Walking the labyrinth offers a creative space to pray.

Some walk the labyrinth in prayerful silence; others quietly repeat a mantra or meaningful phrase. Some simply reflect on feelings or questions, while others may focus on the music or an image.

Simply enter the labyrinth and put one foot in front of the other and walk this holy path of God. The labyrinth is not a maze. There are no dead ends or roadblocks. Instead, it is a curving path to the center that returns us back to the place we start, renewed by our prayerful walk.

The Veriditas website offers some helpful guidelines for walking the labyrinth:

The labyrinth is not a maze. There are no tricks to it and no dead ends. It has a single circuitous path that winds its way into the center. The person walking it uses the same path to return from the center and the entrance then becomes the exit. The path is in full view, which allows a person to be quiet and focus internally.

Generally there are three stages to the walk: releasing on the way in, receiving in the center and returning when you follow the return path back out of the labyrinth. Symbolically, and sometimes actually, you are taking back out into the world that which you have received.

Our labyrinth is a full-size canvas replica of the 11-course model at Chartres Cathedral. Due to the space required for set-up, and care of the canvas, it is available only periodically. It is scheduled to be open on the second Saturday of each month for the Louisiana Recovery Ministries Baton Rouge area 12-Step Eucharist; however, please confirm before arriving. Other opportunities will be announced here and in our newsletter.