We have had threads here before about favorite religious/spiritual music, but I thought it might be fun to have one where we include a link to a YouTube (or other) performance or recording of our favorite!
My favorite performance is Mahalia Jackson singing How I got over. I first heard it as a recording and thought it was in a hall or concert venue, but she is actually singing in a church.
My all time favorite hymn is Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. I had a hard time finding a really good YouTube version, but this was the one that seemed best of all that I found.
Here are the words:
My favorite performance is Mahalia Jackson singing How I got over. I first heard it as a recording and thought it was in a hall or concert venue, but she is actually singing in a church.
My all time favorite hymn is Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. I had a hard time finding a really good YouTube version, but this was the one that seemed best of all that I found.
Here are the words:
Let all mortal flesh keep silence,
And with fear and trembling stand;
Ponder nothing earthly minded,
For with blessing in His hand,
Christ our God to earth descendeth,
Our full homage to demand.
King of kings, yet born of Mary,
As of old on earth He stood,
Lord of lords, in human vesture,
In the body and the blood;
He will give to all the faithful
His own self for heavenly food.
Rank on rank the host of heaven
Spreads its vanguard on the way,
As the Light of light descendeth
From the realms of endless day,
That the powers of hell may vanish
As the darkness clears away.
At His feet the six wingèd seraph,
Cherubim with sleepless eye,
Veil their faces to the presence,
As with ceaseless voice they cry:
Alleluia, Alleluia
Alleluia, Lord Most High!
And with fear and trembling stand;
Ponder nothing earthly minded,
For with blessing in His hand,
Christ our God to earth descendeth,
Our full homage to demand.
King of kings, yet born of Mary,
As of old on earth He stood,
Lord of lords, in human vesture,
In the body and the blood;
He will give to all the faithful
His own self for heavenly food.
Rank on rank the host of heaven
Spreads its vanguard on the way,
As the Light of light descendeth
From the realms of endless day,
That the powers of hell may vanish
As the darkness clears away.
At His feet the six wingèd seraph,
Cherubim with sleepless eye,
Veil their faces to the presence,
As with ceaseless voice they cry:
Alleluia, Alleluia
Alleluia, Lord Most High!
