Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-08
D. {. Churches
We Day:
In Special Rites
All Denominations
Schedule Services
Of Thanksgiving

Churches and temples throughout
Washington, as soon as the official
announcement of We day was
made, put into effect plans for spe-
cial services and programs arranged
in the expectation their congrega-
tons would turn solemnly to prayer
and thanksgiving.
At the Washington Cathedral 1t
was announced there would be
services every hour, with one at
pm. emphasizing the especial Sig
niflcance of the victory in Europe.
Special services are to be held in
the Catholic Churches. st. Pat
ricks Church had announced it
would exhibit the blessed sacra-
ment until after benediction. The
rosary will be said at $50 pm. and
a TIE Deum and benediction at 7:30
pm.
st. Matthew'S Cathedral held mass
at noon and will hold benediction at
8 pm. st. Stephens Church, Twen-
ty-flfth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV, celebrated mass at 1910
pm. and scheduled a solemn thanks
giving service at 7:45 pm.
Churches Designated.
Jewish temples and synagogues
also will conduct special services.
The Washington Hebrew Congrega-
ton will hold a service at S pm. and
Adas Israel Congregation will con-
duct its service at 8 pm.
DR.. Frederick E. Reissig, executive
secretary Of the Washington Fed
Grafton Of Churches, announced the
following churches, designated by
the federation, will hold services at
8 PM: Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church, Lutheran Church of the
Reformation, Arlington Presbyterian
Church, Hamline Methodist Church,
Bethesda Baptist Church, Luther
Rice Memorial Baptist Church and
Lincoln Congregational Church.
The 8 pm. services at Lutheran
Church of the Reformation also will
serve as a patriotic-religious COM
meeting. Community meet
ings also will be held in these
churches: Epworth Methodist, Met
ropolitan Baptist, Maryland Avenue
Baptist, Wilson Memorial and
Trinity.
The Episcopal Church of the
Epiphany scheduled special services
at noon, 5 and pm. All Souls
Memorial Episcopal Church, Cathe-
dral avenue and Woodley place, will
hold services at II am. and 8 pm.
townsville Presbyterian Church
Will hold services at 7:30 pm. and
Woodside Methodist Church at 8
and at $50 pm.
Order of Service.
DR.. Reissig also stated most Dis
trict churches are expected to use
a special order of service today.
He released the special service
prepared by the federation to be
used at these services. 1t consists of
an invocation, the Lords Prayer.
hymn. Scripture reading, prayer of
thanksgiving and of pentinence.
hymn. message having for its theme
We Remember Before Thee" litany
or intercession and litany of dedi-
cation, prayer and closing HYMN.
The keynote sentence taken from
the service is 1--WE bless Thy Holy
Name, that earth, sea and sky are
safe again in Europe, that the guns
are silent and Thou has brought LIS
TO this long-expected hour"
The East Washington Heights
Baptist Church, Branch and Ala
bama avenues Sc; st. Timothy's
Episcopal Chapel, Alabama avenue
and Suitland road Sc, and Ryland
Methodist Church, Branch and
Pennsylvania avenues Sc, are CO.
operating in We day services. Each
church will be open for personal
prayer, with a special service at 8
pm.
Plan Communion Service.
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church will hold holy communion
service at 8 pm, with Brig. Gen.
George F. Rixey, Army deputy chief
OF chaplains, participating.
Covenant First PRESBYTERIAN
Church, Connecticut avenue at N
street NV, will conduct a special
program at $50 pm.
The Eldbrooke Methodist Church,
Wisconsin avenue and River road
NV, will hold special service at 8
pm.
We day services also will be held
in the Grace Lutheran Church, Six
teenth and varnum streets NV. at
8 pm.
Thanksgiving services will be held
at pm. in the National Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception at Cath
olic University. They will include
the singing of the 'Te Deum" by the
university choir, a brief discourse
by Msgr. P. J. Mccormick, uni
versity rector, and benediction of
the Blessed Sacrament. The cele-
brant of the benediction will be the
Rev. DR.. William j. Lallou, master
OF ceremonies of the university.
The Universalist National Me-
mortal Church, Sixteenth and S
streets NV, will hold a special
We day service at 8 pm. The Rev.
DR.. Seth r. Brooks, pastor, will
conduct the service.
Rockville Churches Combine.
All Silver Spring churches will
hold services at pm. and a second
service, at 9:15 pm, will be held
in Woodside Methodist Church, to
accommodate those unable to get to
earlier services.
Six Rockville churches will unite
in We day services at 8 pm. in the
Rockville Methodist Church. They
are the Baptist, Christian, Epis-
copal, Free Methodist, Methodist
and Presbyterian. The Rev. John
w. Rosenberger, pastor of the Meth
odist Church, will preside.
Takoma Lutheran Church, Seventh
and Dahlia streets NV, and the
Washington City Church of the
Brethren, Fourth street and North
Carolina avenue Sc, will each hold
q special We day service at 8 pm.
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