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