A recessional hymn is a hymn placed at the end of a church service to close it. It is used commonly in the Catholic Church and Anglican Church, an equivalent to the concluding voluntary, which is called a Recessional Voluntary, for example a Wedding Recessional.
See also
Processional hymn
External links
The dictionary definition of recessional at Wiktionary
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