Music

Music Suggestions for Funerals

Funeral Liturgies with the Celebration of the Mass require five songs. If the service is outside of the Eucharistic Liturgy, there is a need for three songs: The Gathering, Psalm, and Sending Forth. Please note, at a Funeral Liturgy, the only appropriate place to use the hymns of Mary (indicated by an *) is at the Preparation of the Gifts.

Please note, at a Funeral Liturgy, the only appropriate place to use the hymns of Mary (indicated by an *) is at the Preparation of the Gifts.

Entrance Hymns (please check one):

  • All Creatures of Our God and King
  • Alleluia, Sing to Jesus
  • *Amazing Grace
  • Be Thou My Vision
  • Crown Him with Many Crowns
  • Faith of Our Fathers
  • *Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
  • *Holy, Holy, Holy
  • Lord of All Hopefulness
  • Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
  • O God Beyond All Praising
  • *O God, Our Help in Ages Past
  • Our God is Here
  • Praise to the Lord
  • We Belong To You

*These hymn may also be used as a closing hymn

Psalms (please check one):

  • Psalm 23 (The Lord is My Shepherd; There’s Nothing I Shall Want)
  • Psalm 25 (To You, O Lord, I Lift My Soul)
  • Psalm 27 (The Lord is My Light and My Salvation)
  • Psalm 63 (My Soul is Thirsting for You, O Lord My God)
  • Psalm 103 (The Lord is Kind and Merciful)
  • Psalm 116 (I Will Walk in the Presence of the Lord in the Land of the Living)
  • Psalm 122 (Let Us Go Rejoicing to the House of the Lord)

Offertory: Please check ONE from either the General OR Marian List

General:

  • oBe Not Afraid
  • Better Is One Day
  • Blest Are They
  • Christ Before Us
  • Eye Has Not Seen
  • Here I Am, Lord
  • How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place
  • I Know that My Redeemer Live
  • I Shall Not Want
  • Jerusalem, My Destiny
  • Jesus, Remember Me
  • Like A Child Rests
  • My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
  • O God, You Search Me
  • On Eagles Wings
  • Prayer of St. Francis
  • Restless is the Heart
  • Strength for the Journey
  • The King of Love My Shepherd Is
  • We Shall Rise Again
  • What Wondrous Love is This
  • You Are Mine

Marian:

  • Ave Maria
  • Hail Mary: Gentle Woman
  • Holy is His Name/Magnificat
  • Immaculate Mary
  • Regina Caeli
  • Salve Regina

Communion (please check one):

  • Behold the Lamb of God
  • Eat This Bread
  • I Am the Bread of Life
  • I Received the Living God
  • Panis Angelicus
  • Sacred Heart Song
  • Shepherd Me, O God
  • Shepherd of Souls
  • Soul of My Savior
  • Tantum Ergo
  • Taste and See

Closing Hymns (please check one):

  • Go in Peace
  • For All the Saints
  • How Can I Keep From Singing
  • How Great Thou Art
  • I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
  • I Sing the Mighty Power of God
  • Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
  • Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven
  • To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King
  • We Walk By Faith
  • Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones