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
All The Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day Fall 2026 Book Club
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It's back to school season! In the weeks leading up to Dorothy's birthday in November, we are delighted to welcome you to a six-session, online reading group of All The Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day, led by Robert Ellsberg, the editor of this collection.
Our Fall 2026 book club will meet on Wednesday evenings from September 30th through November 4th from 8:00-9:15 PM Eastern each week. Each week, we'll read one section and discuss it together over Zoom.
We have a special offer this year: As the editor of All The Way to Heaven, Robert has graciously agreed to sign copies of the collection for book club participants! Register and get your own autographed, hardcover copy using our form. We look forward to seeing you September 30th!
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Past Events
The Dorothy Day Guild at Our Lady of Champion!
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The Dorothy Day Guild participated in the 2026 "Catholic Saints of America" exhibition at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion in Wisconsin!
This exhibit was part of a celebration of American saints and holy people in honor of the United States’ 250th anniversary. The Shrine hosted a series of events from July 1st-July 9th.
David Mueller, a member of the Dorothy Day Guild board of directors, represented Dorothy's cause on Thursday, July 2nd and Friday, July 3rd at our booth in the "American Saints" exhibit and gave a presentation at 1:15 PM on Friday, July 3rd. Thanks to everyone who came to his talk and stopped by our table for a free Dorothy Day Guild sticker and holy card!
Our Lady of Champion Shrine is the site of the only approved Marian apparition in the United States, so this is a really special place to pray, and the grounds are beautiful. The Shrine worked with more than seventy different canonization causes, shrines, and guilds, for this celebration and we were so honored to be included.
Writing Dorothy Day: Perspectives from Four Recent Biographers Webinar
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For our annual Easter-season webinar, which took place this year on May 17th, we've chosen to highlight some of the past decade's most notable books on Dorothy. This event featured a conversation with Kate Hennessy, author of Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother, D.L. Mayfield, author of Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and Its Challenge for Our Times, and Blythe Randolph and John Loughery, co-authors of Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century.
Our roundtable discussion was co-hosted by our Dorothy Day Guild chair, Dr. Kevin Ahern and undergraduate student Cozette Brown and included a Q&A session with webinar participants.
You can purchase Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother , Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century , and Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and its Challenge for Our Times at the publishers' websites.
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.