Lasst uns loben, freudig loben

Georg Thurmair wrote the song "Lasst uns loben, Brüder, loben" in 1948. It was set to music the same year by Erhard Quack, revised in 1971.^[1] It was included in the common Catholic hymnal in German, Gotteslob in 1975, as GL 84.^[2] The word "Brüder" in the first line was understood as meaning only men which seemed unacceptable in the 1990. In copies of the Gotteslob, a new version was glued into the books, using the adverb "freudig" (joyfully) instead of "Brüder", because the neutral word "Geschwister" (siblings) would not match the metre.^[3] With this wording, it became part of the 2013 edition of Gotteslob as GL 489, in the section Leben in der Kirche – Taufe (life in the church – baptism.^[1] It is part of other hymnals and songbooks.^[4]

• Gotteslobvideo (GL 489): Lasst uns loben, freudig loben (2014) on YouTube