Nov. 11, 2025 – In honor or Our Lady of Guadalupe, all members of the community are invited to join Knights of Columbus Council 10966 at St. Jane Frances de Chantal Church in Riviera Beach on November 11 at 7:00pm to pray for a civilization of love and a culture of life in our own country and throughout the world. This service will be held in the chapel.
Each year, from early March through Dec. 12, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Silver Roses are stewarded by Knights of Columbus councils along routes from Canada to Mexico. Every stop the Silver Rose makes throughout the pilgrimage is a rosary-centered occasion for Knights, parishioners, and community members to pray for respect for life, for the spiritual renewal of each nation, and for the advancement of the message of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Share the message of Our Lady of Guadalupe and promote respect for life by participating in this meaningful pilgrimage. The Silver Rose program demonstrates the unity between Knights of Columbus in Canada, the United States and Mexico, through a series of prayer services promoting the dignity of all human life and honoring Our Lady.
Join thousands of Catholics across North America in asking for Our Lady of Guadalupe’s intercession through the Silver Rose program
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.”
Prayer for Life
O Mary, bright dawn of the new world,
Mother of the living, to you do we entrust
the cause of life: Look down, O Mother,
upon the vast numbers of babies
not allowed to be born, of the poor
whose lives are made difficult, of men and
women who are victims of brutal violence,
of the elderly and the sick killed by
indifference or out of misguided mercy.
Grant that all who believe in your Son
may proclaim the Gospel of life with
honesty and love to the people of our time.
Obtain for them the grace to accept
that Gospel as a gift ever new, the joy of
celebrating it with gratitude throughout
their lives and the courage to bear witness
to it resolutely, in order to build, together
with all people of good will, the civilization
of truth and love, to the praise and glory of
God, the Creator and lover of life. Amen.
St. John Paul II
Evangelium Vitae, 1995