Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - National Episcopal Cathedral, October 9, 2010 - Hymn Sung by All

[@orettacarter1312]

Thank you Heavenly Father for your Great Love for all of mankind, by giving us your greatest gift, your one and only Son our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to die for our sins.

[@Sulaiman281]

My dad died in Feb last year He loved these songs so much that he passed it into my genes I miss him so much But these songs comfort me And am so grateful

[@ny1084]

Sashli Male it’s amazing how the gift of music can do such a wonderful thing. Happy to share that gift with others. Sorry about dad. I am sure he is right there with you :)

[@guywhogoesshirtless]

God bless you and your memories!

[@hiddensaint3251]

The closer the denominations get to the most holy Catholic Church the more beautiful!!! Coincidence? I think not!! Deo Gratias!!!

[@SalMiniYo]

This has always been my favorite hymn and will be sung at my wedding next year on April 30 at a beautiful Episcopal church in Richmond, VA. I'm so excited!!

[@steveuzoma4057]

i love Anglican traditions I will keep worshiping

[@cheyennedavis-samuel3481]

Love love love this hymn, especially when sung to the welsh tune of Blaenwern.

[@MarthalieThurstonSachemPiper]

Fantastic organist with the King of instruments

[@2catlvr1969]

Never tire of this hymn!

[@donmayer58]

Stacey good morning. My name is Donald Mayer. Are you surprised I'm sending you a reply? Stacey, I want you to know how much I love this kind of music. I'm 62 years old and have been blind since birth. My mother was a church organist for many years. I love hymns and I love organ music. Stacey, there are so many wonderful old hymns. You may send me a reply if you want to communicate with me. You may listen to Michael Card sing New Jerusalem. I feel this is a most wonderful song. Stacey, I will check this for mistakes with my talking computer. Then, I will send this to you. Stacey, please have a good day!

[@kennethsmith703]

Never!!

[@normagrant1881]

Such an HEAVENLY sound: a Hynm for all seasons - truly blessed. Thanks for posting.

[@donmayer58]

Norma, good afternoon. My name is Donald Mayer. I agree with you. There are so many of these hymns we can listen to. I'm 62 years old and have been blind since birth. You may listen to Ah Holy Jesus and I Want To Walk As A Child Of The Light from the Washington National Cathedral. There are so many other hymns from this cathedral. You may send me a reply if you want to do that. Norma, have a great day!

[@davidbrookes9430]

Excellent organ playing, giving a strong firm lead to the singing. and a variation of harmony in the last verse.

[@tambrosia]

I passed the cathedral daily on my work for Marriott One of the most beautiful churches in the world, and I have seen many of them in my 2 tours of the globe. The people at this cathedral and at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception wonderful. I have visited many of the smaller churches in MD and DC and VA, and each is unique but the people are great and welcoming of newcomers. This includes the temples and synagouges. When we come together as ONE body in the Love and Service of GOD we can be saved. Pax+

[@johnuhr-henry9508]

Another great rendition of this great hymn

[@manuelarita6801]

A favourite of mine always

[@randysmith9623]

Fabulous organ!

[@gels1922]

Charles Wesley. After ceasing field preaching and frequent travel due to illness, Wesley settled and worked in the area around St Marylebone Parish Church. On his deathbed he sent for the church's rector John Harley and told him "Sir, whatever the world may say of me, I have lived, and I die, a member of the Church of England. I pray you to bury me in your churchyard." On his death, his body was carried to the church by six priests of the Church of England, and a memorial stone to him stands in the gardens in Marylebone High Street, close to his burial spot. Charles Wesley remained a priest of the Church of England - Anglican Communion to his death.

[@guywhogoesshirtless]

I've always loved the Episcopal Church but under current political circumstances, I am ashamed of it (& of many other churches) -- especially those in the unAmerican, snobby, elitist "district of columbia". These religious give in so easily to specious, destructive & anemic leftist propaganda. The fire bombing of St. John's Church in Lafayette Square is one example of the thanks to be received from such an illiterate riff-raff. Time to stand up and put them in their proper place once and for all.

[@JTB1956]

Love both of those fine Welsh tunes...Hyfrydol and Blaenwern. Having been raised a Methodist, this hymn still sounds best to me when sung to John Zundel's 'Beecher'.

[@johne6081]

Nothing whatsoever wrong with "Beecher," but I am a pretty rabid "Hyfrydol" fan. Fortunately, "Hyfrydol" is available elsewhere in the Methodist hymnal. :)

[@johnuhr-henry9508]

GREAT ORGAN MUSIC WITH THIS GREAT CHOIR.

[@mkl62]

I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. I play the piano and organ. Today (July 20), I filled in at a local Presbyterian Church. I played this as the Hymn of Praise. However, it was to the tune, BEECHER, composed by John Zundel.

[@johnuhr-henry9508]

A great hymn sung with this great Organ accompliment..Very nice to listen too.

[@williamjayaraj2244]

One of the many beautiful song.

[@basicaa]

“There are divine things,I swear to you ,There are divine things More beautiful than life can tell.” - Walt Whitman

[@mr.booker9263]

Scott Dettra is unbeatable...how can you not sing with an organ accompaniment like this?

[@bigbenhebdomadarius6252]

I am honored to say that his father, Lee, was my teacher for a brief while. Lee and Scott are both phenomenal organists.

[@robertjonasson2527]

Played this hymn on the great pipe organ of St. Marks cathedral.I'm a self taught organist.

[@hudsonbailey674]

Divine!

[@mom2cairns]

THis was from the national gathering of acolytes held in 2010. From Christ Church Episcopal, Las Vegas, the oldest congregation in Las Vegas and closest to The Strip. We sent a contngent including the oldest acolyte in the Episcopal Church.... he had been one as a boy and we were open to having him continue that service. He's one of the most amazing repositories of church history I've met.... but most just see him as an old man. When driving him home, I've learned so much each Sunday. One of our Sisters in Daughters of the King made our banner.

[@mom2cairns]

+samuel young it was James McCue.... and he went to serve eternally in the Light earlier this month at 89 earth years. We sang at his celebration and he will be missed but I know he's in great joy... +

[@lippertkaleb]

I am convert Catholic. God Bless

[@Jeremiah17v9]

Welcome Home Brother! ;-)

[@kevinmorgan8534]

It's an Episcopal cathedral.

[@Murph3579]

Rose Kennedy's favorite hymn. God Bless her always!

[@johnjppatterson4952]

“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” by Charles Wesley The United Methodist Hymnal #384 1. Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven, to earth come down; fix in us thy humble dwelling; all thy faithful mercies crown! Jesus thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation; enter every trembling heart. 2. Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit into every troubled breast! Let us all in thee inherit; let us find that second rest. Take away our bent to sinning; Alpha and Omega be; end of faith, as its beginning, set our hearts at liberty. 3. Come, Almighty to deliver, let us all thy life receive; suddenly return and never, nevermore thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above, pray and praise thee without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. 4. Finish, then, thy new creation; pure and spotless let us be. Let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee; changed from glory into glory, till in heaven we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise.

[@debsen1]

Beautiful!!

[@karlaschneider5231]

I think if the Latin Mass is Completely brought back ( boy, hope and pray it is! SOOO Beautiful and rich ), actually looks as If it will be, thankyou God), it'll bring More people back to The Fold, and we'll see a Huge turnaround in the way things Are, and Have been in the Worĺd, Definitely for the better. Honestly -- I Love , love, love to see the churches filled , better yet overflowing . Such a Beautiful thing, Reaĺly restores ones hope that God's world will be unified again as it Rightly Should be .

[@gmc0422]

Indeed. If I could lay my hands on the music for it, I'd try to introduce it to my proper Anglican parish. I love the tunes from the UK a lot better than some of the stuff that we sing in the US. I'd play it a step, or even two steps lower though, it does have quite a high tessitura.

[@XY_Dude]

These are really great! Oh please upload many more!!! Much better than rock bands singing phrases over and over like a mantra.

[@asmartbajan]

+Tom Pauls Damn straight!

[@johne6081]

Fortunately I have found a local church where traditional hymns are alive and well.

[@marksammons4170]

These lovely words were written by Charles Wesley circa 1747. The lovely tune to which it is most frequently sung in the British Isles today, "Blaenwerrn," was written circa 1906 by William Rowlands. If it was ever sung in the intervening century-and-a-half, it must have been matched up to a variety of tunes with the meter 87 87 D. In the 18th and early 19th century hymns (texts) and tunes were published in separate books, as the printing technology for words and musical notation were very different. Wesley's hymn text entered the US Episcopal hymnal in 1874, by which time texts and tunes were printed together; I don't have a copy on hand to check the tune it was set to. The 1940 US Episcopal church hymnal matched the text to both the tune Hyfrydol (composed circa 1830 by Rowland Hugh Prichard, and published in 1855), and the tune Love Divine, written in 1887 by George Le Jeane. None of which diminishes the beauty of the words -- or the beauty of any of the tunes to which it is sung.

[@istgone]

One can only hope..

[@mirfir]

LOVE!!!! :)

[@christopher4639]

good job my fellow christian.

[@gmc0422]

Tempo just right for the room. Not too fast, not too slow.

[@Pipedreams89]

Indeed, just right!

[@Eddie_Schantz]

I had never heard these words before with this music. The music in this vid was written by Rowland Huw Prichard in 1830 for the hymn: "Jesus! What A Friend For Sinners" I grew up with the hymn "Love Devine, All Loves Excelling", but it was not with this music. I realized that different hymn music can be interchanged from one hymn to another, but had never heard this one.

[@johnvaudry9201]

Pritchard may well have composed 'Hyfrydol' in 1830, but not for 'Jesus, what a friend for sinners' since that was written by J Wilbur Chapman in 1910. In Canada, Hyfrydol is usually set to the words of 'Love divine' but I prefer 'Blaenwern' the usual British tune.

[@x8lover]

Ah Hyfrydol. Its time Blaenwern crossed the pond as its a cracking tune

[@gels1922]

Washington National Cathedral is officially dedicated as The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the City and Diocese of Washington.

[@ianbradley220]

The singing is rather overpowered by the sound of the organ, but what a great sound it is. A great recording for anyone who loves the sound of a pipe organ.

[@faithhaddad7650]

They do sing it to Hyfrdol in Australia. It is on the grand scale.

[@istgone]

Having said that, I do love Hyfrydol.

[@johne6081]

"Try to remember the kind of September ..." It turns out that Harvey Schmidt's grandfather was a Methodist minister, so he probably did hear "Hyfrydol" many times while growing up.

[@bigbenhebdomadarius6252]

There is evidence to suggest, apparently, that Wesley actually had another tune in mind when writing this hymn; namely, the aria, "Fairest Isle, All Isles Excelling," from Purcell's opera _King Arthur._ At any rate, as much as I love Hyfrydol, "Fairest Isle" makes a stunning setting for this hymn.

[@johne6081]

I'll have to check that out. I am a Hyfrydol fan, but also very much a Purcell fan (we used the Trumpet Voluntary for our wedding march, as a number of couples did in the 1970s).

[@mrstevebournias]

This is the most glorious pipe organ in the world! Talk of destroying it is insane!! Somebody is tone deaf and greedy for dishonest gain.It's not a Skinner anymore. Skinner NEVER sounded this good in his wildest dreams.

[@istgone]

I've only heard it sung to Blaenwern in the U.S. once, and even then it was copied from an English hymnal at an RSCM service of evensong.

[@keithdavis4997]

Good point about the posture, but it looks to me that most of it has to do with the placement of the score, requiring the organist to bend his upper back down and extend his neck to get it into his central vision. The sheet music should be a little further away but mostly down some.

[@imsixftsix]

Hyfrydol forever!

[@junglemonkey2310]

Does anyone know the name of that fabulous organist that is playing this great hymn? I would like to hear some more of his incredible talent. Thanks in advance. God bless everyone.

[@garymurray4562]

Scott Dettra

[@jianwenwu7633]

my family does that takes place in the San Francisco bay area starting at home pay housekeeping stores have been trying it has also run ed Lee fighting against we are starting at see bus stop it come side as well

[@Randolph1233]

Cannot hear a word because of the loud organ which drowns the voices.

[@raymondschlegelmilch5461]

This is beautiful, and the organ is magnificent; but the sound is out of balance. I can tell that there are people singing, but it's difficult to really hear them. The singers shouldn't be in the audio background.

[@richomin]

Jesus said, "By this shall all know that you are my disciples, that you love one another." So where does this terrible hatred come from? Not from a true disciple of Christ, clearly. How sad.

[@TheShadowGuitarist16]

Actually just an fyi, we're not exactly considered protestant.

[@ShelbyFarrow]

I've been an Episcopalian for most of my life and I never knew we are not considered Protestant. What are we then?

[@TheShadowGuitarist16]

@@ShelbyFarrowWe're basically our own category. "Anglicans, Anglo Catholic, Church of England, Episcopalian, etc etc. Mainly because we didn't form based on theological disputes with the Catholic Church. Unlike the other protestant churches.

[@x8lover]

Shame. Its a cracking tune and proabably the best one for the hymn. Perhaps more American organists could find it on here and try it out. Maybe find favour when new hymn books are published.

[@brettpatrickXVI]

1:07 LOL!!!! woman "priest"! What a joke!

[@alwellus]

Jokes are funny, there is nothing funny about flying in the face of GOD with such! NO woman, has, can or ever shall be ordained to any functional priesthood. It's a former Archbishop of Canterbury so well stated: Women's ordination is like pouring water on a duck's back - it just rolls off and has no effect! Even performing the rite is a wicked mockery that speaks very poorly of any bishop who jeopardizes his soul by such!

[@FestivalChorale]

He plays great but has the worst posture ever! :)

[@johne6081]

He gets the tempo right -- slow enough to be respectful and serious, but not dragging. Nicely done.

[@hudsonbailey674]

Beautiful!