Events

The Dorothy Day Guild hosts and co-sponsors regular events in-person and online. Our events introduce newcomers to Dorothy’s spirituality and message, deepen knowledge and appreciation of this legacy for long-time members and friends of the Guild, and bring people together for prayer, service, and fellowship around Gospel nonviolence, solidarity with the marginalized, and voluntary poverty. You can learn more about past and upcoming events here as well as view recorded lectures and educational webinars. We hope to see you at one of our events soon!

Upcoming Events


Dorothy Day: Spiritual Writings Lenten Book Club

Sunday, March 9th, 2025-Sunday, April 6th, 2025



7:30 PM Eastern to 8:30 PM Eastern

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    This year, Dorothy Day Guild board member and editor in chief of Orbis Books, Robert Ellsberg, will host our online reading group over the course of five Sundays in Lent. During our time together, we will work through Robert's newest edited volume of Dorothy's work, entitled Dorothy Day: Spiritual Writings. This collection,


    "explores the key themes that underlay [Dorothy's} spirituality, beginning with the call to see Christ in the poor. Day’s spirituality was deeply influenced by the “Little Way” of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, which showed the path to holiness in the daily exercise of patience, charity, and forgiveness. Dorothy extended this principle to the social dimension, the significance of the little protests we make or fail to make. She believed that each act of love, each witness for peace, increases the balance of love and peace in the world."


    If you do not yet have your own copy of Dorothy Day: Spiritual Writings, you can purchase a copy through Orbis Books. We also encourage book club members to request a copy through their local public library. We look forward to a series of wonderful conversations as we journey together with Christ, and with Dorothy, in the Lenten season.


    Meeting schedule: Sunday evenings at 7:30 pm Eastern/6:30 pm Central

    Each meeting will last one hour.


Dorothy Day Symposium: Practices of Peace in the Year of Jubilee

Saturday, March 29th, 2025

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

4513 Manhattan College Pkwy 

Bronx, NY 10471

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    In his announcement of the upcoming 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope, Pope Francis called the faithful to read the signs of the times and to search amongst them for signs of hope. The Holy Father tells us that the first of these must be “the desire for peace in our world, which once more finds itself immersed in the tragedy of war…May the Jubilee remind us that those who are peacemakers will be called ‘children of God’ (Mt 5:9). The need for peace challenges us all, and demands that concrete steps be taken.” Likewise, Pope Francis asks the wider Christian community to offer real signs of hope to the poor at home and across the world whose material needs go unmet. In the life and legacy of Dorothy Day, we read these signs.


    Registration is now open for our for a one-day symposium! This event sponsored by the Dorothy Day Guild and the Dorothy Day Center for the Study and Promotion of Social Catholicism on Saturday, March 29th, 2025 on the campus of Manhattan University in the Bronx, NY. Click here to read the initial call for papers and view the preliminary symposium schedule.


    We invite scholars at every level and peace practitioners whose life and work have been influenced by Dorothy Day’s legacy to join us in March for a day of shared conversation, clarification of thought, prayer, and fellowship.


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Past Events


Celebration of Eucharist for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons with Archbishop John C. Wester

March 4th, 2025

6:00 PM

Church of Our Saviour

59 Park Ave. (at 38th St.)

New York, NY 10016

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    We are deeply grateful that Archbishop John Wester was again able to join us in New York to celebrate a Mass for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons on Tuesday, March 4th at 6:00 pm. Archbishop Wester is coming to New York for the third meeting of states parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which will took place from March 3rd-7th. 


    The Dorothy Day Guild was honored to be a co-sponsor of this event, along with several other Catholic peace groups in the Northeastern United States.Thank you for joining us in prayer and action for a world free from nuclear weapons!


Webinar: Dorothy Day and the Saintly Six

Thursday, November 14th, 2024

7:00-8:30 PM Eastern

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    Celebrate Black Catholic History Month and mark the anniversaries of Dorothy's birth and death this November!


    Please join us for a conversation on how Dorothy Day and the six Black American Catholics whose causes for canonization are open can offer us a vision of politically-engaged holiness in our present time. Our panelists, Dr.Kim Harris, Deacon Mel Tardy, Joanne Kennedy, and Dr. Andrew Prevot, are each living out this vision in their scholarship, journalism, teaching, and ministry. This panel will be moderated by Dorothy Day Guild co-chair Dr. Kevin Ahern.


Dorothy Day Walking Pilgrimage

To mark the close of Dorothy’s 125th year, we hosted our first Manhattan walking pilgrimage of significant sites in Dorothy’s life and the early years of the Catholic Worker movement on Saturday, October 21st, 2023. This pilgrimage takes us to the places where Dorothy prayed, protested, and offered the works of mercy for nearly 50 years.

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