Hail Redeemer, King divine
Hail Redeemer, King divine. Patrick Brennan* (1877-1952).
This hymn was written for the Feast of Christ the King, a Liturgical Feast established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 (Milgate, 1982, p. 91). It was first published in the Daily Hymnal (1932). It appeared in four stanzas, with refrain (beginning ‘Angels, saints and nations sing’), in the Second Edition of the Westminster Hymnal (WH, 1940), set to a tune by Johann Schop*, WERDE MUNTER (originally composed for the hymn by Johann Rist*):
Hail, Redeemer, King divine!Priest and Lamb, the throne is thine,King, whose reign shall never cease,Prince of everlasting peace. Angels, saints and nations sing ‘Praised be Jesus Christ, our King; Lord...
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