Music Selections for the Funeral Liturgy
You are invited to select music for the Mass of Christian Burial. The music of the liturgy affects our feelings and lifts our prayers to God. Often music gives expression to our inner thoughts. We therefore encourage you to select hymns that will speak of your faith and will strengthen and console you at this time.
Below we have listed music, both traditional and contemporary, that is proper to the funeral liturgy. We hope this will assist you in making selections. If there are other hymns that were important to you or your loved one, please let us know so that a determination can be made as to their appropriateness.
Entrance/Recessional Hymns (select two)
___ O Loving God (tune Danny Boy)
___ I Know That My Redeemer Lives
___ Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
___ How Great Thou Art
___ Amazing Grace
___ In Paradisum (trad. recessional chant)
___ I Heard the Voice of Jesus
___ The King of Love (Irish Melody)
___ Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
___ Lord of All Hopefulness (Irish melody)
___ Jerusalem, My Happy Home
___ There’s a Wideness in God's Mercy
___ Sing with All the Saints (Ode to Joy)
___ To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King
___ Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (except Lent)
___ For All the Saints (except Lent)
Responsorial Psalm (select one)
___ Psalm 23: “The Lord is my shepherd”
___ Psalm 25: “To you, O Lord, I lift my
soul”
___ Psalm 27: “The Lord is my light and
my salvation”
___ Psalm 42/43: “My soul is thirsting for
the Lord”
___ 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”
Preparation of the Gifts (select one)
___ Ave Maria (Schubert)
___ Pie Jesu (Faure)
___ The King of Love (Irish Melody)
___ Be Not Afraid
___ Prayer of St. Francis
___ Like a Shepherd
___ I Have Loved You
___ Hail Mary, Gentle Woman
___ Lord of All Hopefulness (Irish Melody)
___ The Servant Song
Communion (select one)
___ You Are Mine
___ Panis Angelicus (Franck)
___ I Am the Bread of Life
___ Gift of Finest Wheat
___ Eat This Bread
___ Blest Are They
___ Bread of Life
___ On Eagle’s Wings
___ Taste and See
___ One Bread. One Body