Evening star., 1944-04-06
Churches Here Plan
kaundy Thursday and
Good Friday Services

Good Friday Services
Special Maundy Thursday and
Good Friday services are to be held
here tonight and tomorrow. There
will be leave for employees of Gov
ernment agencies, workers in pro-
fesSional Offices and business houses
from II to pm. on Good Friday
so that worshippers may attend
services.
The Takoma Lutheran Church,
Seventh and Dahlia streets NV,
will add an unusual note to the
Maundy Thursday services tonight
by celebrating its Tooth communion
service. The Rev. j. A. Pfeiffer
will speak on The Real Value of
the Lords Supper" The Grace
Lutheran Church, 1900 Sixteenth
street NV, will hear DR.. Gerhard
Lenski preach following holy COM
munion tonight.
All-Night Alteration.
Many Catholic churches will hold
Iall-night alteration tonight. Among
those so doing are the Immaculate
Conception, 1915 Eighth street NV,
and the Shrine of the Sacred Heart,
Sixteenth street and Park road
NV. Catholic churches will mark
the hours from IL to 8 pm Friday
with services.
"The Seven Last Words From the
Cross" will be the theme of many
of the l. to 3 pm. Good Friday
services. Churches stressing this
theme include Universalist Ma
tional Memorial, Sixteenth and
S streets NV, where pastors from
several Protestant denominations
will preach; National Baptist Me-
mortal, Sixteenth street and Co.
lumbia road NV; Calvary, Fran
els Asbury and st. Paul Methodist
Churches, with joint service to be
held at the Francis Asbury Church,
3146 Sixteenth street NV; Mountn
Vernon Place Methodist Church,
Massachusetts avenue and Ninth
street NV, and the Concordia Lu-
theran Evangelical Church, Twen-
tieth and G streets NV. A service
of the Southeast community at the
Fifteenth Sree Christian Church,
Fifteenth and Kentucky avenue
Sc, will also use the theme, as
will the Metropolitan Memorial
Methodist Church, Nebraska and
New Mexico avenues NV.
Service at YMCA.
The Rev. L. Ralph Tabor, pastor
|of the Luther Place Memorial
Church, will preach at the annual
Good Friday service at the YMCA,
1736 G street NV.
Chaplain G. Leslie Glenn of the
United States Navy will preach at
the II to 3 pm. service tomorrow
at st. Johns Episcopal Church, La
fayette Square There will also be
services at 7:30 and 10:3O am. and
evening observances at $50 and 8
o'clock.
The Rev. Joseph E. Gedra, secre-
tary of the Three Hours Observance
of Good Friday, said today the
group expected a more widespread
observance of the II to 3 pm. serv-
ices tomorrow than ever before"
He also announced that services
during those hours will be held at
the Navy Receiving Station, Navy
Yard; Pentagon Building, Interior
Building, Gravelly Point Air Trans
port Command, Navy Medical Cen
ter at Bethesda, Md, and Wave
Headquarters "D".
Services at 8 pm. tomorrow will
be held at the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, 1911 New York
avenue NV, and at st. Paul's
Methodist Church, 4704 Thirteenth
street NV.
The annual three-hour Good Fri
day service, sponsored by the Dis
ciples of Christ of the metropolitan
Washington area, will be held in the
National City Christian Church,
Thomas Circle at Fourteenth street.
The service is from noon to 3 pm.
Speakers who will appear on the
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Hanan, Chaplain w. B. Zimmerman,
the Rev. Harry L. Bell, the Rev. j.
Lloyd Black, the Rev. l.. L. Bowers,
jr.; the Rev. George M. Anderson
and the Rev. w. H. Erskine.
Cathedral Service.
The Right Rev. George w. Daven-
port, retired Bishop of Easton. Md,
will preach at the service at the
Washington Cathedral from noon to
pm. tomorrow.
An ante-communion service will be
held tomorrow at 7:30 am, and eve
ming prayer is scheduled at 4 o'clock
Saturday there will be a communion
service at 7:30 am. followed by in
tercessions at noon. Evening prayer
will be held at o'clock followed by
baptisms in the Children,s Chapel
at 4:30 pm.
Maj. James A. Longino, division
commander, will preside at the
three-hour service at the Salvation
Army Citadel, COG E street NV.
Services at pm. will be conducted
by Maj. David Isaacs, Army Air
Forces chaplain.