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Hymns on Sunday, 16 July 2023
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. This week’s programme touches on some of those… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 9 July 2023
4:15 AM.We're marking 'Sea Sunday' in the programme this week. The second Sunday in July is designated in the liturgical calendar as a day of prayer for seafarers - it's a time to remember and celebrate those… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 2 July 2023
4:15 AM.There's a focus this week on the Elements - hymns that reference Earth, Wind, Water or Fire. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 25 June 2023
4:15 AM.The Auckland-based Handel Quire gets this week’s programme off to a great start with Isaac Watts’ hymn Lord of the worlds above. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 18 June 2023
4:15 AM.Brass bands and hymns – it’s a combination that’s hard to beat! In this week’s programme you can hear an arrangement of Abide with me, played by Woolston Brass. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 11 June 2023
4:15 AM.We’re marking the Feast of Corpus Christi with hymns including Let all mortal flesh keep silence, and I am the Bread of Life written in the 1960s by American nun Sister Suzanne Toolan. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 4 June 2023
4:15 AM.It’s Trinity Sunday, celebrating the three persons of God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 28 May 2023
4:15 AM.Celebrating Samoan Language Week and the Feast of Pentecost with hymns including Vivi’ I Ia Ma Fa’afetai, Breathe on me, breath of God, and Spirit of God, rest on your people. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 21 May 2023
4:15 AM.Hymns for Ascension Sunday include Marnie Barrell’s Christ ascends to God, Hail the day that sees him rise by Charles Wesley and a hymn by his colleague, Edward Perronet. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 14 May 2023
4:15 AM.We're marking Mother's Day with hymns to Mary, and Shirley Murray's Loving Spirit. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 7 May 2023
4:15 AM.Music plays an important role in the coronation of King Charles III – and there are some hymns in the service. We’ll hear two of them in this week’s programme. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 30 April 2023
4:15 AM.The days are getting shorter – and colder – and autumn colours are all around. The perfect time for harvest hymns! Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 23 April 2023
4:15 AM.We look ahead to Anzac Day on 25 April with hymns sung at the very first Anzac Day service in 1916 (held in Christchurch Cathedral) and peace-themed hymns. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 16 April 2023
4:15 AM.This week's programme features resurrection-themed hymns for Eastertide, an atmospheric rendition of Amazing Grace by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, and a benediction from the 1662 Book of… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 9 April 2023
4:15 AM.Hymns to celebrating Easter Sunday include two New Zealand hymns, a hymn from the 8th century and the 21st century classic In Christ Alone. Read more Audio
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Good Friday Hymns, 7 April 2023
7:30 AM.A special selection of hymns to mark this important day in the Christian liturgical calendar. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 2 April 2023
4:15 AM.Hymns for Palm Sunday today, celebrating the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and marking the beginning of Holy Week in the Christian liturgical calendar. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 26 March 2023
4:15 AM.Children’s hymns feature in this week’s programme, along with a contemporary setting of Charles Wesley’s Love divine, all loves excelling and Graham Kendrick’s 20th century classic, The servant king.
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Hymns on Sunday, 19 March 2023
4:15 AM.This week we’ve communion hymns, a psalm from the Scottish Psalter, and some hymns from writers who are proof that age is no barrier to trying something new. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 12 March 2023
4:15 AM.There’s a ‘wealth of Williams’ in this week’s programme – hymn writers, arrangers and hymn tune composers. Including William Williams, one of the leaders of the Methodist revival in Wales in the 18th… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 5 March 2023
4:15 AM.In this week’s programme we’ve hymns for the second Sunday in Lent, and we’re marking some recent dates in the liturgical calendar: World Day of Prayer on 3 March and St David’s Day on 1 March. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 26 February 2023
4:15 AM.Hymns to mark the first Sunday in Lent, and a hymn by Shirley Murray that turned out to be much more successful than she expected. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 19 February 2023
4:15 AM.Hymns inspired by Psalm 150, Praise God in his sanctuary, feature in this week’s programme. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 12 February 2023
4:15 AM.In our final programme of Summer Hymn Requests you can hear the Seafarers’ Hymn (Eternal Father), Stuart Townend’s O, my soul, arise and a setting of Psalm 150 to mark the 100th birthday of the Lawton… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 5 February 2023
4:15 AM.Sing along this week to Shirley Murray's God bless our land, written especially to mark Waitangi Day. Read more Audio