Music

Music is an integral part of most funeral services whether religious or otherwise offering solace at a most difficult time.

For religious services we can arrange soloists, organists and other musicians as required. Funeral ceremonies in Christian churches will generally be required to only have religious music and hymns during the service. A selection of suggested hymns and psalms for the Catholic Funeral Mass can be viewed below.

Non-religious and civil services can have live performed or pre-recorded music (on CD or electronic format).

A committal service in the crematorium (following a religious service in a church) provides a family with the opportunity to play an appropriate piece of non-religious music (on CD or electronic format). Live performances at the crematorium can also be arranged.

Pipers or other musicians can also be arranged for the graveside at cemetery burials.

Suggested Hymns for Catholic Funerals:

Entrance

• How Great Thou Art
• Ave Maria
• Panis Angelicus
• Nearer My God to Thee
• Be Still For The Presence Of The Lord
• Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace
• Morning Has Broken
• Abide With Me
• Going Home
• Amazing Grace
• Bright Blue Rose
• Christ Beside Me

Responsorial Psalm

• Be Not Afraid
• On Eagles Wings
• The Lord Is My Shepherd
• Song of Ruth (Wherever I Go)
• Here I Am Lord
• The Lord Is My Shepherd
• Mo Ghrá Thú a Thiarna (Hiding Place)

Offertory

• Ag Críost an tSíol
• The Cloud’s Veil
• How Great Thou Art
• All That I Am
• I am The Bread Of Life
• Panis Angelicus
• Ave Maria
• Ave Verum
• Lay Your Hands Gently Upon Us
• Mo Ghrá Thú A Thiarna (Hiding Place)
• As I Kneel Before You
• You Raise Me Up

Communion

• Pie Jesu
• I Watch The Sunrise
• Ave Verum
• Morning Has Broken
• How Great Thou Art
• Ave Maria
• All That I Am
• Feels Like Home
• Fields of Gold
• Songbird
• Time After Time
• In The Arms of an Angel
• Tears In Heaven
• You Raise Me Up
• The Rose
• Lady of Knock
• Danny Boy
• Memory (Cats)

Recessional

• Goin’ Home
• Nearer My God To Thee
• Morning Has Broken
• Abide With Me
• How Great Thou Art
• All That I Am
• Hail Queen of Heaven
• Raglan Road
• You’ll Never Walk Alone
• Danny Boy
• Hallelujah
• The Voyage (Christy Moore)
• Amazing Grace

For more information or to talk to one of our experienced funeral directors, please call us on 071 9159999 or email funerals@feehilys.ie