Memorial verses for your card

Miss Me But Let Me Go

When I come to the end of the road,And the sun has set for me,I want no rites in a gloom filled room,Why cry for a soul set free.Miss me a little, but not too long,And not with your head bowed low.Remember the love that we once shared,Miss me but let me go.· · ·

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep

Do not stand at my grave and weep,I am not there. I do not sleep,I am a thousand winds that blow,I am the diamond glints on snow,I am the sunlight on ripened grain,I am the gentle autumn rain,When you awaken in the morning’s hush,I am the swift uplifting rush,· · ·

I Am Standing On The Seashore

I am standing on the seashore.A ship at my side spreads her white sailsto the morning breeze and starts out for the blue ocean.She is an object of beauty and I stand and watch heruntil at length she fades on the far horizon.Then someone at my side says, “There, she has gone.”Gone where? Gone from my sight — that is all.She is just as large in mast, hull and spar· · ·

When I Must Leave You

When I must leave you for a little while,Please do not grieve and shed wild tearsAnd hug your sorrow to you through the years,But start out bravely with a gallant smile,And for my sake and in my name,Live on and do all things the same.Feed not your loneliness on empty days,But fill each waking hour in useful ways,· · ·

His Journey’s Just Begun

Don’t think of him as gone away,His journey’s just begun,Life holds so many facets,This earth is only one.Just think of him as restingFrom the sorrows and the tears,In a place of warmth and comfortWhere there are no days and years.· · ·

They say there is a reason,They say that time will heal,But neither time nor reason,Will change the way we feel,For no one knows the heartacheThat lies beyond our smiles,No one knows how many timesWe have broken down and cried,· · ·

I’d like the memory of meto be a happy one.I’d like to leave an afterglowof smiles when life is done.I’d like to leave an echowhispering softly down the ways,Of happy times and laughing timesand bright and sunny days.· · ·

Death Is Nothing At All

Death is nothing at all —I have only slipped away into the next room.Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.Call me by my old familiar name,speak to me in the easy way which you always used.Life means all that it ever meant.All is well.

When Tomorrow Starts Without Me

When tomorrow starts without me,And I’m not there to see;If the sun should rise and find your eyes,All filled with tears for me;I wish so much you wouldn’t cry,The way you did today,While thinking of the many thingsWe didn’t get to say.· · ·

Distance takes us far apart,And darkens my today.I have to keep remembering —You’re just a thought away.And though you’re not beside me,I can tap into my heart,And draw upon the warmth and loveThat lives when we’re apart.

Don’t Grieve For Me

Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free,I’m following the path God laid for me,I took His hand when I heard Him call,I turned my back and left it all.If my parting has left a void,Then fill it with remembered joy,A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss,Ah yes, these I too will miss.· · ·

A light from our household has gone,A voice we loved is stilled,A place is vacant in our home,That never can be filled.

No matter how life changes,No matter what we do,A special place within our heartsIs always kept for you.

Loved with a love beyond all telling,Missed with a grief beyond all tears.

Each time we look at your picture,You seem to smile and say,Don’t be sad but courage take,And love each other for my sake.

God called your name so softly,That only you could hear,And no one heard the footstepsOf Angels drawing near.The golden gates stood open,God saw you needed rest,His garden must be beautiful,He only takes the best.

Just a prayer from the family who loved you,Just a memory fond and true,In our hearts you will live forever,Because we thought the world of you.

They Shall Grow Not Old

They shall grow not old,As we that are left grow old,Age shall not weary them,Nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sunAnd in the morning,We will remember them.

It does not take a special dayFor me to think of you,Each Mass I hear, each prayer I say,Is offered up for you.

Those who die in grace go no further from usthan to God, and God is very near.

Lonely is the home without you,Life to us is not the same;All the world would be like Heaven,If we could have you back again.

It was a sudden parting,Too bitter to forget,Only those who loved youAre the ones who will never forget.

Your life was one of kindly deeds,A helping hand for other’s needs,Sincere and true in heart and mind,Beautiful memories left behind.

A silent grief that’s in our hearts,No human eye can trace,For many a broken heart is hidBeneath a smiling face.

The happy hours we once enjoyed,How sweet their memory still,But death has left a vacant placeThis world can never fill.

Say A Prayer

Each time you think of me,Remember would you please,Whether standing at a bus stopOr in Church on your knees.It doesn’t need to be a long one,A little one will do,But say a prayer, any prayer,And I will watch over you.

Acknowledgement Verse

Perhaps you sent a lovely card,Or sat quietly in a chair.Perhaps you sent a funeral spray,If so we saw it there.Perhaps you spoke the kindest words,As any friend could say.Perhaps you were not there at all,Just thought of us that day.· · ·

We hold you close within our hearts,And there you shall remain,To walk with us throughout our livesUntil we meet again.

Eternal Rest

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord,And let perpetual light shine upon her.May she rest in peace. Amen.

Hail Mary

Hail Mary, full of Grace,The Lord is with Thee,Blessed art Thou amongst women,And blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus.Holy Mary, Mother of God,Pray for us sinners,Now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

The Memorare

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection,implored thy help, or sought thy intercession, was left unaided.Inspired with this confidence I fly unto thee,O Virgin of Virgins, my Mother, to thee I come;before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful.O Mother of the Word Incarnate,despise not my petitions,· · ·

The Lord Is My Shepherd

The Lord is my shepherd, I’ll not want,He makes me down to lie,In pastures green he leadeth me,The quiet waters by.My soul he doth restore again,And me to walk doth make,Within the paths of righteousness,E’en for his own name’s sake.· · ·

Prayer of Saint Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;Where there is hatred, let me sow love;Where there is injury, pardon;Where there is doubt, faith;Where there is despair, hope;Where there is darkness, light;And where there is sadness, joy.

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenityTo accept the things I cannot change,The courage to change the things I can,And the wisdom to know the difference.

We give our loved ones back to God,And just as He first gave them to usand did not lose them in the giving,so we have not lost them in returning them to Him,For life is eternal, love is immortal,death is only a horizon,and a horizon is nothingbut the limit of our earthly sight.

There is a home that lies beyond,And past its golden doorAwaits the one who’s now away,Not lost — just gone before.And in that home that lies beyondThe Master will prepareA place for you, and when He callsYou’ll meet your loved one there.

There comes a time for all of usWhen we must say good-bye,But faith and hope and love and trustCan never, never die.Although the curtain falls at last,Is that a cause to grieve?The future’s fairer than the pastIf only we believe.· · ·

O God, the creator and Redeemer of all the faithful,grant to the souls of Thy servants departedthe full remission of their sins,that through pious supplicationsthey may obtain the pardon they have always desired.Who livest and reignest world without end. Amen.

O Sweet Jesus, for the sake of Thy bitter Passionand the sorrows of Thy Immaculate Mother,have mercy on his soul and let the lightof Thy countenance shine upon him.

I Am At Home In Heaven

I am at home in Heaven, dear ones,Oh, so happy and so bright,There is perfect joy and beautyIn this everlasting light.All the pain and grief is over,Every restless yearning passed,I am now at peace forever,Safely home in Heaven at last.· · ·

You can only have one mother,Patient, kind and true;No other friend in all the worldWill be the same to you.When other friends forsake you,To mother you will return,For all her loving kindness,She asks nothing in return.· · ·

Gone from our home that smiling face,The happy cheerful ways,The heart that won so many friendsIn bygone happy days.In dreams we see her smiling face,And kiss her tender brow,But in our aching hearts we know,We have no mother now.· · ·

We sat beside your bedside,Our hearts were crushed and sore;We did our duty to the end,’Til we could do no more.In tears we watched you sinking,We watched you fade away;And though our hearts were breaking,We knew you could not stay.· · ·

Softly in the morning,You heard a gentle call,You took the hand God offered you,And quietly left us all.The day you left us, mother,Our hearts just broke in two,The smallest part is still with us,And the biggest part with you.· · ·

We miss your smile, your joking ways,We miss the things you used to say,And when the old times we do recall,It’s then we miss you most of all.

We lost a father with a heart of gold,How much we miss him can never be told.He shared our troubles and helped us along,If we follow his footsteps we will never go wrong.We miss you from your fireside chair,Your loving smile and gentle air,Your vacant place no one can fill,We miss you, father, and always will.

He was a father so very rare,Content in his home and always there.On earth he toiled, in heaven he rests,God bless you, father, you were one of the best.

Pray for us, O dearest father,To Jesus Christ, our King;That He may bless our lonely homeWhere thou once dwelt therein.And pray that God may give us strengthTo bear our heavy cross;For no one knows but only HeThe treasure we have lost.

As we look upon your picture,Sweet memories we recallOf a face so full of sunshineAnd a smile for one and all.Sweet Jesus, take this messageTo our dear father up above,Tell him how we miss him,And give him all our love.

He never thought when leaving homeHe would never more return,That he in death so soon would sleepAnd leave us here alone.

I’ll Lend You A Child

I’ll lend you for a little while a child of mine, God said,For you to love the while he lives, and mourn for when he’s dead.It may be six or seven years, or forty-two or three.But will you, till I call him back, take care of him for me.He’ll bring his charms to gladden you, and should his stay be brief,You’ll always have his memories as a solace for your grief.I cannot promise he will stay, since all from earth return,But there are lessons taught below I want this child to learn.· · ·

Not gone from Daddy’s memory,Not gone from Mammy’s love,But gone to shine with JesusIn His beautiful home above.

Our Lady wished a pretty flowerTo lay at Jesus’ feet,Her choice was of the fairest,A lily pure and sweet.She gazed amid the little ones,And stopped to pick the best,Our dear one was the chosen one,With Jesus now she rests.

Hold him, O Jesus, in Thy arms,And let him henceforth beA messenger of love betweenOur human hearts and Thee.

Jesus walked with his beautiful MotherIn the Heavenly Gardens one day,He looked down at millions of children,Sleeping, toddling or at play.The Blessed Virgin said, “His parents love him,His family does too,But I’ll mind him and keep him safe,Wrapped up in my mantle of blue.”