Evening star., 1936-04-08
RITES
START TOMORROW
Protestant and c a atholic
Churches Will Hold Spe.
ciaI Services.

Solemn services for Maundy Thurs
day in churches of the Capital will
usher in the concluding period OF the
Lenten season tomorrow.
Special ceremonies have been ar
ranged by Protestant denominations
while the Catholic rites will be marked
by eucharistic professions.
Maundy Thursday will be celebrated
at First Congregational Church with
a communion service at pm. pre-
ceded by half hour of organ medi-
tations" by Paul De Long Gable. The
vested choir of so voices, directed by
Ruth Smith Stahl, will sing. Rev.
Harvey W. Goddard will preach;
"Father Forgive Them"
Woodside Nj. E. to Mark Day.
The Woodside Methodist Episcopal
Church will observe the day with
candlelight communion service and
reception of new members at pm.
At the same hour the next day, Good
Friday will be observed by concert
by the senior choir, directed by Mrs.
Harlan Randall Guest soloists will
be Fred Green, tenor, and Harlan
Randall, baritone.
A German service will be held at
Concordia Lutheran Evangelical
Church, Twentieth and G streets, at
10 am. Good Friday. Rev. Charles
Enders will preach on Redemption
Through the Blood of Christ" Holy
communion will be celebrated. AT 8
pm. the Concordia chorus choir will
sing Brahms Requiem"
Services also will be held in Grace
Lutheran Church at pm, with the
pastor, Rev. Gerhard E. Lenski, in
charge. The sermon will be delivered
by DR.. J. Gould Wickey, executive
secretary of the Board of Education
of the United Lutheran Church. Sc
lections from StainerS "Cruciflxion'
will be sung by a chorus of Is voices
under the direction of Mrs. Marian
St John Aldridge.
At pm. also the National City
Christian Church choir will present a
Lenten cantata by Theodore Dubois,
"The Seven Last Words of Christ.
W. E. Braithwaite is director Of the
choir.
Service in Franklin Square.
Catholic churches will have stations
of the cross both afternoon and eve
ming Good Friday and the annual
open-air observance will be held in
Franklin Square at 2:30, under the
direction Of the Washington Catholic
Evidence Guild, Of which John j.
OConnor is president.
The Sanctuary Choir OF so boys at
st. Anthony's Church in Brookland
will sing the Tenebrae for the third
consecutive year at 7:3O o'clock TO-
night, tomorrow and Friday nights.
Tenebrae is the official prayer serv-
ice of the Catholic Church for holy
week. The entire Office. including
the three nocturnes of Mathis and the
Lauds. will be sung each evening.
The boys have been trained in the
reading of Latin and in the rendering
of the chant by the Sisters Of st.
Benedict. who have been engaged in
the education of the youth of Brook
land for more than a quarter of a
century.
Open-Air Services Planned.
Two open-air Easter sunrise serv-
ices will be held Sunday in the park
system, one by Rev. Walter Plumley
of Cottage City, Md between and
7 am, at Barnard Hill, Eastern ave-
nue.. Twenty-fourth and Randolph
streets northeast, the other by Rev J.
Raymond Mills of National City Chris
tan Church at the Sylvan Theater on
the Monument Grounds from to 8
am.
Parishioners of st. Johns Church
of Mount Rainier, Md. will partici-
pate in the former services, while the
Washington Christian Youth Council
will take part in the services at Sylvan
Theater.