PROF B.I.C. PROGRAM 2

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TABLE OF CONTENT 1. Reception at church door 2. Procession to the door of the church 3. Entry into church 4. Hymn CHB 316 5. FIRST READING A Reading from Book of Wisdom (3:1-9) 6. Responsorial Psalm (Ps.62:2-6, 8-9 R/.2) 7. 2ND READING: A Reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans 8:35, 37-39 8. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Apoc. 14:13 9. GOSPEL READING: 10. Homily by the Priest 11. Prayer after Communion 12. Final Commendation and Farewell 13. MAGNIFICAT 14. RECESSIONAL HYMN CHB – 230 GOD BE WITH YOU 15. PROCESSION TO THE GRAVE YARD 16. Prayer for the departed 17. Final Prayer 18. CHB – 218 ABIDE WITH ME PROF B.I.C. PROGRAM.indd 2-3

RECEPTION AT CHURCH DOOR In this mortal life you loved him Introduction always with a great love. Now you have Celebrant summoned him to leave this earth and freed him from all evils. Brother and Sisters, we are We pray you in your goodness to bring gathered together here with him to your what is left to us of our dear paradise where there is no more grief brother PROF B.I.C. IJOMAH to pay or mourning or sadness. Set him in a our last respects to him and to do jus- place of peace and joy among the saints tice to his life and death. keeping our in the presence of your Son and the eyes fixed on the cross of Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit forever and ever. we say in groping faith that this is not the end, that our God is a God of the The coffin is then sprinkled with holy living. water and incensed, then the Procession to the door of the Church celebrant says the following prayer. Let us pray: O Lord, listen to our prayers as we Celebrant humbly commend our brother your servant PROF B.I.C. IJOMAH to you. Father of all pity and God of all consolation, you love us with an everlasting love. You turn the shadow of death into dawn of life. Look, we pray you, on your people here in mourning and distress, Lord, be our savior and 30/11/2020 10:32:46 pm

our strength. From the darkness and grief of this desolation raise us to the light and peace of your presence. And because your Son, our Lord, by his death has destroyed death for us and by rising again has given us new life, grant us, we beg you, that we may has- ten towards him, and when our life on earth is ended, may we be one day re- united with our dear ones where ev- ery tear shall be wiped from our eyes. Through Christ our Lord. Entry into the Church Hymn CHB 316 Refrain Yes, I shall Arise and Return to My Father 1. To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul: In you, O my God, I place all my trust. 2. Look down on me, have mercy O Lord: Forgive me my sins, be hold all my grief. 3. My heart and soul shall yearn for your face: Be gracious to me and answer my plea. 4. Do not withhold your goodness from me; O Lord may your love be deep in my soul. 5. To you I pray have pity on me; My God I have sinned against PROF B.I.C. PROGRAM.indd 4-5

your great love. blessings be. God has put them to test and proved them worthy to be with 6. Mercy I cry, O Lord, wash me him; he has tested them like gold in a clean; And whiter than snow my furnace, and accepted them as a spirit shall be. holocaust. When the time comes for his visitation they will shine out; as 7. Give me again the joy of your sparks run through the stubble, so will help; Now open my lips your they. They shall judge nations, rule praise I will sing. over peoples, and the Lord will be their King for ever They who trust in him 8. Happy is he forgiven by God; will understand the truth, those who His sins blotted out; his guilt is are faithful will live with him in love; no more. for, grace and mercy await those he has chosen. 9. You are my joy, my refuge and strength; Let all upright heart The Word of The Lord. give praise to the Lord. R/Thanks Be to God. 10. My soul will sing, my heart will Responsorial Psalm (Ps. 62:2-6, 8-9 rejoice; The bless ing of God will R/.2) fill all my days. R/. For you my soul is thirsting, O Lord my God. FIRST READING 1. God, you are my God, for you I A Reading from Book of Wisdom long; my body pines for you like (3:1-9) a dry weary land without water. R/. The souls of the righteous are in 2. So I gaze on you in the the hands of God, no torment sanctuary to see your strength will ever touch them. In the and your glory. For your love eyes of the unwise, they did appear to is better than life, My lips will die, their going looked like a disaster speak your praise. R/. their leaving us, like annihilation, but 3. So I will bless you all my life, they are in peace. If they experienced In your name I will lift up my punishment as men see it, their hope hands, My soul shall be filled was rich with immortality. Slight was their affliction; great will their 30/11/2020 10:32:46 pm

as with a banquet, My mouth can come between us and the love of shall praise you with joy. R/. God made visible in Christ Jesus our 4. You have been my help; Lord. In the shadow of your wings I rejoice, my soul clings to you; The Word of the Lord. Your right hand holds me fast. R/. Thanks be To God. R/. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Apoc. 14:13 2ND READING: Alleluia! Alleluia! A Reading from the Letter of St. Paul Happy are those who die in the Lord! to the Romans 8:35, 37-39 Now they can rest forever after their work, Since their good deeds go with With God on our side who can them. be against us? Since God did Alleluia! not spare his own son, but gave him up to benefit us all. We may be GOSPEL READING: certain, after such a gift that he will not A reading from the Holy refuse anything he can give. Could any- Gospel according to Matt. 11:25-30 one accuse those that God has chosen? Come to me, and I will give you rest. When god acquits could anyone Jesus exclaimed: “I bless you, condemn? Could Christ Jesus? No! He Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, not only died for us – he rose from the for hiding these things from the dead, and there at God’s right hand he learned and the clever and stands and pleads for us. revealing them to mere children. Yes, Nothing therefore can come between Father, for that is what pleased you to us and the love of Christ, even if we are do. Everything has been entrusted to troubled or worried or being me by my Father; and no one knows persecuted or lacking food or clothes or the Son except the Father, just as no being threatened or even attacked. These one knows the Father except the Son are the trials through which we triumph, and those to whom the Son by the power of him who loved us. For I am certain of this, neither death nor life, no angel, no prince, nothing that ex- ists, nothing still to come, not any power, or height or depth, nor any created thing, PROF B.I.C. PROGRAM.indd 6-7

chooses to reveal him. ‘Come to me, all For our brother, PROF B.I.C. IJOMAH you who labour and are overburdened, that he may share the light of Christ’s and I will give you rest. Shoulder my resurrection, come into the new life yoke and learn from me for I am gentle and happiness and peace. and humble in heart, and you will find We pray O Lord. rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy For those who rely on the temporal and my burden light.’ goods of this world, that they may come into new life and happiness and Homily by the Priest peace. We pray O Lord. Prayer of the Faithful For those who rely on the temporal goods of this world, that they may Let us pry with faith and come to believe the Good news of confidence in God our Father salvation, renew their lives and have who lives forever and who can faith in Christ who is the Way, the do all things. As he raised his Son Je- Truth and the Life. We pray O Lord. sus Christ from dead, so may he give peace and For those who rely on the tempo- salvation to both the living and the dead. 30/11/2020 10:32:46 pm

ral goods of this world, that they may O Lord, may these humble come to believe the Good news of petitions find favour in your presence salvation, renew their lives and have for the salvation of your servant PROF faith in Christ who is the Way, the B.I.C. IJOMAHand all who have died Truth and the Life. We pray O Lord. in Christ who is Lord forever and ever. For those who suffer due to the death of their loved ones that generosity of Prayer after Communion their fellow Christian may give them new unction and help them to relieve Lord, hear the prayer of those you their anxiety. We pray O Lord. renew with the food of life at For all who are gathered here to pray your holy table. By the power of for PROF B.I.C. IJOMAH that we may this live, act and speak in full realization sacrifice may PROF B.I.C. IJOMAH that one day we shall be called upon to your servant rejoice in your presence answer for our thoughts, words and ac- for ever as he served you faithfully in tions. We pray O Lord. the Church. We ask this through Christ For the sick and suffering that Jesus our Lord. Christ who showed mercy to the infirm Final Commendation and Farewell and the troubled may show them his bounteous mercy, bestow upon them Celebrant and servers approach every heavenly blessing and restore to the Coffin Our brother PROF them lasting health of mind and body. B.I.C. IJOMAH has fallen We Pray O Lord. asleep in the peace of Christ. In the For those who have faith and hope of departed from this life, eternal life, let us commend him to the especially the deceased members of most loving mercy of our Father. Let the IJOMAH family. That our Lord Je- our prayers go with him that he, who sus Christ to whom it belongs to grant by baptism became one of God’s mercy and spare, may remit their sins adopted children, and who so often and welcome them into his kingdom of received the bread of life at the Lord’s peace and glory. We Pray O Lord. table and dedicated his life to you by Let us pray: his Christian Commitment, may now be summoned to the table of God’s children in heaven. With the saints PROF B.I.C. PROGRAM.indd 8-9

MAGNIFICAT My soul glorifies the lord My spirit rejoices in God my saviour He looks on his servant in her low- liness Henceforth all ages will call me blessed The almighty works marvels for me Holy his name His mercy is from age to age on those Who fear him. He puts forth his arms in strength And scatters the proud hearted He cast the mighty from their thrones And raises the lowly He feeds the starving with good things Sends the rich away empty may he inherit the everlasting promise. He protects Israel his servant Let us pray also to the Lord for Remembering his mercy ourselves. In time to come may we, who The mercy promised to our fathers now mourn and weep, be able to go with To Abraham and his sons for ever our dear one to meet Christ, when he him- Praise father, son and the self, who is our life shall appear in his glo- Holy Spirit both now and forever, ry. world without end. Amen (The Magnificat is sung while the coffin is sprinkled with Holy Water and Incensed by the celebrant). 30/11/2020 10:32:46 pm

Let us pray R. Amen. RECESSIONAL HYMN Most merciful father, into your CHB – 230 GOD BE WITH YOU hands we commend the soul 1. God be with you till we meet of our brother PROF B.I.C. again! IJOMAH, for we are sustained by the 2. By his counsels guide, uphold sure hope that he will rise again with you. all those who have died in Christ. We 3. With his sheep securely fold give you thanks for all the good things you. you granted your servant in this mor- 4. God be with you till we meet tal life as signs for us of your goodness again! and the communion of saints in Christ. Lord, in your great CHORUS: mercy accept our prayer that the gates Till we meet! … Till we meet! of paradise may be opened for this Till we meet at Jesus feet: … your chosen one. And in turn, may we Till we meet! … Till we meet! also be comforted by the words of faith God be with you till we meet again! until we hasten to meet Christ when we may all be forever with the lord and with our dear one. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ… PROF B.I.C. PROGRAM.indd 10-11

2. God be with you till we meet blessed hope of the resurrection. In again! ‘Neath His wings se your goodness, grant that those who curely hide you, Daily manna were your faithful believers on earth still provide you; God be with may praise you forever among the you till we meet again! blessed in heaven. Through Christ our 3. God be with you till we meet Lord. again! When life’s perils thick (the grave is sprinkled with the holy confound you,Put his loving water and incensed). arms around you; God be with you till we meet again! Prayer for the departed 4. God be with you till we meet Celebrant: again! Keep his love’s banner floating o’er you, Since it as pleased Almighty God Smite death’s threatening wave to call back our brother from before you; God be with you till this life to himself, we commit we meet again his body to the earth. That it may re- turn to that form which it was made. PROCESSION TO THE GRAVE Christ was the first to rise from the YARD dead, and he will remake our imper- Celebrant: fect bodies like his glorious body. Let us entrust our Brother to the lord that Almighty God, through the he may raise him again at the last day death of Jesus Christ your son and make him one with his saints in upon the cross, you have de- his kingdom. stroyed death for us. Through his buri- Let us pray for our brother to al and glorious our Lord Jesus Christ who said: “I am resurrection from the dead, you have the resurrection and life; the man who made the grave a holy place, and believes in me, even though he dies, wonderful given back to us immortal shall live; and every living person who life. Hear the prayers we offer for those believes in me will never die eternal- who have died and been buried with ly.” You wept for Lazarus when he was Christ, and who wait for the dead wipe away the tears from our eyes. We beg you hear us. 30/11/2020 10:32:46 pm