Evening star., 1946-03-05
Ash Wednesday
Rites Tomorrow
To Begin Lent
All District Churches
Plan to Hold Special
Services During Period

SSINISCS NuIiiIS TSIIOO
Lent, the 40 days Of fasting before
Easter, will begin tomorrow, Ash
Wednesday.
The traditional ashes will be
placed on the brows of Roman
Catholics at the chancel rails of
their churches as the priest repeats
the admonition, 'Memento homo,
qui pulvis es ct in pulverim revertis"
remember man, that thou art dust
and unto dust thou will return).
The Right Rev. Angus Dun, Prot
estant Bishop of Washington, will
distribute communion at 7:30 am.
services tomorrow at Washing
ton Cathedral. The Very Rev.
John Wallace Suter, dean of the
Cathedral, will give communion
at $50 am. Canon Merritt F. Will
iams will give communion at $50.
At II am. Dean Suter will read the
litany and Canon George j. Cleve-
land will give short sermon. There
will be evensong services at pm.
with short sermon by Canon Theo-
dore o. Wedel.
Msgr. Sheen to Speak.
Msgr. Fulton Sheen will speak on
Moral Law and Peace" at 8 pm.
tomorrow at st. Matthews Roman
sCatholic Cathedral, the first of
series of six lenten talks he will give
there Wednesday evenings.
Ashes will be distributed after
the $50 am, 7 am, am, and
12:l5 pm. masses.
The Rev. William F. Strickler will
speak at the Novena of the Miracu-
lous Medal services at Sis pm.
Ashes will be distributed after this
service and again after Msgr. Sheen's
talk in the evening"
The Rev. Wilfred Parsons, S. j.,
will inaugurate a series of Wednes-
day afternoon lenten talks on THE
Problem of Christian Living" at s.
pm. services tomorrow at st. Pat
ricks Church, Tenth and G streets
NV. Ashes will be distributed after
the service and after the 7 am, 7:30I
am, am. and 1915 pm. masses.
Daily Services Planned.
The Washington Federation of
Churches will sponsor daily lentenI
services at the Covenant First Pres
byterian Church, Connecticut ave-
nue. and Eighteenth street NV, be-
ginning tomorrow. The services
each day will be from 1915 to 1925
pm. Sixteen local ministers have
been engaged to conduct these serv-
ices, each in charge for two consec-
utive days.
The speakers for the first twoI
weeks will be DR.. John w. Rustin,
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church; DR.. Clarence Crawford, CAL
vary Baptist Church; DR.. Howard
Stone Anderson, First Congrega-
tional Church, and DR.. Carroll Rob-
erts, Ninth Street Christian Church.
At the Church of the Epiphany,
1877 G street NV, MONDAY services
will be held throughout Lent. The
rector, DR.. c. w. Sheerin, will begin
the series tomorrow On Thursday
and Friday DR.. Clarence Crawford
Of Calvary Baptist Church will
preach.
Beginning March II, the spe-
cial preacher will be the Very Rev
N. r. High Moor, dean of Trinity
Cathedral, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The second full week, DR.. Ralph
w. Sockman, pastor of Christ
Methodist Church, New York City,
will take the first three days serv-
ices, followed by DR.. Beverley Boyd
of the Federal Council of Churches.
DR.. Theodore P. Ferris, rector of
Trinity Church, Boston, Mass, will
be the preacher for the third full
week; while the fourth week DR..
Joseph r. Sizoo, pastor of the Col
legiate Church of st. Nicholas, New
York City and formerly of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
will be the preacher the first three
days. DR.. Peter Marshall of New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church
will complete the week. The fifth
week in Lent the preacher will be
the Right Rev. Arthur B. Kinsolv-
ing II, Bishop of Arizona and for
mer chaplain of West Point.
Bishop Dun to Give Sermon.
The Right Rev. Angus Dun,
Bishop of Washington will be the
preacher in Holy Week, Monday
through Thursday, while DR.. Sher-
rim will take the three-hour serv-
Ice on Good Friday.
In addition to the MONDAY serv-
Ices, each weekday except Satur-
day, there will be a service at $50
pm. with visiting preachers from
nearby churches.
The Rev. Patrick j. O'Connor, as
sistant professor of sacred elo-
quence of the Catholic University
Of America, will be the Lenten |
preacher at st. Stephens Church,
Twenty-fifth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV, beginning at
7:45 pm. tomorrow and each We'd
nesday evening until Easter Week.
Bishop Dun will be the guest
preacher at the Church of Saint
Stephen and the Incarnation at
pm. tomorrow. The litany will
be sung in procession by the rector,
the Rev. Stuart F. Cast, the peni-
tential office being read by the as
sistant. Other services for the day
will include holy communion at 7::30
and 10 am.
A Novena of Grace in honor of
st. Francis Xavier is being held
daily at st. Aloysius Catholic
Church, opening with a mass at
1915 pm. and continuing until the
8:15 pm. service.
Father B. P. Shaffer, pastor of
st. Dominic's Catholic Church, an
nounced the distribution of ashes
tomorrow at 6. 7. $3.50 am. and
1890 and 7:30 pm.
Trinity Litany Service.
At Trinity Episcopal Church there
will be holy communion at noon
tomorrow celebrated by the Rev.
Reno S. Harp, and litany and address
at pm.
Lenten community services, spon-
sored by the North Washington
churches, will be inaugurated at 8
pm. tomorrow in the Memorial
Church of God with the Rev. H. j.
Smith, pastor of the North Wash
inpfon RaptiSt Church as the