Some years ago, my wife and I spent the day in the Basílica de la Sagrada Familia, pictured below.
The original architect, Antoni Gaudí, hoped the basilica to be “the Bible, made of stone.” Of its uniqueness, one art critic said that “it is probably impossible to find a church building anything like it in the entire history of art.”
These superlative statements are entirely deserved. Its beauty and layers of meaning were exhausting to take in.
And what about the crane and scaffolding in the picture? Well, they are still completing construction of the building that was consecrated as a basilica in 2010.
Wait, what? Unfinished and consecrated?
Yes, indeed!
And so I think it is with us.
We are also cathedrals under construction – in need of grace and good company to help us to grow and already capable of the participating in the love that is God. When we are able, with that same grace, to hold our cathedral-ness and our under-construction-ness together, we are capable of unique and remarkable beauty.
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