St. Elizabeth Parish, Milton, MA
2014Revision of Funeral Songs
George Ashur, PhD., Organist and Music Director
Anita Wakim, Assistant Director of Music Soprano Soloist ()(Cell: 339-364-5547)
The Funeral Mass consists of the following components that are sung:
Gathering Hymn
Responsorial Psalm
Offertory (Presentation of Gifts Hymn)
Communion HymnandRecessional Hymn
Please choose from the following list of songs:
Gathering Hymn:
All Creatures of Our God and King (words by St. Francis of Assisi)
Alleluia Sing to Jesus (not during Lent)
Come Holy Ghost
Eye Has Not Seen
Gather Your People, O Lord
Here I am, Lord
HolyGod We Praise Thy Name
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty
Immaculate Mary
Lord of All Hopefulness - (Irish Traditional)
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - (Irish Traditional)
O God Our Help in Ages Past
O Sacred Head Surrounded (In Lent)
Sing a New Song Unto the Lord
There’s A Wideness in God’s Mercy
To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King
Responsorial Psalm:(These hymns may also be inserted in Offertory or Communion)
All I Ask of You
I Have Loved You
Loving and Forgiving
(Psalm 16) Shelter Me O God
(Psalm 23) The Lord is My Shepherd (Several Versions)
(Psalm 34) Taste and See (2 settings Moore and Hurd)
(Psalm 91) Be With Me Lord (2 Settings)
(Psalm 91) On Eagles’ Wings
(Psalm 139) You Are Near
Offertory Hymn: (Presentation of the Gifts)
Amazing Grace
Ave Maria
Ave Verum (Mozart-Classical-Latin)l
Be Thou My Vision
Come Down O Love Divine
Hail Mary, Gentle Woman
Hosea (Traditional)
Lady of Knock (Irish Traditional)
Like a Shepherd (Irish Traditional)
Love Divine All Loves Excelling (Irish Traditional)
Nearer My God to Thee
OFFRALA in Irish Gaelic or in English
Pie Jesu from Faure Requiem
Precious Lord Take My Hand
Prayer of St. Francis
The King of Love My Shepherd Is (Irish Traditional)
Communion Hymn:
Amazing Grace
Ave Verum
Be Not Afraid
Blest Are They (Beatitudes)
I am the Bread of Life
Irish Blessing (Farewell)
Jesu, Joy of Our Desiring(Classical)
Like a Shepherd
Lord, You Have Come to the Seashore (also in Spanish)
Lord, Who at Thy First Eucharist
One Bread One Body
Panis Angelicus (Cesar Frank) (Classical-Latin)
The King of Love My Shepherd Is
We Remember
We Will Rise Again
You Are Mine
Recessional Hymn:
America
America the Beautiful
City of God
Eternal Father Strong to Save (Navy Hymn)
Eye Has Not Seen
For All the Saints
Hail Holy Queen
In Paradisium (Latin Traditional)
Irish Blessing (Farewell)
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee (Classical, Traditional)
Lift High the Cross
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Battle Hymn of the Republic)
Now Thank We All Our God
Song of Farewell (Several versions)
We Will Rise Again
*(Note: “Be Not Afraid” not recommended as a Recessional Hymn)
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