Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-02
Churches Here
OF Good Friday
3-Hour Services
OF Meditation and
Prayer Announced

Prayer Announced
The sacrifice of the crucifixion
will be recalled tomorrow at Good
Friday services in Catholic and
Protestant churches of the Capital.
The period from noon to 3 pm. will
be one of solemn meditation for
many congregations and other spe-
cial services will take place in the
evening. Today Maundy Thursday
services will be held in many
churches.
The Very Rev. Re Barney r.
Phillips, dean of Washington Ca
thedral, will conduct the three-hour
service there at noon, following OBJ
servance OF the litany and peniten-
tial Office at 10 am. The earlier
session will be led by Canon w,
Curtis Draper. Services were to be
held at the Cathedral today at noon
and at 4 pm. Holy communion was
observed at II am.
The Passion Of Our Lord Accord.
ing 70 81. John" will be sung at
$3.50 pm. tomorrow, with John jane
son OF New York City taking the
solo part Of the Evangelist. The
Cathedral choir, directed by Paul
galloway, organiSt and choirmaster,
will assist.
Franklin Park Service.
Thoughts for meditation on the
Way OF the Cross will be offered at
pm. In Franklin Park when the
washington Catholic Evidence Guild
holds it "Everybody's Good FRIDAY
Service" for the 18th consecutive
year. The Rev. Charles A. Hart.
moderator Of the guild, and the Rev.
Theophane Carroll of the Franciscan
Monastery will speak.
Choral music will be provided bv
a choir of religious students from
| the Carmelite White Friars Hall
and the Franciscan Holy Name COL
lege under direction Of Father
Angelus, o. F. M.
Recess for Many Workers.
Many business organizations and
trade union groups in the District
have agreed to cooperate with a
committee composed of both Catho-
lie and Protestant representatives
In a movement to let employees of
during the three-hour observance
| tomorrow.
The committee said organizations
which have promised full co-opera-
ton include the American Fedora
ton Of Labor, Merchants and Manu-
facturers Association, Washington
Automotive Trade Association,
George Washington University,
Liberty National Bank and many
others.
The Army's chief Of chaplains,
William r. Arnold, said today that
more than 100000 soldiers are ex-
pected to attend the special three
hour services tomorrow throughout
the United States. Men will be is
sued passes eXcusing them from
their duties from noon until pm.
The service for the three hours
sponsored by the Methodist Union
OF Washington will begin at noon in
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church. The Rev. DR.. John r. Ed
wards and the Rev. DR.. Horace E.
Cromer, district superintendent
will be in charge.
The seven words from the cross
will be considered, and music will
be provided by Dean Shure, organist.
Bishop Leonard to Speak.
Bishop Adna Wright Leonard will
be among the speakers. Others will
include 1t. Col. Fred C. Reynolds,
post chaplain at Fort George G..
Meade, Md; the Rev. DR.. J. Lowrey
Fendr1ch, jr-, Metropolitan Presby-
terrain Church; the Rev. DR.. Fred
erick Brown Harris, Foundry Meth
odiSt Church; the Rev. DR.. Harry
Evaul, Epworth Methodist Church;
the Rev. DR.. E. A. Sexsmith, Rhode
Island Avenue Methodist Church:
the Rev. J. w. Rosenberger, Rock
vile Methodist Church; the Rev. C,
E. Wise, Wesley Methodist Church,
and the Rev. DR.. John w. Rustin,
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church.
A similar pattern will be followed
in service beginning at noon in
Concordia Evangelical Lutheran
Church. Meditations will be led by
the Rev. John F. Tapy, Ardmore,
Nd; the Rev. Calvin H. Wingert,
Grace Evangelical and Reformed
Church; the Rev. DR.. Andrew r.
Bird, Pilgrim Presbyterian Church;
the Rev. F. Nelson Schlegel, First
Evangelical and Reformed Church;
the Rev. DR.. William l.. Darby, pres
ident of the Washington Bible Soci-
ETY.; the Rev. DR.. Lee A. Peeler,
Bethel Evangelical and Reformed
Church, Arlington, Va, and the Rev.
Charles Enders, Concordia.
Metropolitan Church.
During the same hours. the follow
ing will speak in Metropolitan Me-
mortal Methodist Church: The Rev.
Edward G. Latch, pastor, presiding;
the Rev. Arthur G. Day, Mount Ia
Dor Methodist Church; the Rev.
| Clifford H. Richmond, Chevy Chase
Methodist Church; the Rev. Walter
M Michael, Eldbrooke Methodist
Church; the Rev. Hartwell F. Chan
dler, Bethesda Methodist Church;
the Rev. Edwin A. Ross, KenSington
Methodist Church; the Rev. Paul F.
Douglass, president of American
University, and the Rev. C. E. Wise.
Mrs. James Shera Montgomery and
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