Prayer Labyrinth At STM – Prayer Guide for the Walk

Prayer Guide for the Walk

You may choose either of the following to pray-walk the Labyrinth.

【Guide 1】
• Inward Purgation (releasing) – As you journey toward the centre, open your    heart and mind, talk to God about your anxieties, blockages, distractions,          failures, fears, guilt, hurts, and worries, of life. This is a journey of emptying    your cares in God’s grace. “Let go and let God.”

• Centre Illumination (receiving) – When you reach the centre, be aware of          God’s presence and His love. Stay and rest there as long as it feels right. Pray    for God’s illumination. This is the time to reflect your relationship with God,    to listen, and to receive what God would offer you through prayer and                meditation. “Breathe on me breath of God; fill me with life anew.”

• Outward Union (returning) – As you leave, spend time integrating what you have received from God into your life, and giving thanks and praising God for all that He has done/spoken. “Thy will be done.”

【Guide 2】
• Recite the Lord’s Prayer as you walk. (Instead, you may recite some familiar scripture and pray these scriptural verses.)

【Guide 3】
• You may pray-walk the labyrinth listening to hymns or worship music.

【Guide 4】                                                                                                               • Pray for yourself on the way in, stop to experience God’s love in the centre, and pray for others on the way out (or vice versa).