THE LABYRINTH
In Holy Week 2010, visitors were invited to explore the Christian message through a themed prayer labyrinth.
The labyrinth was designed to help take visitors on a spiritual pilgrimage.
Labyrinths are traditionally round in shape with no tricks or dead ends, but a single path negotiating its way to the centre and back again. The three stages of the journey - inward, arrival at the centre and outward - allow for reflections on different stages of an individual’s spiritual path.
Rector Canon Mavis Wilson said: “ The open space at St Francis is an ideal environment for the labyrinth. Providing a place where we can be challenged and changed to explore highs and lows of our faith."
While walking a prayer labyrinth has become increasingly popular in contemporary Christianity they were adopted by the Church across Europe in medieval times and can be found embedded in the floors of numerous cathedrals - one of the most famous being in Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral.
