Evening star., 1940-03-21
Pre-Easter Services
Scheduled Today
And Tomorrow
Churches Announce
Good Friday Rites From
Noon to ; PM.

or Maundy Thursday services today
and Good Friday observances to-
morrow as pre-Easter activities drew
to close in the city's churches.
At Washington Cathedral, holy
communion was held at 7:3O o'clock
this morning and there was to be
an evening prayer address at 4
o'clock. On Good Friday, the serv-
ices will include morning prayer
and ante-communion, 7:30 am:
morning prayer and litany, 10 am:
passion service, IL to 3 pm, and
evening prayer at nm
Bishop James E. Freeman will
conduct devotion from noon to 3
pm. tomorrow at st. Margaret's
Episcopal Church. His address will
be based on the seven last words
OF Christ from the cross.
Most of the Maundy Thursday
services were to be held at o'clock
tonight, with the Good Friday serv-
ices from noon to 3 pm.
Lutheran Service Planned.
Lutherans of the city are plan
ming three-hour devotional service
at the Church of the Reformation,
212 East Capitol street, beginning at
noon tomorrow under sponsorship
of the Washington Lutheran Min
isterial Association. The Rev. Ed
ward G. Goetz of Zion Lutheran
Church, president of the association,
will conduct the service, assisted by
Rev. James Powers of the Church
of the Atonement.
At the first Congregational Church,
Cecil B. De Miles sound motion
picture, THE King of Kings" will
be shown at and pm. today and
at 1890, 1:30, 4 and 8 pm. on Good
Friday.
A dramatic reading, THE Prince
of the House of David" will be given
by Senator Lee of Oklahoma in the
Chevy Chase Baptist Church at 8
o'clock tomorrow night.
At the Immaculate Conception
Church, Friars of the Atonelnent will
sing the Tenebrae service at 7:45
o'clock tonight and holy Thursday
mass was celebrated this morning.
The church will be open all day and
night for alteration.
Three Hour Service Tomorrow.
A service will be conducted at the
church from noon to o'clock on
Good Friday by the Rev. George E.
johnson of Catholic University.
Students of Sulpician Seminary at
Catholic University will chant the
Nf Of y
tonight and tomorrow at the Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception. Holy
hour was to be observed in the
shrine at o'clock this afternoon,
with Rev. E. F. Coyle officiating.
The mass of the pre-sanctihed
will be celebrated at m. tomorrow
and the stations of the cross at
pm.
Good Friday services at the Mount
Vernon Place Church will be held
at noon tomorrow, with DR.. Aubert
Balm Potorf, professor of religion
at American University, preaching
the sermon.
A Good Friday service from noon
until pm. will be held by the
Women's Convention, auxiliary Of
the Baptist Convention, at Liberty
Baptist Church.
DR.. Lensky Announces Services.
DR.. Gerard E. Lensky, pastor of
Grace Lutheran Church, will con-
duct pre-Easter services at his
church at 8 o'clock tonight and to-
morrow night.
The Rev. Virgil M. Cosby. pastor,
will speak at o'clock tonight at
services at the River Road United
Presbyterian Church, and again to-
morrow night at the same hour.
The Catholic Evidence Guild will
sponsor an open-air service in
Franklin Park from to 43O pm.
tomorrow. A musical program will
be rendered by choirs of the various
religious houses of study at Catholic
University under direction of Ed
mund B. Stout. There will be
short sermon by Rev. A. j. Burgraff
of st. Paul's College, Catholic Uni
Versity.
Young inmates of the Episcopal
Home for Children at Nebraska and
Utah avenues NV. will present an
Easter pageant Saturday night at
7:30 o'clock at the home. About 80
children will take part in the
pageant, entitled THE Meaning of
the Cross"
st. DOminic's Service.
A solemn Ire Ore service will be
held at st. Dominic's Church, Sixth
and E streets S.W., at noon tomor-
row with the Rev. Bernard Shafer
celebrating the opening mass. A
Tenebrae service will be held at 8
pm. tomorrow and early Easter