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As someone remarked on Twitter, she'd tell Lazarus to pull up his socks, stop winging and go earn his own living!

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Originally posted by Angloid:
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Originally posted by L'organist:


As for the rest: "May you find rest with Lazarus the poor man" is a reasonable(ish) translation of part of the In paradisum "et cum Lazaro quondam paupere aeternam habeas requiem" which the Choir will be singing AT THE END to the setting by Faure.

Haven't you rather missed the point, L'organist? This text may well be fine as liturgy but in the context of the funeral of one who demonised the poor and would feel decidedly uncomfortable in the company of Lazarus, it's either a delicious jibe or an inappropriate sentiment.
Unless it's talking about the poverty that some on the right prefer to focus on: Poverty of the spirit.

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quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
As someone remarked on Twitter, she'd tell Lazarus to pull up his socks, stop winging and go earn his own living!

Oh dear, and I thought I was being original- still, great minds and all that...

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Originally posted by Rosa Winkel:
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Originally posted by Angloid:
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Originally posted by L'organist:


As for the rest: "May you find rest with Lazarus the poor man" is a reasonable(ish) translation of part of the In paradisum "et cum Lazaro quondam paupere aeternam habeas requiem" which the Choir will be singing AT THE END to the setting by Faure.

Haven't you rather missed the point, L'organist? This text may well be fine as liturgy but in the context of the funeral of one who demonised the poor and would feel decidedly uncomfortable in the company of Lazarus, it's either a delicious jibe or an inappropriate sentiment.
Unless it's talking about the poverty that some on the right prefer to focus on: Poverty of the spirit.
Possibly. But the gist of Jesus's story about Dives and Lazarus was the punishment of the rich man because he spurned the poor man at his gate. Not because someone was feeling a little 'poor in spirit'.

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Originally posted by Anglican't:
The full Order of Service can be found here.

And this also has comments appended by her biographer. Even if his 'entirely English' list of composers includes the Irishman Stanford.

His analysis of I vow to Thee my country elicited feelings that would be more appropriate for Hell, however.

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One Irishman, and three Englishmen with Welsh names.

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Funeral was admirably carried out.
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Yes.
One eye on the funeral and one on the live web-cast of the NZ Parliament passing the Equal Marriage Bill... historic day all round.

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Originally posted by Anselmina:
Funeral was admirably carried out.

A reminder of what the public sector (armed forces, CofE) can do, eh?

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Funeral was admirably carried out.

... but the commentary by David Dimbleby on the BBC was dreadful and littered with mistakes:

"under Nelson's Column" - really???

"2 Archbishops very much unrobed" - no, they weren't naked but in cassocks only, so presumably Dimbers thinks cassocks aren't robes?

card on flowers read "Always in our Hearts" - which Dimblepuppy read as "..in our minds" ???

"2 thrones where she'll (The Queen) be sitting" - (i) I think he meant chairs, (ii) is he implying the monarch is so vast she needs more than 1?

"In paradisum deducant Angeli" - as in Angela Merkel?

(over pictures of grandchildren Amanda and Michael Thatcher) "and there the two granddaughters" !!!

(as we see the hearse turning left to go along Cheapside) "and the hearse leaves by the same route down Ludgate Hill"

"heading for the Royal Hospital and Chelsea" - in fact it was going to Mortlake Crematorium

There were many, many more. Very depressing but wholly predictable [Ultra confused]

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Originally posted by L'organist:

"2 Archbishops very much unrobed" - no, they weren't naked but in cassocks only, so presumably Dimbers thinks cassocks aren't robes?

In which case, he's entirely right.

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... maybe, Thurible, but only by accident.

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It was a lovely service,the music was sublime,the hymns,well chosen were sung with great gusto.
However I missed at the end of service the sprinkling of the coffin with holy/baptismal water.

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He said they were entirely unrobed, when they weren't wearing robes, and it was by accident?

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Yes SKY was much better and uninterrupted
Btw, what was ++Justin's cope with the scarlet facings all about?

[ 17. April 2013, 11:58: Message edited by: Galilit ]

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Very nice. Did I catch an RC Archbishop reading a prayer from the BCP?
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You did: it was Grace Kelly, Archbishop Emeritus of Liverpool. Not sure if he as representing the Catholic Church of Old Labour [Biased]

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I agree that Dimbleby was a bit clueless sounding at times. It could've been worse. And well done to Bishop Chartres for what must've been a tough preaching gig.

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You did: it was Grace Kelly, Archbishop Emeritus of Liverpool. Not sure if he as representing the Catholic Church of Old Labour [Biased]

What you mean to say is His Grace Patrick Kelly who recently retired as Archbishop of Liverpool.

The late Princess Grace Kelly was Prince Rainier's consort in Monaco - you know!

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I'm surprised at Fr Dcn Trisagion for making such a mistake.

[Biased]

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The commentary on the service by her biographer is theologically dire. To take John 14 and turn it into a political speech is worse than anything Mrs T ever said herself - it makes her into the Messiah.

Barmen Declaration anyone?

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Originally posted by Charles Read:
The commentary on the service by her biographer is theologically dire. To take John 14 and turn it into a political speech is worse than anything Mrs T ever said herself - it makes her into the Messiah.

Barmen Declaration anyone?

State funerals are always going to have something of the Erastian about them, but that is particularly bad.
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I'm surprised at Fr Dcn Trisagion for making such a mistake.

[Biased]

Thurible

Oh yes! Silly me.

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Further to the discussion of the funeral bell ringing upthread, details of the performances are being linked from here.

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On a different point - I was intrigued by the reference in David Cameron's reading to the "many mansions". Of course it's an oft-used funeral reading - but did anyone else think of sold-off Council houses, even momentarily?
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Just been reading the report of the funeral in The Age, which used to be a quality broadsheet, but in recent years has turned itself into an Antipodean version of The Guardian.

Its Europe correspondent described the readings as coming from the "St James Bible".

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Video of Thatcher Funeral here
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quote:
Originally posted by Kaplan Corday:
Just been reading the report of the funeral in The Age, which used to be a quality broadsheet, but in recent years has turned itself into an Antipodean version of The Guardian.

Its Europe correspondent described the readings as coming from the "St James Bible".

An error committed more than once over the years by the Sydney Morning Herald's religious correspondent. It makes you wonder a bit, doesn't it.

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Yes, but it's hardly surprising really. Take a step back into a hazy half-recollected knowledge of Christianity, and which seems more likely - that a Bible translation would be named for a saint contemporaneous with Jesus, or some random King of England and Scotland?

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On a different point - I was intrigued by the reference in David Cameron's reading to the "many mansions".

Why? Are you unfamiliar with the Authorised Version (sometimes called the "King James'" of the Bible? It was absolutely standard until at least the 1960s and is still in daily use in those places where they consider it more appropriate/less jarring for use in BCP liturgies than a more modern translation.

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Of course it's an oft-used funeral reading ...
Yes, it is a passage used at many funerals. For myself, I prefer Revelation 21:1-7 - from the Authorised Version, of course.

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... - but did anyone else think of sold-off Council houses, even momentarily?
No. Why would a reading about Christ going on to the hereafter before his discples make me think of social housing? [Confused]

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Your faux-naivete strikes me as tongue in cheek. Please confirm that it is!

[Smile]

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I've been accused of innocence or naivety but infrequently... [Devil]

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Phew!

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I thought the music was excellent, as was Bishop Chartres sermon.

Nice to see black copes - the ones worn by the bishop and dean look very much like the set from St. Paul's Debtford, which gets used a lot for Afro-carribean funerals.

I wonder if St. Paul's cathedral borrowed them.

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quote:
Originally posted by Enoch:
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Originally posted by leo:
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I bet they'll have 'I vow to thee my country'

I won that bet.
I've long thought, "And there's another country, I've heard of long ago", one of the saddest lines in any hymn.
I always thought that 'long ago' referred to life before birth - as in the Wordsworth poem that was quoted in the service booklet:
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,



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I thought that the reading from Ephesians was most apt, with its talk of fighting "powers and principalities".

Walter Wink had a lot to say about that.

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I wonder if St Paul's borrowed them?

No.

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Meaning what? That they stole them, or that they have their own set?

[Roll Eyes]

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quote:
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On a different point - I was intrigued by the reference in David Cameron's reading to the "many mansions".

Why? Are you unfamiliar with the Authorised Version (sometimes called the "King James'" of the Bible?
L'organist: that's the second time in this thread that you have missed the point of the post. I'm sure Baptist Trainfan, and the rest of us, are perfectly familiar with the AV version of that passage. It's just that the person being commemorated did all in her power to reduce the availability of poky flats, let alone mansions, to the people who need them.

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Just so.

I repeat - [Roll Eyes]

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I thought that the reading from Ephesians was most apt, with its talk of fighting "powers and principalities".

Walter Wink had a lot to say about that.

Exactly.

In opposing communism in general and the Soviet Union in particular, she was opposing one of the twentieth century's worst examples of that systemic dehumanisation about which he had so much to say.

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While at the same time dehumanising the poor in her own country.

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I'm sure Baptist Trainfan, and the rest of us, are perfectly familiar with the AV version of that passage. It's just that the person being commemorated did all in her power to reduce the availability of poky flats, let alone mansions, to the people who need them.

I too have a working knowledge of the AV version.

On the subject of housing, you are entitled to that opinion but some of us may not share it.

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[Confused]

I was informed by a St Paul's regular that the copes were from a set (perhaps sets?) that the Cathedral owns; of course, they could be wrong?

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While at the same time dehumanising the poor in her own country.

Comparing policies such as the closing down of uneconomic coal mines and the encouragement of renters to buy their council houses, to the crimes committed against tens of millions of innocent victims in the Soviet Union, China and elsewhere over the course of the twentieth century, adds a whole new dimension to the meaning of the term "trivialisation".
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I'm sure Baptist Trainfan, and the rest of us, are perfectly familiar with the AV version of that passage. It's just that the person being commemorated did all in her power to reduce the availability of poky flats, let alone mansions, to the people who need them.

I too have a working knowledge of the AV version.

On the subject of housing, you are entitled to that opinion but some of us may not share it.

If you are lucky enough to afford your own house maybe not. If I'm wrong, and you are in fact living in a damp flat on a sink estate because all the decent houses have been sold off, my apologies.

There are arguments in favour of council house tenants being able to buy their own houses. But none that I can see to support Thatcher's ban on councils using the money to build new ones.

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Angloid
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While at the same time dehumanising the poor in her own country.

Comparing policies such as the closing down of uneconomic coal mines and the encouragement of renters to buy their council houses, to the crimes committed against tens of millions of innocent victims in the Soviet Union, China and elsewhere over the course of the twentieth century, adds a whole new dimension to the meaning of the term "trivialisation".
I'm not suggesting Thatcher's crimes were of the same magnitude. Though cuddling up to dictators like Pinochet while opposing Soviet tyranny seems like double standards. Not to mention the hypocrisy of exalting individualism while treating whole groups of people as faceless masses or 'the enemy within'.

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If you are lucky enough to afford your own house maybe not. If I'm wrong, and you are in fact living in a damp flat on a sink estate because all the decent houses have been sold off, my apologies.

There are arguments in favour of council house tenants being able to buy their own houses. But none that I can see to support Thatcher's ban on councils using the money to build new ones.

1. Own home, semi, 2 bedroom, small garden. Very tight squeeze with 2 children home during the university vacs and no storage space - have 3 sheds!

2. The council house sales were fine but I agree, not building to replace was insane.

3. The biggest, IMHO, sin committed was the scrapping of Parker Morris standards with the result that the UK's new homes are amongst the smallest on the planet. How do we expect children to do homework when one tiny living room is expected to be parental leisure space, dining room, home office, etc, etc, etc - and don't say bedroom: my step-daughter has a 3rd bedroom that won't fit a standard size single bed [Mad]

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Rosa Winkel

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Originally posted by Angloid:
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Originally posted by Kaplan Corday:
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Originally posted by Angloid:
While at the same time dehumanising the poor in her own country.

Comparing policies such as the closing down of uneconomic coal mines and the encouragement of renters to buy their council houses, to the crimes committed against tens of millions of innocent victims in the Soviet Union, China and elsewhere over the course of the twentieth century, adds a whole new dimension to the meaning of the term "trivialisation".
I'm not suggesting Thatcher's crimes were of the same magnitude. Though cuddling up to dictators like Pinochet while opposing Soviet tyranny seems like double standards. Not to mention the hypocrisy of exalting individualism while treating whole groups of people as faceless masses or 'the enemy within'.
Continuing the tangent, in any case, she helped out Jaruzelski here in Poland through buying coal from miners here, thus helping to prop up the regime. She also initially supported Martial Law.

Wink was also, by the way, supportive of the Liberation Theologists in South America, who were, as he put it, "engaged in spiritual warfare (insofar as they are fighting against systems that dominate and exploit people)".

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Zappa
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Whoa

I think the sociopolitical implications of Thatcherism may be just a wee tad outside the field of ecclesiantical interest.

You will be booted elsewhere - or flat taxed out of existence - if you do not desist.

Back to Amanda and other ... ooops ... back to matters of ecclesiantical interest, I think.

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Rosa Winkel

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My negligence in obeying Ship rules,

I confess to you, Hosts.

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