Tue, Apr 24
|Precious Blood Church
Silver Rose of Guadalupe Relay to Mexico
The Silver Rose is carried across North America from Canada to the Basilica or Our Lady of Guadalupe in Monterrey, Mexico, to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe. All are invited to pray to Our Lady to strengthen our efforts to restore the Culture of Life in our society.
Time & Location
Apr 24, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Precious Blood Church, 17475 59 Ave, Surrey, BC V3S 1P3, Canada
About the event
The Our Lady of Guadalupe Silver Rose has been a Knights of Columbus tradition for 58 years. In 1960, groups of Columbian Squires in Mexico, Canada and the United States decided to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe by carrying a rose across North America from Canada to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Monterrey, Mexico. In 2001 Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson, at the 119th Supreme Council Meeting in Toronto, addressed the effort in culture of life terms, referring to the Our Lady of Guadalupe - One Life, One Rose Program. He urged that it be expanded to every North American jurisdiction.
In recent years the program has expanded to eight silver roses traveling the western, central, and eastern corridors of North America, with Knights of Columbus from Canada to Mexico carrying the roses from destination to destination, and finally to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Monterrey, Mexico.
Every stop along the route of the Silver Rose Pilgrimage is an occasion for prayer and spiritual renewal centered on the rosary. English, French and Spanish booklets containing recommended prayers, scripture readings and a litany accompany the Silver Rose.
Rose will start its journey in BC Yukon on March 18, 2018, weaving through Greater Vancouver and Finishing with the hand-off to Washington State Knights on April 28 in Lynden WA.