The following are excerpts from the homily delivered by the Rev. Wendel W. Meyer, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Beverly Farms, Mass., where a memorial service was held Monday for author John Updike:
"We are here today to celebrate the life, work and faith of John Updike. In truth, I would be far more comfortable simply focusing these remarks on John's strong and resilient faith, but that would be separating the inseparable, for in an important sense John was a seamless garment and his faith was delicately and intricately woven into the warp and weft of his life and work. ...
"John Updike, my friends, was a man who lived a life that was inspired and infused by his thirst for the divine, and that longing colored the way he experienced reality and the way he described it. ...
"John Updike accepted the universe because he believed that reality was permeated with the spirit of the Lord who created, redeemed and sustains it. ...
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