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Hymns on Sunday, 27 November 2022
4:15 AM.The season of Advent begins today – a time of waiting and expectation leading up to Christmas. Sing along to favourite Advent hymns including O come, Emmanuel and Come, thou long-expected Jesus. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 20 November 2022
4:15 AM.The Feast of Christ the King is a relatively recent addition to the liturgical calendar, introduced by Pope Pius XI in 1925. We’re celebrating the occasion with hymns including Rejoice! The Lord is… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 13 November 2022
4:15 AM.November 13 is World Day of the Poor in the Catholic liturgical calendar. We’re marking the date with Graham Kendrick’s Beauty for Brokenness and Bread for the World by Bernadette Farrell. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 6 November 2022
4:15 AM.The hymns of 20th century hymn writer Fred Kaan have a strong focus on peace, unity and social justice. You can hear some in this week’s programme: For the healing of the nations and O Holy Spirit. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 30 October 2022
4:15 AM.Hymns for All Saints' Day and Reformation Day in this week's programme, and there's a spiritual from Auckland's The Graduate Choir which is celebrating its 21st birthday this year. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 23 October 2022
4:15 AM.We’re marking World Mission Sunday this week with hymns including Dan Schutte’s I, the Lord of sea and sky and the traditional spiritual Who’ll be a witness for my Lord? Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 16 October 2022
4:15 AM.Brass bands and hymn tunes go so well together! In this week’s programme, you can hear a spine-tingling rendition of Joseph Parry’s Aberystwyth played by Christchurch band Woolston Brass. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 9 October 2022
4:15 AM.We're celebrating 150 years since the birth of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in this week's programme. Find out how this 'cheerful agnostic' had a major impact on 20th century western… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 2 October 2022
4:15 AM.Hymns with a focus on St Francis of Assisi and nature this week. The patron saint of ecology’s feast day is on 4 October and marks the end of the Season of Creation in the church calendar. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 25 September 2022
4:15 AM.Lancelot Andrewes was a 16th century English bishop and one of a group of Church of England scholars appointed to compile the King James version of the Bible. You can hear John Rutter’s beautiful… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 18 September 2022
4:15 AM.Henry Lyte’s hymn Praise, my soul, the king of heaven was one of Queen Elizabeth II’s favourites – you can hear a beautifully stately rendition by the Huddersfield Choral Society in this week’s… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 11 September 2022
4:15 AM.It’s hymns ancient and modern this week. We’ve a setting of Hail, gladdening light (a hymn from the 3rd or 4th century), and In You we live written in 2010 by Sue Mepham from Flagstaff Community… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 4 September 2022
4:15 AM.The Season of Creation has begun (1 September to 4 October in the church calendar) and this week’s programme includes some creation-themed favourites. Sing along to How great thou art, All things… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 28 August 2022
4:15 AM.We're straight in with the big tunes this week. Sing along to Hubert Parry's well-loved melody, Jerusalem, paired with words by Arthur Grimshaw: Sing to the Lord a joyful song. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 21 August 2022
4:15 AM.One hymn, two writers, 12 verses... that’s the hymn Crown Him with many crowns. We’ll hear three of those verses in today’s programme. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 14 August 2022
4:15 AM.We’re marking the Feast of the Assumption of Mary with hymns including Immaculate Mary and Mō Maria. It’s an especially important time for New Zealand Catholics as St Mary of the Angels Church in… Read more Video, Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 7 August 2022
4:15 AM.Sing along this week to hymns marking the Feast of the Transfiguration (6 August). Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 31 July 2022
4:15 AM.Henry Lyte’s hymn Praise, my soul, the king of heaven is one of the most popular hymns in English-speaking Christian denominations. In today’s programme we take a look at John Goss, who composed its… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 24 July 2022
4:15 AM.There's a focus this week on hymns that are inspired by the psalms, including All people that on earth do dwell (Psalm 100), and I to the hills will lift mine eyes, from Psalm 121. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 17 July 2022
4:15 AM.Plenty of variety in this week’s selection of hymns, which include a Taizé chant, a hymn from the Iona community in Scotland, and Charles Wesley’s great hymn And Can It Be. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 10 July 2022
4:15 AM.In this week’s programme we’re marking Sea Sunday – also described as a ‘Day of Prayer for Seafarers’. It’s a time to remember and celebrate those whose workplace is the sea, with hymns including… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 3 July 2022
4:15 AM.It’s the middle of winter, and we’re celebrating the cold and dark in this week’s programme with some carols of the snowy variety: it’s the perfect time of year to sing In the Bleak Midwinter! Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 26 June 2022
4:15 AM.The season of Matariki has begun. It’s a time to gather with family and friends to reflect on the past, celebrate the present, and plan for the future. We touch on some of those Matariki themes in… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 19 June 2022
4:15 AM.When Sister Suzanne Toolan wrote I am the Bread of Life in the 1960s she almost threw the song away, thinking it wasn’t very good. Since then, it’s been sung all over the world in many denominations… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 12 June 2022
4:15 AM.Celebrate Trinity Sunday in this episode, with Trinitarian hymns including Reginald Heber's Holy, holy, holy and Firmly I believe, and truly by Cardinal John Henry Newman. Read more Audio