Anglican Aleisa Worship Community

Ni Sa Bula! Namaste! Noa'ia! 🇫🇯 Talofa lava! 🇼🇸🇦🇸 Malo e lelei! 🇹🇴 Kia Ora! Greetings! 🇳🇿

to all our friends and family of the late Archbishop Fereimi Cama and The Anglican Church - Diocese of Polynesia.

Below is the programme for the Thanksgiving Funeral Service for the late Archbishop Fereimi Cama.

The livestream coverage begins today at 3.00PM Fiji Standard Time.

We continue to give thanks to God for the life and ministry of His servant, now called to rest in Eternity.

Thank you for joining us from wherever you are across the globe. The Diocese and the immediate family appreciates your words of sympathy, comfort, thoughts and prayers.

May his soul rest in peace and rise in glory! Amen.

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Ni Sa Bula! Namaste! Noa'ia! 🇫🇯 Talofa lava! 🇼🇸🇦🇸 Malo e lelei! 🇹🇴 Kia Ora! Greetings! 🇳🇿

✝️Today is Wednesday 07 July 2021, our Diocese of Polynesia is in mourning period for the passing of Archbishop Cama.

Reading: Psalm 23

🙏Prayers
May the God of steadfastness and encouragement
grant us to live in such harmony with one another
in accord with Christ Jesus,
that we may with one voice glorify our God and Father.
Amen.

|Daily Services / Wednesday Morning|

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God our Comforter,
you are a refuge and a strength for us,
a helper close at hand in times of distress.
Help us so to hear the words of our faith
that our fear is dispelled,
our loneliness eased and our hope reawakened.
May your Holy Spirit lift us
above our natural sorrow,
to the peace and light of your constant love;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

|New Zealand Prayer Book / Funeral Liturgies|

Do join us this evening for Vigil prayers led by St Paul's Anglican Church, Tonga Episcopal Unit 6.00pm Tonga Standard Time, followed by Vigil Prayers led by Bishop Henry Bull, Vanua Levu & Taveuni Episcopal Unit, 7.00pm Fiji Standard Time.

Do also join us online this Friday 09 July 2021 at 9.00AM Fiji Standard Time to give thanks to God for the life of our late Archbishop, The Most Reverend Fereimi Cama. May his soul rest in peace and rise in glory.

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Ni Sa Bula! Namaste! No'ia! 🇫🇯 Talofa lava! 🇼🇸🇦🇸 Malo e lelei! 🇹🇴 Kia Ora! Greetings! 🇳🇿

✝️Today is Monday 05 July 2021, our Diocese of Polynesia is in mourning period for the passing of Archbishop Cama.

Reading: Romans 14: 7-9

🙏Prayers
Almighty and everlasting God, we thank you that you have brought us safely to the beginning of this day.
Keep us from falling into sin or running into danger, and guide us to do always what is right in your eyes; through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Amen.

|Daily Services / Monday Morning|

God of all comfort,
we pray to you for those we love but see no longer.
Grant them your peace;
let light perpetual shine upon them;
and in your loving wisdom and almighty power
work in them the good purpose of your perfect will,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

|New Zealand Prayer Book / Funeral Liturgies|

Mihi for the late Archbishop Fereimi Cama
From the Primates - Archbishop Don Tamihere and Archbishop Philip Richardson.

Ka tanuku! Ka tanuku!
Ka tanuku koa te tihi o te Maunga Tapu,
Ka hora te tihi tapu ki te whenua ki raro rā,
ki te pae o Tai-mihi-tāngata,
ki te Moananui a Kiwa.
E pari ra te tai ki te wahapū, ki tua;
ki tawhiti nui, ki te ara i takahia ai e te tini me te mano!

E rere rā kai taku manu tātāriki ki te tāpuhipuhi o te taumata okiokinga o te hunga tapu; ki reira titiro whakararo mai ki te iwi whakapono e mau nei i te parekawakawa o te aituā.

He tangi apakura mōu, e te Ātipīhopa e Fereimi, tō tātou hepara kua riro atu nei ki tua te arai, ki te moengaroa.

Whakauru atu ki te Kāhui Wairua e te Ātipīhopa, e te Pononga Pai. Noho mai rā i runga i te rangimarie.

Grief can leave our most high and sacred mountain shaken, even if only for the moment; its peak may shed delicate pieces of itself, and crumble to the land below in deep sorrow, even to the sea;

Even to the very tides that first welcomed us, to the very edges of this great ocean that first united our people.

The gentle waves of our sadness reach across the sea to distant harbours and far away shores, across the sacred trail of the innumerable who preceded us.

May your spirit now take flight, oh beloved one, to the gathering place of the Saints; from there may your gaze return to us, the congregation of faith, gathered now in deep mourning.

Our hearts echo softly with the ancient laments of our people, sung for you Archbishop Fereimi; our shepherd who has departed from us, gone beyond the veil, taken to the place of eternal rest.

Take your place among the Saints, our beloved Archbishop Fereimi, oh good and faithful servant. May you rest there in everlasting peace.

Archbishop Don Tamihere
Archbishop Philip Richardson

|anglicantaonga.org.nz|

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