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PRAISE AND WORSHIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Combined Praise Team
RECEPTION OF THE BODY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Congregation Stands
PRIEST: With faith in Jesus Christ, we receive the body of our sister Inez for burial. Our
sister was washed in Holy Baptism and anointed with the Holy Spirit. Let us therefore, with confidence, pray to God our Heavenly Father, the Giver of life, that He will raise her to perfection in the company of the Saints.
PRIEST: The Lord be with you.
ALL: And also with you.
PRIEST: Let us pray: O God of grace and glory, we remember before you this day our Inez. We
thank you for giving her to us, her family and friends, to know and to love as a companion on our earthly pilgrimage. In your boundless compassion, console us who mourn. Give us faith to see in death the gate of eternal life, so that in quiet confidence we may continue our course on earth, until by your call we are reunited with those who have gone before; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
ALL: Amen.
OPENING SENTENCES
Jesus said, “I am the resurrection, and I am the life; he who believes in me, even though he die, yet shall he live, and who ever lives and believes in me shall never die.”
John 11:25-35
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His compassion never fails: every morning they are renewed. Jesus said, “Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe in me.” Lamentations 3:22-23
John 14:1
I am sure that neither death nor life, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 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.
Romans 8:38-39
If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live
or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. Romans 14:8-9
We brought nothing into the world, and we take nothing out. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away: Blessed be the name of the Lord. Job 1:21
The eternal God is our refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
Deuteronomy 33:27
TRIBUTE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eunice Blythe Clare
SOLO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Julian Garland
OBITUARY READING