Music Selections

Music Selections for the Funeral Liturgy

When our voices are united together in song we express and experience a spiritual reality. Music at the Funeral Mass is a significant feature and we sing all the parts as we do at Sunday Mass.

We have provided an additional list of appropriate hymns for you to consider. The Director of Music, Cathy

Martin, will call you to offer help in choosing music for appropriate times in the Mass. Parish musicians—

Cantor (Leader of Song) and instrumental—are professional musicians and are trained to sing or play at these special Liturgies. For that reason, like most churches, we do not encourage “bringing in” other musicians. If you have a friend or family member who is a musician, it may be possible to contribute a selection during the preparation rite or as a meditation after communion. This must be coordinated with the Director of Music.

Entrance Song - Please Select One

• Come to Me
• Gather us together
• Here I am Lord
• I Have Loved You
• Morning has Broken
• On Eagles Wings
• Song of the Body of Christ
• The Strife is O’er

Responsorial Psalm - Please Select One

• Ps. 23 “The Lord is my Shepherd”
• Ps 25 “to you, O Lord, I lift my soul”
• Ps 27 “The Lord is my Light and my salvation”
• Ps 103 “The Lord is kind and merciful”
• Ps 116 “I will walk in the presence of the Lord”

Presentation of Gifts—Please Select One

• I Know That My Redeemer Lives
• Come Unto Me
• Be Not Afraid
• Precious Lord, Take My Hand
• Ave Maria 􀂃 Eye Has Not Seen

Communion Hymns—Please Select One

• Eat This Bread
• One Bread, One Body
• Blest Are They
• Gift of Finest Wheat
• We Have Been Told
• We Remember

• Ave Maria
• Panis Angelicus
• Hail Mary, Gentle Woman

Recessional—Please Select One

• We Walk by Faith
• I Know That My Redeemer Lives
• Lift High the Cross
• How Great thou Art
• Soon and Very Soon

Alphabetical List of Songs:

• Amazing Grace
• As the Deer Longs
• Ave Maria
• Balm in Gilead
• Be Not Afraid
• Because the Lord is My Shepherd
• Blest Are They
• Come to Me
• Come Unto Me
• Day is Done
• Eat This Bread
• Eye Has Not Seen
• For all the Saints
• Gather Us Together
• Gift of Finest Wheat
• Give Me Jesus
• God of Day, God of Darkness
• Grant Them Eternal Rest
• Hail Mary, Gentle Woman
• Here I Am, Lord
• Hosea
• How Can I Keep From Singing
• How Great Thou Art
• How Lovely is Your Dwelling Place
• I Am the Bread of Life
• I Have Loved You
• I Hear the Voice of Jesus
• I Know that My Redeemer Lives
• In the Breaking of the Bread
• Into Your Hands, Lord
• Jesus, Remember Me
• Keep in Mind
• Like a Child Rests
• Lord, Be With Us (Ps, 33)
• My Shepherd, Lord
• My Soul is Thirsting(Ps 63)
• Now We Remain
• On Eagles’ Wings
• Only A Shadow
• Panis Angelicus
• Parable
• Prayer of St. Francis
• Precious Lord
• Shelter Me, O God
• Shepherd Me, O God
• Song of Farewell
• Song of the Body of Christ
• Soon and Very Soon
• The Cry of the Poor
• The King of Love
• The Lord is My Shepherd
• The Strife is O’er
• Unless a Grain of Wheat
• We Have Been Told
• We Remember
• We Walk by Faith
• We Will Rise Again
• What Wondrous Love
• You Are Mine