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Labyrinth

Our regular schedule is the second Tuesday of each month, 7 to 9 pm, in Latham Hall. Trained facilitators will be present to help you in your walk.

The Labyrinth is a divine imprint of sorts, found in almost all cultures and religious traditions throughout the world. The particular portable canvas reproduction we use is modeled after the twelfth-century, eleven circuit sacred design of Christian tradition embedded permanently in the stone nave floor of Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres, France.

Over the last several years, this ancient sacred path has been rediscovered by modern-day seekers as a spiritual tool for human healing and transformation. Here, gifts of insight, wisdom, peace and wholeness answer our spiritual hunger for integration of psyche and soul, reason and imagination, thought and feeling. As one walks the mystical pattern, one discovers not a frustrating, entrapping maze, but a meandering-but-purposeful path.

As such, it becomes a metaphor for the human journey through life with all of its connections, relationships, yearnings and turning points. Unfolding before us, the approximately one-third mile winding path enlivens the intuitive part of our nature even as it unfolds us in its meditative and prayerful spirit.

The labyrinth has only one path so there are no tricks to it and no dead ends. The path winds throughout and becomes a mirror for where we are in our lives. It touches our sorrows and releases our joys. Walk it with an open mind and an open heart.

There are three stages of the walk:

  • Purgation (Releasing) ~ A releasing, a letting go of the details of your life. This is the act of shedding thoughts and distractions. A time to open the heart and quiet the mind.
  • Illumination (Receiving) ~ When you reach the center, stay there as long as you like. It is a place of meditation and prayer. Receive what is there for you to receive.
  • Union (Returning) ~ As you leave, following the same path out of the center as you came in, you enter the third stage, which is joining God, your Higher Power, or the healing forces at work in the world. Each time you walk the labyrinth you become more empowered to find and do the work you feel your soul reaching for

    • It is a path of prayer, introspection and healing. Come walk the labyrinth with us.

    For more information about St. Christopher's labyrinth, contact David Archibald at davidarchibald@sbcglobal.net.

    For more information about about The Houston Labyrinth Network, go to http://www.HoustonLabyrinthNetwork.org.