Roderick Stoddart (Roddy) - Kapiti Coast Funeral Home

With Love We Remember
Donations
If you would like to make a donation in Roddy’s memory,
this can be made to the Wellington Free Ambulance
and left in the box provided in the foyer. Thank you
Roderick
Stoddart
(Roddy)
June and the family would like to thank you for being with them today and
for the kind thoughts and support received.
11 February 1928
Following the service you are warmly invited to gather with them in the
adjoining Lounge for light refreshments and further sharing of memories.
- 25 July 2015
When Death's dark stream I ferry o'er,
A time that surely shall come;
In Heav’n itself I'll ask no more
Than just a Highland welcome.
Service held at the Kapiti Coast Funeral Home Chapel, Paraparaumu on Friday 31 July 2015 at 11.00am
Officiating: Kevin Nelson
ETERNAL FATHER, STRONG TO SAVE
Gathering Music: "Scottish Tranquility"
Entry - Callum Carn (bagpipes)
Welcome and words of reflection
Reading
Life Unbroken read by Gael Stoddart
Memories of Roddy
Family
Open speakers
Photo memories
Music during: Skye Boat Song
Reading
Sea Fever read by Chris MacNeil
Masonic tribute
Concluding words of reflection
Hymn - Eternal Father Strong To Save
Prayer for Roddy
Commendation
Recessional music:
Callum Carn (bagpipes)
Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidst the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep:
O hear us when we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea.
THE PILOT’S PSALM
The Lord is my Pilot, I shall not drift,
He lights me across the dark waters.
He steereth me in deep channels;
he keepeth my log.
O Christ, whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at thy word,
Who walkedst on the foaming deep,
And calm amid the storm didst keep:
O hear us when we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea.
O Holy Spirit, who didst brood
Upon the waters dark and rude,
And bid their angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace:
O hear us when we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea.
He guideth me by the Star of Holiness
For His Names sake.
Yea though I sail mid the thunders
and tempests of life,
I will dread no danger, for thou art with me;
Thy love and thy care they shelter me.
Thou prepares a table before me in the
homeland of Eternity.
Thou anointest the waves with oil
My ship rideth calmly.
Surely sunlight and starlight shall favour me
O trinity of love and power,
Our people shield in danger's hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
guard them wherever they shall go:
Thus evermore shall rise to thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea
On the voyage I take.
And I will rest in the port of my God forever.
Captain John Roberts, 1874