Labyrinth at the Center for Action and Contemplation

At the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, founded by Fr. Richard Rohr, a permanent outdoor labyrinth is part of the center's contemplative campus. It is a pilgrimage point for the global audience Rohr's teaching gathered, and the walk is part of the center's own program. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as the Labyrinth of the Dancing Christ, a seven-circuit walk.

Every labyrinth is a walking practice, not a puzzle: a single path winds to a center and back out, and the walk is done slowly, as prayer or meditation. The pattern descends from the medieval pavement labyrinth at Chartres, and the modern urban revival began in the 1990s when Lauren Artress brought replicas of that path to American congregations and public grounds through Veriditas and the Labyrinth Society, whose World-Wide Labyrinth Locator now catalogs thousands. There is no branching and no trick to the path; walkers of every religion and none use it.

Visiting

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