Hello again, everyone! As announced just before General Conference weekend, the Church has released the first 13 hymns that will be featured in the new global Hymns--for Home and Church. From the Sabbath and Weekday Section, the following hymns have been released: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing; When the Savior Comes Again; It Is Well With My Soul; I Will Walk With Jesus; His Eye Is On the Sparrow; Think a Sacred Song; As Bread Is Broken; Bread of Life, Living Water; and Gethsemane.
From the Easter and Christmas Section, the following hymns have been released: Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise; He Is Born, the Divine Christ Child; What Child Is This?; and Star Bright. I am pleased to see several that I personally recognize (Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing; It Is Well With My Soul; I Will Walk with Jesus (a Primary song); His Eye Is On the Sparrow, Gethsemane; He Is Born, the Divine Christ Child; and What Child Is This?). I look forward to learning the others.
I was surprised and intrigued by the numbering system. The Sabbath and Weekday Hymns have a preface number of 10 and then numerical values from 01-09. The Easter and Crhstimas Section also uses numerical values from 01-04, but are prefaced by the number 12. I don't know if that's the numbering system that will stick, but I was intrigued by that. I am grateful for the release of these new selections.
I will monitor when the next selections are announced and will post my analysis on those as they are released. I continue to monitor any and all Church News, Newsroom, and Church of Jesus Christ Temples updates and will be sure to pass word of those along to you all as they cross my radar. In the meantime, that does it for now. All comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated on any post at any time, as long as the offered feedback is made per the established guidelines.
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