Funeral Hymns
Pick 6 Hymns (5 + 1 extra as may be needed for Communion).
Hymns outlined are only suggestions for parts of the mass. The hymns can be placed elsewhere if preferred.
Entrance
- How Great Thou Art
- Morning Has Broken
- Amazing Grace
- Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
- Here I Am Lord
- Queen of The May
- Bring Flowers of The Rarest
- Sweet Heart of Jesus
- Abide With Me
Psalm
(these hymns are specific to the Psalm but can be used elsewhere in the Ceremony)
- Eagles Wings
- Hiding Place
- You are Mine
- Here I am Lord
- The Lord is my Shepard
- Be Not Afraid
- Clouds Veil
- Hiding Place
- You Are Near
- Only in God
- You Raise Me Up
Offertory
(shorter piece of music)
- Eat This Bread
- Ag Criost an Siol
- Ave Maria – Schubert
- As I Kneel Before You
- In Bread We Bring You Lord
- Take Our Bread
Communion
(pick 2)
- Pie Jesu
- Panis Angelicus
- The Clouds Veil
- Be Still My Soul
- Be Still for the Presence of the Lord
- Like a Shepherd
- Hiding Place
- Lady of Knock
- You Raise Me Up
- I Watch the Sunrise
- Down to the River to Pray
- I’ll Sing a Hymn to Mary
- We Come to You Lord Jesus
- In the Quiet
- Listen
- There is a Place
- Voice of an Angel – Liam Lawton
- Be Though Thy Vision
- Amazing Grace
- Set Your Heart on the Higher Gifts
Leaving / Recessional Hymns
- May the Road Rise to Meet You
- Nearer my God to Thee
- Time to Say Goodbye
- Go Silent Friend (Air of Danny Boy)
- Going Home
Music for Civil / Non Denominational Ceremonies
- Water is Wide
- Time to Say Goodbye
- Wind Beneath my Wings
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters
- Wonderful World
- Tears in Heaven
- The Prayer
- The Rose
- Smile – Barbara Streisand
- In My Life – Beatles
- Fields of Gold – Eva Cassidy
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow – Eva Cassidy
- Flying Without Wings
- She Moved Through the Fair
- Isle of Innis Free
- Grace
- Danny Boy
- Remember Me – Christy Hennessy
- The Voyage – Christy Moore
- First Time I Ever Saw Your Face
- Songbird – Eva Cassidy
- Hallelujah – Alexandra Burke
- Know You by Heart – Eva Cassidy
- No Frontiers – Mary Black
- Moon River – Audrey Hepburn
- Summertime – Ella Fitzgerald
- Black is the Colour – Cara Dillon
- Annie’s Song – John Denver
- You’ll Never Walk Alone
- Wonderful World
- Wings – Birdy
- Yesterday – Beatles
- Not About Angels – Birdy
- The One – Kodaline
- Chasing Cars – Snow Patol
- Halleujah – Jeff Buckleys Version (lyrics Changed)
- Into My Arms – Nick Cave (some lyrics Changed)
- Tears in Heaven
- All I Want – Kodaline
- Wintersong – Sarah McLoughlan
- Fix You – Cold Play
- You Raise Me Up – Westlife
- This I Promise You – Donna Targart
- Feels Like Home – Chantel Kreviazuk
- Run – Snowpatrol
- May It Be – Hayley Westerna (Lord of the Rings)
- Voice of an Angel – Liam Lawton
- Jealous of the Angles – Jen Bostic
- Arms of the Angels – Sarah Mc Loughlan
- Gabriel’s Oboe (Whispers In a Dream)
- Angels – Robbie Williams
- Sonny – Mary Black
- Take me Back again Kathleen
- Vale of Avoca
- My Way