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The Welsh poet John Ormond<\/a> famously sang of building cathedrals. Within that poem I believe he put his finger on something about community, authentic community and about the secret heart of spiritual community\u2026<\/p>\n

They climbed on sketchy ladders towards God,<\/span>
with winch and pulley hoisted hewn rock into heaven,<\/span>
inhabited the sky with hammers,<\/span>
defied gravity,<\/span>
deified stone,<\/span>
took up God\u2019s house to meet him,<\/span>
and came down to their suppers<\/span>
and small beer,<\/span>
every night slept, lay with their smelly wives,<\/span>
quarreled and cuffed the children,<\/span>
lied, spat, sang, were happy, or unhappy,<\/span>
and every day took to the ladders again,<\/span>
impeded the rights of way of another summer\u2019s swallows,<\/span>
grew greyer, shakier,<\/span>
became less inclined to fix a neighbour\u2019s roof of a fine evening,<\/span>
saw naves sprout arches, clerestories soar,<\/span>
cursed the loud fancy glaziers for their luck,<\/span>
somehow escaped the plague,<\/span>
got rheumatism,<\/span>
decided it was time to give it up,<\/span>
to leave the spire to others,<\/span>
stood in the crowd, well back from the vestments at the consecration,<\/span>
envied the fat bishop his warm boots,<\/span>
cocked a squint eye aloft,<\/span>
and said, \u201cI bloody did that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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