The weather being fine, the Labyrinth was set up mostly outside. People did the labyrinth, then munched the BBQ.

The path of the labyrinth was marked with brightly coloured wool (Ariadne's Clew), which wove from tree to tree. People started in small groups, listening to the story of The Woman Who Searched For Wisdom, then followed the thread through four separate Stations, to the Decompression Chamber inside the church.

The Woman Who Searched For Wisdom

Welcome to our Labyrinth

You are about to embark on a journey.

Theseus was the son of the King of Athens. Every year an order came from Crete, that seven young men and seven maidens be sent to Knossos, to be food for the Minotaur: the half-bull-half-man who lived in the Labyrinth under King Minos’s palace.

Theseus volunteered to go, to try and slay the monster. But he couldn’t work out how to decipher the Labyrinth until King Minos’ daughter, Ariadne, gave him a ball of wool. He tied the thread to the entrance: it would lead him back to safety once the Minotaur was dead.

Please follow the thread –Ariadne’s Clew– as it leads you into the Labyrinth.

Every so often there will be a “station” with another story.

Gird up your loins. Tighten the sandals on your feet and loosen the sword in your scabbard. Prepare to face your monsters.

Station 1 - between the tomb and the tree:

Jonah

The thread led up the church tower to

Station 2.

Temptations in the Wilderness

From there the thread led back down into the graveyard.

By the gravestones,

Station 3

Dealing With Pain

Under the next tree,

Station 4

Prometheus

The thread finally led inside the church, where a quiet place had been built with a circle of bean bags. On a low table in the centre, unlit candles, some rosemary (the herb, not the woman) and the Ern of Wisdom. This was the Decompression Chamber , a place to reflect on the whole service.

Decompression Chamber