Walk a Sacred Path Pilgrimage

WALKING A SACRED PATH PILGRIMAGE
CHARTRES, FRANCE
September 27 – October 3, 2026
$3800
$1000 deposit to register

We have a recorded zoom introduction with Lauren and Anne answering questions and painting the picture of our magical upcoming experience:
Topic: Preview of the Chartres Experience with Veriditas and the Chatham Group
Happy to share it with you!
admin@csjcapecod.org — reach out to me!

The Center for the Spiritual Journey and Veriditas invite you on a sacred pilgrimage to the beautiful town of Chartres, France, known for its magnificent Cathedral and Medieval Labyrinth. We are excited to partner with Veriditas, who is internationally recognized as an educational organization for labyrinths worldwide.

We arrive in Paris on Sunday, September 27, 2026 where transportation from Charles de Gaulle Airport will be provided to our accommodations for the week at the Hotelliere St Yves. We will join in a Welcome Dinner that Sunday evening.

Monday is a day to rest, wander and acclimate. At 4:00 PM Monday we will join together for a Welcoming Reception, where we will be introduced to guest speakers Diarmuid O’Murchu and Lauren Artress.

Throughout the week, there will be daily presentations by Diarmuid and Lauren, with discussion, small group process, tours of the Crypt and Cathedral and a private evening, walking the candlelit Chartres labyrinth, accompanied by medieval music.   We will listen for the subtle movements of spirit within and around us.

Together we will seek the pathways– ancient and newly unfolding that lead toward a renewed sense of the sacred in our evolving world. Anne Bonney and Bonnie Fedge will be your onsite Pilgrim guides.

The cost for the Chartres Pilgrimage is $3800 and includes:

• • • • • Transportation from Charles de Gaulle Airport is provided for your arrival and departure
        • Dinner Sunday evening
        • Accommodations at Hotelliere St Yves
        • Breakfast each morning
        • Daily presentations by Diarmuid and Lauren, discussion, small group process
        • Welcoming Reception
        • Tours of the Crypt and Cathedral
        • A private evening walking the candlelit Chartres Labyrinth, accompanied by medieval music
        • Farewell dinner Friday evening

*airfare and additional meals are not included

Initial deposit is $1000.  Final payment due June 1st.
Checks written out to Center for the Spiritual Journey.  Credit card payments include a 3% charge.
Reach out to admin@csjcapecod.org with questions.

The theme of our week together is SEEKING COMMUNION WITH CREATION:
HOW THE GREAT SPIRIT WEAVES INTO OUR LIVES.

“The upheavals of our time — ecological collapse, climate disruption, and the fracturing of human community — reveal a deeper truth: we are living through a spiritual crisis of belonging. For generations, humanity has imagined itself apart from Nature, claiming dominion and extracting from the Earth without limit. Our institutions, including the church, have often reinforced this separation.

Yet a new spiritual horizon is dawning. Ecological Spirituality invites us to remember what ancient peoples never forgot: that we live inside a holy universe, alive with intelligence, beauty, and relationality. This emerging spirituality is participatory, embodied, inclusive — calling us back into the vast communion of life.

When we attune to nature’s astonishing, life-giving rhythms, something in us awakens. A shift in consciousness begins. We recognize ourselves as Earthlings — kin to water, wind, stone, and star. From this remembering emerges a deeper spiritual maturity, one equal to the challenges of our age.

What is our role in this emerging New Paradigm?
How do we cultivate communion with Creation in our ordinary days?
What wisdom is seeking to be born through us now?

Recommended Reading for Diarmuid O’Murchu:
The Transformation of Desire, Ecological Spirituality
(all by Orbis Press)

Recommended Reading for Lauren Artress:
Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice
The Path of the Holy Fool: How the Labyrinth Ignites our Visionary Powers

Diarmuid O’Murchu, a member of the Sacred Heart Missionary Order, and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin Ireland, is a social psychologist whose early working life had been in social ministry, predominantly in London, UK. In more recent years he has worked as a workshop leader and group facilitator, conducting pioneering programmes on Adult Faith Development across several countries. He is a widely read author, with many of his books listed on this webpage. Now as a retired missionary, he lives in Dublin, Ireland.

Rev. Dr. Lauren Artress is Canon Emerita of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, internationally recognized teacher on the Spirituality of the Labyrinth, and author of Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice; The Sacred Path Companion: How to Use the Labyrinth to Heal and Transform; and The Path of the Holy Fool: How the Labyrinth Ignites our Visionary Powers. Her first book Walking a Sacred Path was instrumental in launching what the New York Times named The Labyrinth Movement in May, 1998. She founded the non-profit, Veriditas, the World-Wide Labyrinth Project, in 1996 to “pepper the planet with labyrinths.” With over 6,000 labyrinth sites in the U.S. alone, her nonprofit work embraces the vision to activate and transform the human spirit through the labyrinth experience. Lauren received the Gandhi, King, and Ikeda Peace Award for her work in bringing people together in creative, peace-giving ways. In 2021 she received the Extraordinary Visionary Leader award from Women Creating our Futures. She is on the Editorial Board of Presence Magazine, a publication of Spiritual Directors International. Lauren is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of California.
from veriditas.org

Rev. Anne Bonney is one of the Co-Founders of The Center for the Spiritual Journey, Chatham, Cape Cod MA, and serves on the Board of Trustees.  She is an Ordained Minister and Certified Spiritual Director. Anne holds a Masters of Divinity Degree and a Masters of Theology in Interfaith Spirituality from Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, with further studies at the Tamilnadu Seminary in Madurai, India. Anne was Co-Director of the Chatham Labyrinth Project which built the beautiful Chatham Labyrinth and created the Peace Garden in Chase Park. She and a team of labyrinth volunteers run an active labyrinth program throughout the year, presenting workshops, Solstice and other Celebrations, weekly guided labyrinth walks during the summer months and other events.

“I am so grateful for being a friend of the Labyrinth. It has brought so many paths of my life’s journey together and is my “go-to” place for quieting my mind and opening my heart”, says, Anne.

Bonnie Fedge works at the Center for the Spiritual Journey with programs, workshops and events. She is certified as a Reiki Master, Advanced Akashic Records, Sound Bowls, Yoga, Essential Oils, and an Integrative Wellness Coach.

She has worked with volunteers and refugees learning and teaching language, teaching teachers through international organizations and the department of state in 20 countries globally. She holds a degree in Peace Studies, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, and a Masters in Education, and was director of an international language school in Manhattan as the world changed… She’s excited to join you in Chartres!