St. Lambert Parish. November 18, Thirty third Sunday in ordinary time. Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon

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1 St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord November 18, 2018 Thirty third Sunday in ordinary time Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away Mark 13:31 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. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. 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 call the rectory.

2 Page 2 St. Lambert Parish 33rd Sunday Ordinary Time Masses for the Week Saturday, November 17 5:00 For Catherine s Recovery Sunday, November 18 8:00 Maria & Mieczystan Swaja 10:00 People of St Lambert 12:00 Helen Patterson Monday, November 19 7:15 Mary Hajduk Tuesday, November 20 7:15 Paulina & Laureano Panaliga and Barbara Valdez Wednesday, November 21 7:15 Attilio De Francheschi Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 22 10:00 Hernandez & Pulido Friday, November 23 7:15 Ralph Curtis Saturday, November 24 8:00 Joseph & Francis Morais and Dscd Members of Morais Family 5:00 Spc. Michael C. Roberts Sunday, November 25 8:00 Andres & Sally Del Rosario 10:00 Frank Niewiadomski 12:00 People of St Lambert READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Rv 1:1-4; 2:1-5; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 18:35-43 Tuesday: Rv 3:1-6, 14-22; Ps 15:2-5; Lk 19:1-10 Wednesday: Rv 4:1-11; Ps 150:1b-6; Lk 19:11-28 Thursday: Rv 5:1-10; Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b; Lk 19:41-44 Thanksgiving Day Suggested: Sir 50:22-24; 1 Cor 1:3-9; Lk 17:11-19 Friday: Rv 10:8-11; Ps 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131; Lk 19:45-48 Saturday: Rv 11:4-12; Ps 144:1b, 2, 9-10; Lk 20:27-40 Sunday: Dn 7:13-14; Ps 93:1-2, 5; Rv 1:5-8; Jn 18:33b-37 ENCOURAGEMENT This Sunday s Gospel is our final selection from Mark for this liturgical year. It is taken from the end of Jesus teaching in Jerusalem immediately preceding the account of his arrest and passion. In it Jesus gives his disciples hope to sustain them through his passion and death and any persecution or suffering that they would encounter after his resurrection. The words from the book of Daniel also provided hope and encouragement to the people of Daniel s time. The encouragement in these scriptures is meant for us as well, for none of us will escape tribulation in our lives. Followers of Jesus will be able to endure suffering with joyful hope, knowing that Christ s love will lead us along the way of discipleship and give us eternal life with God. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. Sunday Offertory Collection: November 3/4, 2018 Envelopes: $6, Loose: 1, Total: $7, YouthChurch: $ All Saints Day: $ Thank you for your continued generosity! For online giving go to: Coffee hour will be hosted next week by the FFOS and the contact person is Lily Syfu. She can be reached at Your participation and your donations are always appreciated! 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.

3 November 18, 2018 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3 Congratulations to our Confirmandi Giann Abang Abigail Dizon Rachelle Olaveja Haylie Agicic Daniella Escobar Jeremiah Onate Amor Ambubuyog Isabella Escobar David Ortinero Megan Artajo Ulysses Fernandez Phillip Pham Abigail Battung Audrey Francisco Demitri Romero Andre Battung April Frias Revin Jay Sese Orlando Bernardo Nicole Frias Tamyrah Shoemake Emilfaust Borgay Marvin Galvan Alissa Sweborg Mateo Castro Christine Guilbert Shelia Tiu Lindsay Cayanan Nya Lariosa Christopher Tolksdorf Dominc Dao Brianna Larson Henry Tran Kristina De Lara Geri B. Levina Matthew Villanuac Jacob Declaro Melanie Martinez Bianca Siron Daniel Damasco Christian Mendoza Protect me Holy Spirit that I may always be holy Decorate for the Holidays! Fill your home with the spirit and love of the Christmas season. Fresh balsam and mixed noble fir wreaths and other holiday decorations will be available for purchase after all Masses Next Weekend Proceeds from the sale help support the work of The Women s Centers of Greater Chicagoland. Your support is greatly appreciated! Holly Plant $5 Decorated Stone Pine Tree $10 Deluxe Bark Basket- $30 Classic Swag $10 25 Balsam Wreath $20 36 Balsam Wreath $40 12 mixed Noble Candle Ring $15 26 mixed Noble Wreath $35 22 Decorated Forest Elegance Wreath $40.

4 Page 4 St. Lambert Parish 33rd Sunday Ordinary Time No Catholic MLKs? By Shannen Dee Williams Catholic News Service November 6, 2018 Then-Mercy Sister Martin de Porres Grey consults with a priest in an undated photo at the National Black Sisters' Conference headquarters in Washington. During the 1950s and 1960s, scores of young black Catholics desegregated the nation's all-white seminaries and convents. (CNS photo/courtesy National Black Sisters' Conference) Note: November is Black Catholic History Month. There is an enduring myth that African-American Catholics were largely absent from the freedom struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, which resulted in the legal demise of Jim Crow segregation. Some have even pointed to a 1961 observation that there was no Catholic equivalent of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as an indication of black Catholic complacency during the monumental era. Among many things, such an observation ignores the fact that black Catholic men, women and youth did play pivotal, and oftentimes leading, roles in local and national campaigns for civil rights. Beyond the well-documented examples of A.P. Tureaud Sr., the NAACP attorney who successfully sued to end segregation in New Orleans' public schools, and Diane Nash, the student leader who famously defied Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's instruction to suspend the Freedom Rides of 1961, there are countless examples of black Catholics who fought and risked their lives to advance the cause of black freedom and civil rights. One such example is Mary Louise Smith of Montgomery, Alabama. Two months before the arrest of Rosa Parks ignited a 13-month boycott of the city's buses and catapulted a young MLK into the national spotlight, Smith was arrested after she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Although Smith's case was initially unknown to local leaders, the 18-year-old cradle Catholic joined four other black female plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit to dismantle bus segregation in Despite threats against their lives, Smith refused to back down. During her federal testimony, Smith also rejected the notion that the plaintiffs were sheep following MLK and not activists in their own right. As Smith put it, "We represented ourselves. We appointed him as our leader." In November of 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court's decision in Browder v. Gayle, which ruled bus segregation unconstitutional. Black Catholics were also leading figures in struggles against racial segregation and exclusion within church boundaries. Unsurprisingly, black Catholics sometimes drew inspiration from secular struggles for racial justice as they mounted challenges to longstanding anti-black discrimination in the church. For Patricia Grey, formerly Mercy Sister M. Martin de Porres, the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till was a turning point in her life. "I remember seeing that unforgettable, grotesque photograph of 14-yearold... Till in his open casket in Jet magazine... and recalled how incensed I was as a young teenager, wanting to do something and not knowing how to even talk about it," Grey stated in Although Grey would not be among the ranks of young African-Americans who organized the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and pushed the movement forward in 1960, the 18-year-old cradle Catholic and Sewickley, Pennsylvania, native did join another brave group of black youth fighting institutionalized white supremacy. During the 1950s and 1960s, scores of black Catholic teenagers desegregated the nation's all-white seminaries and convents. Among this pioneering generation of black priests and sisters in historically white orders were descendants of slaves once owned by the church and young people who had desegregated Catholic schools as children. Some, like Grey, who desegregated the Religious Sisters of Mercy in Pittsburgh in 1961, had endured earlier rejections from white orders with strict anti-black admissions policies. Eighteen-year-old Patricia Haley had even been arrested for marching for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama, a few months before she entered the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in And unlike their secular counterparts who desegregated public institutions, those who integrated white Catholic institutes often faced their trials in insolation away from the protection of television cameras and the communities that had nurtured their vocations. It should come as no great surprise then that this generation of black sisters and priests organized on the national level to confront racism in the church following King's assassination in (Continued on page 5)

5 November 18, 2018 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 Their stories and those of other unsung black Catholic activists like Mary Louise Smith constitute an essential part of the narrative of the African-American struggle for freedom and human dignity. As we celebrate Black Catholic History Month, it is imperative that we remember that these stories also represent the American Catholic experience. (Shannen Dee Williams is assistant professor of history at Villanova University. She is at work on her first book, "Subversive Habits: The Untold Story of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States.") TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION November is a month of remembrance for the dead, and cemeteries have long been a focus for prayer. Our tradition holds great respect for bodily remains, since the body was created and redeemed by God, was once the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, and has a destiny of life with God in glory. The funeral practices of the early church contrasted greatly with those of the pagans, who had a great dread of the dead body. The ancient Christian funeral liturgy ended with the relatives and friends giving a final kiss to the body. It expressed affection and showed their faith that the grave would not be the last word. This kiss horrified pagans, who thought that any contact with the dead was degrading. Every year on their loved one s birthday to life, the Christians would return to the place of their burial to mark their profound communion with those whose lives were hidden in Christ. Typically, they buried the dead with their faces turned toward the east, symbolizing the rising of the Sun of Justice, Christ, at the end of days. They were attracted to the catacombs or burial grounds just as we are today. They would often celebrate the Eucharist at the tomb. Before long, as soon as Christians were allowed to build places for worship, they relocated cemeteries from beyond the city walls to surround the church. This was not so much because the church made the ground holy, but because the bodies of the saints hallowed the ground on which the church was built, a subtle but beautiful difference. Rev. James Field, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. Let us come before Him with Thanksgiving. Psalm 95:2 RESURRECTION HOSTS JINGLE & MINGLE SHOPPING EVENT The Resurrection College Prep High School Parents Club is hosting an evening of shopping, raffles and refreshments on Tuesday, December 4, 2018 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at Resurrection College Prep, 7500 West Talcott Avenue. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend to this annual girl s night out to shop from a variety of vendors specializing in health and beauty products, accessories and gift items. The Resurrection Bandit Boutique will also be open starting at 7:00 pm for parents and alumnae to purchase Res Spirit Apparel. Resurrection College Prep is the largest all girls Catholic, Christian college preparatory high school for young women on the north side of Chicago. Since its founding in 1922, Resurrection has graduated over 14,500 alumnae. For more information about Resurrection College Prep High School, call Ext 129 or visit

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