The Labyrinth at Knox is a modified 24-foot diameter Chartres pattern Labyrinth. The Labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral in France, installed in 1201, provided an alternative form of pilgrimage, when it was no longer safe to make pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
The Labyrinth is not a maze, built to confuse, but a single pathway winding to the centre and returning out again on the same path. On the Labyrinth walk, we engage an ancient spiritual practice of pilgrimage and self discovery. The movement is a body prayer through the architecture of the soul. As we move to the centre, healing, transformation and the divine can be known.
The Knox Labyrinth is listed on the Labyrinth locator of Veriditas, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.
Click here for our Winter/Spring 2010 brochure.
Find rest in the walk of meditative prayer
An oasis of peace in the inner city
Beautiful sacred space
Self-guided Labyrinth Experience - Daily 9–3pm
Enter the sacred space. Centre your life. Listen for new direction. Find peace.
To support your meditative prayer there are
-CDs with calming and mystical music
-explanatory sheets to guide you
-optional printed prayers to use as you walk
-candles to light in prayer or for atmosphere
-a Prayer Wall on which to post a prayer you may wish to offer.
The general theme of the week’s prayer postings are offered in the Prayers of the People at Knox Sunday community worship.
Introductory Labyrinth Session - Date Wednesday May 5th, 7-9pm
A guided introduction to the centuries-old spiritual practice of walking the Labyrinth as a mode of meditative prayer and engaging mystery. $10
Spring Equinox March 21st
Labyrinth Walk - 6–6:45pm
Light and dark come into balance at the vernal equinox. Anticipation of renewal swells in the earth and in our lives. Earth “yawns”. Join in the meditative rite of Spring. Walk in prayer for balance and enlightenment.
Tibetan Singing Bowls Meditation - 7-9pm
Join Reiki and nada (sound) master John Akim Gosaw for an unforgettable experience as he shares his knowledge and experience in a meditation of sound and light with Tibetan and Quartz Crystals Bowls. Meditation with the Tibetan Bowls will take each person into a deep reflective state of awareness.
Holy Food, Sacred Time
Maundy Thursday - April 1st, 6:00pm/7:30pm
We begin at 6pm with a potluck supper, the Godly Play story Jesus’ Last Supper, and Communion in the Lower Theatre, followed by the Labyrinth Way of the Cross experience in the Labyrinth at 7:30pm. Healing Touch ministry is offered.
Spring Labyrinth Gallery - Pentecost Sunday May 23rd at noon
Experience the beautiful and unique sculpture of Knox’s own Aldo Marchese – in the Labyrinth at coffee hour.
Baptism in the Labyrinth - Sunday June 20th, 11am
The place of water, the font, is the destination at the centre of the labyrinth for persons offering themselves for Christian baptism.
