Evening star., 1939-02-18
Cathedral Lenten
Season Begins on
Ash Wednesday
Corporate Communion
For Men and Boys to Be
Held in Greet Choir

Inc lenIen season Will begin IN
Washington Cathedral on Ash We'd
nesday. which falls this year on
Washington's birthday, with the
eleventh annual corporate COM
munion for men and boys to be held
In the great choir at am. under
the auspices of the Potomac As
sembly of the Brotherhood of St.
Andrew. More than 500 communi-
cants, including many fathers and
sons, are expected to kneel at the
ter sanctuS" altar where the Right
Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of
Washington, will be the celebrant
assisted by the Very Rev. Noble C..
Powell, dean of the Cathedral: the
Rev. Albert H. Lucas, headmaster
of st. Adams, the Cathedral School
for Boys; the Rev. Raymond c.
Wolven, the Rev. Edward S. Dunlap
and Chaplain James S. Henderson
of the boys school and the rectors
of several parishes in the diocese of
Washington.
Immediately following this service
there will be conference in the
new Activities Building of st. AL
bans School under the chairman
ship of Associate Justice Owen j.
Roberts of the United States Su-
preme Court.
Ash Wednesday Service.
The regular Ash Wednesday serv-
Ices at the Cathedral will include
celebration OF the holy communion
In Bethlehem Chapel at 7:3O am;
reading of the litany at 10 am, and
morning prayer and the penitential
office at II am, when the sermon
will be delivered by the Very Rev.
Novel G. Powell, D. D., dean of the
Cathedral. He will also preach at
the service of evening prayer at 4
o'clock.
Canon Edward S. Dunlap and DR..
Powell will be the preachers, re-
spectively, at the service of morn
= ing prayer at II o'clock and the
peoples evensong service at o'clock
in the Cathedral tomorrow. The
holy communion will be celebrated
In the Bethlehem Chapel at 7:3O
am. and $50 am. tomorrow.
In addition to the regular daily
Cathedral services at 7:3O am. and
IL noon, the following special SER
mons will be associated with even
song at 4 o'clock during the lenten
season.
The Rev. William M. Bradner,
canon and precentor of the Ca
thedral, will preach on Devotional
Use of the Hymn Book" on Tues
days, when different groups of
hymns will be sung by the choir
boys to illustrate the theme. The
first in this series by Canon Brad
ner will be devoted to hymns of
Greek origin.
Sermons on "Beatitudes."
DR.. Powell will preach on "The
Beatitudes" for the first four
Wednesdays beginning February %
and Canon Arson Phelps Stokes will
conclude this series on the fifth
Wednesday in Lent.
Canon Edward S. Dunlap will
preach on New Apprehensions" on
Thursdays, the first in his series
being "A New Apprehension of God"
Many cathedrals and parish
churches throughout the country
will remember the National Ca
thedral Association tomorrow at
their altars in observance of the
custom whereby the Sunday near
est George Washington's birthday
Is recognized as washington Ca
thedral Sunday" Prayers for the
building and maintenance of the
Cathedral will be offered, sermons
will refer to the spiritual ideals of
the early founders, and individual
worshipers in some congregations
will have an opportunity to make
voluntary offerings.
To Mark Anniversary.
The Cathedral itself will cele-
brate this anniversary at both
morning and evening services. In
a letter to his colleagues in the
House of Bishops Bishop Freeman
calls their attention to the fact that
Bishop Henry Yates Satterlee es-
tablished the custom years ago of
bringing this Cathedral enterprise
to the attention of our church peo-
pie each year. It is also in accord
with the Endorsement of general
conventions of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church in 1881, assuring the
bishop and chapter of Washington
Cathedral that it earnestly hopes
the work now III progress may 90
forward unlet and unhindered to
the end that this witness to Christ
IN the Capital of the Republic NAV
be brought speedily to completion