is out of copyright: everyone who wrote it died before 1955, and it was first published before 1929. See sources and licences.