When you go to an institution, go specifically to the useful things at that institution. Otherwise, you're just trying to become part of the order of things, and that sort of thing happens without any effort on your part. The cathedral is a place created in the order of things that can be used for meditation and prayer, so if you find a big stone building, you might be able to get some work done. Additionally, it's the place set up (for many interesting reasons) by the present order of things for the transmission of sacred texts, and sacraments. The order of things itself is therefore what comes to the place.
Otherwise, simply running to the church every morning is like being a dog at the gates. And a dog at the gates has this advantage over humans: he's not doing it to be a dog at the gates in a certain world. He knows that there are useful things inside. Cunning fellow.