Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-04
CHURCH FOLK PREPARE
FOR ADVENT OF LENTS
SEASON OF PENANCE
Preliminary Services Tomorrow
Herald Penitential Period
Opening Ash Wednesday
for 40 Days
CATHOLIC PLANS LARGE

Lent. the yearly season of penitence
beginning next Wednesday. will be fore
shadowed tomorrow by pre-Lenten serv.
ices in several of the city's churches.
At the Episcopal Church Of st. Luke
and the Epiphany tomorrow afternoon the
Rev David NJ, Steele. the rector. will
speak during the regular Sunday after
noon musical service. The anthem will
be Silas' "Tantum Ergo" with DR. Howell
s. Zulick as tenor soloist Mrs. Dorothy
Johnstone Baseler will be the harpist
and Bertrand a. Austin, cellist.
In the Catholic churches elaborate Len
ten preparations are being made. The
season will begin at the Cathedral with the
opening on Ash Wednesday of a five.day
mission for children by the Redemptorist
Fathers A mission for women on the
second Sunday in Lent and one for men
the third Sunday will be conducted by the
Rev. William B. Kenna, the Rev. John 3.
O'Leary, the Rev. Joseph p Turner and
the Rev. A. Jones. The Sunday evening
Lentcn sermons will be delivered by a
RedemptCrist Father.
At St. John the Evangelist's there will
be a sermon and Benediction of the
Blessed Sacrament Mondays and Wednes-
days and stations of the Cross Fridays at
12:05 noon and Friday evenings; Stations
of the Cross for children Thursday after.
Moons; Lentcn sermons Wednesday eve.
opening March 13.
The program at st. Josephs. willing's
alley below ith street, includes Wednes-
day MONDAY services conducted by the
Rev. John d. Butler, S. j.; Friday noon
services. Wednesday and Friday evening
services and o'clock evening weekday
Mass.
A course of Lenten sermons will be de-
llvered in the Church of the Gesu at High
Mass Sunday mornings by the Rev. Bene-
dict Guldner, S. j., and at vespers by the
Rev. James a. Taaffe, s. j., beginning
March -. The Wednesday evening SER
mon will be delivered by the Rev. Michael
A. OKane, S. j. The Rev, John ]. Moore,
chaplain of the Carmelite Convent, will
preach the Lenten sermons in st. Monica's
Church Tuesday evening and Good Friday
night, beginning March a. At the Church
of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament the
Rev. NJ. A. Kelly, C. S. Sp., will preach
the sermons Wednesday and Sunday eve
nings.
The Universalist Union Lenten service
program, eliminating with the Lords
Supper In all the churches on April 90,
consists of evening sermons as follows:
The Rev. DR., Jo''r Clarence Lee, the
Church of the Re-, ration. March 0; the
Rev. Dr. Il. C. Sweetser, the Church of
the Messiah, March 16 (; the Rev Thomas
w. Illman, All Souls Church, March 23 !;
the Church of the Restoration, March 30 /;
the Church of the Messiah, April 8, and
All Souls Church. April 12.
At Old st. Johns Lutheran Church
MONDAY services every weekday. begin
ming Wednesday, will be conducted by the
Rev. DR.. Charles j. Smith, the Rev. Dr.
C. l.. Fry, the Rev. 1. c. Hoffman, the
Rev. DIR, f. K Fretz, the Rev. Howard
r. Gold, the Rev. A. r Michler, the Rev.
F. A. Bowers, the Rev. DIR. w. A. Snyder,
the Rev. DIR. T. T. Schmauk. the Rev. DIR.
c. T. Benze, the Rev L. p, Pfatteicher.
the Rev. A. D. Macintosh, the Rev. DR..
w. J.. Hunton and the, Rev, DIR. c. Ar
mand Miller, ending April 20.