Our Trinity labyrinth at Holy Cross and St Margaret’s is taking shape. You can be a part of it by sponsoring some of the thousand pavers that make it up. At $3 per paver, your contribution can help this beautiful place of prayerfulness grow. Leave a lasting footprint on our sacred land, and help bring the love of God to fellow pilgrims in the Inner North.
Contact treasurer@holycrosshackett.org.au to make a donation.
This year’s Lady Day Communion Service of the diocesan Mother’s Union will be held at 10am Wednesday 24 March at Holy Cross Hackett, with guest preacher Reverend Joan Smith.
It will be followed by lunch and the MU AGM. Bring a friend!
Join Holy Cross for Easter:
9am 28 March Palm Sunday;
7.30pm 1 April Last Supper;
2 April Good Friday
9am Service
2pm Meditation at the Cross;
4 April Easter Sunday
6am Dawn Vigil
9am Family Eucharist
Following a challenging year and as the holidays come to a close, our meditative prayer services are returning from 1 Feb, offering a chance to pause amidst busy lives and return our minds to God.
4.15pm Mondays — Meditation Group
5.30pm Tuesdays — Contemplative Evening Prayer and Meditation
Celebrate the festive season at Holy Cross and St Margaret’s with the North Canberra Nativity Festival, Carols by Candlelight and special worship services for Advent and Christmas.
Advent Sunday Worship
10am 29 Nov Family Service
7pm 29 Nov Darkness into Light
Nth Canberra Nativity Festival
Thu 10 to Sun 13 Dec
6.30pm Sunday Community BBQ
7.30pm Carols by Candlelight
Christmas Services
7.30pm Mon 21 Dec Blue Christmas Service
5pm Thu 24 Dec Kids Nativity Service
11pm Thu 24 Dec Midnight Mass
9am Fri 25 Dec Christmas Day Family Service
Sun 1 Mar Environment Sunday joint service;
9am Sunday worship:
8 Mar 2nd Sunday in Lent;
15 Mar 3rd Sunday in Lent;
22 Mar Mothering Sunday (no in-person worship);
29 Mar 5th Sunday in Lent (no in-person worship);
5 Apr Palm Sunday (no in-person worship)
Join us for the festive season: Advent Sunday 1 Dec;
Nativity Festival & Carols by Candlelight 11-15 Dec;
Blue Christmas 18 Dec;
Kids Nativity; Midnight Mass 24 Dec;
Christmas Service 25 Dec
Labyrinths are an ancient spiritual practice: for many thousands of years, people of all faiths and none have used them for prayer and meditation. In the Middle Ages Christians embraced them as a form of pilgrimage: the most famous one is in Chartres Cathedral, France. A labyrinth is not a maze: you can’t get lost! There’s just one route to follow which always leads to the centre.
The Trinity Labyrinth is unusual in having three centres: the heart, representing the Father; the cross, representing the incarnate Son, Jesus Christ; and the dove, representing the life-giving Holy Spirit. The path that links the centres represents the “divine dance” of love between Father, Son and Spirit, in which we are invited to join. The theological word for this is perichoresis, from the Greek peri-khorein (which also gives us “chorus” & “choreography”).
Unlike some labyrinths which take you on a long journey before reaching the centre, when you enter the Trinity Labyrinth you are welcomed at once to the Father’s heart, and then invited on a pilgrimage into the heart of the love of God.
Download the labyrinth card with this information here (pdf – 295kb).
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