Lasun Alagbe
On the heels of super honours, and amid the spiritual fervour of Psalm 130, Queen Elizabeth completed a phenomenal race of life on Monday, as her coffin was lowered into the Royal Vault of St George’s Chapel.
Her departure was marked by a stupendous and clinically royal funeral rites whose type many had never witnessed before.
A global funeral, it attracted leaders from all over the world, all testifying to the great impacts her reign had on the world.
As the News Agency of Nigeria also reports, as the coffin was lowered, the Dean of Windsor recited Psalm 103, which includes the traditional line: “Go forth upon thy journey from this world, O Christian soul.’’
He also offered the commendation a prayer in which the deceased is entrusted to God’s mercy.
The service ended with the Sovereign Piper playing the lament “A Salute to the Royal Fendersmith’’ from the doorway between the chapel and the dean’s cloister, with the music gradually fading away as he walked towards the deanery.
The Archbishop of Canterbury then concluded the service with a blessing before the congregation sang the national anthem.
salm 130
A song of ascents.
1 Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;
2 Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.
3 If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness,
so that we can, with reverence, serve you.
5 I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits,
and in his word I put my hope.
6 I wait for the Lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning.
7 Israel, put your hope in the Lord,
for with the Lord is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption.
8 He himself will redeem Israel
from all their sins.
