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