Labyrinth

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 }