Song Suggestions for the Order of Christian Funerals
“Music is integral to the Funeral rites. It allows the community to express convictions and feelings that word alone may fail to convey. It has the power to console and uplift the mourners and to strengthen the unity of the assembly in faith and love. The texts of the songs chosen for a particular celebration should express the paschal mystery of the Lord’s suffering, death, and triumph over death and should be related to the readings from Scripture.”
Thus while Funeral music may express “convictions and feelings,” its subject must always be the paschal mystery and it must be related to the readings from Scripture. Rather than adopting popular secular songs which are inappropriate to a liturgical setting, we should seek out good liturgical music on a paschal theme which can “support, console, and uplift participants and help to create in them a spirit of hope in Christ’s victory over death and in the Christian’s share in that victory.” (Order of Christian Funerals)
OPENING SONGS
A Mighty Fortress
Alleluia, Alleluia
Alleluia, Alleluia, Let the Holy Anthem Rise
Alleluia Sing to Jesus
Amazing Grace
At the Lambs High Feast
Be Not Afraid
Blest Are They
Crown Him with Many Crowns
For All the Saints
Glory and Praise to Our God )
God of Day and God of Darkness
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
Jesus Christ is Risen Today
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee
Rejoice the Lord is King
OFFERTORY
Be Thou My Vision
Christ Be Beside Me
Come to Me
Eye Has Not Seen
Flow River Flow
Give Me Jesus
Here I Am Lord
Holy Darkness
Hosea
Holy God We Praise Thy Name
How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place
How Great Thou Art
I Know That My Redeemer Lives
If God Is For Us
Isaiah 49
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
Jerusalem My Happy Home
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Jesus Remember Me (Eucharist)
Lord of All Hopefulness
Loving and Forgiving
O God You Search Me
Like A Shepherd
Love Divine All Love’s Excelling
Now Thank We All Our God
O God You Search Me
On Eagles Wings
Only In God
Only This I Want
Praise My Soul the King of Heaven
Prayer of St Francis
Precious Lord Take My Hand
Psalm 42
Shepherd Me O God
Take My Hands
The Eye’s and Hands of Christ
The King of Kings Christ Jesus Reigns
The King of Love My Shepherd Is
The Lord Is My Hope
The Lord Is My Light
There Is a Longing
There’s A Wideness in God’s Mercy
This Alone (Eucharist or other)
To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King
We Walk By Faith
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
What Wondrous Love is This
COMMUNION
At the Lamb’s High Feast
Because the Lord is My Shepherd
Behold the Lamb
Behold the Lamb of God
Bread of Life
Come to Me
Eat This Bread
Eye Has Not Seen
Flow Rivet Flow
Hosea
How Great Thou Art
I Am the Bread of Life
I Know That My Redeemer Lives
Isaiah 49
Jesus the Bread of Life
Jesus the Lord
Keep in Mind
Look Beyond
Loving and Forgiving
My Soul Rejoices
Our Blessing Cup
Panis Angelicus
Remember Your Love
Shepherd Me O God
Taste and See
There is a Longing
This Alone
Ubi Caritas
We Have Been Told
Unless a Grain of Wheat
We Remember
We Will Rise Again
Ye Sons and Daughters
You Are Mine
SENDING FORTH
For All the Saints
Glory and Praise to Our God
Holy God We Praise Thy Name
If God is For Us
Jerusalem My Happy Home
Jesus Christ is Risen Today
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee
The Church’s One Foundation
Lead Me Lord
O God Our Help in Ages Past
On Eagles Wings
Praise My Soul the King of Heaven
Rejoice the Lord is King
The King of Kings Christ Jesus Reigns
The Strife is O’er
There’s A Wideness in God’s Mercy
To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King
We Will Rise Again
COMMUNION MEDITATIONS *Optional
Ave Maria, Hail Mary Gentle Woman, As I kneel before You
PSALM SETTINGS
Psalm 17 Lord When Your Glory Appears My Joy
Will Be Full
Psalm 19 Lord You Have the Words of Everlasting Life
Psalm 25 To You O Lord I Lift Up My Soul
Psalm 23 The Lord Is My Shepherd There is Nothing I Shall Want
I Shall Live In the House of the Lord All the Days of My Life
Psalm 27 The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation
Ps 27 I BelieveThat I Shall See the Good Things of the Lord
Psalm 40 Lord Let Your Face Shine Upon Us
Psalm 42 Like a DeerThat Longs for Running Streams
Psalm 63 My Soul Is Thirsting for You O Lord My God
Psalm 80 Lord Make Us Turn to You, Let Us See
Your Face and We Shall Be Saved
Psalm 84 How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place
Psalm 91 Be With Me Lord
Psalm 103 the Lord Is Kind and Merciful
Psalm 115 I Will Walk In The Presence of
the Lord in the Land of the Living
Psalm 116 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the Living
Psalm 122 Let Us Go Rejoicing to the House of the Lord
Psalm 130 Out of the Depths
Psalm 131 In you O Lord I Have Found
Psalm 145 The Lord is Near
MASS SETTINGS
Belmont chant Mass
Latin Chant Mass