St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord July 22, 2018

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1 ...for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things. Mark 6:34 St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord July 22, 2018 sixteenth Sunday in ordinary time 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 Office Staff: Debbie Morales-Garcia debbie.stlambert@aol.com Mr. George Mohrlein Religious Education : Gina Roxas youthchurchred@gmail.com To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under About Us or by phone. 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 basement. For guidelines and to register Debbie. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. 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 16th Sunday Ordinary Time Masses for the Week Saturday, July 14 5:00 Fidel & Maxima Miranda Sunday, July 15 8:00 Angie Rittenburg 10:00 Edward Swiatkowski 12:00 People of St Lambert Monday, July 16 7:15 Bernard Mohrlein Tuesday, July 17 7:15 Joel Poyatos Wednesday, July 18 7:15 Mr. & Mrs. Hermogene Thursday, July 19 7:15 Wilma Dunne Friday, July 20 7:15 Umakant Patel Saturday, July 21 8:00 Antonio Balisi 5:00 Rafael Llorente Sunday, July 22 8:00 Brian O Malley 10:00 Bernard Mohrlein 12:00 People of St Lambert Sunday Offertory Collection: July 7/8, 2018 Envelopes: $6, Loose: 1, Total: $8, Thank you for your continued generosity! For online giving go to: READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Mi 6:1-4, 6-8; Ps 50:5-6, 8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23; Mt 12:38-42 Tuesday: Mi 7:14-15, 18-20; Ps 85:2-8; Mt 12:46-50 Wednesday: 2 Cor 4:7-15; Ps 126:1bc-6; Mt 20:20-28 Thursday: Jer 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13; Ps 26:6-7ab, 8-11; Mt 13:10-17 Friday: Jer 3:14-17; Jer 31:10-13; Mt 13:18-23 Saturday: Jer 7:1-11; Ps 84:3-6a, 8a, 11; Mt 13:24-30 Sunday: 2 Kgs 4:42-44; Ps 145:10-11, 15-18; Eph 4:1-6; Jn 6:1-15 MUCH-NEEDED PRAYER Each Christian needs half an hour of prayer each day, except when we are busy; then we need an hour. St. Francis de Sales REST IN THE LORD For several weeks we have listened to readings that have recounted just how arduous the work of prophets and disciples can be. In today s Gospel, the Lord Jesus listens to the reports of those he had sent out two by two to minister to the people. After the apostles reported what they had done, Jesus, recognizing their fatigue, says, Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest awhile (Mark 6:31). Perhaps this is what the Lord is telling his disciples in the year 2018 as well. We need to pause on our journey of discipleship and simply rest in the Lord. Sunday Mass provides many opportunities for quiet times, particularly during the periods of silence following the readings. Why not take the time today to allow the saving word of the Lord to penetrate your heart during those silent times? Ask the Lord to renew you in body, mind, and spirit for the arduous work of discipleship. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. The Coffee Hour will be hosted by our Religious Ed group, Youth Church. The contact is Gina Roxas and she can be reached at Your baked goods and assistance are greatly appreciated! Mailing Address PO BOX Green Bay, WI Donor/Listener Relations Prayer Line

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4 Page 4 St. Lambert Parish 16th Sunday Ordinary Time The School of Heroes Summer Camp Embark upon an adventure with your friends and thoroughly explore the lives of famous Catholic superheroes, our saints. Train to be a saint with storytelling, movies, and indoor and outdoor challenges. Answer the call to heroism. Dare to be extraordinary. Be all that you can be. This summer. Join the original team of superheroes in their epic adventure Grades 7-12 Thursday, July 26 to Saturday, July 28 Thursday, July 26: 4pm- 7pm Service Day at OCC Community Garden where food grown is donated to the Niles Food Pantry (Meet at Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, Dismiss from St. Lambert) Friday, July 27: 4pm- 7pm Movie Day (Trainor Hall) Saturday, July 28 11am- 5pm: Picnic at Gilson Beach in Wilmette- food, volleyball and games ($6 for optional beach pass) All are welcomed! Grades K-6: Monday, July 30 to Thursday, August 2, 9:30am-3:00pm Monday: Olympic Games Tuesday: Movie Day Wednesday: Field Trip to Feed My Starving Children Thursday: Outdoor picnic and water fun $20.00 per student $50.00 for family of three or more. The School of Heroes is currently looking for volunteer assistance and food donations and meal sponsors. If you are interested in helping out, or for more information please contact Gina Roxas at youthchurchred@gmail.com

5 July 22, 2018 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 into the modern world. How sad, of course, that being upto-date is apparently a function of our capacity to murder the innocent. Bishop Robert Barron June 20, 2018 A reflection on the Irish referendum I will confess that as a person of Irish heritage on both sides of my family, I found the events in Ireland recently particularly dispiriting. Not only did the nation vote on May 25, by a two-to-one margin, for the legal prerogative to kill their children in the womb, but they also welcomed and celebrated the vote with a frankly sickening note of gleeful triumph. Will I ever forget the unnerving looks and sounds of the frenzied crowd gathered to cheer their victory in the courtyard of Dublin Castle? As the right to abortion now sweeps thoroughly across the Western world, I am put in mind of Gloria Steinem s mocking remark from many years ago to the effect that if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. I say this because abortion has indeed become a sacrament for radical feminism, the one, absolutely sacred, non-negotiable value for so-called progressive women. One of the features of the lead-up to the vote and this has become absolutely commonplace was the almost total lack of moral argument on the part of the advocates of abortion. There was a lot of political talk about rights, though the rights of the unborn were never mentioned; and there were appeals to health care, though the lethal threat to the health of the child in the womb was a nonissue. There was, above all, an attempt to manipulate people s feelings by bringing up rare and extreme cases. But what one hardly ever heard was a real engagement of the moral argument that a direct attack on a human life is intrinsically evil and as such can never be permitted or legally sanctioned. Accompanying the entire process, of course, was the subtext of the Catholic Church s cultural impotence, even irrelevance. Every single story that I read in advance of the vote and subsequent to it mentioned the fact that overwhelmingly Catholic Ireland had shaken off the baleful influence of the church and had moved, finally, But at the same time, I must admit and I say it to my shame as a Catholic bishop that, at least to a degree, I understand this reaction. The sexual abuse of children on the part of some Irish priests and brothers, not to mention the physical and psychological abuse of young people perpetrated by some Irish nuns, as well as the pathetic handling of the situation by far too many Irish bishops and provincials, produced a tsunami of suffering and deep injustice. We must remember a principle enunciated by my colleague, Father Stephen Grunow namely, that the abuse of children in any society, but especially in one as insular and tight-knit as Irish society, has a tremendously powerful ripple effect. When a young person is sexually abused, particularly by a figure as trusted as a priest, that child is massively and permanently hurt; but once the abuse becomes known, so are his siblings, his parents, his friends, his extended family, his parish. Now multiply this process a dozen times, a hundred times, a thousand times again, especially in a country as small as Ireland and you will find that, in very short order, the entire nation is filled with anger, indignation and a legitimate thirst for setting things right. I do believe that what we witnessed last week was a powerfully emotional reaction to the great crimes of the last several decades. The deeply sad truth is that the abuse of young men and women has given rise to an even more dramatic abuse of unborn children. When you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind. Is there a way forward for Ireland? I think a significant sign of hope is the considerable number of people who took the extremely unpopular stance against this legislative innovation. Knowing full well that they would likely lose and that they would be subject to ridicule and perhaps even the loss of their professional positions, they courageously argued for life. On that foundation, much of value can be built. But what Ireland most needs at this moment and indeed for the next hundred years are saints and mystics. Moral arguments can and should be made, but if the church wants to recover its standing as a shaper of (Continued on page 6)

6 Page 6 St. Lambert Parish 16th Sunday Ordinary Time (Continued from page 5) the Irish culture, it has to produce men and women who give themselves radically to the Gospel. It needs figures in the mold of St. Teresa of Kolkata, Blessed Oscar Romero, St. Francis of Assisi, Dorothy Day indeed of St. Patrick, St. Brendan, St. Columbanus and St. Brigid. It requires men and women of prayer, like the founders of the great Benedictine, Franciscan, Dominican, Cistercian and Trappist houses that still dot the Irish countryside and like the strange denizens of Skellig Michael, who for six centuries clung to the edges of the world off the coast of Ireland and lived in total dependence upon God. Finally, only prayer, witness, radical trust in divine providence, honest preaching and the living of the radical Gospel will undo the damage done last month. Bishop Robert Barron is an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Roe should not be litmus test for court nominees, USCCB says By Catholic News Service July 9, 2018 WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged U.S. senators July 6 not to support using the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abor on as a litmus test for confirming judicial nominees. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston wrote to members of the Senate, which will soon begin delibera ons on President Donald Trump's nominee to fill the vacancy being le on the Supreme Court by the re rement of Jus ce Anthony Kennedy. Trump said he will announce his choice for the court July 9. The cardinal's le er emphasizes that the USCCB "does not support or oppose confirma on of par cular presiden al nominees." But he said he has "grave concerns about the confirma on process... being grossly distorted by efforts to subject judicial nominees to a litmus test in support of Roe, as though nominees who oppose the purposeful taking of innocent human life are somehow unfit for judicial office in the United States." "By any measure," Cardinal DiNardo said, "support for Roe is an impoverished standard for assessing judicial ability. For forty-five years, Roe has sparked more informed cri cism and public resistance than any other court decision of the late 20th century." He pointed to polls taken over the past few decades that show that most Americans oppose Roe's provision for unlimited abor on. The cardinal also called a en on to a growing number of state legislatures that have passed pro-life laws. In addi on, he said, "mainstream medicine rejects abor on, with the vast majority of physicians and hospitals -- religious and secular -- refusing to par cipate in abor ons." "Even legal scholars who support abor on have cri cized Roe for not being grounded in the U.S. Cons tu on," he said. "If a Supreme Court ruling was wrongly decided, is widely rejected as morally flawed and socially harmful, and is seen even by many supporters as having li le basis in the Cons tu on, these are very good reasons not to use it as a litmus test for future judges," Cardinal DiNardo wrote. "Further, a nominees' faith should not be used as a proxy for their views on Roe," he added. "Any religious test for public office is both unjust and uncons tu onal." The Catholic Church stands out for "its commitment to the right to life from concep on un l natural death," he said. "This ethic has profound consequences not only for abor on," he said, but for all life issues, including the death penalty, scien fic research and access to health care and for "the role of the state in promo ng the common good." Civil society "will be all the poorer" if the Senate rejects well-qualified judicial nominees "whose consciences have been formed in this ethic," Cardinal DiNardo said. For more articles like this or from Bishop Barron, subscribe to Chicago Catholic the Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Call

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