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Jewish Services Midnight Selichot to Begin Preparations for Holy Days By MARIE H. WALLING Republic Religion Editor The annual days of repentence and forgive- ftess are approaching for Jews. In the only midnight' sen-ice of the year for (which Rabbi Moshe Tuuiauer, Beth El Synagogue, jokingly calls "our midnight Jews will gather tonight at synagogues and temples for a service of preparation for the High Holy Days beginning Sept. 23. THE SERVICE, called Selichot.

is one of penitential prayers designed to prepare the faithful for Ros'h Hashona, Sept. 23, and Yom Kippur, Oct. 1. Rosh Hashona, the Jewish new year, marks the beginning of a 10-day period of self-examination and prayerful repentence for misdeeds of the previous year. Yom Kippur 10 days later, the most solemn of all Jewish holidays, is the day of atonement when the slate of past grievances between man-and-man and man- and-God may be wiped clean.

The Selichot service consist of prayers by laymen, rabbis and the congregation, plus chanting by the cantor. For years the prayers were simply traditional, passed on from family to family. In the 15th century, the first printed edition of prayers was published. Today those prayers may seem irrevelant to most Jews. "THIS IS ONE of the reasons," according to a revised 1966 Selichot handbook published by the Rabbinical Assembly, New York, "why the Selichot services either have completely disappeared from many synagogues or have been surrendered to professional Too many of those who now attend do not come as a congregation to share in worship but as an audience to see and hear a performance." Rabbt Tutnauer agrees.

"Some printer set down traditional prayers and utterly stifled originality," he said. The key prayer in the handbook, which will used at Beth El services tonight, could pose a problem for Jews. "I HEREWITH forgive anyone," reads the prayer, "who may have irritated, angered or injured me, whether acting against my person my possessions, or my reputation. Let no man be punished on my account, whether the wrong done me was accidental or malicious, unwitting or purposeful, by word or by deed." Can Jews include in this prayer those including Christians, who have persecuted them from the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 A.D. to Auschwitz? "Of course," replied Rabbi Manuel Greenstein, Har Zion Congregation.

"Our religion is one of forgiveness. American Jews don't hate Christians. That element is gone. You can't blame the wrong doings of an individual on the whole group." BUT RABBI Tutnauer makes a fine distinction. "My forgiveness is conditional upon their own recognition of their wrong doing," he declared.

"I have no responsibility to forgive without the other person having repented. Otherwise the status remains the same. How can I forgive if I expect them to do the same wrong things again tomorrow?" In the case of the Nazis, for example, he said, "I can forgive Nazis who understand what happened, but not those who don't understand and want to see it happen again. Re- pentence has to be two-fold." Rabbi Albert Plotkin, Temple Beth Israel: "I can forgive almost anyone for the evils he has done to me. But I cannot forgive wrongdoers, such as the Nazis.

They must seek absolution of their own sins. The prayer says I will forgive anyone who may have irritated, angered or injured me, but does it say murdered? Gassed? No, the prayer doesn't go that far." RABBI JERROLD Goldstein, Temple Solel Congregation: "It's possible to forgive the people of the world for the evil they have done. But it's not possible to forget it. To forgive is to understand and to seek for reconciliation, for a new beginning. But only at idiot would forget." Rabbi Goldstein continued, "The dream of the liberal is that his good will find a responsive good will.

Of course, there comes a time when the only possible way to deal with hate is to fight. But reliance on violence should be a last response. Reliance on compassion should be the first, second and third step." RELIGION Republic Photo by Con Keyes INTERPRETIVE PRAYER DANCE A new form of worship, using modern dance, will be presented at 9 and 11 a.m. tomorrow at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 1500 W. Maryland.

Background music will be the Lord's Prayer sung from the balcony. From left are Pam Hartig, 16; Beverly Anderson, 17; and Kathy Winter, 17. Also in the group are Debbi Lemnitzer, 17, and Liz Winter, 19. Biafra Uniting Jeivs By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International The famine in Biafra is demonstrating anew that a grim tragedy sometimes can have a beneficial byproduct. Like the six-day war in the Mideast 15 months ago, relationships have been strained between Jewish and Christian leaders in the United States.

Jews have felt that Christians let them down by failing to speak up for U.S. support of Israel in its hour of crisis. Christians have felt they were being pressured to give uncritical backing to Israeli foreign policy as the price of Interf aith amity. THIS QUARREL hasn't been settled, but it has been pushed into the background as Jews and Christians find themselves united by compassion for the starving people of Nigeria's breakaway province. Rabbi Marc H.

Tanenbaum, director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, notes that Jews are "particularly sensitive to the genocidal nature of the tragedy in Biafra, which arouses haunting memories of the Nazi campaign of extermination." FOR THIS REASON, he says, Jews are full of admiration for the "moral passion, courage and realism" which Christian relief agencies such as Catholic Relief Services and Church World Service have displayed in flying food into Biafra over the objections of the Nigerian government. Cross Roads Church Marks Anniversary Tomorrow the congregation of Cross Roads Methodist Church, 7901N. Central, will mark its 10th anniversary. The first services of the congregation were held in Gompers Memorial Clinic, attended by 347 persons. Later the members met in Simis School and after three years, moved to its new facilities.

Today the congregation numbers 1,500 members and has an annual budget of $165,000. Projects of the congregation include the Tanitas Migrant Ministry, the founding of a new Methodist church, support of several foreign missions, a vigorous International Christian Youth Exchange program, aiding in establishing two inner- city nursery schools, and a housing project in the inner city. Cross Roads is active in developing a local lay seminary, a strong nursery school program, and in a model ecumenical parish. Besides the morning worship services at 9:30 and 11 a.m., tomorrow's activities will Include a box lunch, library dedication, movies of past history and talks by students from West Germany and Jamaica. The Youth Department will sponsor a home-made ice cream social between 5 and 6 p.m.

At 6 more than 200 adults will begin serious study as the fall semester of the lay seminary begins. Said the Rev. William 0. Smith, founder and still pastor of the congregation, "The past is history. Only the present is now ours with the future yet to be determined.

Cross Roads intends to do all it can to make tomorrow full of hope and promise for all generations of mankind. To this end Cross Roads begins its second decade." President Endorses Bible Week NEW YORK President Johnson officially endorsed National Bible Week yesterday in a statement declaring that Scripture provides "the best possible guidepost for today's living." Bible Week, sponsored the American Bible Society and the Laymen's National Committee, will be observed Oct. 20-27. In a statement issued by the White House, President Johnson said, "The Bible comes with many covers, on various grades of paper and in multiple languages. But its purpose is unchanged: Man's firm instructions and wonderful promises from God.

It holds our answers and hopes. It is life's greatest truth. "It is fitting," continued the presidential statement, "that our nation, founded upon faith and built upon trust in divine providence, should set aside a special period to proclaim his word." J2 Phoenix, Sept. 14, 1968 Press Spreads Rumor Of Pope's Poor Health By RAY MOSELEY VATICAN CITY is open season on Pope Paul VI in the Italian press. Newspapers and magazines are full of rumors that the Pope is in poor health or planning to retire.

VATICAN sources dismiss the reports as nonsense, but they are by now resigned to the fact they can't keep the rumors in check. The latest this week when a Rome newspaper concluded that the Pope must be sick because he did not appear at the main balcony of the summer residence in Castel Gandolfo Sunday when he gave his regular weekly blessing. The fact is the Pope almost never appears at that balcony. He appears instead on a balcony in the courtyard of the villa and addresses a crowd gathered below. THE VATICAN promptly denied the Pope was sick.

The most lurid recent rumor appeared last week in the Milan magazine L'Europeo. The article was signed by a "Monsignor whom the magazine described as a prelate close to the Pope. Monsignor suggested the Pope was ill with a tumor and that in any event he planned to retire in 1972, when he reaches 75 years of age. HIGH VATICAN sources said the report was without any foundation. Alarmist reports about the Pope first appeared last April when he showed signs of fatigue during Holy Week rites.

At that time the Pope was definitely tired and still weak from a prostate operation last Nov. 4. Some Italian newspapers hinted darkly at something much worse than fatigue and weakness, to the annoyance of Vatican officials who were besieged by queries from anxious Catholics around the world. VATICAN sources say the Pope now has fully recovered from his operation, and returned from his trip to Bogota, Columbia, Aug. 22-25, rejuvenated despite the rigors of the journey.

They said his current summer rest at Castel Gandolfo also has invigorated him. However, rumors that the Pope is sick are likely to recur because he has suffered since youth from a chronically poor digestion that often makes him pale and partly because he speaks in a raspy voice that sometimes sounds like a hoarse rattle of a sick man. Black America Dialogues "Dialogues on Black America" is the title of one of the most unusual adult education courses offered by the First Unitarian Universalist Church this fall. The course, which will meet at p.m. Mondays beginning, next Monday, will be conducted by Dr.

Eugene Grigsby, Arizona State University, and will deal with the problems of Negro revolts, law, music, education, medicine and other topics. Other courses include these morning sessions: ceramics, hatha yoga, two discussion groups, and a curriculum and program study of religious education. Evening courses include modern dance for both teen-agers and adults, conversational Spanish, play reading, ceramics, beginning guitar and folk dancing. A course in the Howe music method, taught by Hilbert Howe, uses an experimental method of teaching musical sight reading. Parishes to Emphasize Brotherhood At Open House for Non-Catholics Sweeping Roof Lines Support A 78-Foot-High Cross At Our Saviour's Lutheran Church Fifteen Roman Catholic parishes in the Valley will hold open house for non- Catholics between 2 and 4 p.m.

tomorrow. Tom Grace, coordinating chairman, said each participating parish will hold open house "to further a genuine spirit of friendship and brotherhood between Catholics and their non-Catholic neighbors according to the spirit and teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ." GRACE SAID the project is being sponsored by Catholic lay organizations in each parish to improve the communications between Catholics and their non-Catholic neighbors on a religious level. Included will be guided tours of the parish churches with explanations of the buildings, shrines, symbols and services. There will also be displays of sacred vessels, vestments and 1 i i a 1 books used in Catholic services. Parishes with schools and convents will conduct guided tours of those facilities.

At SS. Simon and Jude Parish, a choir program by various non-Catholic churches will be held during open house hours. "IN THE PAST," said Grace, "non-Catholics have been the first actively to seek a true brotherhood among sincere and good people of all creeds. Many of the non- Catholic churches in the Valley have extended a hand of cordiality to their neighboring Catholic churches. This open house is one of the ways we can reciprocate." Parishes participating include: QUAKE IN PORTUGAL LISBON (UPI) A mild earthquake which registered 4 on the Richter scale was recorded in the south of Portugal yesterday and felt in Lisbon.

-In Phoenix, St. Catherine's, 6045 S. Central; St. Francis Xavier, 4715 N. Central; St.

Gregory's, 3424 N. 18th St. Jerone, 11007 N. 35th St. Louis the King, 4311 W.

Maryland; St. Mark's, 400 N. 30th St. Mary's, 231 N. Thrid Most Holy Trinity, 8620 N.

Seventh Saints Simon and Jude, 6351 N. 27th St. Theresa's, 5045 E. Thomas; and St. Thomas the Apostle, 4510 N.

24th St. PEORIA, St. Charles Borromeo, 8610 Jefferson. Scottsdale, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 101 S. Miller; and St.

Daniel the Prophet, 1030 N. Hayden Rd. Sun City, St. Joachim, 11625 lllth Ave. TRINITY CATHEDRAL 100 Wilt Roosevelt 7:30 a.m.

Prayer Book Liturgy 7:00 a.m. Morning Prayer and Sermon 11:00 a.m. New Liturgy and Sermon ALL SAINTS N. Central ft Stella Lam 7:30 a.m. Holy Communion 9:15 a.m.

Holy Communion 11:00 a.m. Litany and Ante- Communion ST. ANDREW'S Camelback ft Avt. 7:30 a.m. Holy Communion 9:11 a.m.

Holy Communion 11:00 a.m. Morning Prayer ST. ELIZABETH'S M20 Wert Jean d'Are 9:00 a.m. Holy communion 9:00 a.m. Church School ST.

MARY'S J91h Avt. al Maryland a.m. Holy Eucharist 10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist ST. PAUL'S Thomas Rd.

ft 31st St. 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 9:30 a.m. Morning Prayer and Sermon 9:30 a.m. Church School 11:00 a.m.

Morning Prayer and Sermon GOOD SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS Cave Cave Creek Road 9:00 a.m. Morning Prayer and Sermon ST. BARNABAS Mecklniblrd Lane of Lincoln Drlva SCOTTSDALE 7:30 Holy Communion 9:00 a.m. Morning Prayer 11:00 a.m. Holy Communion ST.

STEPHEN'S J310 N. Mth Phoenix 7:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist 9:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist 11:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist 7:00 p.m.

Holy Eucharist CHRIST CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION E. Lincoln 1:00 a.m. Holy communion 10:00 a.m. Church School 10:00 a.m. Holy Communion ST.

MARK'S 1:00 a.m. Holy Communion 9:30 a.m. Holy Communion 11:00 a.m. Morning Prayer ST. CHRISTOPHER'S 10233 W.

Peorla Ava. 10:00 a.m. Morning Prayer Our Saviour's Lutheran Will Dedicate Sanctuary Dedication of the new sanctuary of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, 12th Street and Glendale, will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow with Dr. Carl W.

Segerhammer, president of the Pacific Southwest Synod, Lutheran Church in America, presiding. The 15-year-old congregation now numbers 800 members. This is the fifth building project since 1954. Other projects have resulted in a worship center, fellowship hall, educational wing and parsonage. The first religious structure to be built on Glendale and Lincoln Drive, Our Saviour's has been followed by 10 other churches and synagogues.

Cost of the new sanctuary, which seats 400, is approximately $200,000. Constructed of concrete block, it has huge wooden trusses which were specially made and shipped from Oregon to create the sweeping roof line leading to the cross, 78 feet from the ground. Focal point in the sanctuary is the marble altar with the wooden trusses rising above it. The marble baptismal font was ihipped from Italy. Next project for the congregation will be an administration wing.

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Dr. Eugeiw V. Conference E. Georgia Of the vi FIRST (Ntrth Congregational) 555 W. Olendelt ri.

Nelson, Everett B. Luther, L. Kenneth H. Buckwald Ph. J44-1M1 "GOD TALK AND THE SECULAR MAN" Dr.

Nelson, preaching Sunday School ft Worship 9:30 A 11 A.M. WHIella and 2nd Si. Ministers: H. Shelby Lee, George t. Lacy, Ltsttr J.

Kennedy Church School Worship 9:30 ft 11 A.M. 7 p.m. UCY "WHEN STONES START SPEAKING" Dr. H. Shelby Lee, preaching Shepherd of the Hllli 9:00 and 10:30 A.M., Divine Worship, Nursery ft Church School throuih 4th trade.

"What Is Man?" Rev. Donald H. Heinrlch 4 Richard f. Ctrler, Ministers 11III fill and UN I UN otvid Themas, Minister 9.45 A.M. Sunday Services 11 A.M.

TCMQP 101 E. SI- Church School 9:13 ft 10:30 "THE RIGHT TO BE YOURSELF" Jr. P.P. 3 P.M. Sr.

P.P. 7 P.M. Rev. WJ. Keener, Guest Speaker 1020 N.

St. 969-32M M. Jensen, Minister 9:30 Church School 10:30 Family Worship PASTOR SPEAKING WEST Rtv. Walter M. Frutiaer W.

Thomas Rd. Sunday School ft Worship 10 A.M. "Where Art Your Roots?" Cranllt Rtv. T. Widnty, Mm.

Morninj Workshop, Church School ft Nursory :30 only Rev. Widnty, NEIGHBORHOOD Rev. Cayle Strlckier, Minister Sunday School 9:15 A.M. Worship 10:45 A.M. Guest Minister-The Reverend Henry CMlBsrtstn, Southwest Conference Minister euAAurn COMMUNITY CHURCH ENCANTQ N.

nit Sunday School ft Morning Worship 10 A.M. "SECOND "FAMILY" G. OrUld A. McKlnlcy, PSMOr 42 UNITED (f) ETHODIST CHURCHES Welcome You to Worship on Sunday DOWNTOWN CAPITOL Uth Ave. ft W.

Van Buren Worship 11 A.M. CRUTCHFIELD 1775 E. Buckeye Worship A.M. OARFIE A.M 3 ST. PAUL'S Buren ft Ave.

Worship 10 A.M. WESHY 1002 C. Washington Worship 11 A.M. PARK CENTRAL ASBURY HI! W. Ind.

Sen. Rd. ft 11 A.M. BITMiL 7th St. ft Osbtrn Rd.

Worship 1:30 ft 11 A.M. CENTRAL U7J N. Central Worship ft 11 A.M. NORTH CROSS ROADS 7901 N. Central Worship 9:30 ft A.M.

FAITH W. Northern Avt. Worship 11 A.M. FIRST SS10 N. Worship ft 11 A.M.

SHEPHERD OP VAL. W. CactUI Worship 9:30 ft 11 A.M. EAST ALBRIGHT itt) Campbell ALDERSOATE N. JJfld St.

Worship A.M, CRf IQHTQIj f. Tlnmai Rd. Worship ft 11 A.M- WEST BROOKS MEMORIAL 5721 W. Thomas Worship ft 10:30 A.M. CALVARY 7949 W.

Ind. Setl. Rd. Worship 11 a.m. ft 7 p.m.

DESERT WEST N. fist Warship 10:30 A.M. EPWORTH W. Camtlback Worship 9:30 ft 11 A.M. TRINITY 3104 W.

Avt. Worship ft 10:30 A.M. SOUTH GRACE 200 W. southern Worship 10:41 A.M. GLENDALE FIRST 7102 N.

Slfa Worship 9:30 ft 10:10 A.M. PARADISE VALLEY CROSS IN DESERT 12(35 N. 32nd St. Worship ft 10:30 A.M. PARADISE VAL.

E. Lincoln Dr. Worship ft 11 A.M. MESA FIRST 15 E. 1st Worship 1:30, 11:01 A.M.

GRACE 2024 E. University Dr. Worship 0:45 ft 11:01 A.M. ST. ANDREWS 1244 E.

Univ. Dr. Worship 10:00 AJA. VELDA ROSE 5540 E. Trill Worship and 11 A.M.

SCOTTSQALE VALLEY PLAZA MM I. CMlVtr ft A-M- SCOTTSDALE N. Worship ft 11 A-M- TEMPE FIRST 21S B. Univ. Dr.

Worship 9:30 ft 11 A.M. CHRIST CHAPEL 405 Southern Worship 9:30 ft 11 A.M. OTHER TOWNS AVONDALE 104 W. Western Worship ft 11 A.M. BUCKEYE Castfl Worship 11:00 A.M.

CHANDLER 151 W. Cltveltnd Worship ft 10:50 A.M. DESERT CHAPEL, Junction Worship 1:10 ft 11 A.M. FEDERATED Hlglty Community Worship A.M. GILBERT Worship A-M.

LIBERTY Sen. Rd. Warship 11.0* A-M- SUM CITY Worship 10:01 A.M.