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The Funeral Mass for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

May 23, 1994--Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, New York City

Musical Prelude:

Faure Requiem
Suite, Opus 5-Maurice Durufle
Two monets-Maurice Durufle "Blessed is the Man Who Lives Rightly"-Sergei Rachmaninoff

Processional Hymn:

"We Gather Together"

Funeral Readings and Song:

Isaiah 25: 6A, 7-9 (New American Bible)--John F. Kennedy, Jr.

Responsorial Psalm: 23rd Psalm (King James Version)--Jane Hitchcock

Revelation 21: I-5A, 6B-7 (New American Bible)--Mike Nichols

Gospel: John 14: I-8--Father Walter F. Modrys, S.J.

Homily

"Ithaka" by C.P. Cavafy--Maurice Tempelsman

Prayer of the Faithful--responsorial prayer with readings by Nancy Tuckerman, Sydney Lawford McKelvy, Anna Christina Radziwill, Edwin Schlossberg

"Memory of Cape Cod" by Edna St. Vincent Millay--Caroline Kennedy

Offertory Song: "Panis Angelicus" by Cesar Franck--Jessye Norman

Communion Song: "Ave Maria" by Franz Shubert--Jessye Norman

Eulogy--Edward Kennedy

Recessional: "America the Beautiful" by Katharine L. Bates

Graveside Service of May 23, 1994--Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia

Introduction by Reverend Philip M. Hannan

Address by President Bill Clinton

Readings and Song:

I Thessalonians 4: 13-18 (King James Version)--John F. Kennedy, Jr.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 121 (King James Version)--Caroline Kennedy

Recitation of the Lord's Prayer

Final Prayer and Benediction-- Reverend Philip M. Hannan

Responsory

Hymn: "Eternal Father" by John B. Dykes--U.S. Navy Sea Chanters

 
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