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Dignity./New York will march in the St. Pat's For All Parade this Sunday, March 3, 2024. It is the 25th Anniversary Parade - Dignity/New York has marched in every one from snow to rain to balmy weather! Please join us at the corner
43rd Street & Skillman Avenue, Queens
12pm for speeches and 1 pm parade kickoff. The parade continues down Skillman Ave and makes a left turn to Woodside.

May Nex Benedict rest in peace. May their family find comfort. May we never forget! No one should be bullied. We need to protect our transgender and gender fluid youth.

DignityUSA Executive Director Marianne Duddy-Burke speaks out in Gay City News on the controversy surrounding the funeral of Cecilia Gentili at St. Patrick's Cathedral:
Marianne Duddy-Burke, the executive director of DignityUSA, which represents LGBTQ Catholics, disagreed with the church’s response and voiced skepticism about the archdiocese’s claims.

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.

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: