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The State Memorial Service for

Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen of
New Zealand

Monday, 26 September 2022

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State Memorial Service

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Queen of New Zealand

Order of Service
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Music Before the Service

The Royal New Zealand Air Force Band plays

Funeral March No 1 • Johann Walch (1776–1855)
Dido’s Lament • Henry Purcell (1659-1695) arranged Geoff Kingston
O Valiant Hearts • Rev. Dr. Charles Harris (1865-1936)
Elegy (from A Downland Suite) • John Ireland (1879-1962)
Canterbury Chorale • Jan Van Der Roost (b. 1956)
Elegy • George Dyson (1883-1964) arranged Barrie Hingley
Only in Sleep • Ēriks Ešenvalds (b.1977)
Solemn Melody • Henry Walford-Davies (1869-1941)

Tom Chatterton, Assistant Organist of

Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, plays
Prelude and Fugue in E flat BWV 552 • JS Bach (1685-1750)
Rhapsody No 1 in D flat, Op 17, No 1 • Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
O Welt Ich Muß Dich Lassen, Op 122, No 11 • Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Psalm Prelude, Set 1, No 2, Op 32, No 2 • Howells
Folk Tune from Five Short Pieces • Percy Whitlock (1903-1946)
Elegy • C. Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918)

Michael Stewart, Organist and Director of Music, Wellington Cathedral of St Paul

Tom Chatterton, Assistant Organist, Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Dr Karen Grylls ONZM, Music Director, Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir
SQNLDR David Gallaher MNZM, Director of Music,
Royal New Zealand Air Force Band
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Parade of The Queen’s Colours

The Queen’s Colours of the Navy, Army and Air Force,
draped with mourning ribbons, are processed in by the
Colour Ensigns, received by the Acting Dean, and mounted

The Queen’s Colour of the Royal New Zealand Navy

The Queen’s Colour of the Officer Cadet School New Zealand
The Queen’s Colours of 1st, 2nd/1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and
7th Battalions Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment
The Queen’s Colour of the Royal New Zealand Air Force

Mihi Whakatau
Kura Moeahu
Tumu Whakarae – Principal Advisor Māori, Parliamentary Service

Karanga
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Kaikaranga Alishia Mansell

Response Puhiwahine Tibble
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Procession
The Processional Cross and Lights

The Reverend Tim Handley

Priest Associate
The Reverent Alex Brunt
Assistant Priest
The Reverend Canon Katie Lawrence
Acting Dean of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
The Venerable Don Rangi, QSM
Archdeacon, Te Upoko o Te Ika
Cardinal John Dew
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Wellington and Metropolitan of New Zealand
The Right Reverend Waitohiariki Quayle
Te Amorangi ki Te Upoko o Te Ika
The Right Reverend Justin Duckworth
Bishop of Wellington
Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Cindy Kiro GNZM, QSO
Governor-General of New Zealand
His Excellency Dr Richard Davies
The Right Honourable Jacinda Ardern
Prime Minister of New Zealand
Ms Rachel Hayward
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council
Mr Phillip O’Shea CNZM, CVO
New Zealand Herald of Arms Extraordinary to The King
Joe Harawira
Kaumatua to The Governor-General
Puhiwahine Tibble
Kuia to The Governor-General
Representatives of the Realm of New Zealand
Cook Islands: H.E. Elizabeth Wright-Koteka, High Commissioner for Cook Islands
Niue: Rev Falkland Liuvaie QSM
Tokelau: Mr Donald Higgins, Administrator of Tokelau

The Sovereign’s Collar of the New Zealand Order of Merit is received

by the Acting Dean and placed on the Table of Remembrance
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Parade of The Queen’s Personal Flag

for New Zealand
Her Late Majesty’s Personal Flag for New Zealand,
draped with mourning ribbons, is processed in by
Captain Joel Ebbing, RNZALR, received by the Acting Dean,
and placed on the High Altar

National Minute of Silence

ӯ A minute’s silence is observed

Welcome and opening prayer

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The Reverend Canon Katie Lawrence

Karakia
The Right Reverend Justin Duckworth

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National Anthem:
God Defend New Zealand – Aotearoa
Sung by all

E Ihowā Atua,
O ngā iwi mātou rā
Āta whaka rongona;
Me aroha noa
Kia hua ko te pai;
Kia tau tō atawhai;
Manaakitia mai
Aotearoa

God of Nations at Thy feet,

In the bonds of love we meet,
Hear our voices, we entreat,
God defend our free land.
Guard Pacific’s triple star
From the shafts of strife and war,
Make her praises heard afar,
God defend New Zealand

Text: Thomas Bracken (1843-1898)

Music: John Joseph Woods (1849-1934)
Arr: Michael McDermott

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The Sentences
The Reverend Canon Katie Lawrence
The Right Reverend Justin Duckworth

Hear the words of Jesus Christ our Saviour:

Ko ahau te aranga, me te ora: ko ia e whakapono ana ki ahau,

ahakoa kua mate, e ora anō: e kore anō hoki e mate
ake ake ake ngā tāngata katoa e ora ana,
ā, e whakapono ana ki ahau.

Hoani 11:25

I am the resurrection and the life; even in death,

anyone who believes in me, will live.

John 11:25

Set your troubled hearts at rest.

Trust in God always; trust also in me.

John 14:1

Koia anō te aroha o te Atua ki te ao, hōmai ana e ia tāna

Tama kotahi, kia kāhore ai e ngaro te tangata e whakapono
ana ki a ia, engari kia whiwhi ai ki te ora tonu.

Hoani 3:16
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The Bidding
The Reverend Canon Katie Lawrence
The Right Reverend Justin Duckworth

In grief and gratitude we bid farewell to a greatly loved Queen.

For her grace, humanity and dignity,
for her courage in adversity,
for the happiness she brought to so many,
for her steadfast pilgrimage of faith,

for her example of service,

and for the duty which she rendered unflinchingly to her country
and the Commonwealth,
we thank and praise Almighty God.
As we commend Elizabeth, God’s servant, to the mercy and love of God,
let us especially pray for her family in their loss.

God our Comforter,

you are a refuge and a strength for us,
a helper close at hand in times of distress.

Help us so to hear the words of our faith

that our fear is dispelled,
our loneliness eased and our hope reawakened.

May your Holy Spirit lift us

above our natural sorrow,
to the peace and light of your constant love;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Hymn
Sung by all

Where mountains rise to open skies

Your name, O God, is echoed far,
From island beach to kauri’s reach
In water’s light, in lake and star.

Your people’s heart, your people’s part

Be in our caring for this land,
For faith to flower, for aroha
To let each other’s mana stand.

From broken word, from conflict stirred

From lack of vision, set us free
To see the line of your design,
To feel creation’s energy.

Your love be known, compassion shown

That every child have equal scope:
In justice done, in trust begun
Shall be our heritage and hope.

Where mountains rise to open skies

Your way of peace distil the air,
Your spirit bind all humankind
One covenant of life to share!

Text: Shirley Erena Murray (1931-2020)

Music: Vernon Griffiths (1894-1985)

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Prayers and Act of Remembrance

The Venerable Don Rangi
Bishop Waitohiariki Quayle
Cardinal John Dew

In a time of silence, let us make our personal thanksgiving to God

for the life of Elizabeth, our Queen.

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Candles are lit by

Grace-Angela Funaki, representing Niue Association (Victoria University)

Nathan Lopa, representing Te Namo Te Lumanaki (Victoria University)
Rhiannon Mackie, representing Blake Young Leaders
Thomas Clark, representing Boys' Brigade
Jillian Tupuse, representing Virtuoso Strings
Ella Parke, representing Riding for the Disabled

The time of remembrance concludes

with the following prayer

E maumahara ana mātou ki te hunga kua mate.

E te Matua, ka tukua atu rātou e mātou ki ōu ringa.

God our loving Father,

We thank you that you have made each of us in your own image,
and given us gifts and talents with which to serve you.

We thank you for your servant Queen Elizabeth’s long life and reign,
the wisdom we saw in her, the example we received from her.
Now give us strength and courage, to leave her in your care, confident
in your promise of eternal life. Meinga mātou kia whai wāhi ki tōu
rangatiratanga i te rangi. This we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Let us pray that God will grant comfort and strength to all who mourn.
Ko te Karaiti te Kīngi o ngā kīngi,
e whakaora nei i āna pononga
hei hoa pūmau mōna.

God, the Father of mercies and giver of all comfort,

draw near to His Majesty the King, the Royal
Family and all who mourn today.
Make your love known to them,
that they may turn to you
and receive comfort and strength.
Help them to put their trust in you,
and their hope in your grace and compassion.
Use us, Father,
as bearers of your love
to support others in their grief;
this we ask through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Let us pray for that hope which only God can give.
Kua ara te Karaiti i te mate.
Kua horahia te aroha:
koia te Ariki o te wā,
te Ariki o te Ātea.

Bring us, O Lord God, at our last awakening into the house and gate
of heaven, to enter into that gate and dwell in that house, where
there shall be no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light; no noise
nor silence, but one equal music; no fears nor hopes, but one equal
possession; no ends nor beginnings, but one equal eternity; in the
habitations of your glory and dominion, world without end. Amen.

John Donne (1572-1631)

I runga i te whakapono me te tūmanako, ka waiata tātou.

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The Lord’s Prayer

The Choirs sing

E tō mātou Matua i te rangi

Kia tapu tōu ingoa.
Kia tae mai tōu rangatiratanga.
Kia meatia tāu e pai ai
ki runga ki te whenua,
kia rite anō ki tō te rangi.
Homai ki a mātou āianei
he taro mā mātou mō tēnei rā.
Murua ō mātou hara,
Me mātou hoki e muru nei
i ō te hunga e hara ana ki a mātou.
Aua hoki mātou e kawea kia whakawaia;
Engari whakaorangia
mātou i te kino:
Nōu hoki te rangatiratanga, te kaha, me te korōria,
Ake ake ake. Āmine

Arranged by Huia Beattie

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Historical reading
The Right Honourable Jacinda Ardern
Prime Minister of New Zealand

An extract from the ‘Royal Visit to New Zealand’, describing the Queen
and Duke of Edinburgh’s departure from Bluff at the end of their first
visit to Aotearoa New Zealand in the summer of 1953-1954.

Nearly an hour passed before the Gothic sailed. For most of the time the
Queen and the Duke leaned over the rail on the upper deck, smiling and
waving repeatedly and taking photographs of the scene on shore.

A Māori party on the wharf sang songs of farewell and the Gothic’s band
played, but the overall sound was of cheering, swelling up again and again.

As the great white ship moved slowly through the channel,

crowds ran along Marine Parade keeping abreast of her, everyone
cheering, many weeping, reluctant to give up their waving until
the answering white-gloved hand could be seen no longer.

With music still sounding across the water, and a host of small boats, loaded
to the limit, forming a ragged procession astern, the Gothic with the Black
Prince taking up her watchful station, began the voyage to Australia.

The Royal couple's last close view of New Zealand was had next morning.
While the Black Prince waited outside, the Gothic sailed quietly into the
majestic Milford Sound, where, with no crowds to acclaim them, Queen
Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh gazed lingeringly at the splendid
scenic wonder epitomising the beauty of the land they were leaving,
until the Royal yacht turned again and headed into the open sea.
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Hine e Hine
Voices New Zealand sings

E tangi ana koe

hine, e hine.
Kua ngenge ana koe
hine, e hine.
Kati tō pōuri rā
noho i te aroha
Te ngākau o te matua
hine, e hine.

Haere rā, mareikura e

E hari tō moe moea

hine, e hine.
Marama ahua
hine, e hine.
I roto i tō moenga
mehemea he marama
ka tae mai te Reinga
hine, e hine.

Music and Text:

Fannie Rose Howie (1868-1916) Pane Poata,
Princess Te Rangi Pai
Te Whanau-a-Apanui, Ngati Porou
Arranged Robert Wiremu
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Gospel Reading
Erana Ngarimu
Head Girl, St Mary’s College, Wellington

‘I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life
for the sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does
not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep
and runs away—and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for
the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own
know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father.
And I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that
do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will
listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

John 10: 11-16

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Hymn
Sung by all

The Lord’s my shepherd, I’ll not want;

he makes me down to lie
in pastures green; he leadeth me
the quiet waters by.

My soul he doth restore again,

and me to walk doth make
within the paths of righteousness,
e’en for his own name’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through death’s dark vale,

yet will I fear no ill;
for thou art with me, and thy rod
and staff me comfort still.

My table thou hast furnishèd

in presence of my foes;
my head thou dost with oil anoint,
and my cup overflows.

Goodness and mercy all my life

shall surely follow me;
and in God’s house for evermore
my dwelling place shall be.

Text: Scottish Psalter - Psalm 23

Music: Attributed to Jessie Seymour Irvine (1836-1887),
harmonised by William McKie (1901-1984)
Descant by William Baird Ross (1871-1950)
This hymn was sung at the wedding of
Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten in 1947

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Tribute to Her Majesty

Queen Elizabeth II

Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Cindy Kiro GNZM, QSO
Governor-General of New Zealand

Pictorial Montage
Accompanied by the Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul

Behold, O God our Defender

Behold, O God our Defender;

and look upon the face of thine anointed.
For one day in thy courts is better than a thousand.

Music: Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

Text: from Psalm 84
Composed for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953

Pictorial Montage images courtesy of Air Force Museum of New Zealand,

Alamy (PA Images), Alexander Turnbull Library, Archives New Zealand,
Camera Press, Getty Images, Government House (NZ), Hawkes' Bay
Digital Archive, The New Zealand Herald, Palmerston North City Library
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Proclamation
Mr Phillip O’Shea CNZM, CVO, New Zealand Herald of
Arms Extraordinary to the King proclaims
Her Late Majesty’s New Zealand styles and titles:

The Royal style and titles of Her Late Majesty, for use in relation to
New Zealand and all other territories for whose foreign relations
Her Government in New Zealand is responsible, were—

Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of New Zealand

and Her Other Realms and Territories, Head of the
Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

Sovereign of The Order of New Zealand, Sovereign of The New Zealand

Order of Merit, and Sovereign of The Queen’s Service Order.

Now, it is upon His Majesty King Charles III, King of New Zealand,
that these styles, titles and honours have devolved.

God save the King!

All: God save the King!

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National Anthem: God Save The King -

E te Atua Tohungia te Kīngi
Sung by all

God save our gracious King,

Long live our noble King,
God save The King.
Send him victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save The King

Text: Author Unknown c. 1745

Music: Thesaurus Musicus c.1743,
Arr Gordon Jacob (1895-1984)

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Parade of The Queen’s Colours and

The Queen’s Personal Flag
for New Zealand
The Queen’s Personal Flag, followed by The Queen’s Colours,
are slow marched out

A lament, My Home, is played by Piper SGT Murray Mansfield QSM

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Blessing and Dismissal

The Right Reverend Justin Duckworth

Recessional
The departure of the Official Party is accompanied by
the Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul

Nunc dimittis

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart

in peace according to thy word.
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to
be the glory of thy people Israel.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son:
and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be:
world without end. Amen.

Text: Luke 2: 29-32

Music: A. Herbert Brewer (1865-1928)

The Assistant Organist plays

Nimrod • Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
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This State Memorial Service was arranged by the

Visits and Ceremonial Office, Department of Internal Affairs,
in partnership with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,
the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, the New Zealand Defence Force,
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade,
and Wellington Cathedral of St Paul.
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