Simple Lenten Songs for Kids?
  • EGrimm
    Posts: 13
    Can you suggest some simple songs for Lent that I can teach to my middle school students for our school Mass?

    We have been working on SA only for "Adoramus te Christe" by Dubois --- with great success so far ;-)

    Looking for more!!

    Thanks in advance.

  • dugarner
    Posts: 2
    Gibbons' "When Jesus Wept" is a beautifully simple piece that is only four lines long, and is usually sung as a canon. Could be used as an interlude, I suppose.
  • hartleymartin
    Posts: 1,447
    My two preferred Lenten Hymns:

    "Forty Days and Forty Nights" - Hymn tune 'Aus Der Tiefe'
    "Lord Jesus, Think on Me" - Hymn tune 'Southwell'

    Both very easy to sing, to play on organ, etc. In fact I think I prepared a simplified organ accompaniment for these two late last year so that even beginners could play them at mass. I'll dig them up for you in a little while.
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,151
    Um, "When Jesus Wept" is by the American composer, William Billings, not by Orlando Gibbons. And, yes, it is a round. It would be an excellent choice for children.
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  • francis
    Posts: 10,668
    I teach the children simple GCs. Parce Domine is a good one. Have the adults sing the verses and eventually the children will be doing the verses before you know it.
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  • henry
    Posts: 241
    These Forty Days of Lent (St. Flavian)
    Stabat Mater (English)
  • melofluentmelofluent
    Posts: 4,160
    Byrd NON NOBIS DOMINE a natural, I'd think, as general Lenten anthem
  • JacobFlahertyJacobFlaherty
    Posts: 328
    'Jesus, Name, All Names Above' is a nice hymn with good Lenten text. 'Parce Domine' is good; I have my kids singing the verses, too. I have the kids learning 'Dulcis Christe', a 2-part Treble piece by Michaelangelo Grancini, and a 2-part arrangement of 'Ave Verum Corpus' by Camille Saint-Saens, with organ. (Some of these are easier than others...)
  • EGrimm
    Posts: 13
    Thanks for all the suggestions!
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