Funeral Music Suggestions

Funeral Music Suggestions

These titles appear in most Catholic hymnals or missalettes. Please contact your local parish musician for assistance.

This is not a complete list. Other music used on Sunday may be included in this list.

Processional/Gathering Songs

Sing With All the Saints in Glory (Tune: Beethoven's Hymn To Joy)

Alleluia, Sing to Jesus
Christ Is Alive
Come Down, O Love Divine
God is Love
I Received the Living God
There's a Wideness in God's Mercy
I Will Not Die
Eye Has Not Seen
Be Not Afraid
How Can I Keep From Singing
Resucito
Sing a New Song
I Know That My Redeemer Lives

Sung Psalm

Ps. 23 Shepherd Me, O God

Ps. 27 The Goodness of the Lord

Ps. 63 My Soul is Thirsting

Ps. 118 This is the Day the Lord Has Made

Presentation of the Gifts

This part of the Mass is very short since there is no collection as on Sunday.

Come Unto Me
Like a Child Rests
Be with Me, O Lord
Shelter Me, O God
Like a Child Rests
Deep River

Amazing Grace

Communion

Behold the Lamb

I Am the Bread of Life

On Eagle's Wings

Eye Has Not Seen

My Soul in Stillness Waits

Be Not Afraid

Pan de Vida

Seed, Scattered and Sown

Taste and See

Song of the Body of Christ

Let Us Break Bread Together

My Soul is Longing

We Will Rise Again

You Satisfy the Hungry Heart

Final Commendation (Song of Farewell):

May the Angels Lead You into Paradise
The Lord is Good to All Who Call on Him
May Saints and Angels Lead You On

Recessional:

I Am the Bread of Life
Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service
Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones
For All the Saints
Baptized in Water             
This Is the Feast of Victory
The Strife is O'er
Sing to the Mountains
Jesus Christ is Risen