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October 26, 2022A Silver Rose on a nine-month pilgrimage will be the centerpiece of a special prayer service and Mass at 5 p.m. Nov. 4 at Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church in Edmond.
After the 7:30 a.m. Mass on Nov. 4 the Knights will have a symbolic walk of the Silver Rose from Mitch Park to Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church, 9 and S. Littler, in Edmond. The Knights of Columbus Council 6477 will sponsor the program to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe and express 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.
History of the Silver Rose
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 ensure future annual trips, a silver rose was 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, previous 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.”
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Knights of Columbus Council 6477 in Edmond is one of 17,000 Knights of Columbus councils that make up the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded in 1882 to assist working-class and immigrant Catholics in the United States, today the approximately two million members of the Knights put their faith into action through a broad range of charitable causes locally, nationally, and internationally through financial contributions and hands-on service.
For more information, contact R.J. Schulte, faith director, at [email protected] or (405) 620-7491, Richard Baker, program director, at [email protected] or (707) 330-3979, Jack Goodson, grand knight, at [email protected] or (405) 312-5008.
