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