4th Annual Bethlehem Prayer Service

4th Annual Bethlehem Prayer Service

Saturday, December 18
9:30 a.m. Gather
10:00 a.m. Worship Service

A joint simulcast service with the people of Bethlehem in the nave of the Washington National Cathedral

Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues, NW
Washington, DC 20016

If you are elsewhere, watch the service live at www.NationalCathedral.org

Prayers, readings, and hymns alternate between Washington and Bethlehem bringing together people of different lands, languages, and backgrounds.

Participants in DC include: The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church; The Right Reverend John Bryson Chane, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington; The Very Reverend Samuel T. Lloyd III, Dean of Washington National Cathedral; and The Reverend Richard H. Graham, Bishop, Metropolitan DC Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

In Bethlehem, participants include The Right Reverend Suheil Dawani, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem; The Right Reverend Munib Younan, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land and President of the Lutheran World Federation; and The Rev. Mitri Raheb of Bethlehem’s Christmas Lutheran Church.