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Journey with DignityNY this Lent

In order to prepare for Lent, we will have ashes for people to use for the Ash Wednesday service if you cannot participate in-person.  We will have ashes at the Center for those in-person.  

We can mail ashes with the Little Black Book for Lent (or without the book) or you can pick up ashes and the LIttle Black Book for Lent at the church starting on Sunday, January 28, 2024.  There will not be any mailings for ashes after February 6, 2024. Please email liturgy@dignityny.org with your mailing address.

Epiphany Proclamation 2024

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:

We Celebrate Epiphany! Epiphany Home Blessing & Marking the Lintel

PRAYER FOR BLESSING CHALK

Jesus, through your Incarnation and birth in true human form, you have made all the earthy holy. We now ask your blessing upon this simple gift of your creation – chalk. We use it as a tool to teach our children, and they use it as a tool in their play and games. Now, with your blessing, may it become a tool for us to mark the doors of our home with the symbols of your wise servants who, so long ago, came to worship and adore you in your first home.

EPIPHANY HOME BLESSING

Vatican Saying Same-Sex Couples can be Blessed “a Key Step Forward” says DignityUSA

Contact: Marianne Duddy-Burke, Execdir@dignityusa.org, 617-669-7810

Jeffrey Stone, 646-418-7039

Darby DeJarnette (for scheduling), info@dignityusa.org, 781-309-7686

December 18, 2023. DignityUSA, the world’s oldest organization of LGBTQIA+ Catholics and allies, is celebrating today’s announcement by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith that same-sex couples can be blessed by priests as an important recognition that these relationships can be holy.

Pride Weekend Details

Saturday, June 24, 2023, 6:30 pm Dignity/New York Pride Liturgy  
Maddie Marlett, co-facilitaor of DYAC, is the homilist. 
St. John's in the Village Episcopal Church, 218 West 11th St, West Village 10014   Celebratory Reception follows.

Sunday, June 25, 2023 Witness at St. Patrick's Cathedral at 11 am for one half hour.- See Lewis to reserve your spot or email dignitynewyork @ gmail . com to reserve your spot. We meet on the south-east corner of 51st St. This has been annual event since the mid-1980's.