DETAILS of the order of service for the funeral mass of Cardinal Thomas Winning were released yesterday by the Roman Catholic Church.
The two-hour service at St Andrew's Cathedral in Glasgow on Monday will be a standard Catholic requiem mass with embellishments because of the cardinal's position. It will contain more music than the normal requiem mass, and will last longer, with more clergy.
The service features several of the church leader's favourite hymns, including Be Still My Soul and Lord, You Have Come To The Seashore, which is a Spanish hymn that he would often ask primary schoolchildren to learn for their confirmation.
The choir will be the St Mungo's Singers, the archdiocesan choir. Members of the clergy attending the service will wear white instead of black and purple, as a sign of hope and resurrection.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the archbishop of Westminster, will be the main celebrant of the mass, with the main sermon read by the Bishop of Motherwell.
The cardinal's family has asked mourners not to bring flowers but instead to make donations to the Pro Life Initiative, set up by the cardinal in March 1997 to offer help to women facing crisis pregnancies.
Rose Docherty, development officer for the initiative, said: ''There have been steady donations coming in since his death.
''Mail has been coming in daily so there certainly has been an increase in donations to the initiative. It is a lovely gesture and I am sure it is one which the cardinal would have approved of, that the money will be going to something a bit more lasting.''
At the end of the service, the cardinal's coffin will be sprinkled with holy water as a reminder of his baptism, and incense burned as a symbol of prayers rising up to heaven.
His coffin will be buried in the crypt alongside his predecessors.
Cardinal Winning died last Sunday from a suspected heart attack at his home in Glasgow at the age of 76, just two days after receiving treatment for a previous heart attack.
The reception of the cardinal's remains will take place with evening prayer tomorrow at 7pm in St Andrew's Cathedral, Clyde Street, Glasgow. The service is private and the congregation of 600 will be made up mostly of representatives from each of the 107 parishes in the archdiocese of Glasgow.
The cardinal's funeral mass will take place at the cathedral at 12 noon on Monday. Entry is by ticket only.
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