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* SATURDAY, DEC. 21, 1946

Prayers, Music, Ser

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_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES. Vesper Rites Express Joy, Thanksgiving

Music, Pageants :

“Joytul Noise Unto t

Churches Plan Yule Services

Tomorrow

Programs of Worship To Be Varied

Indianapolis churches will lift their voices in a sustained hymn of praise tomorrow, the Christmas Sunday. The first sounds of festive servjces will be heard in the early morning. They will continue through the afternoon and into the night, Instead of the usual formal Sunday program, congregations will share in a varied pattern of wor-

ship. Dramatizations, vocal and Instrumental music, prayers and sermons, all ‘in the mood of Christmas, will combine to “make a joyful noise unto the Lord,” as Holy Writ has it. }

Carols to Be Sung { The historic Second Presbyterian church, Vermont and Pennsylvania sts, serves as an example of Christ-mas-Sunday worship and music. |

avin Bileclitre, orgavist and music "O, COME YE TO BETHLEHEM"—Children of the director. will play selections from| church junior choir will sing tomorrow night during the nati Handel 5 tie organ prelude; otter rected by the pastor, the Rev. Donald E. Elder (above).

tory and postlude. The church quartet augmented by four guest

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include Susie Emrich, Barbas Snyder, Nancy Howard, Maurice Hanes, David Elder

Featured in Programs

Joy and thanksgiving at the ane niversary of the coming of the Ohrist Child will find expression in a varied pattern of vespers tomorrow afternoon and night. Carl OC. Hartman, a member of

the Trinity Lutheran church, built the scene of the Wise Men follow‘ling the star to Bethlehem which will form the background for the concert tomorrow at 7:30 p. m, in the church, The four-part program will be sung by the Trinity junior and senior choirs under the direction of Clarence Elbert, organist and choirmaster, and the children’s choirs led by Otto A. Hellwege. Among the many selections chosen are those from Handel, Neidlinger, Rieger and others, The orchestra will play, Wagner's “Pilgrim Chorus” and other numbers preceding the 4 p. m. vespers tomorrow in the East Tenth Street Methodist church, The choirs di- | rected by H, Otis Pruitt and accompanied by Mrs, John Kolmer, orWganist, will present a varied program of carols concluding with “Joy to the World” in which the congregation will join, Pantomime on Program “The Story of Christmas Accord-, ing to Scripture” a cantata interspersed with readings from the Bible will be given tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. in the Broadway Baptist church. In the pantomime scene of the Nativity, Ariel Stapp will impersonate Mary and Howard Billeisen, Joseph, Walter Bruce, will direct the music and serve as reader, Mrs. Mabel

Bethlehem United Lutheran vity pageant written and diThe singers (left to right)

aa a i : : : soloists will sing well-known carols sn = * x =» s be marking his first Christmas in Indianapolis. beginning at 10:40 a. m. Duncan will play the organ and the Priests will wear festive vestments i The double quartet will sing the | ( arol T if F . : # Id F . » Rev. R.. J. Doarill, paste will ex-| o Chite and gold for midnight and Basque Christmas carol, “Come and | S YP Y or eign Haren njoying - Anas gruel ngs. _ |Christmas day masses, And the Adore,” and York's “Sing We All! The choir will open the cantata, |, ot of the centuries-old services a " Ch oo . “The Music of Christmas,’. with the|_. : Noel.” The regular quartet in- : will be enhanced by carefully prac ludes Helen Kendall Crandall, 1 UI€ piri ITTS rrom LOCQ urc singing of “The Olden Christmasiy, oy music. Decorations will differ pn Krei D w | Road” tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in the|, = op pore will display & naMary OCodirey. Kreiser, ‘Daniel E . . ’ St. Paul Methodist church. The . x Shattuck and Bernard Constable. Symbolize Essential By EMMA RIVERS MILNER . ’ [tivity scene. Some of the figures, The guests are Mae Fidler, Martha Times Church Editor Christmas story will be told in... 4 carved and hand painted, GA Egger, William Krach and Edward | Human Goodness Today, children in India and Puerto Rico are enjoying a treat|carols by the choir. were imported from Bavaria or other -5454 Zambara. By HENRY BUTLER through the generosity of boys and girls of the Wallace Street Pres-| String Trio to Be Heard |places in Europe. Other events follow: I whe y : y | byterian church, A string trio will play for the! Typical midnight services will be 0 ALL BOULS UNTFARIAN CHURCH. | w y do we like Christmas carols? Last fall, the Presbyterian children thought of their small brothers christmas vespers tomorrow at 4 held at the cathedral, Holy Rosary, Each person attending the 11 a. m. serv-| It isn't just the words, important and sisters far away and set up a Christmas tree for which presents , mm in the First Friends church. St. John's and Our Lady of Lourdes A TR t oonristmas though they are. were bought. The presents were shipped immediately afterward so that The adult and young people's choirs churches. All Christmas offerings contains three sermons recently given| It isn't just the music, even the little folk on the island and {and soloists, will be directed by E./will go toward the support of the per the radio by Dr. E, Burdstic packus, i ..|in India would have them by sing Christmas songs on the steps|yeona Wright and accompanied on'orphans of the archdiocese. minister. Dr. Backus will preach tomor-|though the most familiar Christmas Christmas Nearly eve church row on “Why Unitarians Celebrate Christ- | ‘ y: evely lof the church. the organ by Mrs. L. A. Helgesson. Congregation Sings mas” and the church school children will) hymns and carols are singable, easy, promotes some such project to re-| Children of the Sunday school|The singers will give numbers from| persons of Italian descent from | Bow A Saale Lighiikg Fans Merritt Har. 10 remember, never tiresome. } flect the mind of Christmas, will take part in the candlelight- Gaul, Handel, Hall, Shaw and oth-| 1 t the city will ather | gigi Mes Gsiie Lws ang Sovc| Ive rather the intertwining of the| Early Susday Service ing ceremony dupng the service ers incluting the Bach-Geunod, | MC Pe lL OF JFL rH in . Miss ) f . % i joi “A on " “ ig" will play the violin and Robert Burford, tuusic with some of tpe best, ethical | Children, young people and their} And the uisstegation wil join the ve Marts. io. 2 of ia she Roly oe a the “Missa Choralis” by Refice. the organ. {iar iefud ivi | ’ ’ he string trio composed o . . ; ly most satisfying activities hurian {parents fill the Zion Evangelical |, | : | NORTH METHODIST CHURCH—J. Rus-| ° : in singing the carols both inside te ; bishop. a ~ sell Paxton .will direct the choir in the beings experience, land Reformed church for the tra- ang outside the church. jn EE rughe et Toe Toute folk will iareh ish procession ? DE i pr "Unto Ds a Cnita| FOr In spite - cuch-deplored| gjtjonal service at 7 a. m. Christ-| If you are an ill or invalid mem- | linist. and Martha Burns Mushiresh take part in a SR BS I oa Boson is the Ih a haloes teal mas day. Wreaths and candles in {ber of the Carroliton Avenue Evan-| point Soloists are June Floyd Service beside tite manger, | during the other Sundays of December. o.oo. pinion gor g change we the windows, tall evergreen trees | gelical and Reformed church and Gwyn, Russell Barton Ida Mae! The congregation will sing the be deacon. ean ne Ahetnard Slore will take an interest «ins other je.in the sanctuary and music direct- Would” like carols sung al YOUr Good and ‘Gene W. Oakes. MA4777 peop d to do is to not be sung by the choir with Mr. Sums yw. goon of te raril the ©d by Dale Young, organist and ‘home, all you need to do is to no =] Sing Clokey Cantata Betly Sue Farrell and Farrell Scott as ug Mmporarily |choirmaster, will make a festive fy the church, The carolers will ¥ 'tor and celebrant of the mass, resoloists. Mrs. Paxton will play the organ anxieties and hostilities a com-| ' | The Brookside Evangelical United \s' that hoir ‘ever sits in r for these selections and others. | petitive world produces. For a little | SCENE Wednesday while many per- come. Brethren chureh will mark its first por at no c¢

IRVINGTON METHODIST CHURCH Hi : Handel's “The Messiah will furnish the | While we behave, heaven help us, as choir selections for the morning worship, we were no doubt intended fo veservice tomorrow, Miss Mary Elizabeth | 1.0 v0 Hite will play the organ and soloists will . : be Mrs. Wilson Patterson and Charles | Memory in Music Hamilton

SECOND EVANGELICAL AND Rp. And so the meaning of “Adeste

“The Gift of Love” will be the |

| sons are still sleeping in their litte of the Rev.’ Richard Rettig’s|

homes. Men and women of the 55-voice [sermon tomorrow at 10:45 a, m.] choir wearing red robes and carry Hin the church, The choir will sing cal and United Brethren denominaing lighted candles will march into|Clokey's cantata, “Childe Jesus.” {tions. The chancel choir of Brooknn WE | Serer [side will sing Clokey's cantata, J —T7 v. W k- | Pi "oj j “ ta | “Child 4 . poRED CRURCN Toe Ry, WU prni Pideles’ is not Just an imaginary|“Adeste Fidelis” The choir has 8 J mor £52

ape | y & Heh Lahr Wik bea? identificatie wit with a) : - ‘Plan Traditional |p. m. The church will be lighted Child 1s Bory a tse 0:30 2 Sorship iden ification of one’s self with a chosen to sing the “Hallelujah 'by candles and decorated for the

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the organ and direct the choir and Carl procession of worshippers. It ig Chorus” from Handel's “The Mes- | : | presentation. Schmid, violinist, will augment the organ! ; {siah” as one of its offerings. Paul \L,@l'O ervices : : music,’ A candlelight. service wil ‘be held also 2 complex, untranslatable ree=! "Brown, violinist, and ng Young | C € { Children of the Eighth Christian

| i ; : : i church will see color slides of Dick~ UNIVILS ay PARR CREISTIAN ollection of momentary human | wi) give the violin and organ | The Irvington Presbyterian church Jo

“ | 2 wi i ens’ “A Christmas Carol” at the CHURCH—The Angelus Trumpeteers will|goodness, of “unremembered aets|number, “Romance” -|Will be the scene of traditional : play as a ein Tati the 10 iE ; a al Uinbe Roma by | Wieniaw | candle light carol services tomor- 5 p. m. vespers tomorrow. Readings a. m. worship service. They are Patricia Of Kindness, in Wordsworth's | ski, irow. 4:30 and 7:30 p. m jalso will be given and carols sung Ayres, Frances Brockman, Helep Sarth,| Friedens Church oe sed. p. 1, ie Elsie Shaw and Marilyn Newman. The PPI2se. The choir will sing a program of |. Mrs. Patricia McCaulay will give Rev. Lewis M. McAdow wil preach on| Music takes the place of verbal] W. Carl Meyer, new choirmaster| . = elections by Bach, Gaul, |® Sacred concert on the organ, vibra BROADWAY METHODIST CHURCH— |Memory. Christmas carols induce a at the Friedens Evangelical and |p,nean and other composers at the |Narp and piano and demonstrate The cholr of 65 voices will be directed by mood you can't analyze, for you Reformed church, will direct the 7:40 p. m. vespers in the Grace | 3bsolute pitch tomorrow at the 7:45 presentation of his own composi- Methodist church. |. m. YESpers in we Roberts Park | A group of Sunday school mem- Methodist church. She will play

Willard E. Beck at the 10:45 a, m, serv- can't recall the people and the bers will present a nativity panio- entirely from memory.

ice. The Rev. Newman 8. Jeffrey will experiences, year after year, that

preach on “A Savior Is Born.” tio “Gloria.” it} hor | made Christmas significant. n, a,’ Win an ecno chorus

MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH lave

a Sar, a Bone. A Se a ain It isn't just the homesick thought of 30 mixed voices at the 4 p. m. 0 tomorrow at the night serv- | Sing Thompsoh Cantata O'Dell at the 10:45 am. service tomor- | Of having once been a kid impa- Vespers tomorrow, ice in the Brightwood Methodist ! Baribine choir will sing Yons + Ceoiltient for presents, secure in the Alberta Unversaw will accompany Upon a Night” by Davis. "knowledge of being loved. It's the choir at the organ and soloists |

GRACE METHODIST CHURCH — The rather the insight, the melancholy Will include Elfrieda Rieck and

Rev. E. Amold Clegg will gi Story | i , | On “RE GIs te King to, |wisdom the years bring, the cer- | Walter Hoffman, Dr. Ralph L. companied by Mrs. Herman Halde- |p. m. in the Englewood Christian morrow at 10:40 a. m. Elizabeth Ann tainty that human values are Holland will speak briefly. man I eburen Mrs. Gaynell Lasbrook will greater than money values. Toys of all kinds and sizes will Fred Jefry will divect the choir | play the organ.

” Wrancher will give an offertory solo “Nu Carols Symbolize Promise be piled under the Christmas tree|, ". . ...contation of the “Christ-| The cantata, “The Rose of Christ-

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rected by Fred L. Iske and ac- by Evelyn Gibson, tomorrow at 7:30

Candle Was There and No Fire’ and the organ prelude will be Handel's “Overture | i : ix iin All Souls Unitarian ch - : : ; Christmas musi¢ is not merely |} A SHureh. 0 {mas Oratorio” by Saint-Saens to-{mas,” by DePauw university's Dr.

to the Messiah." morrow morning.” Chrismas Ve. | morrow at 4:30 p. m. in the Central | Van Denman Thompson will be

IRVINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - AN organ meditation will open the 10:30! i... c (; 3 | oh / joyous.® It is profoundly moving. | Ferguson wart Poor. “Good” Tidings Tt , i i gi yill be taken to Planner House |, ristian church. Soloists who will | sung at the, 7:30 p. m. vespers too I 30( : symbolizes a great promise we to increase the store of playthings | } : ; to All People.” Richard 8. Orton is di-| i : {sing are Lottie Eastwood, Maxine |morrow in the. North Side New Era réetor of music and Mrs. Harry E. Ware are somehow unable to realize. It which are loaned to children of the |. tchfield Betty Wales, Franklin | Baptist church s the organist. { | community by the toy-lending li- ’ . :

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SPEEDWAY CHRISTIAN CHURCH-Two Drings to mind a great paradox o : Barker, and Carl E. Hogue, vir- | The missionary and male choruses GA-6525 sefvices wil Je id tomoriow at 9 a. m. human behavior, {brary of the social setilement. ‘ginia Jefry will play the organ and |of the Mt. Olive Baptist church will sing Christmas anthems at the first sore] Being human, we are incapable Send Presents to, Rentusky Dr. William A. Shullenberger, min- present a program at 3:30 p. m. 8LOT oe and the Cloister choir at the second. | { anti I ! So. ibstead | Children in cabin homes of the ister, will preside. preceding a pageant at 8 p. m. in ight both services B./Thome will Breath 1° aculng - human, Instead Of igentucky mountains will be think-{ “The Savior Is Born,” a moving | the Mt. Olive Baptist church,

(sensibly feeding the hungry and ling of boys and girls of All Souls picture in color, will be shown at

. n | : FIRST CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN— caring for the fatherless, we make | Unitarian At the 1045 a. m worship the adult choir will sing ‘““Jeus Bambino” (The Infant Jesus), The Rev. Russell C. Wenger will speak on “The Characteristics of the Promised Messiah.”

Christmas Music {he wrote of

Broadcast Set | (two. worlds, one dead, the otherPresbyterian church, the chancel, |vespers tomorrow, Mrs.

The Singing Tower of Crosses | powerless to be born.” motet and young people's choir will Barnhart will direct the music. atop the Pirst Evangelical United! —— aes snr — - — u

nv rest mine Christmas Services

{ “It Was Written in the Star” a Sunday school this the 5 p. m, vespers tomorrow in the | drama by Esther-Phelps Jones, will la great monkey-chatter noise about |Christmas. The Indianapolis small Speedway Christian church. The be given at 7:30 p. m, tomorrow in (national sovereignty and threaten {ry recently sent six cartons of cloister choir will sing the cantata, the First Evangelical United Breth(each other with atom bombs. { presents, “Childe Jesus,” by Clokey. «ren church. ‘ Christmas carols, more than any| The southeast corner of 16th and| The First Church of the Breth-| Young people will attend a white other music, evoke the mood Matt- |Delaware sts. will be filled withiren will present the choir in gifts service tomorrow at 4:30 p. m. | hew Arnold described in “Stanzas!the sound of beloved old carols at!Christmas carols of various foreign in the Zion Evangelical and Re- | from the Grande Chartreuse” when dusk tomorrow. Following the 9% lands, Scripture readings and the) formed church. They will have sup-

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‘At Overseas Posts Will Comfort

East sts. again will broadcast music| to the community on Christmas!

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due to the lack of certain neceseary | can armed forces abroad. The figures mean—among other things—that jate-Renaissance architects. repair parts, A new. public address more than half a million young Americdny will be away from home this| system given the church by Harry | Christmas. A . W. Krause and. L. B. Mosiman also| Families thus separated need not, however, feel their sons have no|throush a pouring t Tous io He will be dedicated tomorrow at 10:40] opportunities for the religious celebration of the important feast day. | American : Protestant L ren. In a.m. The choir will sing carols and | Everywhere there are U. § sol- | ———— empire | Rome, St. Paul's (Episcopal), Per-

Sunday. The singing tower was silent By SEXSON E. HUMPHREYS stor if} during the entire period of the war Secretary of State James F. Byrnes has revealed statistics on Ameri- by Carlo Maderno, one of the great ©1€a, but the rain had caused the § | Rt. Rev, John I. B. Larned,

. | Episcopal bishop in. charge of that On Christmas morning, I went genomination's churches in Europe, to be stranded in Rome. He had been scheduled to be in Geneva on

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anthems and the minister, the Rev.| H. H. Hazenfield, will preach on “The Homeless Babe of Bethlehem.”

Church Drive Near Goal

ANDERSON, Ind. Dec. 21 (U. P.).|

{haps because of the rain, there were |

diers this Christmas there will be| walls. T was 20 minutes early, but I|,,1y 35 persons at that service. The| services, both Cagholic and Protes-| was far from being the first, As a ppicaonal church stands on Rome's)

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it is built to conform to some of the

Music was provided by the Sistine j..c¢ standards of Italian church

Unusual Sermon Bishop Larned preached an un-

Soldiers of the forces .in result I had to stand throughout the| i east-west artery. Externally,| usual sermon — on the relative | Trieste, Germany and Austria who [two-hour service, are at-the rest center in Rome at

unimportance of Christmas. He said that it is essential for us to

Christmas time will have the same choir from the Vatican. It sang

—Hoosier Presbyterians today had sort of Christmas services I had a|Christmas hymns, including “Silent contributed more than 82 per cent! year ago. They are perhaps more| Night” and “O Come All Ye FaithJof the state's quota in the national fortunate than most, but there willful.” and a solemn mass by Perosi. [| Presbyterian restoration fund. be - services of some kind every-| The sermon was delivered by the | Prank Zoll, director of the fund where. | Rev, Fr. Joachim Daleiden, a Fran#11 Indiana, said 72,000 church mem- fciscan friar who was Rome area

q My Christmas a year ago began : Hl bers in the state contributed $711,-!yw ; _ {Catholic chaplain for the American | with midnight mass at St. Sus-| 0 po preached that Christmas

11340, 823 ‘per cent of the ‘Hoosier | anna's the Paulist fathers’ i ) 8, the ers’ church “ " i goal. | for American Catholics. I was sur- wads day 10 “give and forgive." The iH . ee prised to find two military police- mal was said by one of the Paulist 1 Balloon Trip Planned men guarding the church. They|l bers. is always the church : [turned away dll those who did not | n . y SUI WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (U. P)). wear the American unif |in Rome of one of the American cardinals. s built on the site o AIOE. |cardinals. It is bull t

l]—A balloon trip to an altitude of | #1100,000 feet—almost 19 miles up—| Other Masses Held [the home of an aristocratic and realized . there were beatiful Christian lady of ancient

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{win be attempted next June by Dr.! However, I Jean Piccard, 61-year-old scientist, | large numbers of other midnight Rome who refused to give up her {in a dramatic test for new data on masses all over the sacred city. Even faith to marry a pagan Roman em(cosmic rays and other phenomena with the crowd limited to G. L's, st. porer and was therefore decapitated J of the upper atmosphere. Susanna's was about. to burst its! for her religion, The church has a

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aréhitecture, with contrasting red| .. . and white brick. It was built by the] thuze that Chiist ‘was born American colony in Rome shortly | Christmas only ih the sense that after the city became the capital he was born to Mary. Actually, he of the united Italy during papal pointed out, the Son of God was, rule. # No Protestant churches had|in the words of the Nicene creedf been permitted inside the city walls.|"begotten of. his Father before all St. Paul's American church is worlds.” The New Testament says much ‘beloved to many Sunday | the same thing: “Before’ Abraham niotning strollers on Via Nazionale was, I am.” because of its carillon, the only such| There was communion following set of bells in Rome. The bells the sermon for all sects. The young piay the prelude to the service for|lady from the American embassy, mucly of downtown Rome to hear. seated in the same row with me Inside the cliurch. there are famous was; I happened to know, a member mosaics made by the great Venetian of the church of the Latter Day tluss-factory to drawings by the pre- Saints. Few of the 35 persons presRaphaelite ‘British artist, Edward ent. were of any one denomination, Eurne-Jones. v | but Bishop Larned invited all to It had been intended-that the St. share the cup that was the symPaul's servicé would be conducted by bol of the sacrifice that began on wl ’ dors

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ITALIAN PAGEANT—Paul Page [left] will lay the sfatue of the Infant Jesus in the manger during a bit of Italian pageantry preceding the midnight mass in the Holy Rosary Catholic church, Peter Piazzo will-help bear Paul's long train,

Archbishop fo Say Midnight Mass at Cathedral Here

The Most Rev, Paul C. Schulte, archbishop of Indianapolis, will be the celebrant and preach the sermon for the midnight mass | the service beginning at 11° Christmas eve in 88. Peter and Paul cathedral, play ot ¥ 8 Every Catholic church in the city will bold the midnight services | for the first Christmas in many years.

carols preceding the midnight mass.

Iytes and priests who will enter the

Irvington Young Folk - Select Music J “Why the Chimes Rang” will be given by young peeple of the Irvs ington Presbyterian church hegiss

dramatic arts auditorium of the church, ‘ The play which points out that} “the greatest of these is love,” 18% one of many programs scheduled for the hour ending at midnight in the Protestant churches of the cityy. Music which runs through the last half of the play was chosen by the Irvington young folk from the: works of Ropartz and Gevaert, The. final, triumphant “Alleluia” was written espécially for the produces, tion by Percy Athen Zoston | composer, . wh The cast includes Margaret Reilly, Harry Ware, Nancy King, Donna * Van Arendonk, Don Givan, Paul’ Grove and Mary Jo Reed. Mrs Darrell Gooch will direct the play, and Carol Knisley will serve as: prompter. Richard Moore is stage manager, A

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Tableau Planned : Twenty-one players and the. church choir will present a tableau, “Star Shine,” Christmas eve at 7:48 p. m, in the Christian Park Res formed church, Marvin Ruster will give the continuity. =~ .

Miss Mary Spalding, harpist, and Beldon C, Leonard, violinist, will

p. m. Tuesday in the St. John's Evangelical and Reformed church, The choir will sing under the direction of Frank 8. Watkins, Twenty young girls will bring the light from the altar to the congres . gation, members i which will be’ holding candles, | he Rev. E. A." Piepenbrok, pastor will speak. A special music progi im will be given for a half hour py jeding the midnight service. i Candlelight Service

Archbishop Schulte also will

Archbishop Schulte will come last in the procession of cross bearer, aco-

church on the stroke of 12. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Ravmond R. Noll, cathedral pastor, wil} walk just in front of archbishop. As Archbishop Schulte enters the

ning at 11 p, m. Tuesday in the.

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church, the choir will sing the traditional “Ecce Sacerdos” (arranged by Biederman) which is used to pay homage to bishops and archbishops. Elmer Steffen, K. 8, G,, will direct the schola cantorum, assisted by a girls’ chorus of 80 voices,

The proper of the mass will be sung in Gregorian chant. For the ordinary, Mr. Steffen has chosen

Msgr. Noll will assist the arch-

0. Norman Green will direct & speaking choir in the presentation: of the story of the birth of Christ at the candlelight community serve. ice beginning at 10:45 p. m. in the Sutherland Presbyterian church, Mrs. R. J. McLandress will direct” the choir in carols whose verses give the content of the Christmas. nativity narrative. The Rev. Charles Franklin Bruce, pastor, will read" portions of Henry Van Dyke's “The Other Wise Man.”

The Rev. Fr. Andrew © va Keefe and the Rev. Pr. Cornelius| The entire program will-be given Sweeney will be deacons of honor DY candlelight and the faint illumis and the Rev. Pr. Joseph Koster will nation of the memorial cross. Mrs, - The Rev. Fr. James! Paul Dressel will play carols of all .

\music of the mass as it always does.| Dooley will act as sub deacon and lands as organ interludes.

{The Rev. Fr. William Knapp, pas-|the Rev. Fr. Henry Hermann aud]

{the loft. Instead, the congregation

Christmas under a new title as will | jp, the paws with children in the {all churches of the former Evangell- jead, sing the ordinary of the mass.

| The procession will wind its way into the church from the area behind the sanctuary. Children and young ‘people will sing “O Holy [Night,” “O Come All Ye Faithful” and other Christmas hymns ‘as they march down the aisles, about the church and back to the crib. Carry Statue In Procession | Paul Page, dressed in a page bqy's costume of eggshell satin made with la very long train, will carry the |statue of the Infant Jesus in .the | procession.

bearers, Peter Piazza, Michael Bova, by the Rev, Peter Iaria and Albert Meconahay. Rev.

Christ Episcopal church en, the the Rev. Fr. Prancis Van Benten,|circle will hold a Choral Eucharist” masters of ceremony. service at 11 p. m. Christmas eve; Nativity Scene Shown

The congregation of Our Lady of |, ion also will be celebrated at Lourdes church has decorated both|i1 a. m. Christmas day. Cheston its lawn and a portion of the inside Heath, organist and choirmaster, of the church with nativity scenes Will direct the choir of men and for Christmas services. | boys at all the choral services, The interior of the church is heh School Choirs to Assist with greenery. White poinsettias in| Brass choirs from Howe and Des tall vases stand against the red Satur Central high schools will as» damask curtains of the reredos of sist. the church choir, under ,the

the altari. . / direction of Willard E. Beck, at the Organ selections at 11:30 p. m. will{11 p. m. service Christmas eve in precede the mass for which the the Broadway Methodist church, music of Rossini and Yon will pre- | Mrs, John English will play the dominate. organ and chimes at the service

The Rev. Fr. James Moore, pas- [which will be climaxed by the ceres

He will have as train|ftor, will be the celebrant assisted mony of candlelighting.

Fr. Louis Gootee, the| «when the Christ Child Came,” a Fr. Joseph V. Beechem, the cantata by Clokey, has been selected

| Paul will place the statue in the Rev. Fr. James Norton, C. 8. C. by the choir for presentation at the {manger in the front of the church. and seminarians from St. Meinrad's midnight sérvice beginning at 1t

service of the Infant Jesus. | Up to this point, the lights will | be, dimmed and only the glimmer|ing of candles will illuminate the | Sure, The nativity scene truly resembles the stable at Bethlehem. | For the manger was made of rude {wood by an Indianapolis carpenter. Cross and candle bearers will lead |the procession followed by boys | dressed in white shirts and tie$ and {long trousers, girls in pastel formal gowns, others in gold; carolers in {party dresses of delicate tints, {servers of the mass in cassocks and whité surplices and Paul and his |couturiers. Father Knapp and his assistant for the service, the Rev. {Fr. Charles Noll, will bring up the | rear. | After the consecration, the | marchers will seat themselves in the {pews and the mass will begin at 12 | midnight.

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I walked a few more steps in the rain to Rome's “Santa Maria Mag|giore” (Great St. Mary's), the “Christmas church” of the sacred city. According to the tradition, this church was built in the year 352, after the Virgin appeared to Pope Liberius and ordered him to build a church on the spot where the next * morning he should find a patch of snow. There gre some exquisite mosaics in the church which go back to the time of Pope Liberius and of Pope Sixtus III, who enlarged the church between 432 and 440 A. D, It is still one of the five papal churches of Rome. On Christrhas day in that church, there is exposed for the devotion of all a relic of ancient and largely decomposed wood, According to tra!dition this was the manger in which |the” Christ Child lay at Bethlehem. I returned from church to the same sort of Christmas dinner that American soldiers this year will have after they have attended the morning services conducted by their chaplains, ’

“wand'ring between 'p. m, carol service in the First Christmas story at the 7 p. m. | per together at the church and| The doors of the SS. Peter and | James sing carols at the homes of the ill! Paul cathedral will open at 11 p. m. |

stately late-Renaissance facade built'the Protestant chaplain of Rome|Christmas more than 1800 Years | given annually for

( | “The Story of Christmas,” can- Members of the procession will clus- and the Catholic university who be- |p mm Christmas eve in thé Speeds church. The annual candle light- tata by Matthews, will be presented ter about him while the Holy Ros- | long to the parish. ing will be given by the choir di- by the choir and soloists, directed ary church is consecrated to the |Sifferlen and Mrs. Roland Kramer «rhe Promised Promise” a ser

Mrs. Clude way Christian church. {mon by the pastor, the Rev. Donald directs the choirs. |E. Elder, will highlight the service Masses at Many Hours {held from 11 p. m. to midnight The Very Rev. Msgr, August R. Christmas eve in the Bethlehem ' ; from | Lutheran church. Miss Mary Pat Fussenegger will direct the cholr {ry eilman will play the harp and th for the singing of carols, beginning [or wij) sing various anthems. at 11:30.p. m, and music of the! The choir and the minister, the midnight. mass in St. John's Cath- | Rev. Benton B, Miller, will give W, * olic church, St. John's attempts to | B. Did Christmas Cnoralogue” at 3 i { the midnight service from p. my provide for persons of uhysyal midnight in the Immanuel schedules by having in addition 0 | Evangelical and Reformed church, the midnight service, masses Young people of the congregation throughout half of Christmas day. win portray living scenes of the nas The last will begin at 12:15 noon tivity. An organ prelude of Christe

Wednesday. | mas music will precede the Service - + The Very Rev. Bernard P. Sheri- proper.

dan, pastor, will be the celebrant ev. _, Veterans to Be Ushers

the midnight mass and the Rev. ) Fr. Michael* Keéiie, O. S. B., pro-| - All Saints Episcopal cathedral will fessor in St. Meinrad’s seminary, | furnish the setting for a midnight will preach the sermon. service Christmas eve. The choir | will begin singing carols at 11 p, m, | followed by a choral Eucharist at 11:30, Mrs. O. C. C. Fetta will direct { junior girls in the singing’ of’.

. . 2 Will Receive Church Award | “Mary's Carol” and a “Christmas ' Lullaby” as the opening vocal nume. Two young persons tomorrow at pore at the 11 p. m. Christmas eve

10:45 a. m, will be awarded medals service in the Bethany Lutheran . “outstanding church. The senior choir, directed

are organists, Bernard Q. Zimmer

| service to the Roberts Park Meth- by Miss Myrta Tilson, will sing the

| “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel's, “The Messiah” and Pergolesi's . God.” |“Glory to God in the: Highest. They are David Clark Fenimore! There also will be carols by the and Catherjne Freeman, Every|girls' choir.

Christmas, the church .thus honors| The Seventh Christian church

| In the afternoon, the choir will sing. icarols at 5 o'clock. Holy Come,

two of its high school youth group. Dr. Sumner L. Martin will preach tomorrow morning on “Christmas, a Phantasy or Fact.” Children will be baptized, Miss Mary Spalding will play the harp, and the sanctu-

has honored former servicemen by inviting them to be ushers #t the 11 p. m. to midnight “Candles and Carol” service Tuesday. The cathe dral motion picture, “Child of Beth lehem,” will be shown and there

will be Scripture reading, and the lighting of individual candles for * the consecration service. The Rev, Robert Lewis is pastor.

ary choir will sing.

Evangelical Church To Present Cantata

“Me First Evangelical United Brethren church choir will present the Christmas cantata, “Noel,” at 10:40 a. m, tomorrow, The choir is under the direction of Prof. Wolfgang Edlemann of Indiana Central college, Juanita Dunca will be at. the organ. A special Christmas program will be given at 6:30 p. m. by _the Christian Endeavor, The pastor, Dr. p J. R. Simmermon will be in charge|a trio composed of Virginia

2 Churches Schedule - Candelight Services |

The annual traditional candles light services will be held in the. First and Second Moravian Episcos pal churches at 4:30 and 7:45'p, m,

antiphon, ming Star,” will sung with Robert Nitterhouse as solo leader, In hte Second ehurch

of the Christmas fellowship serv-|Patricia Oberle and Patricia ice at 7:30 p. m. ~~, van will sing “Morning.

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