
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 12, 1990                   TAG: 9004130711
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-19   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By Frances Stebbins
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

RENOVATION of an addition to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Salem, is under way. The church bought a former office building at Calhoun and Market streets for additional education and outreach ministry space. The new wing will update facilities for the handicapped and will adjoin rooms added about 20 years ago.

\ EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS, like those who attend Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox and St. Ambrose American Orthodox parishes, will celebrate Easter this year with Christians who follow the Latin calender. The two branches of Christendom, separated administratively for nearly 1,000 years, often have different Easters because of the way of calculating the date of Jesus' resurrection.

At Holy Trinity, the opening Passion of Christ [Maundy Thursday] devotions will begin tonight at 7. Good Friday afternoon liturgy starts at 3 and 7:30 p.m. with Holy Saturday devotions at 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. and the Resurrection service starting at midnight.

\ THE REV. ALLEN R. TRAPP has concluded an eight-year pastorate at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Trapp will become pastor of St. John Lutheran Church in South Euclid, Ohio, later this month. He came in 1982 from Florida. The church is now completing a major building addition to house the parochial school it started during his pastorate at the Southwest County parish.

\ ROSE ANN BURGESS, who has directed music at several Roanoke area churches, has become organist at Windsor Hills United Methodist Church succeeding Jeanean Lewis. She will work with James Ware, minister of music.

\ SISTER MARY MARGARET MEYER, a member of the Caldwell Dominican order, has left the education staff of Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church after a nine-month tenure. She plans to take a new assignment later with her religious community.

\ RABBI DONALD BERLIN, who served Temple Emanuel Reform congregation from 1965 to 1971, will preach at the April 20 worship at the temple. Berlin now is rabbi of a Baltimore congregation and is a coming as part of the centennial celebration of the temple. Call 342-3378 for more information.

\ AN ECUMENICAL SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE for victims of Hitler's Holocaust is scheduled April 22 at 3 p.m. at the Roanoke Unitarian/Universalist Church, 2015 Grandin Road S.W. The Rev. Alvord M. Beardslee of the Hollins College faculty will be the speaker. Members of the Acting Company will dramatize a reading.

\ WOMEN'S AGLOW spring retreat for Southwest Virginia is scheduled April 20-22 at the Ramada Inn in Wytheville. Athelda Frederickson, a recovering alcoholic, and Mimi Ouimet, a youth folk musician, are leaders. Call 804-836-1935 for registration information.

Deadline for religion briefs for Neighbors is Thursday. Material must be delivered to Neighbors Religion Briefs, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010, by noon in order to run in the following Thursday edition.

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