Evening star., 1940-03-22
Churches Plan
Extra Services
For Holy Days
Musical Programs Are
Arranged by Many
For Easter Night

With many extra services this year
to accommodate great outpouring
Of worshipers on Good Friday and
Easter Sunday. two Of the most i'm
portant days on the Christian call
endar
Overflow Easter crowds in years
past have prompted some of the
larger Protestant churches to sched-
ule services at $50 or GAS am. on
Sunday in advance of the regular
services at II o'clock.
Musical programs have been ar
ranged in many churches for 8
o'clock Sunday night.
Good Friday services began at
noon today and continued until 3
o'clock in many churches through
out the city.
The Methodist Union held its
annual Good Friday service be-
tween these hours at the Mount
Vernon Place Methodist Church,
with several prominent religious
leaders as speakers.
Bishop Hughes to Speak.
Speakers at the union service
were Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes,
resident prelate of the Metho-
dist Church; DR.. Peter B. Mar.
shall of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, DR.. Seth r.
Brooks, Universalist National Me-
mortal Church; DR.. S. Paul Scholl-
ing Of Prince Frederick. Md; DR..
Fred S. Buschmeyer, Mount Pleas
ant Congregational Church; DR..
Robin S. Gould, Francis Asbury
Methodist Church, and DR.. A. B.
Potorf OF American University.
The Catholic Evidence Guild was
sponsor Of presentation of sta
tions Of the Cross" at o'clock this
afternoon in Franklin Park.
The Rev. William M. Bradner,
canon precentor, conducted the pas
sion service at Washington Cathe-
dral beginning at noon. At the
service of evening prayer at 4 pm.
Canon Edward S. Dunlap was to
deliver the last of a series of lenten
addresses on the subject OF the
Faith of st. Paul"
Service at 4 O'clock.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon the
Rev. Leo Ruskowski of the Sulpician
Seminary was to officiate at Sta
tions Of the Cross" service in the
Shrine of the Immaculate Concep-
tion at Catholic University. At 8
o'clock tonight students of the Sui
pician Seminary will chant the
office of the Tentebrae.
A blessing of the Easter candles
and holy water ceremony will begin
at the shrine at $50 o'clock tomo--
row and will be followed by high
mass celebrated by the Rev. Walter
j. Schmitz. The regular Sunday
masses will be celebrated at the
shrine at 8, 9 and V o'clock Sunday
morning.
Members of Protestant congrega-
tions in the Southeast section
met at noon today at the Fiji
teenth Street Christian Church for
Good Friday service. and those Of
the Bloomingdale area worshiped
at the same time at Memorial United
Brethren Church.
Bishop Freeman Conducts Service.
The Right Rev. James E. Freeman.
Bishop of Washington, conduct.
ed a three-hour Good Friday serv.
ice beginning at noon at st. Mar.
garets Episcopal Church
The tenth Easter sunrise memo
rial service of the Knights Templar
win be held Sunday in Arlington
Amphitheater under auspices of the
grand communicates of Virginia and
the District.
The Very Rev. Hiram R. Bennett,
dean of the Episcopal Cathedral at
Wilmington, Del, will deliver the
sermon. He will be assisted by 1t.
Col. Alfred C. Oliver, jr., Army
chaplain, who started Easter sun.
rise services at Walter Reed Hos
pital.
Distinguished Knights Templar
from a number of States are ex-
pected to attend the ceremony.
| 2,000-Year-Old Service.
The sacred passion and the death
of Christ we're re-enacted at St.
Anthony's Church today at a
Good Friday ceremony nearly 1000
years old. The Rev. Thomas
Sweeney, assistant pastor, conduct
ed the ceremony.
A special Good Friday service in
French was to be held this after
noon at S o'clock at st. Johns Epis-
copal Church, with Rev. DR.. Florian
Vurpillot delivering the sermon.
A community Easter celebration
will be held tomorrow night in Sum-
NIT Park at the home of Mrs.
George H. Marshall Of 3703 Bangor
street S E., president of the Summit
Park Citizens Association. An
Easter sunrise service will be held
Sunday morning and during the
afternoon an egg-rolling has been
planned for the children.