Funeral Music
Funeral Music Suggestions
The music at funerals should support, console, and uplift the participants and should 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, 32)
To aid in the planning of your loved one’s funeral, a list of music is provided below. Click on the title to listen to a sample of the music. You will be directed to YouTube or a music publisher’s website. Once you arrive there, look for a “listen,” “listen preview,” “play” icon or simply click on the title.
Gathering, Communion or Recessional Songs (Choose three from this category)
10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord) (Redman)
Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone) (Tomiln)
Be Not Afraid (Dufford)
Canticle of the Sun (Haugen)
City of God by Dan Schutte
Eye has Not Seen (Haugen)
For all the Saints Tune: SINE NOMINE
Gather Us In (Haugen)
Gift of Finest Wheat (Westendorf)
Here I Am, Lord (Schutte)
How Can I Keep From Singing (Lowry)
How Great Thou Art (Hine)
I Am the Bread of Life (Toolan)
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say Tune: KINGSFOLD
I Know that My Redeemer Lives (Soper)
I Want to Walk As a Child of the Light (Thomerson)
In This Place (Thompson)
Lord of All Hopefulness Tune: SLANE
On Eagles Wings (Joncas)
Prayer of St. Francis (Temple)
Sing with All the Saints in Glory Tune: ODE TO JOY
Soon and Very Soon (Crouch)
The King of Love My Shepherd Is (Baker)
The Servant Song (Gillard)
Take and Eat (Quinn/Joncas)
We Shall Rise Again (Young)
Suggested Psalms (Choose one from this category)
Psalm 23
The Lord is My Shepherd by Josh Blakesley
Shepherd Me, O God (Haugen)
The Lord is My Shepherd/ I Shall Live in the House (Crandal)
Psalm 25
To You, O Lord (Haugen)
Psalm 27
The Goodness of the Lord (Soper)
Psalm 103
The Lord is Kind and Merciful (Haugen)
The Lord is Kind and Merciful (Cotter)
Final Commendation (Choose one from this category)
Song of Farewell (Come to his/her aid) (Smolarski)
Go Forth in Peace (O'Brien)