Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
CATHEDRAL READY
FOR HUGE CROWDS
Preparations Made for Over
flow Services in Several
Crypt Chapeis.

Special Palm Sunday services win bt
held tomorrow at Washington Cathe-
dral, and in anticipation of large con-
gregations plans have been made fol-
overflow services in several of the crypt
chapels.
Bishop James z. Freeman will preach
at the peoples evensong in the Bethle-
hem Chapel at 4 o'clock and his ser
mon and the services will be broadcast
over the radio by Station WMAL. II
necessary. an overflow service Will be
held in the Chapel of st. Joseph OF
Arimathea, at which Canon John w.
Gummere will be the preacher.
Opens with Procession.
The celebration Of the holy COM
munion at IL am. in the Bethlehem
Chapel will open with the picturesque
procession OF the Palms" carried by
the Cathedral choir of men and boys.
Canon Arson Phelps Stokes will be the
preacher. In the event that overflow
services are needed, they are being
planned in the Chapel Of st. Joseph OF
Arimathea and the Chapel of the Resur-
rection, the preachers for these services
being Canon Gummere and Canon Ed
ward S. Dunlap. The other. services to-
morrow in the Bethlehem Chapel will
be the celebration of the holy COM
munion at 7:30 am. and morning prayer
and litany at 10 am. A Palm Sunday
service for the student body of the
National Cathedral School for Girls
will also be held at 10 am. in the
Chapel of the Resurrection, with Canon
Stokes officiating.
Palm Sunday music will be furnished
by the Cathedral choir of men and boys
under the direction of Edgar Priest.
Branches of palms will be distributed
after the ii am. and pm. services.
Following these two services the regular
pilgrimages through the Cathedral will
be conducted by Canon Gummere and
the staff of lay pilgrim aides.
During Holy week there will be cele-
bration of the holy communion at z 80
am and evensong at 4 pm. every day
in the Bethlehem Chapel. On Maundy
Thursday there will be an additional
celebration of the holy communion at
$50 am.
Service to Be Broadcast.
On Good Friday there will be the
celebration Of the holy communion at
1880 am, morning prayer at 10 am.
and the three-hour passion service from
IL noon to 3 pm. conducted by Bishop
Freeman MUSICAL elements OF InlS
service will include the rendition by the
Cathedral choir of portions of Sir John
Stainer's sacred cantata. "The Cruel
fxion,' and hymns appropriate to Good
Friday. Bishop Freeman will deliver
seven addresses during the service.
which will consist of meditations on the
seven last words of Christ on the cross.
This entire service will be broadcast
over a Ration wide radio network.
In addition to the daily services dur
ing Holy week the concluding Lenten
lectures will be given after the evensong
services on Tuesday, wednesday and
Thursday afternoons. Canon Raymond
L. Wolven, chaplain to the Bishop Of
Washington, viii lecture Tuesday In his
series on New Questions and Old An
svers" upon the subject Of do Stand
ards Of Right and Wrong Changer"
Rev. H. A. Woolfall, rector Of st. Marks
Church, viii be the wednesday after
noon lecturer, and Canon Arthur b.
Rudd will lecture Thursday afternoon
on 1.-The Active Duty OF Christian to
God and the Result Here and Here
after"