The applause for Earl Spencer dies down and there is a hymn, 'Make me a channel of your peace':
Make me a channel of your peace:
where there is hatred let me bring your love,
where there is injury, your pardon, Lord,
and where there's doubt, true faith in you:
O Master grant that I may never seek
so much to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love with all my soul!
Make me a channel of your peace:
where there's despair in life let me bring hope,
where there is darkness, only light,
and where there's sadness, ever joy:
O Master grant that I may never seek
so much to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love with all my soul!
Make me a channel of your peace:
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
in giving ourselves that we receive,
and in dying that we're born to eternal life.
O Master grant that I may never seek
so much to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love with all my soul!
Make me a channel of your peace:
where there is hatred let me bring your love,
where there is injury, your pardon, Lord,
and where there's doubt, true faith in you.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, then leads the Prayers. His job on the day was to offer words of healing and there was no back biting or negativity and he only spoke of the good things about Diana. I think the Archbishop did his job superbly that day. He's a very good public speaker while still retaining the air of an English village vicar.
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Tags: Diana Princess of Wales Funeral 1997 BBC Death London Prince William
