Laoise, check your messages.

Allison: Here's the last part of the service, complete with stage directions:

Standing before the Catafalque the dean said:
THE COMMENDATION

LET us commend our sister Diana to the mercy of God, our maker and redeemer.

DIANA, our companion in faith and sister in Christ, we entrust you to God.
Go forth from this world in the love of the Father, who created you;
In the mercy of Jesus Christ, who died for you;
In the power of the Holy Spirit, who strengthens you.
At one with all the faithful, living and departed,
may you rest in peace and rise in glory,
where grief and misery are banished
and light and joy evermore abide. Amen.

All remained standing as the cortege left the church, during which the choir sang:

ALLELUIA. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Remember me O lord, when you come into your kingdom.
Give rest O Lord to your handmaid, who has fallen asleep.
The choir of saints have found the well-spring of life, and door of paradise.
Life: a shadow and a dream.
Weeping at the grave creates the song:
Alleluia. Come, enjoy rewards and crowns I have prepared for you.

John Tavener (b 1944)
extracts from William Shakespeare: Hamlet
and the Orthodox Funeral Service.

At the west end of the church the cortege halted for the minute's silence, observed by the nation.

The half-muffled bells of the abbey church were rung.

All remained standing as the processions moved to the west end of the church.

Music after the service:
Prelude in C minor BWV 546 Johann Sebastian Bach
Maestoso, from Symphonie No. 3 Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)

Members of the congregation were requested to remain in their places until invited by the stewards to move.

They catalogued the whole bloomin' thing.

Sorry you were put to trouble on my account. I'll owe y' one.

Shula

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 17-May-02.