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To mark our 50th anniversary, we are planning many special events throughout 2022, starting with a
picnic after our liturgy on Pentecost Sunday, June 5th. We will be participating in the Queens Pride
Parade (also Sunday, June 5th) and the Brooklyn Pride Parade (Saturday, June 11th), as well as our
annual Witness at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the NYC Pride March (Sunday, June 26th). Our annual
Pride Liturgy will be held on Saturday, June 25th, at 6:30 PM at St. John’s, to be followed by a social

Dignity/New York will celebrate Easter Sunday liturgy at 6:30 pm ET at St. John's in the Village Episcopal Church (same church we meet each Sunday). Easter Sunday will be broadcast at the same time over usual Zoom Sunday link.

Dignity/New York will celebrate it's Good Friday Service at 6:30 pm ET on Zoom through the regular Sunday evening Zoom link which can be found in the worship aid at the bottom of the website.

While a day like Christmas is fixed in our minds and on the calendars on December 25th, many of the important feasts of the Church year move, based    upon the date that Easter is set. Easter changes each year moving to the Sunday after the "Paschal Full Moon," and can fall between March 22 and April 25.

In ancient times before calendars were common, most people did not know the dates for the upcoming Liturgical year. On Epiphany Sunday, the upcoming dates were "proclaimed" after the gospel or after communion in this way:

For the last 40 years, Dignity/New York has worked and prayed for the day when AIDS will no longer be a health crisis affecting the world.

AIDS PRAYER

For those who have died of AIDS, we pray:

Merciful and loving God,
we ask you to look with favor
on our siblings and friends,
all over the world who have suffered and died of AIDS.

In their illness,
they shared in the suffering and death of Jesus.
May they now share in his resurrection
and be counted among your saints forever.