Our hymnals did change a very long time ago. I’ve never liked them since and haven’t been to a Lutheran church many times since either. The old hymns were fine just the way they were.
Luther wrote that as he was being chased by Rome..looking to murder him ... we now have can’t we all get along PC churches
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/m/i/mightyfo.htm
Why are you insinuating that Catholics changed the words?
Someone to blame? Blame the Catholics, is that it?
You seem to have the “Lutheran Book of Worship,” which was published by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the more liberal branch of Lutheranism. The words in that hymnal do differ from that found in the Lutheran Service Book, which is the newest official hymnal of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, a more conservative and traditional synod.
I am LCMS, and I believe the old version as well as an updated english version are both available in the hymnal. I go to contemporary service and haven’t used the hymnal recently however.
There was an “Evangelical Movement” in the late 1970s to sort of unify all of the Lutheran sub-denominations by adopting the “Lutheran Book of Worship”. Being an old LCMS Lutheran used to “The Lutheran Hymnal”, I hated that conversion. The new hymnal sounds like liberals when the whine to me while the older one sounded like reverent worship. Due to other battles lost, I quit attending church.
Something Protestant FReepers may not appreciate is that there is no “Catholic hymnal”, there are a dozen or more in US alone, because they are all printed by private groups or companies. They range all the way from some fairly slavish copies of parts of old Protestant hymnals (e.g., the 1940 Episcopal hymnal) with Catholic bits added (the “Vatican II hymnal”) to awful collections of 1960’s fluff (most anything from Oregon Catholic Press).