Friday 8 April 2011

A Prayer and Anthem for the wedding

It appears that when the CofE released the prayer for the Royal wedding they missed out the final anthem. So here's the prayer (and a very good one it is indeed) and the ditty (to be sung to a familiar tune which like the original appears to be by that great writer and composer 'anon'):

The Prayer
God of all grace,
friend and companion,
look in favour on William and Catherine
and all who are made one in marriage.
In your love deepen their love
and strengthen their wills
to keep the promises they will make,
that they may continue
in life-long faithfulness to each other;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.


The Song
God save our gracious Gran,
and of course Phil (her old man),
God save our Gran.
Please don't forget our Dad,
Even though he's kind of sad,
And whilst married to my Mum, was bad,
God save our Gran.

Please may we break the mould,
Shown to us by the old,
Long may we last.
May we live faithfully,
Not like the other three,
And save the family tree,
God help our Gran!


(Sounds a bit druidic to me ;) )

Happy and joyous Friday and end of term!

ps. Where's my invite??

6 comments:

Ray Barnes said...

Same place as mine, in the shredder!

Like your anthem, much truth in humour.

Lesley said...

LOL - you are a royalist like me then! I haven't got an invite either!

Revsimmy said...

There's nothing like a spot of lese majeste. I'll come and visit you in the Tower.

Revsimmy said...

...unless you've already been appointed court jester, that is.

Charlie said...

I have quoted you (fully referenced, of course) in a post to be published tomorrow. Too funny to ignore!

Vic Van Den Bergh said...

Charlie,

Not a problem, feel free.

Thanks,

V