The Lutheran Hymnal
The Lutheran Hymnal on Last Christian Ministries
Read the Creative Commons text-only edition of The Lutheran Hymnal, including the original calendar, prayers, liturgical material, and 640 individual hymn pages.
Historical Significance
The 1941 Missouri Synod hymnal in a searchable local library
The Lutheran Hymnal succeeded the old Missouri Synod's earlier English hymnals and became the standard LCMS hymnal for a generation. It preserves the classic Common Service orders, church-year propers, collects, prayers, and indexes together with the hymn corpus that shaped mid-century English Lutheran worship.
This edition on Last Christian Ministries keeps the text-only material searchable on-site. The calendar, liturgical texts, prayers, and back-of-book indexes are hosted alongside the hymn archive so the whole hymnal works as one local reference shelf rather than a single remote PDF.
Attribution
Creative Commons source, original hymnal material
The source PDF is the LutheranLibrary.org text-only edition of The Lutheran Hymnal, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The hosted pages here focus on the original hymnal material and do not reproduce the later promotional appendices that LutheranLibrary adds after the hymn and index pages.
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Contents
Original hymnal material, section by section
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The Calendar
The church-year calendar and commemorations included in The Lutheran Hymnal.
Short Prayers
Short entrance, offering, communion, and departure prayers from the original hymnal.
General Rubrics
The general liturgical rubrics printed before the service orders in The Lutheran Hymnal.
The Order of Morning Service
The text-only order for Morning Service without Communion.
The Order of the Holy Communion
The text-only order for the Holy Communion from The Lutheran Hymnal.
The Order of Matins
The order of Matins as printed in the original hymnal.
The Order of Vespers
The order of Vespers as printed in the original hymnal.
The Order of the Confessional Service
The confessional service text from The Lutheran Hymnal.
A Form for Opening and Closing Christian Schools
The school opening and closing rite printed in the original hymnal.
The Athanasian Creed
The Athanasian Creed from the original hymnal text-only edition.
Introits, Collects, And Graduals For The Church Year
Propers for the church year, including introits, collects, and graduals.
Invitatories, Antiphons, Responsories, and Versicles for the Church Year
Seasonal invitatories, antiphons, responsories, and versicles from the hymnal.
Prayers
Collects, litanies, suffrages, and general prayers from the original hymnal.
A Short Form for Holy Baptism in Cases of Necessity
The emergency baptism form included in The Lutheran Hymnal.
Alphabetical Index of Tunes
Alphabetical tune index printed at the end of the hymnal.
Metrical Index of Tunes
Metrical tune index printed at the end of the hymnal.
Index of First Lines
The original first-line index from The Lutheran Hymnal.
Alphabetical Index of Authors
The original author index from The Lutheran Hymnal.
Alphabetical Index of Composers
The original composer index from The Lutheran Hymnal.
Alphabetical Index of Translators
The original translator index from The Lutheran Hymnal.
Hymns 1-660
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Hymns
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