{"id":2753,"date":"2022-09-29T17:31:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2022-09-29T17:31:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:31:45","slug":"blog-september-29th-queen-elizabeth-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2753","title":{"rendered":"Blog September 29th Queen Elizabeth Part Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2754\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/queen-elizabeth-1662658056-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/queen-elizabeth-1662658056-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/queen-elizabeth-1662658056-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/queen-elizabeth-1662658056-624x621.jpg 624w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/queen-elizabeth-1662658056.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Psalm 23: The Lord is My Shepherd (&quot;Crimond&quot;)\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yHQoRfFr1rE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this, the final part of my tribute to Queen Elizabeth II I share with you The Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019s Sermon for The State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome Holy Spirit, fill us with the balm of your healing love. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern for many leaders is to be exalted in life and forgotten after death. The pattern for\u00a0all who serve God \u2013 famous or obscure, respected or ignored \u2013 is that death is the door to glory.<\/p>\n<p>Her Late Majesty famously declared on a 21st birthday broadcast that her whole life would be\u00a0dedicated to serving the Nation and Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>Rarely has such a promise been so well kept! Few leaders receive the outpouring of love that we\u00a0have seen.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus \u2013 who in our reading does not tell his disciples how to follow, but who to follow \u2013 said: \u201cI am the way, the truth and the life\u201d. Her Late Majesty\u2019s example was not set through her position or\u00a0her ambition, but through whom she followed. I know His Majesty shares the same faith and\u00a0hope in Jesus Christ as his mother; the same sense of service and duty.<\/p>\n<p>In 1953 the Queen began her Coronation with silent prayer, just there at the High Altar. Her\u00a0allegiance to God was given before any person gave allegiance to her. Her service to so many\u00a0people in this nation, the Commonwealth and the world, had its foundation in her following\u00a0Christ \u2013 God himself \u2013 who said that he \u201ccame not to be served but to serve and to give his life\u00a0as a ransom for many.\u201d\u00a01<\/p>\n<p>People of loving service are rare in any walk of life. Leaders of loving service are still rarer.\u00a0But in all cases those who serve will be loved and remembered when those who cling to power\u00a0and privileges are long forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>The grief of this day \u2013 felt not only by the late Queen\u2019s family but all round the nation,\u00a0Commonwealth and the world \u2013 arises from her abundant life and loving service, now gone from\u00a0us.<\/p>\n<p>She was joyful, present to so many, touching a multitude of lives.<\/p>\n<p>We pray especially for all her family, grieving as every family at a funeral &#8211; including so many\u00a0families round the world who have themselves lost someone recently &#8211; but in this family\u2019s case\u00a0doing so in the brightest spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>May God heal their sorrow, may the gap left in their lives be marked with memories of joy and\u00a0life.<\/p>\n<p>Her Late Majesty\u2019s broadcast during Covid lockdown ended with: \u201cWe will meet again\u201d, words\u00a0of hope from a song of Vera Lynn. Christian hope means certain expectation of something not\u00a0yet seen.<\/p>\n<p>Christ rose from the dead and offers life to all, abundant life now and life with God in eternity.<\/p>\n<p>As the Christmas carol says \u201cwhere meek souls will receive him, still the dear Christ enters\u00a0in.\u201d\u00a02<\/p>\n<p>We will all face the merciful judgement of God: we can all share the Queen\u2019s hope which in\u00a0life and death inspired her servant leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Service in life, hope in death. All who follow the Queen\u2019s example, and inspiration of trust and\u00a0faith in God, can with her say: \u201cWe will meet again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Quote of the week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2755\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/quote-to-what-greater-inspiration-and-counsel-can-we-turn-than-to-the-imperishable-truth-to-queen-elizabeth-ii-71-18-42-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/quote-to-what-greater-inspiration-and-counsel-can-we-turn-than-to-the-imperishable-truth-to-queen-elizabeth-ii-71-18-42-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/quote-to-what-greater-inspiration-and-counsel-can-we-turn-than-to-the-imperishable-truth-to-queen-elizabeth-ii-71-18-42-768x361.jpg 768w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/quote-to-what-greater-inspiration-and-counsel-can-we-turn-than-to-the-imperishable-truth-to-queen-elizabeth-ii-71-18-42-624x294.jpg 624w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/quote-to-what-greater-inspiration-and-counsel-can-we-turn-than-to-the-imperishable-truth-to-queen-elizabeth-ii-71-18-42.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this, the final part of my tribute to Queen Elizabeth II I share with you The Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019s Sermon for The State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II \u201cCome Holy Spirit, fill us with the balm of your healing love. Amen. 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