{"id":71503,"date":"2022-09-19T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/funeral-of-her-majesty-the-queen-please-pray-with-me-today-asks-primus\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:32:57","slug":"funeral-of-her-majesty-the-queen-please-pray-with-me-today-asks-primus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/funeral-of-her-majesty-the-queen-please-pray-with-me-today-asks-primus\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral of Her Majesty The Queen: Primus offers love and thankfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The state funeral of Her Majesty The Queen took place at Westminster Abbey in London today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bishop Mark Strange, Primus, represented the Scottish Episcopal Church at the service. He was one of three leaders who represented the churches of Scotland in the funeral procession, along with The Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and The Most Rev Leo Cushley, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot express how honoured I feel to be here and how emotional it has become,\u201d said the Primus, ahead of the service. \u201cI am very aware of not being here simply as Bishop Mark but as the Primus representing the whole of our Scottish Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-54240 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Westminster-2-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Westminster-2-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Westminster-2-scaled-1-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Westminster-2-scaled-1-800x417.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Westminster-2-scaled-1-400x208.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have brought prayers from so many people and I will offer our love and thankfulness in this service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease find a space to pray with me today as we say farewell to Queen Elizabeth, Queen of Scots and faithful servant of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The service was conducted by The Very Rev Dr David Hoyle, Dean of Westminster. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, preached the sermon and led the commendation.<\/p>\n<p>There was a two-minute silence at the end of the service.<\/p>\n<p>The Order of Service is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster-abbey.org\/media\/15467\/order-of-service-the-state-funeral-of-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state funeral of Her Majesty The Queen took place at Westminster Abbey in London today. Bishop Mark Strange, Primus, represented the Scottish Episcopal Church at the service. He was one of three leaders who represented the churches of Scotland in the funeral procession, along with The Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields, Moderator of the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73242,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71503\/revisions\/73242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}