TechWife Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 I can't wait until tomorrow - let's celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ! Christ Arose Christ the Lord is Risen Today Easter Song Redeemer In Christ Alone What are some of the songs you are looking forward to singing tomorrow? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 We still have another week until Easter... but here's one of my favorite from the Orthodox tradition. We'll sing it until Pentecost. I hope it's okay to link a Youtube. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6packofun Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 In Christ Alone is my favorite. :) Tears every time! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMamaBird Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 In Christ Alone is my favorite. :) Tears every time! I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets all teary at this. We just had our baby on Monday and the line "From life's first cry . . " is going to do me in before we even get to it, I just know it! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyThreeSons Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 The Power of the Cross -- I cannot sing this without tears. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Best Holy Week music ever written, as far as I'm concerned, is Bach's St. Matthew Passion. However, that is not suitable for Easter, but rather for Palm Sunday or Good Friday. My favorite Easter hymn is "Awake My Heart With Gladness". "Jesus Christ, My Sure Defense," though, is the Easter hymn I want sung at my funeral. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnE-girl Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Not a celebratory Easter song, but at my all girls Catholic high school, we'd have a prayer service during Holy Week and one girl would be chosen to sing "Were You There?" a Capella from the balcony while the cross was in the spotlight on stage/altar. Half the auditorium of teenage girls would be in tears. I still get chills thinking of it. This year, I'm enjoying listening to my eight-year-old practice "Lift High the Cross" to sing with the children's choir. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pippen Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 The music I always look forward to the most Sandi Patty recordings, early Easter morning, alone in my kitchen while I'm doing meal prep: Was it a Morning Like This, Via Dolorosa, In Majesty He We Will Come, We Will Behold Him, Make His Praise Glorious, etc. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Dd got to play that at Holy Week in Germany several years ago. She got to play Bach's Easter Oratorio this year! I got to sing it on Palm Sunday in 2010. Best.Easter.ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 "...And He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done..." ---Holy Saturday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 I Know that My Redeemer Lives Jesus Christ is Risen Today 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMommy Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Best Holy Week music ever written, as far as I'm concerned, is Bach's St. Matthew Passion. However, that is not suitable for Easter, but rather for Palm Sunday or Good Friday. My favorite Easter hymn is "Awake My Heart With Gladness". "Jesus Christ, My Sure Defense," though, is the Easter hymn I want sung at my funeral. "Awake My Heart with Gladness" is my favorite Easter hymn, too! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milovany Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Here's one of my favorites (we don't sing this in our liturgical services, but I love it .... ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuczNQonTXQ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 I get to hear the best Easter song tomorrow--the entire Messiah! Dd flew in to play with her dh's orchestra. It should be a very special day. I was so looking forward to the messiah on friday (it was written for Easter), then dudeling got sick. I didn't get to stay home with him - I had to go pick up three olders from the convention center downtown . . . I love the Messiah - probably my most listened to piece of music about the Savior. Christ the Lord is risen today He is risen All Glory Laud and Honor (what can I say - I like *old* music. one of my fav. christmas song's is O come o come Emmanuel. another oldie.) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Dh is playing and he just said: The Glory is yours Blessed Assurance Last word Let God Arise This is Amazing Grace among others. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 I Know that My Redeemer Lives Jesus Christ is Risen Today I think that I Know that My Redeemer Lives is my fav. Western hymn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Hail Thee, Festival Day is one of my favs. We use it for the processional. The words were written in the 500's, so I feel like I'm standing with brothers and sisters from long ago when I sing it. We usually end with Welcome Happy Morning. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets all teary at this. We just had our baby on Monday and the line "From life's first cry . . " is going to do me in before we even get to it, I just know it! Me three. :) After reading this, I pulled it up on my phone and when he got to the part where he says "There in the ground, His body lay...", then "Then bursting forth...". Gets me every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKim Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 The Easter Song Christ The Lord is Risen Today Favorite Good Friday song... "O Sacred Head Now Wounded". We had a very moving Good Friday Service and that song always brings me to tears. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Favorite Easter song-Now the Green Blade Riseth. I also love "O Sacred Head Now Wounded", the Messiah, the Bach Easter Oratorio. My favorite Good Friday Hymn is "O Glory, Laud and Honor"-which dates back to being one of the children in a local production of "The Singing Bishop" as a 6 yr old (a children's choir musical about Bishop Theodulph of Orleans). That was also my first time singing in Latin. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Through the Easter season we will be singing daily, in place of the Angelus, the Regina Coeli. This is easily our family's favorite Easter hymn: lovely and easy to sing. Regina coeli, laetare, alleluia: Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia. Resurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia. Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brehon Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 I'm not actually sure that I have a favorite Easter (or Easter season) song. I do, however, have several favs for Triduum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Forever Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me) Christ the Lord is Risen Today Redeemer In Christ Alone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 One of my favorites is Now the Green Blade Rises, though we didn't sing it this year. Adding this guitar version, which I hadn't heard before. I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 I find my brain going back to my Episcopalian childhood. I love Welcome Happy Morning (not in the Lutheran hymnal) and Come Ye Faithful Raise the Strain. I was so excited to see the latter in our bulletin this morning, but alas, it's a different tune in the Lutheran hymnal. We also got to see Hail Thee Festival Day--that one is a bit hard for our congregation, but I think we managed it all right. Love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22ns Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 We are not traditional people here. My kids go to a more traditional church and dh and I go to a church that does only contemporary music, no hymns. The kids were dreading the Easter hymns so much, they came with us today, just to avoid them. :leaving: I have always liked the Don Francisco song posted above though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsrevmeg Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 (also one of my favorites at Christmas) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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