The Order of Service for THE FUNERAL of the Most Reverend Father in God WILLIAM TEMPLE Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of All England Mote:- covERtfirE THIAS •<- (j,C^E.HHBLLt c.H.LAAZKESTE^ IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST CANTERBURY, ON TUESDAY J. A. JENNINGS, LTD., 31 OCTOBER 1944 CITY PRINTING WORKS, AT 1.30 P.M. CANTERBURY. On Thursday 2 November, All Souls Day, THE LYING IN STATE the Holy Communion will be sung in memory of the Lord Archbishop At noon on the day before the Funeral the body of the Lord Archbishop will be received, by the Dean and Chapter and the Choir at the West at 11 o'clock Door of the Nave and be brought into the Chapel of Our Lady Undercroft. There it will lie in State before the Altar. At 8 o'clock in the morning of the day of the Funeral the Holy Communion will be celebrated in the Chapel of Our Lady Undercroft. /I; *00% Ak fame (day f&e gawre set before the High Altar. BEFORE THE SERVICE Ticket-holders shall enter the Cathedral by the South Door, and be admitted by the West Door of the Quire to their places, not later than 1 o'clock. The Six Preachers, the Honorary Canons and the Diocesan Clergy, shall robe in the Crypt. The Six Preachers and the Honorary Canons shall go privately to their appointed places not later than 1 o'clock. At 1.10 the Diocesan Clergy shall be conducted to their places, by way of the North Door of the Crypt, the North Transept Door, and the North Door of the Quire. At 1.20 the Late Archbishop's Chaplains shall be conducted from St. Andrew's Chapel through the North Door of the Quire to their places outside the Sanctuary rail. At 1.25 the Provincial Officers (the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Worcester, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop of Winchester, and the Bishop of London) shall be conducted to their places on the South side of the High Altar; and Archbishop Lord Lang of Lambeth and the Archbishop of York to their places on the North side of the High Altar. 2 3 THE ORDER OF SERVICE Then the Choir shall sing these Psalms, repeating the Anthem before and after the Psalms. At 1.30 the Procession shall go from St. Andrew's Chapel by the North Quire Aisle and enter by the West Door of the Quire;, the Choir going to their accustomed places, and the Clergy to the steps before the High Altar, within the Sanctuary. "The order shall be: O SAVIOUR of the world, who by thy Cross and precious Blood hast redeemed us: Save us and help us, we humbly beseech thee, O Lord. THE BEDESMEN THE CROSS BEARER PSALM 130. De profundis THE TAPERERS OuT of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord: Lord, hear THE MASTER OF THE CHORISTERS my voice. THE CHORISTERS 0 let thine ears consider well: the voice of my complaint. THE LAY CLERKS If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss: O Lord, A VIRGER who may abide it? THE MINOR CANONS For there is mercy with thee: therefore shalt thou be feared. THE ARCHDEACON OF CROYDON AND ARCHDEACON SOPWITH 1 look for the Lord; my soul doth wait for him: in his word is my trust. THE BISHOP OF CROYDON AND BISHOP ROBERTS My soul fleeth unto the Lord: before the morning watch, I say, before THE BISHOP OF DOVER the morning watch. THE CANONS RESIDENTIARY 0 Israel, trust in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy: and with him is plenteous redemption. THE DEAN'S VIRGER And he shall redeem Israel: from all his sins. THE DEAN Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; THE KING'S SCHOLARS As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. All being in their places, the Choir shall sing this invocation to the Holy Spirit. PSALM 121. Levavi oculos 0 KING enthroned on high, Descend, O holy Dove, 1 WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills : from whence cometh my help. Thou Comforter divine, Abide with us alway; My help cometh even from the Lord : who hath made heaven and earth. Blest Spirit of all truth, be nigh And in the fullness of thy love He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: and he that keepeth thee And make us thine. Cleanse, us, we pray. will not sleep. Thereafter THE DEAN shall read Behold, he that keepeth Israel: shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord himself is thy keeper: the Lord is thy defence upon thy —~ THE SENTENCES right hand. 1 AM the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth So that the sun shall not burn thee by day: neither the moon by night. on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: yea, it is even he that shall and believeth in me shall never die. St. ]ohn xi, 25, 26 keep thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in: from this T HE ETERNAL GOD is thy refuge, and underneath are the time forth for evermore. everlasting arms. Deuteronomy xxiii, 27 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world NEITHER death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, without end. Amen. nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans viii, 38, 39 O SAVIOUR of the world, who by thy Cross and precious Blood hast redeemed us: Save us, and help us, we humbly beseech thee, O Lord. 4 5 ARCHBISHOP LORD LANG OF LAMBETH shall read THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK shall read THE LESSON THE PRAYERS Let us pray. 2 Corinthians iv, 16, and part of chapter 5 Lord, have mercy upon us. FOR which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, Christ, have mercy upon us. yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and Lord, have mercy upon us. eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, OuR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are kingdom come; Thy will be done; in earth as it is in heaven. Give us temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. For we know this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. deliver us from evil. Amen. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is frogj heaven: if so be that being clothed we shall not y. Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O Lord; be found naked. |For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not tor that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, ty. For in thy sight shall no man living be justified. that mortality might be swallowed up of lifejNow he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the y. Grant unto him eternal rest; earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, I|7. And let light perpetual shine upon him. , whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the LorjJ (for we walk by faith, not by sight: ) we are confident, I say, and willing y. We believe verily to see the goodness of the Lord; rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.| I$\ In the land of the living. Wherefore we labour, that, whetEeFpresent or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgement-seat of y. O Lord, hear our prayer; Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, Ij7. And let our cry come unto thee. according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Let us pray. The Choir and People shall sing this Hymn. O MERCIFUL God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the resurrection and the life; in whom whosoever believeth shall live, though T HE God of love my Shepherd is, he die; and whosoever liveth, and believeth in him, shall not die And he that doth me feed; eternally; who also hath taught us, by his holy Apostle Saint Paul, not While he is mine and I am his, to be sorry, as men without hope, for them that sleep in him: We What can I want or need? meekly beseech thee, O Father, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness; that, when we shall depart this life, we may rest He leads me to the tender grass, in him, as our hope is this our brother doth; and that, at the general Where I both feed and rest; resurrection in the last day, we may be found acceptable in thy sight; Then to the streams that gently pass: and receive that blessing, which thy well-beloved Son shall then pro­ In both I have the best.