Name: Silver Rose Prayer Service
Start: 2024-07-25T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 1307 Lourdes Ave, De Pere, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54115

Silver Rose Prayer Service
July 25, 2024 at 7 p.m. at Our Lady of Lourdes
“Through [the Silver Rose Program] we honor not only Our Lady of Guadalupe and express the unity of our faith and we also reaffirm [our] dedication to the sanctity of human life. It is to the Blessed Mother that we turn in prayer as we work to end the Culture of Death that grips our society. As we think in terms of ‘One Life, One Rose,’ it is most appropriate that we turn to Our Lady of Guadalupe who made known her will through Juan Diego and the miracle of the roses.”
Our Lady of Lourdes Church 1307 Lourdes Ave
De Pere WI 54115
Join us on July 25, 2024 at 7:00 to 8:00 pm
Join us in honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe and expressing both international unity and dedication to the sanctity of human life.
The journey of the silver rose begins each year in March and ends on Dec. 12, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. During that
time, Silver Roses travel from town to town along eight routes throughout North America. Several of those routes begin in
Canada and end in Mexico.
The Silver Rose Program began in 1960, when the first rose – a real, live one – was blessed by a bishop in Ontario. The rose
then traveled to New York and then to Texas where it was taken across the border into Mexico. The rose ended its pilgrimage
at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Monterrey on Dec. 12, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. To better ensure future
annual trips, a silver rose was ultimately made. Today, due to the popularity of the program throughout the North American
continent, eight silver roses travel unique routes.
In 2001, when Carl Anderson, Past Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, expanded the Silver Rose Program, he commented: “Through [the Silver Rose Program] we honor not only Our Lady of Guadalupe and express the unity of the [Knights of Columbus], but we also reaffirm the Order’s dedication to the sanctity of human life. It is to the Blessed Mother that we turn in prayer as we work to end the Culture of Death that grips our society. As we think in terms of ‘One Life, One Rose,’ it is most appropriate that we turn to Our Lady of Guadalupe who made known her will through Juan Diego and the miracle of the roses.”