Mourners attending a funeral in Gżira were angered yesterday when the parish priest did not allow one of the deceased’s favourite hymns from being sung “because it was not in Maltese”. Gżira parish ...

Often people who don’t go to church think that those who do go spend their time there singing hymns. Yet there is no explicit provision for parish hymn-singing in the Book of Common Prayer, and, in ...

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, had ...