MEMORIAL DAY: Masses will be celebrated at...

MEMORIAL DAY: Masses will be celebrated at 10 a.m. at the 11 Catholic cemeteries in the Los Angeles archdiocese, including those in Mission Hills and Lancaster, in memory of servicemen and women who died in wartime.

Auxiliary Bishop Stephen Blaire will be the principal celebrant at San Fernando Mission Cemetery at 11160 Stranwood Ave. Auxiliary Bishop Armando X. Ochoa will be the principal celebrant at Good Shepherd Cemetery, 43124 70th St. W., Lancaster.

SCROLL TALKS: Physicist Gregory Bearman of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will describe during a Wednesday-night talk in North Hollywood the technology he used to detect otherwise unintelligible writing on a poorly preserved manuscript in the Dead Sea Scrolls collection in Israel.

Bearman will speak at 7:30 p.m. at Adat Ari El Synagogue, 12020 Burbank Blvd. His lecture is the second in a series on the 2,000-year-old Jewish sectarian writings co-sponsored by the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center in Claremont.

Bible scholar Marvin Sweeney of Claremont will give the third lecture June 7 on the so-called War Scroll of the Qumran community, which hid its biblical and sectarian writings in caves near the Dead Sea. The scrolls were discovered in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Admission is $12 ($8 for students) for each event. For more information, call the manuscript center at (909) 621-6451.

AWARDS LUNCHEON: The Los Angeles Clergy Network will honor six people at its 10th anniversary awards luncheon June 14 at the Warner Center Marriott Hotel in Woodland Hills.

The recipients will be:

Caring Award--Rena Bogin, founder-director of the South Bay Adult Care Center and co-founder of the L.A. Alzheimer’s Assn.

Community Involvement--Juanita De Sosa, director of the San Fernando Valley Interfaith Council’s Youth Leadership.

Brother’s Keeper--Dr. Bill Lamers, medical director of the Hospice of the Canyon in Calabasas since 1991.

Public Service--Lori Litel, director of the East Valley Multipurpose Center for Seniors.

Public Service--Alma Patotzka, project director of Meals to the Homebound in the San Fernando Valley.

Humanitarian--Maurice (Mickey) Weiss, creator of the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market’s Charitable Distribution Facility.

The guest speaker and award presenter will be Supervisor Mike Antonovich of Los Angeles County’s 5th Supervisorial District.

The luncheon, which will begin at 11:45 a.m., is free, compliments of Summit Care Corp. For reservations, call (800) 707-2224.

CONTEMPORARY CONCERT: Three contemporary Christian musical groups will perform at 11:30 a.m. today at Woodley Park in Van Nuys, following an hourlong March for Jesus that will begin and end at the park grounds.

Limit X, a band from Uganda, and D’Vine, a female rap dance duo--both groups record for the Chatsworth-based N.Soul label--will perform along with Stephen and Linda Tavani in the three-hour, open-air concert. The park is at 6350 Woodley Ave.

WEBER BOOK: In time for the Catholic Press Assn.’s convention at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel Wednesday through Friday, Msgr. Francis J. Weber’s book on the 100-year history of The Tidings, the Los Angeles archdiocese’s newspaper, has been published.

Weber, the archdiocese’s archivist in residence at the San Fernando Mission, was one of The Tidings’ editors for three months in 1990. The hardcover version of the book is available for $12 at the San Fernando Mission Gift Shop.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: An interfaith panel will discuss the question “Social and Economic Inequality--Is Affirmative Action Helpful?” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Northridge Seventh-day Adventist Church, 17700 Plummer St.

Speaking will be Rabbi Edward Goldberg of Temple Israel in Sun Valley, the Rev. Hector Lopez of the East Valley Congregational Church, Chancela al-Mansour of Mosque Ibadillah and Errol Smith, a member of the California Civil Rights Initiative advisory board.

The event, one of a series organized by the San Fernando Valley Interfaith Council, is free.

HEALING SERVICE: A Jewish Service for the Healing of the Soul will be held for patients with short- and long-term medical problems and their families Wednesday night at Temple Beth Hillel’s Bet Midrash Chapel at 12326 Riverside Drive in Valley Village.

The hourlong service will begin at 7 p.m. For more information, call the temple at (818) 763-9148.