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Thank you to all who helped bring the last phase of St. Joseph Gardens to life! The shelter is beautiful! We would like to thank Karen Thorpe, Bruce Tumlin, Father Umberg, all parish committee members involved and a special thank you to Mike & Denise Holscher of Holscher Hackman Garden Center for once again doing such a beautiful job on the landscaping surrounding the shelter and all the prayer walks and gardens on the grounds. May God bless these wonderful people and St. Joseph parish.
Special thanks also to Lumber Zach! With the addition of seven picnic tables, including a custom handicap table, our pavilion for church gatherings is complete! Be sure to stop by to see the wonderful improvements to the parish grounds!
St. Joseph Gardens, planted at an empty lot on the site of a high school across the street from St. Joseph Church in North Bend, includes what has become one of the most popular large-scale landscape projects at Catholic institutions, a labyrinth. But what is a labyrinth? In the past few decades, classes and workshops first begun by Episcopalian women have popularized the idea of walking on the path of a labyrinth as a way to “encounter the eternal feminine.” More or less New Age, depending on who is teaching them, these are inventions, not history. But their popularity has created a trend for labyrinths laid out in gardens or set into pavements, including at Catholic sites. ( Excerpt from article by Gail Finke published at http://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/are-labyrinths-catholic/42361 }
