Come and Walk the Sacred Path The public is invited to walk the labyrinth in Mercy Hall at Mount Saint Mary, Watchung, NJ, from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm on Monday, December 31. Mount Saint Mary is located on Highway 22, Watchung, NJ (opposite Sears). For further information, please call 908-756-0994, ext. 4018 any weekday during the day. The Labyrinth Walking the Labyrinth is an ancient spiritual act that is being rediscovered in our time. Throughout the Middle Ages labyrinths were found in many churches and cathedrals in France and Northern Italy. Church labyrinths, or pavement labyrinths, are characteristically flat and are inlaid into the floor of the nave of the church. Labyrinths can be found in almost every religious tradition throughout the world. Labyrinths are universal, offering only one path. By following the path to the center, the seeker can use the Labyrinth to quiet the mind and find peace and illumination at the center of his or her being. One realizes that the path serves as a metaphor for life and for one's spiritual journey. The walk, and all that happens on it, can be grasped through the intuitive, pattern-discerning faculty of the person walking it. The seeker is only asked to put one foot in front of the other. Each experience is different, even if one walks the Labyrinth many times in a short period of time. The pace usually differs and it may change dramatically within different stages of the walk. When there are more than a comfortable number of persons on the path, you can "pass" people if you wish to continue the intuitive pace your inner process has set. If you are moving at a slower pace, you can allow people to pass you. By stepping into the Labyrinth, we are choosing, once again, to walk the spiritual path, to experience the crucible of change, to use this as a meditation tool, a blueprint where psyche meets soul. We become, as Richard Niebuhr says, "Pilgrims...persons in motion, passing through territories not our own - seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way."