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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1962
Page
6
St Peter's Church in Bennington outlines Palm Sunday rites and Holy Week services. Daily ceremonies include processions, two Eucharists on some days, Maundy Thursday meal, Tenebrae on Good Friday, and multiple meditation addresses, with clergy available for penance and Easter preparations.
Holy Week activities include candlelight services at Second and North Bennington churches on Maundy Thursday at 8 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. respectively, Maundy Thursday Communion, and Good Friday noon services. Old First Church plans new member reception at 7:30 p.m. Palm Sunday features a morning service with special music and readings. Deacons and ministers will visit shut-ins with Holy Communion.
The last of the union Lenten services at the First Methodist Church will be tomorrow evening at 7 30 p m Attendance has been about 100 and rising Guest preacher will be Rev Wallace C Short pastor of the First Congregational Church West Brattleboro The Rev Stephen C Greene of the Second Congregational Church will conduct the service Short is a Queens Village N Y native who graduated from Middlebury College in 1954 and Union Theological Seminary in 1957 and has served Brattleboro since then He chairs the Junior High Camp Committee of the Vermont Congregational Conference.
The First Methodist Church Shaftsbury outlines Palm Sunday events headlined by a Father-Son Communion Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Holy Communion at 10:30 a.m. Baptism, reception of new members, and a sermon titled The King of Kings. Activities include junior and senior youth meetings and a Maundy Thursday service at 7:30 p.m.
Parish listings across Bennington include services and classes at many churches. Notable times feature Morning Worship at 11 a.m. and Sunday School in morning blocks, with evening services, youth fellowships, Bible studies, and midweek prayer sessions across Bennington and North Bennington congregations.
Renowned religious painter Fred Nagler urges churches to add art galleries and recreation spaces to lure the intelligentsia and attract donations. He notes his works hang at Notre Dame Yale and Reading and says a Barabbas project with Columbia Pictures spurs a nationwide tour to promote religious art.
Holy Week at St Francis de Sales Church includes masses Monday to Wednesday at 7 and 7 30 a m. Holy Thursday Low Mass and Communion at 7 a m and High Mass and Communion at 5 p m with a procession to the Altar of Repose and all night adoration until 6 a m. Good Friday Way of the Cross at 2 p m and 5 p m liturgy with Holy Communion. Easter Vigil begins Holy Saturday at 10 45 p m with a High Mass. Confessions listed for Wed 4 and 7 30 p m Thu 4 5 p m Fri 4 5 p m and 7 30 p m Sat 10 30 11 30 a m and 3 p m.
Dr. Lucian Hanks of Bennington College will lecture on Buddhism at the Unitarian Church in Montpelier at 7 30 p m tomorrow. It closes a four part series on Great Religions with tickets at the door. Hanks studied Buddhism in Ceylon Burma and at the Cornell Research Center in Thailand and has visited Kyoto temples. He has taught at Wisconsin and Illinois and has researched the Blackfoot in Canada and a Thai farming community with his wife June Richardson of Berkeley.
The lesson sermon centers on Christian warfare where spiritual good overcomes evil in thinking. Scriptural selections include Romans 13 thoughts about casting off darkness and donning light. The title Are Sn, Disease and Death Real is read with a Science and Health citation urging Christians to battle error at home and abroad.
Mrs. Jennie Paige Treat of Fargo North Dakota a missionary education chairwoman will speak at Vermont Congregational Christian Women workshops in Newport Essex Junction Randolph Proctor and Chester from April 26 to May 2. She has a long mission background including Talas Turkey Waynoka Waterbury Vermont and Burlington associations. Workshops cover Evangelism Stewardship Christian education Missionary Education Friendly Service Program and Christian Social Action starting at 9 30 a.m.
Bennington Jaycees will hide 1020 foil wrapped chocolate eggs at Deer Park for a children's Easter egg hunt starting next Saturday April 21 at 9 30 a m The prize for finding the red foil egg is a large chocolate bunny and another bunny goes to the child with the most eggs The event chair Ted J Winslow is assisted by Philip J O Neill Jr Jon B Kennedy and Richard Torrey If rain postponement applies the hunt shifts to the following Saturday.
A compact listing of church schedules includes St. Columban's Masses at 8 9 30 and 11 am St James Episcopal Holy Communion and Sermon West Arlington churches worship times First Assembly of God 10 am 11 am 7 30 pm etc. Also East Arlington Federated Church East Dorset Union Chapel Hoosick All Saints and other congregations with service times Sunday School and catechism offerings.
Flames roared through the Orleans Congregational church roof after smoldering for hours. Officials warned the structure may be totally destroyed with interior damage extensive and water damage reported.
Dr. Ralph A. Philbrick, chaplain at Auburn State Prison, recalls a convicted murderer who served 17 years for a NYC brawl killing. The man was paroled, attended divinity school and became a Presbyterian minister.
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