St. Andrew Catholic Community

    The Magic of the Labyrinth

   The Labyrinth a path for prayer and meditation, is on the grounds for walking at any time.  The labyrinth is lighted for night use until 10:30 PM each evening.

    I can't begin to explain how or why the magic of the labyrinth works, but it does.  This is a copy of the one on the floor of Chartres Cathedral. The church, and its masons, knew about sacred geometry and sacred architecture; and, if you had a model of the Cathedral, you could fold down the wall with the rose window, and the window would land precisely upon the labyrinth.

   The labyrinth is a problem-solving device. You can print this one out, and follow the path in and out with you finger (suggest using your left hand if you are right-handed, and vice versa)., and you might like to think of the centre as your deeper, wiser self and the outside as the outside world - and your relationship to each as your finger makes its journey.

   Those who walk the labyrinth can stop and think, wherever they want, and spend as much time in the middle as they like. Some of them just dump their problems outside and, when they return, the problem has gone.

Try it, it's fun! (click here to go to a print-friendly version of the Labyrinth)