Order of Service
Opening Hymn: Praise my soul, the King of Heaven
1 Praise, my soul, the King of heaven; to his feet your tribute bring.
Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, evermore his praises sing.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Praise the everlasting King!
2 Praise him for his grace and favor to his people in distress.
Praise him, still the same as ever, slow to chide, and swift to bless.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Glorious in his faithfulness!
3 Fatherlike he tends and spares us; well our feeble frame he knows. In his hand he gently bears us, rescues us from all our foes.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Widely yet his mercy flows!
4 Angels, help us to adore him; you behold him face to face. Sun and moon, bow down before him, dwellers all in time and space.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Praise with us the God of grace!
Tributes:-
1. Gladstone Watson JR. & Donna Watson (Son & Sister Respectively)
2. Tribute In Song – Tamara Turner (Family friend)
3. Shirley Holness – Best Friend
Rememberance – Michelle Watson-Lewis & Karen Watson (niece & sister)
Priest: I am sure that neither death, 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.
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 brother Gladstone. We thank him for giving him to us, his family and friends, to know and 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 united with those who have gone before; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
All: AMEN
Priest: In the midst of life we are in death; from whom can we seek help? From you alone, O Lord, who by our sins are justly angered.
All: Holy God, holy and mighty, holy immortal One, have mercy upon us.
Priest: Lord you know the secrets of our hearts; shut not your ears to our prayers, but spare us, O Lord.
All: Holy God, holy and mighty, holy immortal One, have mercy upon us.
Priest: O worthy and eternal Judge, do not let the pains of death tum us away from you at our last hour.
All: Holy God, holy and mighty, holy immortal One, have mercy upon us.
The First Reading: Isaiah 25:6-9 - Dr Ornesha Watson (Niece)
PSALM 23 - (All stand) The Lord is My Shepherd (Tune; Happy Wanderer)
The Lord’s my Shepherd, I’ll not want. he makes me down to lie in pastures green; he leadeth me the quiet waters by.
My soul he doth restore again; and me to walk doth make within the paths of righteousness, even for his own Name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk in death’s dark vale, yet will I fear no ill; for thou art with me; and thy rod and staff my comfort still.
My table thou hast furnished in presence of my foes; my head thou dost with oil anoint, and my cup overflows.
Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me; and in God’s house forevermore my dwelling place shall be.
Second Lesson: Revelation 7: 9-17 –Brittani Salmon (Niece)
Hymn: How great thou art!
1 O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, Consider all the worlds thy hands have made; I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed:
Refrain:
Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to thee: How great thou art! How great thou art! Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to thee: How great thou art! How great thou art!
2 When through the woods and forest glades I wander And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees, When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur, And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze:
3 And when I think how God, his Son not sparing, Sent him to die, I scarce can take it in; That on the cross, my burdens gladly bearing, He bled and died to take away my sin:
4 When Christ shall come with shouts of acclamation, To take me home, what joy will fill my heart! Then I will bow in humble adoration, And there proclaim, my God, how great thou art!
The Homily:
The Apostles’ Creed
Priest: Let us with confidence and hope confess the faith into which we were baptized, as we say
All: I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day He rose again. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and life everlasting. Amen.
The Prayers
Leader: Almighty God, you have knit together all the people whom you have called to yourself in one communion, in the mystical body of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord: Give to your whole Church in heaven and on earth your light and your peace.
ALL: Hear us, Lord.
Leader: May all who have been baptized into Christ’s death and resurrection die to sin and rise to newness of life and may be with Him pass through the grave and gate of death to our joyful resurrection.
ALL: Hear us, Lord.
Leader: Grant to us who are still in our pilgrimage, and who walk as yet by faith, that your Holy Spirit may lead us in holiness and righteousness all our days.
ALL: Hear us, Lord.
Leader: Grant to your faithful people pardon and peace, that we may be cleansed from all our sins and serve you with a quiet mind.
ALL: Hear us, Lord.
Leader: Grant to all who mourn a sure confidence in your loving care that, casting all their sorrow on you, they may know the consolation of your love. Give them courage and faith that they may have strength to meet the days ahead in the comfort of a holy and certain hope, and in the joyful expectation of eternal life with those they love.
ALL: Hear us, Lord.
Leader: You, Almighty Lord, are a strong tower to all who put their trust in you. All things in heaven, on earth, and under the earth bow and obey you: Be now and evermore our defense, and make us know and feel that the only Name under heaven given for eternal life and salvation is the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
ALL: Amen.
Hymn For The Collection
(A collection will be taken for the refurbishing of the Church)
We place all our future
In your hands, in your hands
We bid you take over all our lives, Lord Our dreams, aspirations, all our best, Jesus Lord Our hopes, our fears, in your hands.
Chorus
In your hands, Lord we place today tomorrow In your hands, Lord we surrender all. In your hands, we commit our joys, our sorrows In your hands, Lord we surrender all.
Keep walking beside us
Every night, every day
And give us the courage for the fray, Lord We need you to guide us, every step of the way Forsake us not, Lord we pray.
You place many duties
In our hands, in our hands, And shaping our world is our task, Lord On you we depend Lord for the power; this we ask That all makes sense in our hands.
So Lord we are trusting Everything to your Hands, And then we keep praying for this land, Lord To labour with others for the best, Jesus, Lord, Our all we place in your Hands.
The Final Commendation
Priest: Give rest, O God to Your servant Gladstone with Your Saints
All: Where sorrow and pain are no more, neither sighing, but life everlasting
Priest: You only are immortal, the Creator and Maker of mankind; and we are mortal, formed of the earth and to earth shall we return. For so did You ordain when You created me saying “You are dust and to dust you shall return”. All of us go down to the dust: yet even at the grave we make our song. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
All: Give rest, O Christ, to Your servant Gladstone with Your saints, where sorrow and pain are no more, neither sighing, but life everlasting.
Priest: Let us commend our brother Gladstone to the mercy of God our Maker and Redeemer.
Deliver your servant, Gladstone 0 Sovereign Lord Christ, from all evil, and set him free from every bond, that he may rest with all your saints in the eternal habitations; where with the Father and the Holy Spirit you live and reign, one God for ever and ever.
ALL: Amen
Priest: Into your hands, Father of mercies, we commend our brother Gladstone to you, Acknowledge, we pray, a sheep of your own fold, a lamb of your own flock, a sinner of your own redeeming. Enfold him in the arms of your mercy, in the blessed rest of everlasting peace. Let light perpetual shine upon him. Receive him more and more into your joyful service, that, with all who have served you in the past, in the sure and certain hope that, together with all who have died in Christ, he may share in the eternal victory of Jesus Christ our Lord. May he and all the faithful departed through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Closing Hymn: Mine eyes have seen the Glory 1 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Refrain:
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
2 I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read the righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps; His day is marching on. [Refrain]
3 He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of all before his judgment seat; O be swift, my soul, to answer him; be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on. [Refrain]
4 In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make us holy, let us die that all be free! While God is marching on. [Refrain]
Priest: The God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the eternal covenant: Make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight; through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever.
All: Amen.
