1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: The Archbishop of Canterbury, the most Reverend Justin Wilcome, Holy Spirit, 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: and fill our hearts with the balm of your healing love. Amen. 3 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: The pattern for many leaders is to be exalted in 4 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: life and forgotten after death. The pattern for all who 5 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:51,919 Speaker 1: serve God, famous or obscure, respected or ignored, is that 6 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: death is the door to glory. Her Late Majesty famously 7 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: declared on a twenty first birthday broadcast that her whole 8 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: life would be dedicated to serving the nation and commonwealth. 9 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: Rarely has such a promise been so well kept. Few 10 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: leaders receive the outpouring of love that we have seen. Jesus, who, 11 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 1: in our reading does not tell his disciples how to follow, 12 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:43,119 Speaker 1: but who to follow, said, I am the Way, the Truth, 13 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:51,639 Speaker 1: and the Life. Her Late Majesty's example was not set 14 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: through her position or her ambition, but through whom she followed. 15 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: I know His Majesty shares the same faith and hope 16 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: in Jesus Christ as his mother, the same sense of 17 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: service and duty. In nineteen fifty three, the Queen began 18 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 1: her coronation with silent prayer, just there at the high altar. 19 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: Her allegiance to God was given before any person gave 20 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: allegiance to her. Her service to so many people in 21 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 1: this nation, the Commonwealth, and the world had its foundation 22 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: in her, following Christ, God himself, who said that he 23 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: came not to be served, but to serve, and to 24 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: give his life life as a ransom. For many. People 25 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:11,519 Speaker 1: of loving service are rare in any walk of life. 26 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: Leaders of loving service are still rarer, But in all cases, 27 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: those who serve will be loved and remembered when those 28 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: who cling to power and privileges are long forgotten. The 29 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: grief of this day, felt not only by the Late 30 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: Queen's family, but all around the nation, the Commonwealth, and 31 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: the world, arises from her abundant life and loving service 32 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: now gone from us. She was joyful present to so many, 33 00:03:55,360 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: touching a multitude of lives. And pray today especially for 34 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: all her family grieving as every family at a funeral, 35 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: including so many families around the world who have themselves 36 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: lost someone recently, but in this family's case doing so 37 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: in the brightest spotlight. May God heal their sorrow, May 38 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: the gap left in their lives be marked with memories 39 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 1: of joy and life. Her Late Majesty's broadcast during COVID lockdown, 40 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 1: ended with we will meet again. Words of hope from 41 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 1: a song of Vera Lynn. Christian hope means certain expectation 42 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 1: of something not yet seen. Christ rose from the dead 43 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 1: and offers life to all, abundant life now and life 44 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:12,559 Speaker 1: with God in eternity, as the Christmas Carol says, where 45 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:18,239 Speaker 1: meek souls will receive him. Still, the dear Christ enters 46 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: in we will all face the merciful judgment of God. 47 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: We can all share the Queen's hope, which in life 48 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 1: and death inspired her servant leadership service in life, hope 49 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: in death. All who follow the Queen's example and inspiration 50 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,359 Speaker 1: of trust and faith in God can with her say 51 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: we will meet again.