Untangling medieval hymnal history was a tremendous challenge for twentiethcentury scholars.
She compiled her hymnal and wrote other devotional treatises out of a sense of duty to teach her faith to children and other ordinary people.
The monks diligently produced bibles, prayer books, hymnals and works of theology and philosophy.
Despite being out of print, parts of the hymnal are available on-line in pdf format.
While most hymnal settings keep the second person pronoun, other settings change the second person pronoun to the third person.
In 2005 an addendum to the hymnal was published which contains 53 new and old hymns.
Due to inclusive language becoming an issue by the 1980s, this was one of many songs that was edited in newer hymnals.
With a membership of several hundred, the organization played a major role in producing the denomination's new hymnals.
