Why it's a good choice: One of the most sung hymns at funerals, this is really a prayer to God to stay with him in death as He did with us in life. Henry Francis Lyte, Vicar of Brixham in Devon ...

The words of this hymn were written around 1630 and later translated into English by the poet Robert Bridges. In 1930, the Composer Herbert Howells was sent the words by a friend and apparently ...

The words expressed in this hymn should be considered and taken ... It is primarily in the Mass, the eucharistic liturgy, that we fulfill the First Commandment, and give the triune God adoration ...

The hymn is sung during the procession that brings the bread and wine from the place of preparation in the Great Entrance through the screen or iconostasis, to the altar where the Eucharistic act ...