Music for a Funeral Mass -- Sample Outline and Other Suggest Songs
You're welcome to use this outline as is, choose songs from the list below, or make requests. As long as a song is liturgical/Christian, it is likely that we can learn it for you.
→ INTRODUCTORY RITES
Entrance: Carry Me Home (Alstott)
→ LITURGY OF THE WORD
Responsorial Psalm: Shepherd Me, O God (Haugen)
Gospel Acclamation: Celtic Alleluia (Celtic Mass) (Walker/O’Carroll)
Verse: I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever.
→ LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
Presentation and Preparation of the Gifts: Be Not Afraid (Bob Dufford)
Mass Parts (Holy, Memorial Acclamation, Amen, Lamb of God): Mass of a Peaceful Spirit (LaRosa)
See How to Choose a Mass Setting for more information.
Communion: These Alone Are Enough (Dan Schutte)
→ CONCLUDING RITES
[Optional: Moment of Silence – or – Ave Maria]
Song of Farewell: Song of Farewell (Ernest Sands)
Final Hymn: Go In Peace (Sarah Hart)
Other Popular Songs
- Here I Am, Lord (Dan Schutte)
- Hold on to Love (Jesse Manibusan)
- On Eagles' Wings (Michael Joncas)
- Be With Me, Lord (Tom Booth)
- Be With Me, Lord (Marty Haugen)
- Shelter Me, O God (Bob Hurd)
- Like a Shepherd (Bob Dufford)
- King of Love My Shepherd Is (Henry Baker)
- Abide With Me (Henry Francis Lyte)
- You Are Near (Dan Schutte)
- Be Still, My Soul (FINLANDIA)
- Amazing Grace (John Newton)
- [Psalm] Any funeral Psalm composed by Francesca LaRosa
- [Psalm] “The Lord Is Kind and Merciful” (Owen Alstott)
- [Communion] Look Beyond (Daryl Ducote)
- [Communion] One Bread, One Body (John Michael Talbot)
- [Communion] Bread of Angels (Curtis Stephan)
- [Communion] Gift of Finest Wheat (Robert Kreutz)
- [Communion] I Am the Bread of Life (Suzanne Toolan)
- [Ending Song] Let There Be Peace on Earth (Sy Miller / Jill Jackson)
- [Ending Song] How Can I Keep from Singing (Robert Lowry)