Evening star., 1917-05-12


of honor and Foundry Epworth League
win respond In q gracious manner to
do them reverence.
The league cabinet will hold its final
business meeting for the year 1s16-17 at
the home Of Miss Lillian Williamson.
this evening. preliminary to the election
of officers on Tuesday evening.
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Special services in observance of
Mothers day are to be held in Metro
po1itan NJ. e. Church at II o'clock.
when a delegation from the Methodist
Home for the Aged will be In attend
ance, and the pastor. Rev. DE- Mitchell.
will preach on Rebuilding the Affairs
of Childhood"
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christian Mothers, the Salvation Of
Our Country" Is to be the topic Of Rev.
j. NJ Waldron in Shiloh Baptist Church
tomorI NV at IL o'clock.
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Special arrangements are being made
by the clergy of the Roman Catholic
masses on NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. day
This is the fortieth day after Easter
Sunday and commentaries the ascen-
sion of Christ into heaven.
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A class Of 1875 children will make their
first holy communion at the Shrine of
the Sacred Heart tomorrow at o'clock.
when the pastor. Rev. P. c. Gavan, will
officiate.
At II o'clock Cardinal Gibbons will
confirm a class of 44O persons follow
ing the solemn high mass. The cardf-
nal is a guest at Sacred Heart rectory.
The children of s.. Matthews parish
will make their first holy communion
on Ascension day. when the o'clock
mass Will be celebrated by Mgr. Lee.
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Ascension week will be noted at Metro
politan Baptist Church Sunday morning.
when the pastor, Rev. John Compton
Ball, will preach on "Olivet's Glory
Crown" In the evening special Moth
ers' day service will be held; when the
General and Your Mother in Particular"
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A pilgrimage of over 500 people will
come to Mount st. Sepulchre Brookland,
tomorrow, under the auspices of the
knights of Mount ST. Sepulchre of
Brooklyn, N. Y.
A snecial train will leave the Baltimore
and Ohio station in Jersey City tonight
at 1880 o'clock, arriving in Washington
tomorrow at am, when the pilgrims
will receive holy communion In St
Aloysius Church. Breakfast will be
served at the National Hotel. after which
trolley cars will convey the party to the
Franciscan Monastery, where solemn
high mass will be celebrated in the
Church of Mount St Sepulchre. Bene-
diction OF the blessed sacrament will be
given. following which procession will
be formed, going from the church to the
Valley of Gethsemane. where replica
of the tomb of the Blessed Virgin Is sit
uated. Here the closing exercises of the
day will take place.
shrines which have been erected at
Mount ST. Sepulchre during the past two
years. It is situated in the valley which
is located just south Of the monastery
and Church of the Holy Land. A beau
tiful. artistic wood altar. built by the
Just been erected in the grotto and
blessed by Rev. Godfrey schilling.
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At 1 pm, the pilgrims will leave the
hotel; at pm. tour of the city in
automobiles, and at pm.
the return trip will start from the Union
station, arriving in Jersey City at 1890
pm.
On Decoration day Gonzaga College
will hold a patriotic demonstration be-
ginning with solemn high military mass
at which the Gonzaga Cadets will form
the guard of honor. Cardinal Gibbons
will preside; Right Rev. Thomas J. Sha-
han, rector of the Catholic University
Rev. Charles Warren Currier. Bishop of
Heta1onia, will preach the sermon on
patriotism. Following the service the
Cadets will march and form in
dress parade before the college building.
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The novena in honor of st. Rita will
open in st. Martins Church on Monday
evenino at 1880 o'clock. when the serv-
ices will be conducted by Rev. Eugene
and consist Of the novena pray
ers. a meditation and benediction of the
blessed sacrament. The feast Of the
saint, which falls on the 22d instant.
will be celebrated with elaborate cere-
"blessing Of the roses will take place
on that evening.
ST Martins Church and the Church of
Mount ST. sepulchre at Brookland are
the only ones in which shrine to this
saint have been erected in Washington.
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DR.. Cora Smith King will speak on
eral Religious Union of All Souls
Church, 14th and L streets. tomorrow
evening at 8 o'clock.
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Tomorrow morning at II o'clock, at
the Church of the Good Shepherd, 9Th
and I streets northeast, Rev. Cornelius
S. Abbott will preach the second of a
series of sermons. entitled Lessons
From History for People Who Think"
The purpose of this series is to show
the struggle of democracy against au-
tocracy in European history since the
time Of Napoleon.
The admission service of the Girls
evening. with sermon by Rev. H. w.
StoWell.