Christmas Lesson In the Cathedral
Published: December 20, 2001
To the Editor:
Re ''The Cathedral Fire'' (editorial, Dec. 19):
The Christian homilist crafting a message for Christmas may find abundant material in your editorial and its extolling of the ''glorious incompletion'' of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine.
The cathedral, like an anecdote in a medieval sermon, yields its lesson: so, too, the life of the individual believer, no matter how seemingly perfect, awaits the hand of the divine artisan.
E. LEO MCMANNUS
Venice, Fla., Dec. 19, 2001