Adieu [to Eugene Fairweather]

Notes: "A homily preached by [the Rev.] Stephen Reynolds on 11 April 2002 at All Saints' Cathedral, Halifax, and revised for a Requiem Mass at Trinity College Chapel on 30 April 2002." Eugene Fairweather "was a very private man who lived a very public career as a priest whose vocation, whose ministry, who very life, was to do theology, and as a theologian who considered it his discipline's duty to serve the Church, to build up the people of God in the faith which seeks understanding". He was particularly active and influential, in Canada and throughout the Communion, as a participant in the Anglican Communion's dialogues with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox communions. Fr. Fairweather selected the readings for the requiem liturgy (Isaiah 25:6-9; Revelation 21: 1-17; John 6:37-40) himself and Reynolds ends by saying: "Eugene was a theologian to the end. It is the calling and duty of theologians to remind the Church that our faith is not about us. Even as they speak and, by speaking, call attention to themselves, they are to point us away from their own presence to the presence of God in Christ. This Eugene has done in his final office and service; and for that service, for all his ministry as priest and theologian now brought to this end, we do indeed bid him adieu, `to God'."

Subjects: Fairweather, Eugene R. (Eugene Rathbone), 1920-2002; Theologians - Anglican Church of Canada