St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord March 17, 2019

Transcription

1 St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord March 17, 2019 Second Sunday of lent Then from the cloud came a voice that said, This is my listen to him. Luke 9:35 Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL Phone: (847) saintlambert@aol.com St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL Sunday Masses: (5 pm Sat) 8am, 10am, 12pm Weekday Masses: 7:15 am (Mon-Fri) 8am on Sat. Confessions: Saturday at 8:30am Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon Rev. Know-it-all: reverendknow-it-all. blogspot.com Deacon: Mr. Chick O Leary Music Director: Mr. Steven Folkers Office Staff: Debbie Morales-Garcia debbie.stlambert@aol.com Mr. George Mohrlein Religious Education : Gina Roxas youthchurchred@gmail.com Baptisms: Third Sundays of the month at 1:30 pm. Baptismal Prep Class is the first Tuesday of each month at 7 pm. For guidelines and to register call the rectory. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Website: To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under About Us or by phone. Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received at the office 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication. Submissions should be in electronic format and sent to debbie.stlambert.@aol.com.

2 Page 2 St. Lambert Parish Second Sunday of Lent Masses for the Week Saturday, March 16 8:00 Judith De Leon Birthday 5:00 Pat Gaynor Sunday, March 17 8:00 People of St Lambert 10:00 Josefa Jal & Angel Gonzalez 12:00 Monday, March 18 7:15 Tuesday, March 19 7:15 Dscd. Members of Styczynski/ Dionne Families and Michael J Polakowski Wednesday, March 20 7:15 Thursday, March 21 7:15 Friday, March 22 7:15 Saturday, March 23 8:00 5:00 Edwary & Marilyn Sunday, March 24 8:00 Josefina Cacal 10:00 People of St Lambert 12:00 Sunday Offertory Collection March 2/3, 2019 Envelopes: $7, Loose: 1, GiveCentral: Total: $9, St. Lambert Intercessors prayer hour follows after the noon mass every Sunday in the chapel. Our prayer teams and members intercede for the needs of St. Lambert parish and individual parishioners. Join us in prayer; drop your written petitions into our prayer box; or request of us immediate soaking prayer in private with you. You may also us your petition (s) at kevinpatterson1@comcast.net Blessings with affections in Christ, Intercessors of St. Lambert. READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Dn 9:4b-10; Ps 79:8, 9, 11, 13; Lk 6:36-38 Tuesday: 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22; Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a or Lk 2:41-51a Wednesday: Jer 18:18-20; Ps 31:5-6, 14-16; Mt 20:17-28 Thursday: Jer 17:5-10; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 16:19-31 Friday: Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a; 17b-28a; Ps 105:16-21; Mt 21:33-43, Saturday: Mi 7:14-15, 18-20; Ps 103:1-4, 9-12; Lk 15:1-3, Sunday: Ex 3:1-8a, 13-15; Ps 103:1-4, 6-8, 11; 1 Cor 10:1-6, 10-12; Lk 13:1-9 Alternate readings (Year A): Ex 17:3-7; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; Rom 5:1-2, 5-8; Jn 4:5-42 [5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42] Coffee Hour will be hosted next week by the St Lambert Senior Activity Club and the contact person is Marilyn Sala. She can be reached at Your assistance and donations are always welcome! Latin Mass : $ Youth Church: $ Thank you for your continued support! For Online Giving go to: Front Cover: The Transfiguration Of Christ Acrylic Print By Titian

3 March 17, 2019 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3 The St. Lambert Offertory Envelopes will be removed from the vestibule at the end of the month. Please pick up our set, boxes are placed in alphabetical order. If there is a change to your address, phone number or other information, please contact the rectory office or Debbie at debbie.stlambert@aol.com. NEW PARISHIONER? Call the rectory office to register or to register electronically, go to this link, TODAY, Sunday, March 17th St. Lambert s Join us in sharing the many cultures of our St. Lambert Parish Community Activities include sharing: Prayers of different languages Catholic traditions of different ethnicities Foods from around the world Games and Story sharing Please bring a favorite dish from your heritage to share if able Family Mass: Noon Activities afterwards in Trainor Hall until 3:00pm For widowed men and women Still looking for ways to move forward to a more joyful time in your life? Join us for a Retreat/workshop March 30 & 31, Holy Family Med. Ctr., Des Plaines. All are welcome. To register call: us at joyfulagain7211@gmail.com website:

4 Page 4 St. Lambert Parish Second Sunday of Lent The Reverend Know-it-all What I don t know I can always make up! THE REV. KNOW-IT-ALL S GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND, PART 5 Having arrived at Caesarea Marittima on our ancient pilgrimage to the land of Jesus, let us hurry to another Caesarea, Caesarea Paneas also known as Caesarea Philippi (Caesar Town of Philip) today called Banias. The Philip in question is variously known as Philip II, Philip the Tetrarch or Herod Philip. He was the son of Herod the Great who killed the innocents and his fifth wife, Cleopatra of Jerusalem, not to be mistaken with Elizabeth Taylor or Cleopatra Queen of Egypt. Philip II was born in 19 BC, and is not to be confused with Herod II, whom some writers call Herod Philip I. Is that perfectly clear? Looking at a chart of this family s genealogy is like looking at a very complicated football diagram. Who married whom and how they were related and which number wife this was are completely undecipherable to most people including me. For instance this Philip is the Philip who married his niece Salome, the daughter of Herodias and Herod II also called Herod Philip. Herodias, Herod Philip and Salome were all members of the same family. I suppose marrying your relatives makes it easier to figure out where to spend the holidays. This Salome is probably none other than the Salome who was such a fantastic dancer. She so pleased her father who was probably also her uncle that she was able to ask for the head of John the Baptist on a platter. It seems that she went on to marry another uncle, our Herod Philip who was around 30 years older than she was!! Herod Philip the Tetrarch rebuilt and rededicated the city of Paneas, naming it after the Roman emperor and adding Philippi (of Philip) so as not to confuse it with the Caesarea on the sea-coast, which his father Herod the great had built. I tell all these lurid details so that you can get a feel for the rather loose attitude to religious orthodoxy that the Herod family had. They thought nothing of building shrines to pagan gods, provided those pagan gods were politically correct. I also mention them because it s a lot of fun albeit hopelessly confusing. Just as his devoutly Jewish father Herod the great built a city filled with Roman temples and idols to honor the Roman emperor, so too did his son Herod Philip II the Tetrarch (ruler of a fourth) established a city dedicated to the gods of the pagans. The newlyrefurbished town honored the divine Roman emperor and served as Philip s regional capital. These people were nothing if not morally tolerant and inclusive. All the hub-bub centered on a huge outcropping of rock at the foot of which stood a cave, from which flowed a spring that was thought to be bottomless. It was the farthest source of the river Jordan and was sacred to the old Semite god Ba'al gad (Lord of Luck) also called Ba'al-hermon. (Lord of Mount Hermon.) Alexander the Great introduced Greek colonists to the area starting around 300 B.C., who established a strong presence in southern Syria. They identified Baal Gad with the nature spirit Pan. The new town was beautiful against the hill and there were beautiful temples enshrining this sacred spring and honoring all the major Roman gods. The bottomless spring was thought to be one of the entrances to the underworld, or the gates of hell. (This concept of hell is not to be confused with the Christian concept of hell as a place of eternal torment. In Greco-Roman mythology the place of unending torment was called Tartarus. You went there for having ticked off the gods. Most people just went to the underworld, Hades, or hell, a grey place of shades where people lived in an unending joyless semblance of life.) There were various places thought of as entrances to the underworld. One of these was the rock on which the Jerusalem temple stood. Jesus, it

5 March 17, 2019 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 seems, had left the Holy Land to go north in order to spend a little quality time with His disciples. He passed by this gleaming white and multicolored city perched near the sacred spring. In the presence of these false gods of politics and power, He asked St. Peter, Who do you think I am? Peter answered. You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God. Jesus said to him in return, "You are the rock on which I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. There Jesus stood before the great rock on which Philip had built a shrine to the false god of politics and nature. There he stood before the very gates of hell, and there Jesus, this threadbare Rabbi, said that the church built on the rock of Simon bar Jonah would prevail against the powerful gates of hell whether they were the temple that Herod the Great had built to his own glory in Jerusalem or the shrine that his son Philip had built to honor Roman might over the gates of hell in Banias. And you know what? The gates of hell did not prevail. Just a few short years later, Roman might destroyed the Temple of Herod and the fisherman, Simon bar Jonah died in Rome while conquering the Roman Empire by his death. Simon Peter is buried about 20 or 30 feet below the altar of the basilica of St. Peter in Rome. The pope sits directly over the tomb of Peter. Rome was reduced by barbarian invasions, by plagues and by famines to hardly more than a medieval village, but because Peter s tomb was there as well as Paul s they couldn t quite abandon the malarial swamp that Rome had become. Peter conquered Rome and revived it as the capital of the great capital of the spiritual empire of the Universal Church. That church is quite literally built on Peter upon this rock I will build my church. The foundation stone in Jerusalem has been stripped of its temple and the shining Roman temples of Banias Caesarea of Philip lay in ruins, but the tomb of the fisherman still draws untold millions to prayer. Christ has conquered those empires, and no empire thus far in history has prevailed. Tiberius and Herod would be forgotten except that their power was associated with the origins of the Christian faith. The humble fisherman of Capernaum and his Lord, the humble carpenter of Nazareth has prevailed. The ruins of Banias are evidence of their victory. More to come... "Crazy for You" : March 22, 23, 29 and 30 at 7 p.m.; March 24 and 31 at 2 p.m.; adults $13, seniors $11, kids 12 and under $7; $2 discount on opening night!; for tickets go to slmparish.org, Brown Paper Tickets or at the door; at St. Louise de Marillac Parish Center, 1125 Harrison Ave., La Grange Park; call Michael Miller at with questions. "St. Catherine of Siena A Woman for Our Times" : March 24, 2:30 p.m.; Adrian Dominican Sister Nancy Murray, OP, performs one-woman show at Our Lady, Mother of the Church Parish, 8701 W. Lawrence Ave.; $20: call for tickets. Musica Lumina Orchestra and Niles Metropolitan Chorus DIY "Messiah" : Upcoming events include March 31, 3 p.m.; Bach's "St. Matthew Passion": June 2, 3 p.m., Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"; in St. John Brebeuf Church, 8307 N. Harlem Avenue, Niles; newmru@hotmail.com or call for info. St. Andrew : April p.m.. in the St. Andrew Gym at Addison and Paulina streets; ish basket $12, mac and cheese basket $7; BYOB; tickets and info at standrew.org; walk-ins welcome. St. Zachary Fish Fry and Movie : April 12; ish fry 4:30-6:30 p.m. and movie at 7 p.m.; $10/adults, $5/ children ages 6-10,children 5 and under free; for info, call Shirley Klicka at or visit Annual Catholic Appeal Final Installment St Lambert 2018 Goal: $30, Paid (thru Feb 14, 2019) $43, Total Parish Rebate: $13, The Cardinal thanks you as do we for your commitment and support!

6 Page 6 St. Lambert Parish Second Sunday of Lent

7 TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Unscramble each set of letters to make words associated with Lent By now, many may have failed in Lenten discipline to some measure or another: the daily doughnut is simply too alluring, or a furtive puff on a cigarette irresistible. There is meaning even in the failure, though, a kind of reminder that we cannot save ourselves. Part of the power of Lent is that we do it together, and although individuals decide on different ways to keep it, it is fundamentally the same journey. We fall, we get up, we keep moving. The desire to give something up for Lent is an ageold impulse in the Christian heart. We get better at it over the years, and move more deeply into the meaning and message of acts of sacrifice; so there is no shame in stumbling, as long as we are not discouraged by the failure and give up. We are clearing space in our lives, after all, and some of the things we desire to give up are worth rooting out completely anyway. What do we do with the space we have cleared out by our sacrifice? The Lenten question of giving up is balanced by the Easter question of our response to Christ s embrace of us in love: What are you taking on for Easter? James Field, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co.

8 CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS St. Lambert Church # N. Karlov Skokie, IL TELEPHONE CONTACT PERSON Debbie SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2003 Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Windows XP Home Edition PRINTER HP Laserjet 4050 Series PCL6 SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION March 17, 2019 NUMBER OF PAGE SENT 1 through 8 TRANSMISSION TIME Monday 3:00 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS Please schedule delivery for Thursday.