A Collective Labyrinth Walk August 22, 6pm with Deacon Kate Wisz

Join The Rev. Kate Wisz, the parish’s newly assigned deacon, at St. Matthew’s Labyrinth on Thursday, August 22, 2024, at 6pm, for a collective labyrinth walk. Collective labyrinth walks are walks done by groups with a shared intention, meditation, and reflection. We will begin with a brief introduction of the walk’s focus, walk the labyrinth, and then gather to reflect on any discoveries or experiences before closing the spiritual practice.

The focus of the August 22 Walk will be a continuation of the conversations leading up to St. Matthew’s bicentennial program — naming and honoring the lived experiences and realities of the enslaved and freed black individuals connected with St. Matthew’s and Hillsborough.

We will remember Lydia (1830), Bridget (1831), Noah, and Jesse (b. 1806),

O Holy Spirit of comfort and eternal presence: spread over us, your weary and anxious people, your protective and reassuring wings, that we might be delivered from our fears of one another: that we might experience the exhilarating freedom of welcoming even strangers without defensiveness, hostility, or suspicion, but rather with openness, hospitality, and the expectation of friendship. In the Name of Jesus, who welcomes all. Amen.