Twenty Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon. Rev. Know-it-all: reverendknow-it-all.blogspot.com. Deacon: Mr.

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1 St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord October 1, 2017 Twenty Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time MT21:31 Which of the two did his father s will? Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL Phone: (847) saintlambert@aol.com St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL Website: Sunday Masses: (5 pm Sat) 8am, 10am, 12pm Weekday Masses: 7:15 am (Mon-Fri) 8am on Saturday 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 Religious Education : Gina Roxas youthchurchred@gmail.com Office Staff: Debbie Morales-Garcia debbie.stlambert@aol.com Mr. George Mohrlein Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under About Us or by phone. For Online Giving: Baptisms: Third Sundays of the month at 1:30 pm. Baptismal Prep Class is the first Tuesday of each month at 7pm in the rectory. For guidelines and to register, Debbie. Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received at the office 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication and should be in electronic format. Please send to debbie.stlambert@aol.com.

2 Page 2 St. Lambert Parish 26th Sunday Ordinary Time Masses for the Week Saturday, September 30 5:00 Michael Holden, health & well being Sunday, October 1 8:00 People of St Lambert 10:00 Agnes Robst 12:00 Mr/Mrs Jose F. Perez Monday, October 2 7:15 Maria & Joe Etzel Tuesday, October 3 7:15 Dan Jolls Wednesday, October 4 7:15 Hristo Devedjiev Thursday, October 5 7:15 Michael Holden, health & well being Friday, October 6 7:15 Mieczyslaw Chiebowski Saturday, October 7 8:00 Intentions of Casas Family 5:00 Efrain Cordero Sunday, October 8 8:00 Pilar Garcia 10:00 Agnes Robst 12:00 People of St Lambert September 16/17, 2015 Envelopes: $ 6, Loose: 1, Total: $ 8, Hurricane Relief : $25.00 Thank you for your continued support! READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Zec 8:1-8; Ps 102:16-21, 29, 22-23; Mt 18:1-5, 10 Tuesday: Zec 8:20-23; Ps 87:1b-7; Lk 9:51-56 Wednesday: Neh 2:1-8; Ps 137:1-6; Lk 9:57-62 Thursday: Neh 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12; Ps 19:8-11; Lk 10:1-12 Friday: Bar 1:15-22; Ps 79:1b-5, 8-9; Lk 10:13-16 Saturday: Bar 4:5-12, 27-29; Ps 69:33-37; Lk 10:17-24 Sunday: Is 5:1-7; Ps 80:9, 12-16, 19-20; Phil 4:6-9; Mt 21:33-43 The Baby Bottle Project benefiting the Women s Centers starts next weekend! Please take a Baby Bottle home with you from the vestibule on your way out and fill it with your spare change, and return it the weekend of October 29th. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SKOKIE CONFERENCE BUNDLE WEEKEND AT ST. JOAN OF ARC PARISH MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF THOSE IN NEED BY DONATING YOUR GENTLY USED ITEMS TO SVDP! FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 2:00 P.M. TO 5:00 P.M. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 NOON TO 4:30 P.M. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8 10:30 A.M. TO 2:30 P.M Two St. Vincent de Paul trailers will be in the St. Joan of Arc parking lot Lawndale Avenue side north of Church Street. A volunteer will be available to assist you, and will provide you with a receipt for tax purposes. Note: If you have a winter coat to donate, the St. Agnes coat drive at SJA in October is a great place for your dona on If you have large items to donate, such as furniture, we will have movers and a truck available to help you on Saturday, October 8. To make arrangements, contact Frank Ziegler at or via at frank.ziegler@gmail.com any me before or during the Bundle Event. The Coffee Hour will be hosted next week by the St Lambert Senior Club and the contact is Marilyn Sala. She can be reached at Your donations are always appreciated!

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4 Page 4 St. Lambert Parish 26th Sunday Ordinary Time The Reverend Know-it-all What I don t know I can always make up! Continued from next week Back to the theme of the tininess of the Holy Land. Remember that the entire area is not much bigger than New Jersey if you count the farthest extent. Remember too that much of it is uninhabitable because of desert areas and the whole thing was divided into much smaller minicountries. You had Galilee, Samaria and Judea all ruled by petty kings from the Herod family and you had the Decapolis. Smack dab in the middle of all these Semitic mini-countries you had ten cities that were thoroughly Greek. Decapolis means ten cities Gerasa (Jerash) in Jordan Scythopolis (Beth-Shean) in Israel, the only city west of the Jordan River Hippos (Al Huson) on the Golan Heights) Gadara (Umm Qais) in Jordan famous for the Gadarene demoniac, Pella in Jordan where the first Christians fled when warned of the imminent destruction of Jerusalem by the Christian prophets. This happened around 65 AD. Then you have Philadelphia, modern day Amman, the capital of Jordan, Capitolias, now called Beit Ras in Jordan, Raphana also in Jordan and Canatha (Qanawat) in Syria as well as Damascus, the capital of modern Syria. These towns were either established by or taken over by Greek speaking immigrants as a means of Hellenization (Greek-ification) by Alexander the Great and his successors. It s important to understand this. It means that Jesus probably spoke Greek fairly well. He was exposed to Greek culture and language. He seems to have preached in the Decapolis, and I bet he did so in Greek. It is likely that the sayings of Jesus were being written down by his followers while He was still preaching and ministering and they seemed to have done so in Greek. In the first three Gospels the same Greek words are used to tell the same stories and sermons, so the source from which these sayings and stories were taken was probably written down in Greek. There were three common languages spoken in the Holy Land at the time of Christ, Aramaic, a Semitic language that seems to have been Jesus first language. He says Eloi, Eloi lamah sabacthani? which seems to be Galilean accented Aramaic. Then there was Greek, the language of commerce and government. Then there was Latin, the first language of a very few, like Pilate and the Herods. Some of the Herods grew up in Rome in the house of the emperor on the Palatine hill and their Latin would have been excellent. Most Romans didn t speak Latin. The language of the army was probably Greek. It s what everybody spoke back then, just like everybody speaks English these days. I think most Dutch and Swedes speak better English than I do. The Holy Land was never a mono-lingual, monoethnic country. Joshua failed to drive all the Canaanites out of the land in 1300 BC, the Maccabees failed to drive all the Greeks out of the land in 100 BC and Herod was a Latin speaking Hellenized Arab. The Holy Land at the time of Christ was a multilingual multiethnic crass money-making hodgepodge just like it is today. Get thoughts of Bible pageants with people wearing bath robes and towels on their heads out of your mind. You will be overwhelmed by the traffic, the chaos, the crowding and the commercialism. You will be chased by peddlers shouting ONE DOLLAR! ONE DOLLAR! ONE DOLLAR! just like you would have been chased by peddlers at the time Christ shouting one shekel, one shekel, one shekel, or one denarius, one denarius, one denarius! My point is this: the Holy Land is just the same in our times as it was at the time of Christ. Forget the Bible pageants you see at Christmas with people wearing towels on their heads. Forget starry eyed visionaries. God so loved the world. The real world. The world I would rather escape. The world collides with itself in Jerusalem. It always has. It always will. God loves the world. This is why Jerusalem is so absolutely Holy. To be continued... World Mission Sunday Collection October 21/22, 2017

5 October 1, 2017 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 THE FEAST DAY OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA ON OCTOBER 14, :00 P.M. MASS (The Mass will conclude with an outdoor candlelight procession) SAINT LAMBERT CHURCH 8148 Karlov Avenue, Skokie, Illinois In preparation for the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima, a daily novena will commence October 5 to October 13, 2017at 6:45 P.M. (October 11 novena after the Mother of Perpetual Help novena) 5th Annual NorthWest Families March for Life at St. Theresa in Palatine Saturday, October 7th, 1:00 pm Date Amount Book Name Sunday, Sep 24, 2017 $ De La Vega, Vera Lani Monday, Sep 25, 2017 $ FFOS Tuesday, Sep 26, 2017 $ Casas, Virginia Wednesday, Sep 27, 2017 $ Bayani, Pete Thursday, Sep 28, 2017 $ Ancel, Terry Friday, Sep 29, 2017 $ Murphy-Jolls, Carleen Saturday, Sep 30, 2017 $ CasƟllo, Nancy Unite with families from across the Chicago-land area to bear joyful witness to the sanctity of all human life. It begins at 1:00 pm in St. Theresa Church in Palatine with inspiring speakers. Then walk down Northwest Hwy. to a rally at the plaza with the energetic teens from Crusaders for Life! The positive theme of the march, Choose Love! Choose Life! is a perfect way to celebrate Respect Life Month and introduce your children to the idea that every human life has value and deserves respect. Contact Maria Goldstein NWFL526@gmail.com or go to weeblycom. Winning raffle booklet numbers are put back in the hopper. Giving you more opportunities to win throughout the year! PRIZES: $50 Monday-Saturday $100 Weekly Sunday (except 1st Sunday) $500 Every 1st Sunday of the Month

6 Page 2 St. Lambert Parish 26th Sunday Ordinary Time ARCHDIOCESAN FIREARMS POLICY Brat Fest 2017 Report $ Change % Change 3460 Family Fest Income Raffle Tickets 16, , (7,234.00) (30.84%) Food & Beverage 9, , % Miscellaneous Income 2, , % Total 3460 Family Fest Income 25, , (7,033.63) (21.38%) 4561 Family Fest Expense Raffle Tickets 9, , % Food & Beverage 5, , % Equipment 8, , , % Miscellaneous , (482.55) (48.26%) Tax & License Fees (60.00) (48.0%) Music 1, % Total 4561 Family Fest 22, , , % Net Family Fest Income 3, , (8,358.51) (72.75%) 2017 Public Square Rosary Crusade Please join the 2017 Public Square Rosary Crusade. Our nation is in great need of public prayer, repentance and conversion. In the historic year of the Fatima Centennial ( ), we ask God to save America through the Rosary of His Most Holy Mother. When:Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017 at 12 noon Where: Downtown Skokie by the gazebo at the corner of Oakton and Lincoln Come pray with us! This is a worldwide, coordinated event, and we will start promptly at noon. Arrive early; parking may be difficult. Please contact Vicki D. at (773) for more information.

7 October 1, 2017 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7 Parable of the Two Sons Description Matthew 21:28-32 What do you think? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work today in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. Then he came to the second son and asked him the same. The son answered and said, I will, sir but he didn t go. So which one of them did what his father wanted? The first, Jesus said. Copyright 2017 All right reserved. This site is a project of MMBOX PRODUCTION