Funeral Hymns choice

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Have you chosen your funeral hymns?

When my dear mother died she left a list of what hymns and readings she would prefer this was a great blessing to us in preparing funeral rites.

Fr Gerald O’Collins SJ has chosen his (click here to see his choice)

Any thought on what yours would be?🙂
 
Godric2 said:
Have you chosen your funeral hymns?

When my dear mother died she left a list of what hymns and readings she would prefer this was a great blessing to us in preparing funeral rites.

Fr Gerald O’Collins SJ has chosen his (click here to see his choice)

Any thought on what yours would be?🙂
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What I would like and what can be done may be two different things, as the choice may be limited by the list given by the parish.

I would love to have “Pie Jesu” by Andrew Lloyd Wright played and sung, but I don’t think there is anyone in my parish who could do justice to it.

In any case, I will leave this up to my children, because they are the ones who will derive comfort from the funeral Mass and I won’t be around in an earthly sense to hear it.
 
No, I haven’t selected anything. Which hymns are picked hasn’t been something I’ve felt was important thus far in my life.
 
Yes, I have selected. I’m hoping I still live near to the professional musicians I know to pull it off.
My recently deceased sister is not so lucky.
I’m still trying to locate someone to play at her funeral 2000 miles form me. 😦
 
CB_Catholic said:
What I would like and what can be done may be two different things, as the choice may be limited by the list given by the parish.

I would love to have “Pie Jesu” by Andrew Lloyd Wright played and sung, but I don’t think there is anyone in my parish who could do justice to it.

In any case, I will leave this up to my children, because they are the ones who will derive comfort from the funeral Mass and I won’t be around in an earthly sense to hear it.
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I read this and went “WHAT?!?!” and read it again and again and on the fourth read I realized that it said Andrew Lloyd WRIGHT and not Webber. 😃
 
Phemie said:
I read this and went “WHAT?!?!” and read it again and again and on the fourth read I realized that it said Andrew Lloyd WRIGHT and not Webber. 😃
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Yeah, I realized that much later. 😊 Sorry about that. Anyway, it’s one of my favorites.
 
Abide with me

Here I am Lord

Soul of my Saviour

Holy God we praise thy name
 
pianistclare said:
Yes, I have selected. I’m hoping I still live near to the professional musicians I know to pull it off.
My recently deceased sister is not so lucky.
I’m still trying to locate someone to play at her funeral 2000 miles form me. 😦
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I’m so sorry for your loss. :gopray2:
 
Mary_Ellen said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. :gopray2:
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Thank you so much. My remaining sister who is making the arrangements told the priest that she specified no music. This is a lie. She selected specific hymns. I offers to pay the musician fee…overnight t t them even, and the priest said no. No music. I have the programs she designed to prove it…but executor sister is telling everyone she left no instructions. She’s even having her cremated against her wishes
I guess the moral of the story is…make sure your music director and priest have copies of what you want, or it won’t happen…
 
My FIL has picked “What Wondrous Love is This.”

For me, I like “The King of Love,” somebody already mention. But the one song I want is “When the Saints Go Marching In,” and I do not mean sung like a dirge.
 
Opening Hymn: O God, Our Help in Ages Past

Responsorial Psalm: Marty Haugen’s setting of Psalm 23 (all verses!)

Offertory: Great Is Thy Faithfulness - by Thomas Obadiah Chisolm

Mass Parts: not too particular on this.

Communion: I am the Bread of Life by Suzanne Toolan

incense the Body: May Songs of the Angels by Dufford

Recessional: Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
 
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