Thesaurus
Musicus (c 1743)
All
sing
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
OH, say can you see by the
dawnís early light
What
so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming?
Whose
broad stripes and bright star through the perilous fight,
Oíer
the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And
the rocketís red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave
proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh,
say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
Oíer
the land of the free and the home of the brave?
To Anacreon in Heaven†††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† Francis
Scott Key
All remain standing.†
The very Reverend Dr Wesley Carr, Dean of Westminster, says
THE BIDDING
The
world has been shaken by the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania
on 11th September.† Among
those who died that morning were British men and women of different backgrounds
and faiths.† They have been remembered
at services both in the United States and in Great Britain.† Now we come finally to Westminster Abbey, at
the heart of the nation.† We come as the
families of those who were on that morning rushed into eternity; their
colleagues in work and their friends from all over the world.† We also come as a nation, led by our
Sovereign, to commemorate fellow citizens and to say farewell.
We
give thanks to God for the police, ambulance staff and fire fighters, and for
all who daily live with danger and risk death to save others.† We remember those who died, too, and honour
their courage.† And for all who have
supported the bereaved in their loss, neighbours and friends, and in particular
the Family Liaison Officers, we give thanks.
In
our personal and particular grief we pray for our world: for peace, for
freedom, for justice, for the rule of law.†
And we look for a new spirit in the hearts of men and women everywhere,
looking forward to the time when evil, violence and war shall be no more, and
when all may live confidently and in peace.
All remain standing
to sing
THE HYMN
God is Love: let heavín adore
him;
God is Love: let earth
rejoice;
Let creation sing before
him,
And exalt him with one voice
He who laid the earthís
foundation,
He who spread the heavíns
above,
He who breathes through all
creation,
He is Love, eternal Love.
God is Love: and he
enfoldeth
All the world in one
embrace;
With unfailing grasp he
holdeth
Every child of every race.
And when human hearts are
breaking
Under sorrowís iron rod,
Then they find that selfsame
aching
Deep within the heart of
God.
God is Love: and though with
blindness
Sin afflicts the souls of
men,
Godís eternal
loving-kindness
Holds and guides them even
then.
Sin and death and hell shall
never
Oíer us final triumph gain;
God is Love, so Love forever
Oíer the universe must
reign.
Abbotís Leigh 356 AMNS††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† ††††† Timothy Rees (1874 ñ 1939)
Cyril
Taylor (19701 ñ 91)
All
sit.† The Right Honourable Tony Blair,
MP, Prime Minister, reads
ROMANS 8: 35-39
WHO
will separate us from the love of Christ?†
Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword?† As it is written, ëFor
your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be
slaughtered.í
No,
in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.† For I am convinced that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, no rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able
to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
This
is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks
be to God.
All
remain seated.† The choir sings.
PSALM 23
The Lord is my
shepherd:† I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in
green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he
leadeth me in the paths of righteousness, for his nameís sake.
Yea, though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for though art with me;
thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Lennox Berkeley (1903 ñ 89)†††††††††††††††††† †† †††††††††††††††††††††††††††† ††††††Psalm 23: 1 ñ 4
All remain seated.† Dame Judi Dench
DBE, reads
REMEMBER
REMEMBER me when I am gone
away,
Gone far away into the
silent land,
When you can no more hold me
by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go, yet
turning stay.
Remember me when no more,
day by day,
You tell me of our future
that you planned;
Only remember me; you
understand
It will be too late to
counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me
for a while
And afterwards remember, do
not grieve;
For if the darkness and
corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts
that once I had,
Better by far you should
forget and smile
Than that you should
remember and be sad.
Christina Georgina Rossetti
(1830 ñ 1894)
TIME is too short for those
who wait
Too swift for those who
fear.
Too long for those who
grieve,
To short for those who
rejoice.
But for those who love, time
is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke (1852 ñ 1933)
American Author and Clergyman
All remain seated.† The Choir sings
THE ANTHEM
SET me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon
thine arm: for love is strong as death.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the
floods drown it.
Set me as a seal upon thine heart: for love is
strong as death.
William Walton (1902 ñ 83)†††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† †††††††††††††††† Song of Songs 8: 6 ñ 7
All remain seated for
THE ADDRESS
The Most Reverend and Right
Honourable Dr George Carey
Lord Archbishop of
Canterbury
Primate of All England and
Metropolitan
All stand to sing
THE HYMN
DEAR Lord and Father of
mankind,
Forgive our foolish ways!
Re-clothe us in our rightful
mind,
In purer lives they service
find,
In deeper reverence, praise.
In simple trust like theirs who heard,
Beside the Syrian sea,
The gracious calling of the Lord,
Let us, like them, without a word,
Rise up and follow thee.
O Sabbath rest by Galilee!
O calm of hills above,
Where Jesus knelt to share with thee
The silence of eternity
Interpreted by love!
Drop thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of thye peace.
Breath through the heats of our desire
Thy coolness and thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,
O still, small voice of calm.
Repton
353 NEH†††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† John
Greenleaf Whittier, 1872
C
Hubert H Parry (1848 ñ 1918)
All
remains standing.† The Representatives of
the various faith and church communities stand with the Canon in Residence on
the top step of the Sacrarium.† The
Reverend David Hutt, Canon, in Residence and Sub-Dean, says:
MY friends, I invite you on
behalf of your faith communities to affirm your commitment to seeking light
amid darkness, hope and despair and love in place of hate.
Each
says in turn:
From the Roman Catholic Church, I, Cormac,
a Christian;
From the Jewish synagogues, I Alan, A Jew;
From the Free Churches, I, Anthony, a Christian;
From the Mosques, I, Fatema, A Muslim;
From the Church of England, I George, a Christian;
The
Participants say together:
Affirm with my brothers and sisters,
Our belief in justice for everyone;
Our hope for peace between peoples and nations;
Our continued faith in the possibility of a new
world,
Our commitment to live at east with our neighbours.
Canon
Hutt says:
MAY Almighty God who has given us the vision, also
inspire our wills to do these things.
All
say: Amen.
All sit. The Reverend Dominic Fenton, Precentor of
Westminster Abbey, leads
THE PRAYERS
Let
us pray:
ETERNAL and gracious God, hear the prayer we offer
for families, friends and colleagues, and for all who in recent days have
endured the sorrow of separation from those they love.† Hold them in their grief, defend them from
despair; and may they now and always trust in your unfailing love.
Lord,
in your mercy:
Hear
our prayer.
GOD of power and love, we
praise you for the men and women in the emergency services; for their skill and
courage; we remember with gratitude the risks they took on September 11th
and the losses that they suffered.† In
your mercy, protect all who daily risk their lives for the good and safety of
others.
Lord,
in your mercy:
Hear
our prayer.
ETERNAL God, in these dark days and anxious times:
deliver us from evil, deepen our faith and calm our fears, that with patient
confidence and trust we may pursue the ways of justice and peace.
Lord,
in your mercy:
Hear
our prayer.
All
remain seated.† The Choir sings:
GOD be in my head, and in my understanding;
God be in mine eyes, and in my looking;
God be in my mouth, and in my speaking;
God by in my heart, and in my thinking;
God be at mind end, and at my departing.
Henry
Walford Davies (1869 ñ 1941)††††††††††††††††††††† †††††††††††††††† Pynsonís Horae, 1514
The
Precentor continues:
O LORD, support us all the day long of this troublous
life, until the shades lengthen and the evening comes; the busy world is
hushed, the fever of life is over and our work is done.† Then Lord, in they mercy, grant us safe
lodging, a holy rest, and peace at the last, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Amen.
After John Henry Newman (1801 ñ 90)
All stand to sing
THE HYMN
During which the flag
bearers retrieve their flags
and process to the West end
of the church, and the Choir
moves to stand by the West
Door.
THE day though gavest, Lord, is ended,
The darkness falls at thy behest;
To thee our morning hymns ascended,
They praise shall sanctify our rest.
We thank that thy Church unsleeping,
While earth rolls onward into light,
Through all the world her watch is keeping,
And rests not now by day or night.
As oíer each continent and island
The dawn leads on another day,
The voice of prayer is never silent,
Nor dies the strain of praise away.
The sun that bids us rest is waking
Our brethren ëneath the western sky,
And hour by hour fresh lips are making
They wondrous doings heard on high.
So be it, Lord; they throne shall never,
Like earthís proud empires, pass away;
They kingdom stands, and grows for ever,
Till all they creatures own thy sway.
St
Clement 252 NEH
Clement
Scholefield (1839 ñ 1904)††††††††††††††††††††††††† †††††††††† John Ellerton (1826 ñ 93)
All
remain standing.† The Dean says
THE BLESSING
GOD be your comfort and strength, your hope and
support, your light and your way; and may God, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer,
bless you and keep you, and all those whom you love and remember this day, now
and forever.† Amen.
All remain standing.† A member from
each family holds a rose for
AN ACT OF REMEMBRANCE
The
Dean says:
AT the blowing of the wind and in the decay of
autumn; in the chill of winter, and the promise of spring, under the blue sky
and in the warmth of summer:
We remember then.
At the dawn of day and at the setting of the sun:
We remember then.
With joys we long to share and with sorrows we bar
alone in work we have to do and life we have to live:
We remember them.
With thankfulness and regrets,
With memories of the past and hopes for the future,
For all that was and all that might have been:
We remember them.
Silence
is kept.
All
remain standing.† The Dean continues:
By their deaths, these members of our families and
our fellow citizens have added to the sum of the worldís innocent victims.† As we commend them to God, we remember their
colleagues and friends fro mother nations who also died and those throughout
the world who are suffering in innocence.
In
the faith of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, we comment do God
the souls of all whom we remember this day.
Silence
is kept.
All
remain standing. The Dean and Chapter escort Her Majesty The Queen and other
members of the Royal Family through the Abbey to the memorial to Innocent
Victims outside the Great West Door.†
Her Majesty moves to the memorial to Innocent Victims, where she leaves
her posy.† The families follow
immediately.† At the memorial the
families leave their flower as a symbol of their deceased relative.† They may, if they so choose, name him or her
as they do so.
The
Choir sings
FUNERAL IKOS
The
words are taken from an Orthodox rite.†
They are severely realistic.† But
each verse concludes with four Alleluias, expressing confidence that whatever
our situation, whether in life or death, God is present and to be praised.
WHY these bitter words of the
dying,
O
bretheren, which they utter as the go hence?
I
am parted from brethren.
All
my friends do I abandon, and go hence.
But
whither I go, that understand I not, neither
What
shall become of me yonder; only God
Who
hath summoned me knoweth.
But
make commemoration of me with the song:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
But
whither no go the souls?
How
dwell they now together there?
This
mystery have I desired to learn,
But
none can impart aright.
Do
they call to mind their own people, as we do them?
Or
have they forgotten all those who mourn them and make song:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
We
go forth on the path eternal, and as condemned,
With
downcast faces,
Present
ourselves before the only God, eternal.
Where
then is comeliness?
Where
then is wealth?
Where
then is the glory of this world?
There
shall none of these things aid us,
But
only to say oft the psalm:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
If
though has shown mercy unto man,
O
man that same mercy shall be shown thee there,
And
if on an orphan though hast shown compassion,
The
same shall there deliver thee from want.
If
in this life the naked though hast clothed,
The
small shall give thee shelter there, and sing the psalm:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Youth
and the beauty of the body fade at the hour of death,
And
the tongue then burneth fiercely,
And
the parched throat inflamed.
The
beauty of the eyes is quenched then,
The
comeliness of the face all altered,
The
shapeliness of the neck destroyed;
And
the other parts have become numb,
Nor
often say:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
With
ecstasy are we inflamed
If
we but hear that there is light eternal yonder;
That
there is Paradise,
Wherein
every soul of Righteous Ones rejoiceth.
Let
us all, also, enter into Christ, that all we may cry
aloud
thus unto God:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
John
Tavener (b 1944) †††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† †††††††††††††††Orthodox Funeral Rite
Music
after the service:
Passacaglia
in C minor (BWV 582)††††††††††††††††††† †††††††††††††† ††††††††††††J.S.Bach
As
the congregation leaves a Half-Muffled peal of bells is rung.
Members
of the Congregation are asked to remain in their places until invited by the
stewards to move.
Scripture readings are from
the New Revised Standard Version. Copyright Hymns printed by permission of
Oxford University Press and Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd.
