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Interior wide shot from the back of a small chapel — a congregation standing and singing, hymnals in hand, lyrics from 'Be Thou My Vision' projected on the front wall.

Sing With Us

The Hymnal is communal singing made simple.

The community sings every day — at evening prayer at the Pillar, on Sunday morning, at the Hymnal's live sessions when households join in from wherever they are. The library is the Church's old songs sung loud, plus a small set of new ones that pass the four marks. Below is a sample.

A few hymns from the library

  • Be Thou My Vision

    Tune: SLANE 8th c. Irish

  • Holy, Holy, Holy

    Tune: NICAEA 1826

    Scripture: Revelation 4:8

  • A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

    Tune: EIN' FESTE BURG 1529

    Scripture: Psalm 46

  • Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

    Tune: NETTLETON 1758

  • All Creatures of Our God and King

    Tune: LASST UNS ERFREUEN 1225 / 1623

  • Crown Him with Many Crowns

    Tune: DIADEMATA 1851

  • How Great Thou Art

    Tune: O STORE GUD 1885

  • It Is Well with My Soul

    Tune: VILLE DU HAVRE 1873

  • When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

    Tune: HAMBURG 1707

  • Old Hundredth (Doxology)

    Tune: OLD HUNDREDTH 1551

    Scripture: Psalm 100

Coming soon: a searchable library of every hymn the community sings, with lyrics, tunes, scripture references, and the date each was last sung. The list above is hand-curated for now and becomes editor-managed when admin-content-editor-chirho ships.

Upcoming live sessions

Twice a month, the community holds a live-sing session: a hymn or two over the simplest possible streaming connection, with the lyrics on screen and a small group of voices on the other end. Households join in from kitchens and porches; nobody listens alone unless they want to. Contact us if you want to receive the calendar.

Live sessions

The live-sync backend is in Phase E. Once it ships, the next 4–6 sessions will appear here automatically with hymn, time, and a join link.

Tracking task: hymnal-live-sync-chirho in the build backlog.

How the Hymnal will work

  1. The community announces a hymn at evening prayer.
  2. The Hymnal pushes the lyrics + the tune to every Hymnal endpoint that has opted in (a small wooden device, or a phone, or any browser).
  3. Households at home see the lyrics in time with the singing in the chapel.
  4. Anyone who wants to lift a voice does. Nobody has to.

No livestream of faces. No comment box. Just the words and the tune and the singing. We will publish the privacy story for the Hymnal endpoint on its product page when it ships.