Funeral Planning Resources
Music Selections: (Please click on a Title for a YouTube Link)
INSTATE MUSIC SUGGESTIONS:
Instrumental Music will begin 20 minutes before the Liturgy.
(If a Cantor is not available to sing the following suggestions, the Organist will play them instrumentally)
- Ave Maria - Franz Schubert
- Ave Maria - Bach/Gounod
- Old Irish Blessing - Denes Agay
- Panis Angelicus - Cesar Franck
- Serdeczna Matko - Polish Marian Hymn
PSALM SUGGESTIONS:
- Psalm 25 To You, O Lord, I Lift My Soul
- Psalm 27 The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation
- Psalm 63 Your Love Is Finer Than Life
- Psalm 116 The Name of God
- Psalm 130 With the Lord There Is Mercy
HYMN SUGGESTIONS:
(Please refer to the Funeral Song Sheet for proper placement of Hymns)
- 10,000 Reasons
- All I Ask of You
- Amazing Grace
- Amazing Grace / My Chains are Gone
- Be Not Afraid
- Be Still, My Soul
- Be Thou My Vision
- Because the Lord Is My Shepherd
- Blest Are They
- Center of My Life
- Christ In Me Arise
- Eye Has Not Seen
- For All the Saints
- Gift of Finest Wheat
- Go In Peace
- Hail Mary, Gentle Woman
- Here I Am, Lord
- Hosea
- How Can I Keep From Singing
- How Great Thou Art
- I Am the Bread of Life
- I Have Loved You
- In Christ Alone
- Irish Blessing
- Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All
- Like A Shepherd
- Lord of All Hopefulness
- Lord, You Have Come
- Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory
- O God Beyond All Praising
- O Loving God
- On Eagle's Wings
- Prayer of St. Francis
- Precious Lord, Take My Hand
- Psalm 27: The Goodness of the Lord
- Psalm 42: As the Deer Longs
- Rest Now in Me
- Shelter Me, O God
- Shepherd Me O God
- Sing A New Song
- Sing With All the Saints In Glory
- Soon and Very Soon
- Taste and See
- There is a Balm in Gilead
- There Is A Longing
- There's a Wideness in God's Mercy
- We Remember
- We Shall Rise Again
- You Are Mine
- You Are Near
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FINAL COMMENDATION:
- May Holy Angels Lead You
- May The Road Rise To Me You
- In Paradisum (in Latin)
- Quietly, Peacefully
- Song of Farewell
- This Day in New Jerusalem