Season of Creation 2025: Prayer Labyrinth
Holy Trinity Church, Hurdsfield, were given the brief of creating a prayer stop in our church grounds as part of a route of events for this year’s Season of Creation across Macclesfield.
This seemed the perfect opportunity to turn one of our wildflower meadows into a prayer labyrinth for the month of September!
Marking it out as a traditional pattern was no trivial task at first sight, but after quite some head-scratching and armed with these guidelines, stakes, rope and a lawnmower, we planned and mowed it over a couple of hours on a warm summer evening.
https://www.labyrinthos.net/layout.html
The path became clearer over the next week as the wild grasses and flowers recovered from being trodden down.
We've kept the prompts really simple with 4 themes that people can pray for as they meander through the labyrinth: Effects of global warming; Woods & fields; Rivers & oceans, ‘On earth as it is in Heaven’.
Evenly spaced along the path are coloured plant pots (painted, water-proofed, upturned and staked to the ground) with the idea that as people pass them, they switch the topic they talk to God about. We've deliberately left the words to a minimum for those for whom reading isn't easy or joyful and so that people can feel free to pray as they want to.
Elle Bird, Simon White, Russell & Rachel Mortishire-Smith
