Evening star., 1947-02-18
Special Services Here
10 Mark Observance
OF Ash Wednesday


tomorrow will observe Ash We'd
nesday, marking the start of the 40
days of Lent, with special services.
The traditional placing of ashes
on the foreheads OF parishioners
will be followed In Catholic and
in some Protestant churches.
Catholics will return to the pre-
war lenten regulations. During the
war they were required to fast only
on Ash Wednesday. Good Friday
and Holy Saturday. Abstinence
was required on Fridays. as usual.
A fast day permits one full meal
with meat during the day. On abb
stinence days, Catholics are not
allowed to eat meat at the full meal.
Regulations Listed.
The 1947 regulations permit only
one full meal a day during lent,
either at noon or in the evening.
Catholics are allowed to eat light
lunch and a light breakfast during
this period. Every Wednesday and
Friday of lent are days of fast and
abstinence, but the Wednesday of
Holy Week, April 2, is only a fast
day.
Working people-not including
desk workers and professional people
are exempted from the lenten re-
ouirements though they may not
eat meat on Ash "Wednesday, the
Fridays during the period and until
noon on HOLY SATURDAY..
The annual noon day services at
the Episcopal Church of the
Epiphany will begin tomorrow, with
outstanding preachers from all over
the country. DR.. c. w. Sheerin, the
rector, will be the first preacher
There will be five services tomor-
row, beginning with holdy COM
munion at 7:30 am. At 10:30 am.
will be holy communion and a
sermon by the Rev. F. Richard Will
liams and holy communion at 1890
pm. At $50 pm. the Rev. Mr..
Williams will again preach.
Annual Series to Begin.
The second annual series of daily
Lenten SERVES, sponsored by the
Washington Federation Of Churches,
will begin tomorrow at Covenant
First Presbyterian Church. Services
will be from 1905 until 1925 pm,
with DR.. Clarence w. Crawford,
minister of Calvary Baptist Church,
as the first speaker.
The Rev. Merritt F. Williams will
officiate at the litany and peniten-
tial office tsomorrow at II pm. In
Washington Cathedral. A special
service of holy communion will be
held at 10 am. in the Bethlehem
Chapel with the Very Rev. John w.
Suter, dean, as the celebrant.
. The daily services at 7:30 am,
noon, and 4 pm. will be held as
usual.
Lenten preachers for Keller Me-
mortal Lutheran Church are the
Rev. c. r. Simon, The Cross Re-
mains: February 26, the Rev. Har-
old E. Beatty, Georgetown, and on
the following Wednesday, the Rev.
Paul E. Reaser, the Rev. DR.. Fred
erick Reissig, the Rev. DR.. Gerhard
Lenski and the Rev. DR.. Bernard
Holm.
Blessed ashes will be distributed
after all masses tomorrow at st.
Patrick,s Catholic Church. The
ReY.-Dr. John Tracy Ellis of Catho-
lie University will give the first
conference of his series, "a Worth
while Fast" followed by holy COM
munion after the $50 and 7:30
am. masses.
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DR.. John c. MILAN, pastor of
the Petworth Methodist Church,
will speak at am. tomorrow on
The Religion of Jesus Christ"
Services will be held each Wednes-
day evening, concluding on Good
Friday evening.
At the Albright Memorial
Church communion services will be
held tomorrow, Thursday and Fri
day from $50 to $50 pm; Satur-
day from to $3.50 pm. and Sum-
day from to 5 pm.
Services tomorrow night at the
Hamline Methodist Church will be
a part of the closing exercises OF
the School of Christian Living. The
Rev. Nelson c. Pierce will speak.
DR.. L. Ralph Taber, pastor OF the
Luther Place Memorial Church.
will speak at pm. tomorrow on
God Really Cares" the first in a
series of sermons to be given on
Wednesday nights during Lent
Guest ministers will continue the
series of sermons on IF 1 Could
Preach But Once This Lent"
Imposition of Ashes.
DR.. A. J. Dubois, rector of st.
Agnes Episcopal Church, will i'm
pose ashes at 6:45 am Holy COM
munion and imposition of ashes also
will be held at $50 am. and litany
and imposition Of ashes at 8 pm.
A service of holy communion will
be held at the First Congregational
Church at 8 pm. tomorrow. The
chorus choir will sing half-hour
program from Stainer's THE Cru
ciflxion."
Bible study will be conducted at
8 pm. tomorrow at the Washington
Brethren Church by the Rev. Clar-
ence Fairbanks.
The Rev. James A. Dudley will
conduct services tomorrow at 8
pm. at Epworth Methodist Church.
Special services will be held to-
morrow night and every Wednesday
during lent at Waugh Methodist
Church by the Rev. Hiel A. Kester
A school of missions will be held
at 7 pm. tomorrow at Calvary Bap-
tist Church.
A prayer service will be conducted
by the Rev. Lincoln Smith tomorrow
night at the Congress Street Bap-
tist Church.
DR.. John E. Briggs, pastor OF
Temple Baptist Church, announces
a service at pm. tomorrow by the
Women's Missionary Society.
At Atonement Lutheran.
Atonement Lutheran Church will
have services at 7 pm. tomorrow
conducted by the Rev. Paul Reaser
DR.. Oscar Blackwelder, pastor OF
the Lutheran Church Of the Refor.
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