The church year
Hymns for every season
The church year gives every season its own songs: the longing of Advent, the joy of Christmas, the quiet of Lent, the hosannas and sorrow of Holy Week and the Alleluias of Easter — and, for many American churches, Thanksgiving, Reformation Sunday and the national days of remembrance. Each page below gathers the hymns congregations sing for that season, grouped the way services use them, with a one-click printable sheet of every lyric.
Every hymn here is in the public domain in the United States, so the words are free to print, project and record.
- Reformation HymnsHymns for Reformation Sunday: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, Now Thank We All Our God and the metrical Psalms, with free public-domain lyrics to print.
- Remembrance HymnsHymns for Remembrance Sunday, Remembrance Day and Veterans Day — O God, Our Help in Ages Past, Eternal Father, Abide with Me. Free lyrics to print.
- Thanksgiving HymnsThanksgiving hymns of harvest and gratitude — Come, Ye Thankful People, Come, Now Thank We All Our God and more. Free public-domain lyrics to print.
- Advent HymnsAdvent hymns of longing and preparation — O Come, O Come, Emmanuel and more — with free public-domain lyrics to print, project and play along with.
- Christmas CarolsThe best-loved Christmas carols with free public-domain lyrics: print a carol sheet for your service, project the words, or play along. No account needed.
- Lent HymnsHymns for Lent — Forty Days and Forty Nights, Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross, Rock of Ages and more. Free public-domain lyrics to print and project.
- Holy Week HymnsHymns for Holy Week: All Glory, Laud and Honor for Palm Sunday, Go to Dark Gethsemane, O Sacred Head and When I Survey for Good Friday. Free lyrics.
- Easter HymnsEaster hymns for sunrise services and Easter Sunday — Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, Christ Arose, Crown Him with Many Crowns. Free public-domain lyrics.
- Patriotic HymnsPatriotic hymns for church — My Country, 'Tis of Thee, Battle Hymn of the Republic, the Navy Hymn and more, with free public-domain lyrics to print.
Following the Revised Common Lectionary? The lectionary plannersuggests hymns for each Sunday's readings. Planning a wedding, a funeral or Communion? See hymns for every occasion or build an order of service.