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Saturday 3 May, 10:30–16:00 in the Crypt
Pray with the Labyrinth
An opportunity to meet and know yourself, meet the divine or sacred, and relate to others.
Pray and be mindful as you take a meditative walk in our Eastern Crypt, using a medieval maze pattern derived from that at Chartres Cathedral in France.
Sat 3 May, 10:30–16:00
Pray with the Labyrinth
An opportunity to meet and know yourself, meet the divine or sacred, and relate to others.
Pray and be mindful as you take a meditative walk in our Eastern Crypt, using a medieval maze pattern derived from that at Chartres Cathedral in France.
As with worship and services, those coming to take part in this spiritual experience do not need to pay admission. Please just let our welcome staff know that you are here for Pray with the Labyrinth.
Leaflets and a guide will be provided, and there will be a laptop version of the Labyrinth available for those with limited mobility
What is the Labyrinth?
The Labyrinth calls you to respond to the “desire to love the journey, and arrive at a goal”. To engage with the challenges of your everyday life and at some point face your dying. It is one way of responding to the inherent desire within and to engage with our deep spiritual and unconscious core, our true self or soul. This might be in the context of a faith system or not.
The Merton Prayer
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will, does not mean
that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you and I hope that I have that
desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire and I know that if l do this you will
lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore I trust you always.”
‘The Merton Prayer’ is a poem from Thoughts in Solitude, a book by Thomas Merton.
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