Way of the Rose

The Way of the Rose is the path of the heart

The Way of the Rose is an open-hearted, inclusive community of beings dedicated to the forgotten earth wisdom of the rosary… and to the Lady, by any name you like to call Her. We are not affiliated with the Catholic Church or any other religions institution. Nor does we seek to build a new one. We have no dues or fees, no buildings to maintain, or capital campaigns. We pass the hat from time to time for our modest needs. There are no priests or levels of mastery. Instead of lineages of power, we value circles of friendship. We support each other in praying for our heart’s desire.

The Way of the Rose began when an ex-Buddhist monk experienced an apparition of the Lady in 2011 who invited him to pray the rosary with the words: “If you rise to say the rosary tonight, a column of saints will support your prayer.” That story is told in the book Waking Up to the Dark: The Black Madonna’s Gospel for and Age of Extinction and Collapse by Clark Strand. The Lady’s further teachings are offered in The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary by Clark Strand and Perdita Finn. The story of the ongoing apparitions and the column of saints is concluded in Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World by Perdita Finn.

Our Lady of Woodstock speaks of the miraculous power of the rosary to transform lives and heal the planet, revealing the secrets she had hidden within its prayers and mysteries — secrets of a past age when forests were the only cathedrals and people wove “rose garlands” for a Mother whose loving presence was as close as the ground beneath their feet. She told Strand and Finn:

The rosary is My body,
and My body is the body of the world.
Your body is one with that body.
What cause could there be for fear?

Our Lady continues to offer messages on the 16th of every month.