12 NEW LDS Hymns Available!

[@smarkl54bbin]

I love these new hymns, they all are beautiful. I remember hearing It Is Well With My Soul when iit was performed by BYU' s men voal grouo. I was touched by that researched it it message one of peace & cimfort.

[@joncharlotteschoen]

Being a "regular" (lol) Christian before converting to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I've always Loved "It is well (with my soul). Such a beautiful song. They have made our version a little more (quiet, humble, lower key, I'm not a music expert). I'm happy to see this song though. And Gethsemane brings tears every time!

[@dog_vanlife]

Ditto!

[@DickGrayson-rq8xs]

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[@thelastgoonie6555]

The most important question...Are they keeping 'Praise to the Man' in the approved Hymns?

[@sweetthistle8]

My hubby and I were just wondering about this over dinner tonight. I'm as interested to see what is omitted as much as what is included.

[@dannyrocket77]

Excited! I am an ex-punk rock bassist and I love singing in church, I love music and it keeps that spirit of music in me alive even thought the music is way different.

[@diannaanderson]

*squeeeeeeee*!!!!! His Eye is on the Sparrow!!!! I grew up Protestant, so this was in various church hymnals. So happy for the others as well!!!

[@itsgoodforthesoul9749]

I squeeeeeeeed too when I saw this❤

[@bradybills134]

I got to play guitar for the press release! GUITAR TIME!!! We added the Chord names above the sheet music. ALSO check out the "guitar capo sheet music" link on the right side of the page (on desktop) when under the PDF Sheet Music Tab.

[@TH-ze7sh]

This is so exciting! I am thrilled that they included "It is Well with My Soul" and "Gethsemane", and I'm looking forward to getting familiar with some of these other songs.

[@elainebarnes7012]

I’m so excited for His Eye Is on the Sparrow! That and It Is Well with My Soul. And way excited for the French song I haven’t heard for years since I was in France. ❤

[@SuttonShimai]

I really hope one of the new hymns will be "What a Friend We Have in Jesus (Take it to the Lord in Prayer)." It's the same tune as "Israel, Israel, God is Calling," but with MUCH BETTER words! We sang that often in Methodist Church when I grew up. I joined the Church at the age of 19 about 50 years ago.

[@sweetthistle8]

YES! Every time we sing Israel, Israel in sacrament meeting I'm singing "what a friend we have in jesus" for the rest of the day at home like I learned in my youth as a Baptist. they really are wonderful words.

[@jendoyle8817]

I hope we get Amazing Grace also!

[@dreamland4me2]

My friend's daughter sang with the choir that sang Amazing Grace in the last conference. Her daughter said they were told that it will be in the hymn book.

[@jendoyle8817]

Yayyyy!!!! 🎉

[@DickGrayson-rq8xs]

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[@micheleh3851]

I'm happily surprised that the Primary song Gethsemane is included. YAY!!! That's my favorite church song. Most Primaries I've been in sing it pretty fast. The composer's website has it sung slow and reverently. It will be interesting to see how it is sung now in Sacrament meetings.

[@DickGrayson-rq8xs]

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[@TrebizondMusic-cm6fp]

Charles Gabriel also did "I Stand All Amazed." I wonder if we'll get others from him. I'll admit: I love and appreciate the hymn-singing traditions of northwestern Europe (as well as the shape-note harmonies of early 19th-century North America, which diverged from LDS hymnody early on), and this new way of presenting hymns in unison has me a bit wistful. *But* I also recognize that this is going to make them much more accessible to people around the world who don't have background in the singing traditions and practices we take for granted here. I'm curious about how congregational singing has developed and will continue to develop in our newer growth areas around the world. In one of the wards on my mission the singing (all in unison) was accompanied by someone playing the melody line on one of those Yamaha keyboards the Church used to distribute. In another we tried to sing along to tapes of the instrumental tracks, which are lovely in their own right, but that didn't work so well. I love the idea of congregations singing along to guitar chords: I hope that becomes common practice!

[@jessicaheath2018]

I enjoyed this so much! Thank you for doing this!

[@DickGrayson-rq8xs]

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[@nathangreer8219]

Let's raise an ebenezer! Great selection!

[@Jace28142]

I am so happy!! Many of my favorite songs are now included in Hymn book. I do realize that many that I love may be deleted and that will make me very sad.

[@DickGrayson-rq8xs]

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[@itsmejed5181]

Can come, thou fount of blessing be used as the sacrament hymn during a sacrament meeting?

[@sweetthistle8]

Yes, they want us to start including these at church

[@drmichaelshea]

Oh, It Is Well with My Soul! Great!!

[@philandrews2860]

This is great!!! I know and love 3 of these very well ('Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing', 'What Child is This?' and 'It is Well with My Soul'), and am very much looking forward to learning the ones I don't know yet, along with the rest of the new ones that haven't come out yet. I also love how they've included the chords. Now I don't have to figure them out on my own anymore when playing instruments besides the piano :)

[@thelastgoonie6555]

They should bring back "O Stop and Tell Me, Red Man"....fingers crossed--Such a banger!

[@alannayazzie4982]

This is awesome! I love your video can’t wait to listen to all of them

[@cubic-h6041]

The "Gethsemane" Song is in there! And it is a simplified version which makes it more accessible. Very cool. I love the fact that we are using 4 digits for the hymn numbers...that's a good sign that we will have a LOT more hymns.

[@SuttonShimai]

It is to keep people from being confused with the current hymnbook numbers. I suspect that when the new hymnbook actually gets printed, they will drop the 1 from the front of the number.

[@artloveranimation]

I heard "his eye is on the sparrow" at a byu concert last easter and I was so sad I couldn't find a nice one on spotify

[@MacieRivera]

Very exciting! I love when those girls sing "come thou fount/if you could hie to kolob". Those hymns go together perfectly.

[@arjunheart5859]

My great grandpa loved Star Bright. He passed away three years ago. But as part of the family Christmas celebration, we would gather at his home and sing various Christmas songs. Star Bright was one that came back every year at his request, usually sung by the mothers and daughters of the family. Seeing this song in the new hymn book gives me powerful nostalgia. It's hard to explain how much it means to me and my family.

[@brothazinthefoyer]

Eye on the sparrow is what I’m looking forward to!

[@sadiecole8895]

I can't find any information about playing these on the organ. I'm only an amateur organist, but half the new songs seem like they would not be "right" if played on the organ. Yet, the piano just wouldn't be loud enough for our building/ward size. Should we add a microphone to the piano to boost its sound? Or do we just not use any of the non-organ songs? Thoughts?

[@GastyX153]

I can't wait for the printed hymnbook!

[@ZebraXWarrior]

I am SO EXCITED!!

[@dog_vanlife]

It is well is my favorite!

[@DickGrayson-rq8xs]

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[@shauntaulbee917]

I love that they are also in Portuguese (the language of my ward)!

[@laraleepn]

One of the goals of the new hymns is that they will be available in all languages and will have the same number. So regardless of where you are or what language you speak they will all be there. Hymn 1001 will be hymn 1001 and Come Thou Fount for all the congregations in the world.

[@villainrack]

Where can we listen??

[@scriptureplus]

Go to the Music Library (online or on your Gospel Library app) and select the icon of the new hymn book cover with the Christus statue on the cover! That one will be titled, "Hymns-For Home and Church" and it will show you all the new hymns and let you listen to them!

[@corrystucki3874]

I hope that I Can Only Imagine is included

[@DickGrayson-rq8xs]

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[@charlesmendeley9823]

Could you please make a special episode about Dr. Seuss being a hebrew prophet, as his poem "Green eggs and ham" contains exceedingly long chiasms, and as Sam-I-Am is a Hebrew noun construct?

[@jendoyle8817]

And I wish we could have If the Savior Stood Beside Me, The Family is of God (so much better than the other Mother's and Father's Day songs. Others I'd love added A Child's Prayer (think Teach Me to Walk in the Light which is already there), and Stars were Gleaming (in Children's Songbook-are they updating that as well??? Anyone heard?) I am thrilled they are keeping the old hymn numbers. It'd be so hard to remember them, kind of like if the scriptures were rearranged into new chapters and verses. You can tell I've been a primary chorister (many times), ward music chairman, and wars chorister. I loved those callings.

[@la_roobie]

The new book will replace the current hymn book, as well as the children's songbook. Thus, four of the newly released songs are children's songs.

[@jendoyle8817]

@@la_roobie I didn't realize it would replace both! Awesome!

[@artloveranimation]

I really hope they make new physical books so we don't always have to scroll up and down for every verse

[@la_roobie]

They will. It will be released sometime in 2026.

[@Apocryphon1]

Im convinced that we all mispronounce the word Ebenezer in “Come thou Fount”. It should not be pronounced like Ebenezer Scrooge. In order to follow the rhyme scheme set out by the lyricist Robert Robinson (who was an admittedly amateur student of Hebrew) the word needs to rhyme with “pleasure”. With that in mind, we need to pronounce the word with a short “e” sound at the end like we pronounce Nebuchadnezzar, in order to rhyme with “pleasure”. Not only does this pronunciation rhyme correctly, it doesn’t distract the congregation with visions of the geezer Ebenezer Scrooge.

[@sweetthistle8]

I can't believe I never made that connection myself. thank you.

[@SuttonShimai]

Geez, Louise, honey! Slow down!! I often watch KZbin videos on 1.25 or 1.5 speed because some people talk slow or I want to get through a long video a little faster, but this one I had to put on .75 speed so I wouldn't pass out. That being said, I love the new hymns and have listened to them all now. Star Bright was very charming. Loved the French carol. I have heard it before in French, but now *we* get to sing it!

[@kevinferrin5695]

13 They won't be releasing every song that will be in the new book. That would take three years at the current rate. They only need to release the ones that will be new. The old ones that remain will be ones we already have in our current songbooks.

[@thelastgoonie6555]

Come Thou Fount is an old Christian Hymn--as are half of the "New LDS Hymns"

[@nateryan3610]

This seems like a dig. We are aware that Come Thou Fount isn't a new creation. We can still be happy that such a classic is now in the Hymn book. No one ever said the new hymns would all be modern, just that they would be hymns not present in the current hymn book.

[@thelastgoonie6555]

@@nateryan3610 This seems like cultural appropriation if anything. This song is the biggest deal of the bunch but it's not LDS and it's not new. It is a Hymn so you're 1 out of 3, but this pivot to make Mormonism mainstream with crosses on Google maps, youth rallies with modern gospel music, building temples without Moroni's on them, etc etc is an attempt to rebrand because the LDS Corporation is losing janitors, I mean followers, right and left.

[@artloveranimation]

it's a new addition to our hymn book is what she meant

[@dannyrocket77]

All the other hymns are too. 99.9% of the Hymns are about Jesus Christ, since we are "THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day saints. Everything we do in the church points towards our redeemer and savior, even Jesus Christ, the Christ of the Bible and Book of Mormon.

[@jendoyle8817]

It used to be in the old hymnal, the brown one, before the 1985 green one was released and they took it out.

[@wa1den]

While I'm not adverse to receiving new hymns, what frustrates me is that we no longer even bother to sing the beautiful hymns we already have in the existing hymnbook! For example, when was the last time you heard them sing "Oh My Father"? And although they may still sing "Come, Come Ye Saints" once in about 5 month of Sundays, it's being all but forgotten! We no longer have any time set aside for learning and practicing new hymns as we once did, and it's sad and discouraging that we are losing these beautiful hymns that memorialize such beautiful messages and the experiences that inspired them! While it's true that they are still there in the hymn book, they are nevertheless being forgotten.... I have met folks who have been in the church for over 8 years and don't yet even know that the hymn "Oh My Father" even exists! (or at least didn't, until I mentioned it to them). It bothers me that you can go 8 years and never even be exposed to these beautiful hymns, yet they're RIGHT THERE IN THE HYMN BOOK!

[@TrebizondMusic-cm6fp]

For what it's worth: I led my ward in singing "O My Father" last Sunday. I've gained a reputation for picking obscure hymns. I've had to restrain myself from putting in "Adam-ondi-Ahman" too often.

[@cubic-h6041]

wait...which hymns are getting cut out? I always wanted God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman in the Christmas section (fingers crossed). So I've been bummed out about that, looks like people will have other hymns to be bummed about assuming what you are saying is true.

[@wa1den]

@@cubic-h6041 I can't say much about the matter that concerns you, though I get the impression that the current tendency is to include more, not eliminate. I can't say whether the hymns that particularly interest you will be included, but you shouldn't be kept in suspense much longer. My complaint is that we aren't even making use of the ones that are already in the hymn book! We ought to be singing some of those good old hymns that are just there collecting dust!

[@elainebarnes7012]

I think the only time I hear O My Father these days is at funerals. We do Come Come Ye Saints occasionally. I really want to get rid of the Pirate Hymn. Hate it.

[@SuttonShimai]

@@cubic-h6041 Oh, I hope they get rid of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." That is such a funeral dirge.

[@lisaroper421]

Il est né! Yay!

[@elainebarnes7012]

Right? I was so excited!

[@lisaroper421]

@@elainebarnes7012 I don't play piano or organ, but I am determined to have this one learned! Maybe by Christmas 🤞

[@elainebarnes7012]

@@lisaroper421 You can do it!

[@dayhikr140]

I will be missing, "Still, still, still" and "In the Bleak Midwinter."

[@elainebarnes7012]

Love them.

[@DickGrayson-rq8xs]

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[@DickGrayson-rq8xs]

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[@kurtiszobell7799]

❤🎉

[@ChrisS-dt3vq]

Why??? Why publish this twice? Why pie es if the book? What is with the duplicates? I'm an organist and can't imagine juggling all these hymns!!!ugh

[@ruckin3]

Why No Amazing Grace?

[@cubic-h6041]

too cliché?

[@SuttonShimai]

This is the first 13 songs of many. Give it time and maybe your wish will come true.

[@liahonagirl]

'Amazing Grace' will be in the new hymnal, so keep your eyes open to see which release it will appear on!🙂

[@Cabledeluz1977]

She said, “rip” lol

[@col06007]

One hymn they should get rid of is “Now let us rejoice”. It is so awkward to have to sing the the word “Mole$t” in church. I know it has different meanings, but considering how it is commonly used nowadays, I think we can retire this hymn.

[@judyeckerle4778]

Talks too fast

[@MegaJohn144]

I may be the only one, but I can't stand "Come thou font of Every Blessing". It sounds too folksy and denigrating. Rather than focus on "prone to wander, prone to leave the God I love", I prefer positive hymns like "Today while the sun shine life to be true, constant and faithful all the way through."

[@tanyarobinson1146]

Here's my heart take and seal it. Pretty positive to me.

[@agarber1932]

The arrangement of It is Well With My Soul is HORRIBLE! Whose stupid idea was this??

[@zionmama150]

The new songs are… somewhat boring, minus Gethsemane and I will walk with Jesus. That said, I can see how they are easy to translate to other languages. so grateful for the sparrow and fount songs put in.

[@joncharlotteschoen]

I would say 99% of the current hymns are boring "funeral" songs. I find the new songs a pleasant addition.

[@cubic-h6041]

so as someone learning music composing, there is a really hard balance between "make it easy for people to sing but boring" and "make it exciting/awesome and really hard to sing". We probably want a good variety across the spectrum. I would like more difficult and exciting songs though.

[@zionmama150]

@@joncharlotteschoen many of them, yes

[@zionmama150]

@@cubic-h6041 yes, I compose music also and I always lean for artistry over ease of singing, which is why I’m so critical here 😂 but I need to repent. The message is the most important thing, not the artistry