Evening star., 1937-03-24
HOLY THURSDAY
SERVICES PLANNED
Rites for Good Friday Also
Set as Lenten Season
Nears End.

The concluding period of the Lenten
season will be ushered in tomorrow
with solemn services for Maunoy
Thursday in the churches OF wash
ington. Special services for Good
Friday also have been announced.
Protestant denominations have ar
ranged special ceremonies for tomor-
row, while the Catholic rites will be
marked by eucharistic professions.
HOLY communion will be celebrated
In Grace Lutheran Church at 8 pm.
tomorrow. Rev. Gerhard E. LenSki,
pastor, will preach. On Good Friday
at 8 pm The Service of the Seven
Last Words" will be held, and the
choir will sing selections from Stain
srs "Crucitixion'
DR.. Rockwell Harmon Potter, dean
OF Hartford, Conn, Theological Sem
mary, will be the guest preacher at
Holy Thursday services at 8 pm. in
First Congregational Church. The
q cappella choir of so voices under
direction of Ruby Smith Stahl, Will
sing Sheep and Lambs" by Mac
Kinnon.
Services in Park.
Clergymen from various parts OF the
United States and Canada will par
ticipate in the Good Friday services
from 2:30 to $50 pm. il. Franklin
Park. Rev. John Maloney of Toronto,
Rev. Leon Aycock of the Alexandria
diocese, Louisiana, and Father Gerard
GreenWald of the Capuchin College,
Brookland, will assist Rev. Charles A.
Hart. moderator of the Catholic Evil
dence Guild, in presenting the sta
tions of the cross Pictures will be used
to illustrate the journey of our Lord
from Pilates pretorium, where He was
condemned to death, to Calvary.
DR.. Robert Slavin of the Dominican
House of Studies will preach the
Seven Last Words" This will be &C
companied by a maSsed choir OF
seminarians chanting the requiem.
Rev. Robert l. Cannon, S. j., presi-
dent of Fordham University, will de-
liver the discourses at the Three
Hours Agony" services at Holy Trinity
Church on Good Friday from noon to
3 pm.
A three-hour devotional service will
be held at the same time in the Lu-
theran Church of the Reforma ton,
when various Lutheran pastors of the
city will present meditations on the
last words of Christ from the cross.
The services will be held under the
auspices of the Lutheran Ministerial
Association. Rev. DR.. Oscar Black
welder is pastor Of the church.
Night Celebration.
Rev. DR.. Herbert Scott Smith, rector
OF ST. Margaret's Episcopal Church,
will preside at the annual night cele-
bration of holy communion at the
church at 8 pm. tomorrow. He also
will conduct the three hour devotional
service there on Good Friday from
IL to 3.
The annual service for the three
hours" under the auspices of the
Methodist Churches of Washington
and vicinity will be held on Good
Friday in Foundry Methodist Episco-
pal Church. The service will be in
charge Of the district superintendent,
DR.. G. Ellis Williams. Several pas
tors will deliver addresses. Music
will be furnished by quartet under
direction of Justin Lawrie.
Special Good Friday services will be
held in st. Thomas Episcopal Church
at pm. DR.. Allen J. Miller will de-
liver an address and a chorus will
sing THE Crucifixion"
The Agriculture Department Chorus
will sing the Seven Last Words of
Christ" at pm. Friday in the de-
partment's auditorium, south build
ing, after an address by Rev. James
Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the
House of Representatives. The chorus
will be directed by Robert Frederick
Freund.
The Easter sunrise concert to be
sung by the National Capital Parks
Schola Cantorum of 200 voices will be
heard Sunday morning at the Sylvan
Theater. In the event of rain, the
concert will be given in the Depart
mental Auditorium, Constitution ave-
nue. between Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets.