BLOOD DRIVE
September 13, 2024St. Anselm Vegetable Garden Help
September 25, 2024
KOC Council #816 member Bill Setaro picking up the Silver Rose from John Antonacci, PGK, PFN NJKOCMM State Historian.
Archbishop Thomas J. Walsh Council # 3550 and Pope John XXIII Assembly #668
Saint Mathew Church, 555 Prospect Ave., Ridgefield NJ
KOC Council #816 member Bill Setaro handing off the Silver Rose to David Biunno.
Saint Damien Council 6575, Stirling, NJ.
St. Vincent de Paul Church. 250 Bebout Avenue, Stirling, NJ 07980.
Monday, September 30, 2024 at 7:00 pm
St. Anselm Parish, Tinton Falls, NJ.
The Rosary will be prayed as well as The Litany of The Saints ceremony and then light refreshments in the learning center.
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.”