Have you ever heard a song at mass that moved you to tears?

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Holy God We Praise Thy Name

is much abused, but it is a very stirring traditional hymn.

It doesn’t work for me unless we sing about 3 stanzas, at least.

I hate the whole modern concept that music is just functional and fills in the gaps. That is just a lie to begin with, as far as I’m concerned.

I love to hear the choirs of the Vatican. They are superbly trained. I don’t always know what they’re singing.

I like the entire Messiah by GF Handel. I have the version of the choir of St. Martin in the Field, conducted by Neville Mariner (?).
It has the full richness of all the major voices and choirs. And, therein, I like all the songs. The Hallelujah Chorus does not stand out to me, because the other songs / hymns are too powerful.

“I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the later day upon the earth.”

“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain [and hath redeemed us by His blood] to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and blessing and glory.” (or whatever the verse is)
 
Our choir on Holy Thursday sings a work which we all have trouble getting through without getting totally choked up.

Some of the words are: “My Father let this cup pass from me!”
“Yet not my will, O Lord yet not my will, but Thy will be done.”

Of course all of the compositions of Panis Angelicus and Ave Verum leave me a little teary eyed also.
 
Here I Am, Lord (played during our Rite of the Elect)

Gather Us In (sung in one of the first Masses I ever attended)

I Am The Bread Of Life (we heard this in a Protestant church years ago)

It’s Time To Hold The Baby ( My daughter sang it the Sunday after Christmas, and it brought a lot of people, not just me, to tears–a Catholic song written by me when I was Protestant.)

As for the old hymns and chants–well, they’re interesting musically, but I’m usually concentrating too hard on correctly pronouncing the words to get emotional. Brain overrules heart, I guess.
 
Mother Dear O Pray for Me.

Each time we sing, “Mother Dear, remember me, and never cease your care…” I always get emotional.
 
Crumpy said:
Holy God We Praise Thy Name

is much abused, but it is a very stirring traditional hymn.

It doesn’t work for me unless we sing about 3 stanzas, at least.

I hate the whole modern concept that music is just functional and fills in the gaps. That is just a lie to begin with, as far as I’m concerned.

I love to hear the choirs of the Vatican. They are superbly trained. I don’t always know what they’re singing.

I like the entire Messiah by GF Handel. I have the version of the choir of St. Martin in the Field, conducted by Neville Mariner (?).
It has the full richness of all the major voices and choirs. And, therein, I like all the songs. The Hallelujah Chorus does not stand out to me, because the other songs / hymns are too powerful.

“I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the later day upon the earth.”

“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain [and hath redeemed us by His blood] to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and blessing and glory.” (or whatever the verse is)
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You heard Handel’s Messiah during Mass? That must have been a long Mass! 🙂

Don’t get me wrong–a choral union in our city has performed Handel’s Messiah for 67 years now, and I’ve been involved since I was a child.

rockfordchoralunion.org/about-the-music.html

Click on this link, and you can click on “Hear Us” to hear our Hallelujah Chorus–join in! And be blessed!

Obviously I love this music and yes, it moves me to tears. And I think that it’s wonderful when choirs or soloists are able to perform various selections from Handels’ Messiah as part of Mass; my daughter sang “Rejoice Greatly” for a Christmas Eve Mass as a prelude a few years ago. (Problem–people applauded wildly! That’s what happens these days in the U.S. when someone does really good music in a Catholic Mass. We’re just not used to it.)

My answer to the OP’s question is “Here I Am, Lord.” This was a song that was used by the Holy Spirit to convict both my husband of our need to come home to the Catholic Church (we were evangelical Protestant for the first 47 years of our lives).

I also got very emotional the first time I heard “Gather Us In,” and I still love this hymn. The concept of all the different people being gathered together in Christ is a very powerful one.
 
krazykatlady said:
Our choir on Holy Thursday sings a work which we all have trouble getting through without getting totally choked up.

Some of the words are: “My Father let this cup pass from me!”
“Yet not my will, O Lord yet not my will, but Thy will be done.”

Of course all of the compositions of Panis Angelicus and Ave Verum leave me a little teary eyed also.
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Oh I love t those too! I also love “Adoremus Te Christe”. That one seriously brings me to tears. I HAD the Latin Mass Classics CD until my son ‘borrowed’ it! LOL! I’ll have to get another one. Such beautiful music! Also, there is another version of “Ave Maria” performed by Chanticleer and written by, I think, Beible? Can’t remember offhand, but it is sublime.
 
VAC said:
Please tell me the name of the song, and if possible the composer
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At communion once…this was sung solo…I have been searching for the title…I went something like…“How beautiful, is the body of Christ…”

I went teary…just thinking of the Host…being the Body, blood soul and divinity of Christ.

And also, the Ave Maria…by Schudert…sung in a wedding when the newly married couple offers flowers to the BVM.
 
I always get choked up by “Amazing Grace”. “I once was lost but now am found…was blind but now I see.”
 
Chant: Dies irae
Polyphony: Miserere (Allegri)
Romantic era classic “Requiem” (Faure)
Modern era classic “Requiem” (Rutter, certain movements)
Contemporary Song: “Untitled Song: Come to Jesus” Chris Rice
Contemporary Catholic Song: “These alone are enough for me” Dan Schutte
Gospel/Spiritual: “Canticle of Mary” Leon Roberts (RIP)
Christmas: “I heard the bells on Christmas Day” Longfellow/Calkins
Holy Thursday: “Pange Lingua” Ricky Manalo
Good Friday: Improperia - Victoria
Easter: Three Days- text: MD Ridge/Thaxted (Holst)

I cry a lot
 
Pablope Blessed Herman the Cripple is credited with writting that song back in the early 1000’s - Salve Regina.

“How great Thou art” made me cry a few weeks ago and it reminds me of my grandmother who played it all the time.
 
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