ernest f. hollings - the citadel
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Ernest F. Hollings
1922-2019
11:00 AM Tuesday
April 16, 2019
Summerall Chapel, The Citadel
Military College of South Carolina
Prelude Organist
Choral Prelude “Revelation 19” Gospel Choir
*Processional “Amazing Grace”
Opening Prayer Rev. Monsignor Lawrence B. McInerny, JCL
First Reading James 2:14-19 Christopher Hollings
Response: “Thanks be to God”
Second Reading Romans 6:3-9 Holli Nunn
Response: “Thanks be to God”
*The Gospel Matthew 25:31-46 Rev. McInerny
“The Lord be with you” - “And with your spirit”
“A reading from the holy Gospel according to St. Matthew” - “Glory to you, O Lord”
At the conclusion of the reading:
“The Gospel of the Lord” - “Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ”
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found
Was blind, but now I see.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise,
Than when we’d first begun!
‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
‘Twas grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
The Homily Rev. McInerny
The Eulogies Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Governor Henry D. McMaster
Congressman James E. Clyburn
Music Selection “Total Praise” Choir
Words of Remembrance Hon. P. Michael Duffy
Mr. Michael J. Copps
Mr. William T. Cooper
Mr. John Reardon
Mr. Michael M. Hollings
*Prayers of General Intercession Response: “Lord, Hear Our Prayer”
Choral Response “The Lord’s Prayer” The Citadel Gospel Choir
Final Commendation and Farewell Rev. McInerny
*Closing Hymn “America, the Beautiful”
O Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain;
For purple mountain majesty, above the fruited plain!
America, America, God shed His grace on thee!
And crown thy good with brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea!
O Beautiful, for heroes proved, in liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life;
America, America, May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness, and every gain divine.
O Beautiful for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years,
Thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears,
America, America, God shed His grace on thee!
And crown thy good with brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea!
Recessional “Highland Cathedral” Patrick Johnson, Bagpipes
*PLEASE STAND AS YOU ARE ABLE
PALLBEARERS
Christopher Charles Milhous Hollings
Robert Meyer Hollings III
Bright McConnell IV
Dain Frederick Reardon
John Elliott Reardon II
Patrick Hayne Reardon
HONORARY PALLBEARERS
Claude Baldwin III
William T. Cooper
Michael J. Copps
Peter M. DeVito, M.D.
Hon. P. Michael Duffy
Ralph B. Everett
Samuel B. King III
George C. Kosko
Joab M. Lesesne III
Joseph Patrick Riley, Jr.
David A. Rudd
Ivan A. Schlager
OFFICIANT
Reverend Monsignor Lawrence B. McInerny, JCL
CITADEL CHAPLAIN
Reverend Dr. Joe R. Molina, CDR, MSC
CRUCIFER
Joseph Ytem
ORGANIST
Mitchell Stecker
BAGPIPER
Patrick Johnson