Wednesday 12 August 2015

THE LACK OF COMMUNITY

'What life have you if you have not life together?
There is no life that is not in community,
And no community not lived in praise of God.
Even the anchorite who meditates alone,
For whom the days and nights repeat the praise of God,
Prays for the Church, the Body of Christ incarnate.
And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads.
And no man knows or cares who is his neighbour...'
TS Eliot, Choruses from "The Rock", II.