The funeral service conducted by Pastor Andrew Fisher

On Wednesday 18th January 2012

at 11am

In Loving Memory of

Robbie France 5th December 1959 ~ 14th January 2012

ORDER OF SERVICE

MUSIC IN MEMORY OF ROBBIE Blue Nile - Tinseltown in the Rain

~

WELCOME

~

OPENING PRAYER

The death of someone we love and care about, is like the death of part of us. No one else will ever call out from within us quite the same responses, the same feelings or actions or ideas. Their death is an ending of one part of a story. Lord as we look back over Robbie’s life. We ask that what we have received, what we can appropriate, and continue on in our own lives, we will, and what must be laid to rest, we will lay those things down. Our love for Robbie reminds us that our sharing in one another's lives brings both support and pain. Our being parted from him reminds us of our own mortality ......And that your love is enduring. We thank you that our love for Robbie draws us together and gives us a new appreciation of one another, and of the beauty and fragility of relationships, which mirror your grace and goodness to us. Lord, time's tide may wash Robbie’s footprints from the shore, but not our love for him nor the influence of his life upon our own. Nor the ways in which they will ever be a sign for us, of those things which really matter - which are eternal. Hear this prayer for your love's sake. Amen.

PRAYERS

All: Lord, we come into your presence to remember Robbie and to

seek your comfort, for we know that nothing can separate us from

your love and that you support us in our sorrow. We are sure that

the souls of the righteous are with you and that nothing can harm

them. Although they have died they are in peace. Give us your

strength to rejoice that you have taken Robbie to be with yourself

where he shall no more be in need. May we find life and peace and

perfect joy with him in your presence; through Jesus Christ our

Lord.

Amen

~

READING FROM SCRIPTURE

Psalm 23

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green

pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters He restoreth my soul: he leadeth

me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through

the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy

rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the

presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will

dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

POEM

W. H. Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

Silence the pianos and with muffled drum

Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead

Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,

Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,

Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;

Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.

For nothing now can ever come to any good.

A PERSONAL TRIBUTE & MUSIC IN MEMORY OF ROBBIEChris Botti ~ Cinema Paradiso

A PERSONAL TRIBUTE & MUSIC IN MEMORY OF ROBBIE Chris Botti ~ Cinema Paradiso

READING FROM SCRIPTURE 1 Corinthians 13 Vs 1-13

LOVE

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a

resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can

fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move

mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and

surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is

patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not

rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always

trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are

prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where

there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in

part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I

talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became

a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a

mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully,

even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But

the greatest of these is love.

THE LORDS PRAYER

All: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name;

thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into

temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the

power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

COMMENDATION

Let us commend Robbie to the mercy of God, Our maker and redeemer. God our

creator and redeemer, by your power Christ conquered death and entered into

glory. Confident of his victory and claiming his promises, we entrust Robbie to your

mercy in the name of Jesus our Lord, who died and is alive and reigns with you,

now and forever.

Amen.

COMMITTAL

The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and of great goodness. As a father is tender towards his children, so is the Lord tender to those that love him. For he knows of what we are made; he remembers that we are but dust. Our days are like the grass; we flourish like a flower of the field; when the wind goes over it, it is gone and its place will know it no more. But the merciful goodness of the Lord endures for ever and ever towards those that love him. and his righteousness upon their children's children. We have entrusted our brother Robbie to God’s mercy, and we now, commit his body to be cremated: earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust: in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our frail bodies that they may be conformed to his glorious body, who died, was buried, and rose again for us. To him be glory for ever.

Amen. THE BLESSING

May God give you his comfort and his peace, his light and his joy, in this world and the next; and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen.

EXIT MUSIC

Skunk Anansie ~ Week as I Am

The family would like to invite you back to Los Torres following the service

Service Sheets Designed & Printed by

The English Funeral Director, Tony Smith. Tel: 650 631 719

The funeral service conducted by Pastor Andrew Fisher

On Wednesday 18th January 2012

at 11am

In Loving Memory of

Robbie France 5th December 1959 ~ 14th January 2012

ORDER OF SERVICE

MUSIC IN MEMORY OF ROBBIE Blue Nile - Tinseltown in the Rain

~

WELCOME

~

OPENING PRAYER

The death of someone we love and care about, is like the death of part of us. No one else will ever call out from within us quite the same responses, the same feelings or actions or ideas. Their death is an ending of one part of a story. Lord as we look back over Robbie’s life. We ask that what we have received, what we can appropriate, and continue on in our own lives, we will, and what must be laid to rest, we will lay those things down. Our love for Robbie reminds us that our sharing in one another's lives brings both support and pain. Our being parted from him reminds us of our own mortality ......And that your love is enduring. We thank you that our love for Robbie draws us together and gives us a new appreciation of one another, and of the beauty and fragility of relationships, which mirror your grace and goodness to us. Lord, time's tide may wash Robbie’s footprints from the shore, but not our love for him nor the influence of his life upon our own. Nor the ways in which they will ever be a sign for us, of those things which really matter - which are eternal. Hear this prayer for your love's sake. Amen.

PRAYERS

All: Lord, we come into your presence to remember Robbie and to

seek your comfort, for we know that nothing can separate us from

your love and that you support us in our sorrow. We are sure that

the souls of the righteous are with you and that nothing can harm

them. Although they have died they are in peace. Give us your

strength to rejoice that you have taken Robbie to be with yourself

where he shall no more be in need. May we find life and peace and

perfect joy with him in your presence; through Jesus Christ our

Lord.

Amen

~

READING FROM SCRIPTURE

Psalm 23

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green

pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters He restoreth my soul: he leadeth

me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through

the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy

rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the

presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will

dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

POEM

W. H. Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

Silence the pianos and with muffled drum

Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead

Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,

Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,

Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;

Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.

For nothing now can ever come to any good.

A PERSONAL TRIBUTE & MUSIC IN MEMORY OF ROBBIEChris Botti ~ Cinema Paradiso

A PERSONAL TRIBUTE & MUSIC IN MEMORY OF ROBBIE Chris Botti ~ Cinema Paradiso

READING FROM SCRIPTURE 1 Corinthians 13 Vs 1-13

LOVE

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a

resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can

fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move

mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and

surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is

patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not

rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always

trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are

prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where

there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in

part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I

talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became

a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a

mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully,

even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But

the greatest of these is love.

THE LORDS PRAYER

All: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name;

thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into

temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the

power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

COMMENDATION

Let us commend Robbie to the mercy of God, Our maker and redeemer. God our

creator and redeemer, by your power Christ conquered death and entered into

glory. Confident of his victory and claiming his promises, we entrust Robbie to your

mercy in the name of Jesus our Lord, who died and is alive and reigns with you,

now and forever.

Amen.

COMMITTAL

The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and of great goodness. As a father is tender towards his children, so is the Lord tender to those that love him. For he knows of what we are made; he remembers that we are but dust. Our days are like the grass; we flourish like a flower of the field; when the wind goes over it, it is gone and its place will know it no more. But the merciful goodness of the Lord endures for ever and ever towards those that love him. and his righteousness upon their children's children. We have entrusted our brother Robbie to God’s mercy, and we now, commit his body to be cremated: earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust: in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our frail bodies that they may be conformed to his glorious body, who died, was buried, and rose again for us. To him be glory for ever.

Amen. THE BLESSING

May God give you his comfort and his peace, his light and his joy, in this world and the next; and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen.

EXIT MUSIC

Skunk Anansie ~ Week as I Am

The family would like to invite you back to Los Torres following the service

Service Sheets Designed & Printed by

The English Funeral Director, Tony Smith. Tel: 650 631 719