Music for the Labyrinth

Our Compline Choir, Sanctuary, will offer a Lenten concert of choral music inspired by the meditative practice of walking the labyrinth. This ancient practice has found new vitality in the 20th and 21st centuries as the labyrinth’s power for channeling self-awareness, finding peace, engendering gratitude, stimulating creative energy, and processing grief and trauma has changed countless lives. The program will reflect the three-part experience of walking the labyrinth: the release and spiritual trust of walking into the labyrinth; receiving of the gifts of the labyrinth at its center; and the return to the world as one leaves the labyrinth. Portions of the program will be accompanied by flutist Amy Blake and sound bath musician Jim Morgan. The program will include music by Johannes Brahms, Hildegard von Bingen, Kerensa Briggs, Damon Daldridge, David Hurd, Michael McGlynn, Claudio Monteverdi, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Eric Whitacre. A labyrinth will be installed in Palmer Hall during the week of the concert for the public to walk. The concert will be preceded by our Wednesday community supper. Tickets are available on the church’s website or in the parish office.

For more information about the practice of walking the labyrinth, we recommend Lauren Artress’s book Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice, or visiting the website for Veriditas, a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring personal and planetary change and renewal through the labyrinth experience: veriditas.org.