ORDER OF SERVICE

Antiphon (together): I place all my trust in You my God: All my hope is in your saving word.

Priest: Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord: Lord, hear my voice. People: O let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleading.

Priest: If You, O Lord, should mark our guilt; Lord, who would survive?

People: But with You is found forgiveness: For this we revere You.

Priest: My soul is waiting for the Lord, I count on His Word:

People: My soul is longing for the Lord more than the watchman for daybreak.

Priest: Because with the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.

People: Israel indeed He will redeem from all its iniquity.

Priest: To the Father Almighty give glory; give glory to His Son.

People: To the Spirit most holy, give praise, whose reign is forever.

Antiphon (together): I place all my trust in You my God: All my hope is in your saving word.

Greeting

Priest: The grace and peace of God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. People: And with your spirit.

Blessing Of The Body

Priest: I bless + the body of Joanna Agatha with the holy water that recalls her baptism of which St. Paul writes: All of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death. By baptism into His death, we were buried together with Him, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live a new life. For if we have been united with Him by likeness to His death, so shall we be united with Him by likeness to His resurrection.

ENTRANCE HYMN | IT IS WELL

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll; whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul.

(Chorus) It is well, it is well, With my soul, with my soul, It is well; it is well, with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come, let this blest assurance control that Christ has regarded my helpless estate, And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought! My sin, not in part but the whole, is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

Priest: On the day of her Baptism, Joanna Agatha put on Christ. On the day of Christ’s coming, may she be clothed in glory.

People: Amen.

And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight The clouds be rolled back as a scroll

The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend Even so, it is well with my soul

It is well (it is well) with my soul (with my soul)

It is well, it is well with my soul

Ceremony Of The Paschal Candle

Priest: Behold the light of Christ. People: Thanks be to God.

Priest: I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he dies; yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?

People: Yes! We believe that Jesus is the Anointed One, the Son of God, he who is to come into the world.

Priest: We must work the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night comes when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life. (John 8:12)

Priest: The Lord be with you. People: And with your spirit.

Priest: Let us pray:

O God, whose nature is always to forgive and to show mercy, we humbly implore you for your servant Joanna Agatha, whom you have called to journey to you, and, since she hoped and believed in you, grant that she may be led to our true homeland to delight in its everlasting joys, through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

People: Amen.

(Please be seated)

Liturgy Of The Word

FIRST READING | Wisdom 3: 1- 9 | Cleon Newton (Son)

RESPONSORIAL | Psalm 23 | “The Lord Is My Shepherd” (Choir)

SECOND READING | 1 John 3 : 14-16 | Kenneth Saunders ¬¬11 ( Nephew)

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION | Praise To You Lord

Praise to You, glory and praise, Lord Jesus Christ; Praise and honour to the word of God, Lord Jesus Christ.

(After the Gospel, please be seated)

HOMILY

MEDITATION | Precious Lord

(Please stand for the Intercessions)

Intercessions

(After Intercessions, Please be seated)

PRESENTATION OF THE GIFTS | Gerald Wildgoose Jr. & Bradford Wildgoose (Nephews)

PREPARATION OF THE ALTAR

OFFERTORY HYMN | Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace

Make me a channel of your peace

Where there is hatred let me bring your love

Where there is injury, your pardon Lord

And where there is doubt true faith in You

Make me a channel of your peace

Where there is despair in life let me bring hope

Where there is darkness only light

And where there’s sadness ever joy

Oh, Master grant that I may never seek

So much to be consoled as to console

To be understood as to understand

To be loved as to love with all my soul

Make me a channel of your peace

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned It is in giving to all men that we receive And in dying that we are born to eternal life

Oh, Master grant that I may never seek

So much to be consoled as to console

To be understood as to understand

To be loved as to love with all my soul

Make me a channel of your peace

Where there’s despair in life let me bring hope

Where there is darkness only light And where there’s sadness ever joy

Priest: Pray brethren, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the Almighty Father.

People: May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of His Name, for our good, and the good of all His Holy Church.

(Please stand)

- LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST –THE PREFACE

People: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of Hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

(Please kneel)

Proclamation Of Faith

Priest: The mystery of faith.

People: We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection until you come again.

Doxology

Priest: Through Him, and with Him, and in Him, O God, Almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honour is yours, forever and ever.

People: Amen.

(PLEASE ALL STAND)

- THE COMMUNION RITE –

Priest: At the Savior’s command and formed by divine teaching we dare to say:

People: THE LORD’S PRAYER

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Priest: Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil, graciously grant us peace in our days, that, by the help of your mercy, we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

People: For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever. Amen.

Priest: The peace of the Lord be with you always.

People: And with your Spirit.

Lamb Of God

(After the ‘Lamb of God,’ please be seated.)

COMMUNION HYMN | This Alone

One thing I ask, this alone I seek, To dwell in the House of the Lord all my days. For one day within Your temple heals every day alone. O Lord, bring me to Your dwelling.

1. Hear, O Lord, the sound of my calling. Hear, O Lord, and show me Your way.

2. The Lord is my light and hope of salvation. The Lord is my refuge; whom should I fear?

3. Wait on the Lord and hope in His mercy. Wait on the Lord and live in His love.

COMMUNION HYMN | Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.

T’was Grace that taught my heart to fear. And Grace, my fears relieved. How precious did that Grace appear The hour I first believed.

Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come; ‘Tis Grace that brought me safe thus far and Grace will lead me home.

MEDITATION | Javan Hunt

The Lord has promised good to me. His word my hope secures. He will my shield and portion be, As long as life endures.

Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail, And mortal life shall cease, I shall possess within the veil, A life of joy and peace.

When we’ve been here ten thousand years Bright shining as the sun. We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise Than when we’ve first begun

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

(Please stand for the Prayer of Commendation)

FINAL COMMENDATION

(Pall is removed and body is incensed in silence)

Priest: Let us pray:

Trusting in God, we have prayed together for Joanna Agatha and now we come to the last farewell. There is sadness in parting, but we take comfort in the hope that one day we shall see Joanna Agatha again and enjoy her friendship. Although this congregation will disperse in sorrow, the mercy of God will gather us together again in the joy of His kingdom. Therefore, let us console one another in the faith of Jesus Christ.

Song Of Farewell

Priest: Saints of God, come to her aid! Come to meet her angels of the Lord.

People: Receive her soul and present her to God the Most High.

Priest: May Christ, who called you, take you to Himself, may angels lead you to Abraham’s side.

People: Receive her soul and present her to God the Most High.

Priest: Give her eternal rest, O Lord, and may your light shine on her forever.

People: Receive her soul and present her to God the Most High.

Prayer Of Commendation

Priest: To you, O Lord, we commend the soul of Joanna your servant; in the sight of this world she is now dead; in your sight may she live forever.

Forgive whatever sins she has committed through human weakness and in your goodness grant her everlasting peace. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

People: Amen.

There was a time I travelled a lonely sinful road; Beneath a heavy burden bending low; But now all things are different, since Jesus took my load It’s alright now, I’m His I know.

(Chorus)

It’s alright now, for I am in my Saviour’s care It’s alright now; my Saviour hears and answers prayer He’ll walk with me, (He’ll walk beside me) Till I climb the heavenly stair, And everything (And everything is alright now)

A’ down a lonely pathway, without a friend to guide, I walked in sin and sorrow all alone

‘Till Jesus came and found me, and drew me to His side; It’s alright now, for I’m His own.

No more in sin I wander, no more in darkness roam The Lord has placed my feet on higher ground; Each day new heights I’m gaining, my soul is nearing home, It’s alright now, I’m heaven bound.

RITE OF COMMITTAL + AT THE CEMETERY +

Priest: Let us pray:

Our sister Joanna Agatha has gone to her rest in the peace of Christ. May the Lord now welcome her to the table of God’s children in heaven!

With faith and hope in eternal life, let us assist her with our prayers. Let us pray to the Lord also for ourselves. May we who mourn be reunited one day with our sister; together may we meet Christ Jesus when he who is our life appears in glory.

Priest: We read in Sacred Scripture: “Come, you who are blessed by my Father, says the Lord, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”

Prayers Over The Grave

Priest: Lord Jesus Christ, by your own three days in the tomb, you hallowed the graves of all who believe in you and so made the grave a sign of hope that promises resurrection even as it claims our mortal bodies. Grant that our sister Joanna Agatha may sleep here in peace until you awaken her to glory, for you are the resurrection and the life. Then she will see you face to face and in your light will see light and know the splendor of God, for you live and reign for ever and ever.

People: Amen.

Priest: People:

By Your coming as man

By Your birth.

By Your baptism and fasting.

By Your suffering and Cross.

Lord, save your people.

Lord, save your people.

Lord, save your people.

Lord, save your people.

Lord, save your people. By Your rising to new life.

Lord, save your people.

Lord, save your people.

Lord, save your people.

Lord, save your people.

Priest: May Almighty God bless you, the Father, + and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.

People: Amen.