Evening star., 1939-02-21
Church Services
Tomorrow 10 Mark
Opening Of Lent
Devotions Listed Daily
Except Sundays Until
Day Before Easter

serve the opening OF lent with Spe-
cial Ash Wednesday services. The
lenten devotions will continue daily
except Sundays until noon of the
Saturday before Easter, which falls
on April 9.
So far as Washington is con-
cerned, only the Catholic churches
retain the ancient ritual of distrib-
uting ashes. They are placed in the
sign of the cross on the foreheads Of
the communicates by the priest,
who says, Remember, man, that
thou are dust and unto dust thou
shalt return" The ashes are OBJ
tanned by burning the palms from
the previous Palm Sunday.
The Ash Wednesday services at
most Catholic churches include a
mass at 1910 pm. The program at
st. Matthew'S Church comprises
masses at 6:15 am, 7 am, 8 am.
and 1910 pm, and evening services
at pm. Ashes will be distributed
at all masses. in the evening and at
3 pm. and 5 pm.
Other Programs.
The program of ST. Patrick's in
cludes masses at 7 am, 7:30 am, 8
am. and 1910 pm. The ashes will
be blessed before the 7 am. mass
and distributed at all masses, at S
pm. and at the evening devotions
at 7:30 pm.
The other Catholic Churches In
the city have similar programs for
this day of deep penance.
The Ash Wednesday program at
the Washington Episcopal Cathe-
dral opens at 7:30 am. with holy
communion The program includes
also a corporate communion under
the auspices of the Brotherhood Of
St. Andrew at 8 am, recital of the
litany at 10 am. morning prayer
at ii am. with the Very Rev. Noble
c. Powell, dean of the Cathedral,
presiding, and evening prayer at
pm, with Dean Powell preaching
Special service at the Church of
the Epiphany will be the corporate
celebration of holy communion at
7:3O am. for men and boys of the
parish. Litany, penitential Office
holy communion and sermon by
the rector, the Rev. DR.. z. B. Phillips
will be at 10 am. The noon services
will be inaugurated at 1905, and
the special preacher will be the
Rev. Karl L. Tiedemann, o. H. c.
The noon-day services will occupy
Is minutes.
Communion services for all Meth
odist churches of Washington and
vicinity will be held at 8 pm. to-
morrow in Foundry Methodist
Church.
Ash Wednesday services, inaugu-
rating Lent, will be held at 8 pm
in the Grace Lutheran Church. A
series of prominent Lutheran min
listers will preach each Wednesday
during the season.
The Rev. DR.. Gerhard E. Lenski
pastor, tomorrow will preach on
Awake, Thou That Sleepest." Other
preachers to be heard include DR.
Henry Koch. Columbus. Ohio; DR.
Ewald Lawson, president of Upsala
College, Orange. N. j.; DR.. Gould
Wickey, Washington, and the Rev
T. Rene Meyer, New York.
At 4:45 pm, there will be spe-
cial service under the auspices OF
the Washington Federation OF
Churches, the special preacher will
be the Rev. Reno S. Harp, jr., rector
OF Trinity Episcopal Church, Tako-
ma Park. D. C.
St. Johns Church.
st. Johns Episcopal Church, Six
teenth and H streets NV, has ar
ranged program beginning with
holy communion at 7:30 am. At
IL m. there will be morning prayer
with sermon by Rev. DR.. Oliver j
Hart, pastor of st. Johns. He will
speak again at the evening prayer
period, opening at pm.
A union communion service will
be held at 8 pm. at the Foundry
Methodist Episcopal Church. Six
teenth and P streets NV. with the
three divisions of the Methodist de-
nomination participating.
The communion meditation will
be led by DR.. Robin Gould, pastor
OF the Francis Asbury Methodist
Episcopal Church South. Others on
the program will include DR.. E. c.
Makosky of the Clarendon Metho-
dist Protestant Church. DR.. Fred
erick Brown Harris of the host
church, the Rev. John A. Trader of
the Lewis Memorial Methodist
Protestant Church and DR.. Clifton
K. Ray of the Epworth Methodist
Episcopal Church South.
The Arrangements Committee Is
headed by DR.. G. Ellis Williams, su-
perintendent of the Washington
District of the Baltimore Confer
ence. Assisting are DR.. E. c. Beery
presiding elder of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, and the
Rev. Mr.. Trader