Top Catholic Songs

Thank You Mother Mary.

Love is very patient, very kind - St Paul, 1 Corinthians 13.

Free to use Responsorial Psalm. Psalm 33 for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C. Oct 26, 2025. The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

Music by Erwin Cabucos from the Catholic Church Hymns. See chords sheet, attached. This video here https://youtu.be/um0HZQ3Lh-o has lyrics and chords.

 

ALL holy, everlasting light,
Our hope in our exile  night
though frail, we now confess your name
and beg you, hear our humble prayer.

O Spirit renew and reform us
Teach us how in you to pray

Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566) was a Spanish Dominican friar who, shocked by human rights violations he saw in Central and South America, spent most of his life in an unpopular fight for better conditions for indigenous and enslaved people in the New World. One of his major works, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, helped lead to reform in how these people were treated. His life still provides an example of Catholic social teaching in action, and shows the need for us to stand up today for defenseless victims at all stages of life.

Instrumentation: Voice, guitar, bass
Duration: 1’

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UPDATED... 2025-10-15 00:58

Changed Hug You, Love you...etc 
to
With you, Love you, Your joy I'll be.

Also, I toned down the singing a little on the last line.

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Here I present a lyrics update to the pro-life song, "Small Space, No Face".

Small space, no face, with you Im here,
Take form, so warm, Soon I will hear
Grow feet, heart beat, I’m just like you,
My face, In place, I love you too.

My wall, so small, Inside I hide
Touch you, press you, Feel me inside, 

Instrumentation: SATB chorus, brass quintet
Duration: 2’30”

G                                               Cm13
You might see Him through the window
G                               Cm13
Wandering around in the cold

Responsorial Psalm for the 19th of October 2025, 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C

Offertory Hymn
 

I have always liked this song, but I did not realise that it was composed by a priest in India.

Rev Father Aniceto Nazareth from the archidioce of Mumbai composed this song as part of his repertoire in saying masses at his local diocese.

Fr Nazareth did  not have a formal training in music. His colleagues attested that his talents in composition emanated from his strong interest in music and the desire to use highly suitable and affective tunes at different parts of the Eucharist.

He died in 2021.

This is my rendition of Fr Nazareth's beautiful hymn.

 

Responsorial Psalms 97 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power

 

1) Deep in the subway night
We heard a baby’s  cry    
With bombs blasting loud above
We heard a mothers lullaby
Sweet and full of love
Grace falling on all of us

2) We all joined her love song
And through her love we became strong
By a baby’s loud cry
And a mom’s sweet lullaby

Jesus Living in Mary is a classic Marian hymn that is popularly used during prayers for the Holy Rosary, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Peace, Notre Dame, Immaculate Conception, Guadalupe and Medjugorhe.

I like the reverent yet lively tone of this hymn. Not too long, not too short. It is the right length to feel a little break when saying long prayers. 

The lyrics are simple and easily understood. This song can work as a children's hymn yet will make a great choice as a congregation hymn for Marian liturgies. Most of all, it is easy to play on guitar as the chord progression is predictable.

The chord sheet is attached here, using A on capo 3.

 

Luke 16:26

Instrumentation: Voice, string quartet
Duration: 1’

E♭m6       A♭m
There’s a chasm
E♭m6                          A♭m
Between heaven and hell
Emaj13        Bmaj7
No one can cover the distance

 

Small Space, No Face - a pro-life song written from the perspective of an unborn child in the womb.

 1 ) You are the Lord  of mercy                                                                    
Help us to  see
How we all need your gracious mercy
Spirit of truth and love help me to be 
Mercy to everyone as you are with me

REFRAIN 
**You are the Lord of mercy
To all who seek  the Truth

For the month of the Holy Rosary. See chord sheet attached.

This 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalms is taken from Psalm 94. Feel free to use this music from Catholic Church Hymns.  Simple and easy to sing. The chords are in the video itself. All the best. 

 

Instrumentation: Voice, ukulele, cello
Duration: 1’

A capella
I’m a starving mess
Lying in the dirt
I’m eyeing the husks
Ransom me

Dm                    A7
I’m a splintered wreck
G                    Dm
Sinking in the depths
Em                    Dm

'Daily, daily sing to Mary, sing my soul her praises due' was first writen by the French monk St Bernard Cluny in the 12th century. It was later adopted into English and included in the Christian hymbook Paderborn Gesangbuch in 1765.