Memorial Service
PRELUDE
“Three Chorale Preludes”
J. S. Bach
DOXOLOGY
From all that dwell below the skies,
Let words of Love and Peace arise;
Let joyful songs of Praise be sung,
Through every land by every tongue.
INVOCATION
Let us call to remembrance the dead yet ever-living who have passed the doors beyond which we cannot see. As they kept the faith in time of trial and held fast to righteousness in the hour of temptation, so inspired by their example, may we, when danger is near and the flesh is weak, triumph over every trial and temptation, and finally attain unto everlasting life.
Eternal God, in whom the spirits of the just do rest from their labors: we bless thee for the memory of the righteous, and especially for those most dear to us, who have lived in faith and departed in peace. May we follow their good example, and, truly loving and serving thee on earth, be gathered with them into thy heavenly kingdom. Amen.
HYMN
For all thy saints, O Lord,
Who strove in thee to live,
Who followed thee, obeyed, adored.
Our grateful hymn receive.
For all thy saints, O Lord,
Accept our thankful cry,
Who counted thee their great regard.
And strove in thee to die.
They all in life and death,
With thee, their Lord, in view,
learned from thy Holy Spirit’s breath
To suffer and to do.
For this, thy name we bless,
And humbly beg that we
May follow them in holiness
And live and die in thee.
—Richard Mant
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