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1 bâü _twç Éy à{x UÜÉÉ~ ctü á{ aéüà{uüéé~? \ÄÄ ÇÉ á January 11, 2015 Baptism of the Lord Our Lady of the Brook Mission Statement Our Lady of the Brook Parish is called to be a Catholic Community where all are welcome. Believing God to be the center of life, we commit to: Remember the values handed on to us in the Sacred Scriptures and teachings of the Apostles Celebrate Christ s presence among us in Word and Sacrament Act to foster peace, justice and compassion for all.

2 Our Lady of the Brook Parish Northbrook, Illinois 2 OUR LADY OF THE BROOK PARISH Parish Family Worship Center & Rectory 3700 Dundee Road Northbrook, IL Website: phone: (847) fax: (847) rectory@olbparish.org Parish Office Hours: M F 9 am to 4 pm Parish Staff/Rectory (847) Father Robert Heinz, Pastor Father Robert Herne, Pastor Emeritus Father Richard Sztorc, Pastor Emeritus Father Tom Moran, Pastor Emeritus Deacon Peery Duderstadt Deacon Dennis McAllister Eva-Maria Rill, Office Manager Catherine Colleran, Administrative Assistant Amy Principi, Bulletin Editor bulletin@olbparish.org Bookkeeper/Webmaster use above (Individual addresses are available on our website: click on contact us for a listing.) Mass Schedule Saturday Anticipated Mass - 5:00 PM Sunday Masses - 10:00 AM Daily Mass - Monday through Friday - 8:30 AM Holy Day Masses - as Announced Baptisms Baptism - 12:00 PM on the second and fourth Sundays of the month. Sacraments of Reconciliation & Anointing The Sacrament of Penance is available on Saturdays at 4:15 PM until all confessions are heard or by appointment. Anointing of the Sick and Communion to the Homebound is available upon request. Weddings Marriage - Arrangements must be made a minimum of 6 months in advance. For all of these sacraments, please call the rectory office. Mass Intentions Saturday, January 10, :00 PM Joseph & Rose Shafer request of Bassel family Sunday, January 11, :00 AM Sr. Gemma Sispis request of Paul & Gerri Miller Joseph Shaker request of Breit family Monday, January 12, :30 AM John Doherty request of Doherty family Tuesday, January 13, :30 AM For those suffering from addiction Wednesday, January 14, :30 AM For those who doubt their own self-worth Thursday, January 15, :30 AM Josephine Rzeszewski request of family Friday, January 16, :30 AM Peery Duderstadt request of family Saturday, January 17, :00 PM That the sick might experience Christ s healing grace Sunday, January 18, :00 AM Dorothy Plunkett Hudash request of Mary Ellen Lovell For Those Who Have Requested Our Prayers Sidney Ament, Shawna Beagle, Coleen Bokor, Jean Borin, Shirley Bowler, Kristen Rill-Cohen, Wilfred Copa, Estelle Douglas, Gaynor Edwards, Carol Erickson, Anna Polus Esha, Anita Farenga, Sally Faso, Rev. Erwin Friedl, Anne Richardson Golm, Barbara Gryzmala, Beth Hansen, John Hyun, Brady Irwin, Milton Johnson, Sara Klimaszewski, Fr. Charlie Kouba, Diane Kotula, Todd Moser, Jane Malley, Ray and Rita Niebur, Debbie Olson, Pat Orlando, John Ormond, Carol Parker, Patti Parker, Carolyn Price, Nick Principi, Christine Rakow, Alexandra Salamone, Talie Schnoll, Angelo Suranno, Patricia Tingay, Victor P. Villasin, Elizabeth Wagner, Marion West, Evelyn Whitson, Dennis Wimberly, Audrey Zywicki Pray Also For Those Born to Eternal Life Elizabeth Chen, MD Margaret Early Brennan, mother of Marge Togtman

3 Baptism of the Lord January 11, Chastity and Christmas Rev. Ron Rolheiser, OMI Scripture and Christian tradition emphasize that Jesus could only be born out of a chaste womb, just as Christian Spirituality emphasizes he can only come to full bloom inside of a chaste heart. Why? Why this emphasis on chastity? Chastity needs to be properly understood. For too long we have had an overly-narrow and mostly false concept of chastity. Chastity is too commonly identified with sexual abstinence, and sexuality is then seen as something that, in itself, militates against chastity and spirituality. But chastity is not the same thing as celibacy; indeed it is not even, first and foremost, a sexual concept. Someone can be chaste but not celibate, just as someone can be celibate but not chaste. My parents were not celibate, they gave birth to a large family, but they were wonderfully chaste persons. The reverse can also be true. Someone can be celibate but far from chaste. What is chastity? We are chaste when we stand before the world, others, and God in a way which allows them to be fully themselves without letting our own impatience, selfishness, or unwillingness to remain in tension violate their reality and their natural unfolding. What is meant by that? Allow me to present three images for this: In her book, Holy The Firm, Annie Dillard shares this story: One evening, alone in her cabin, she was watching a moth slowly emerge from its cocoon. The process was fascinating but interminably slow. At a point she lost patience and needed to get on to other things, so she picked up a candle and applied a little heat to the process. It worked. The added heat sped up the process and the moth emerged more quickly from its cocoon, but, since a natural process had been interfered with and unnaturally rushed, the moth emerged with ill-formed wings which didn t allow it to fly properly. A fault in chastity led to stunted growth. The movie, Sense and Sensibility, based on Jane Austen s classic novel, presents its leading character, a woman played by Emma Thompson, as someone who is asked to carry an extremely painful tension for a long time, one having to do with unrequited and unconsummated love. She has no one with whom she can really share her pain, and her circumstance requires her to carry on as if she was not carrying this pain. She carries that tension for a long time, sublimating her pain into a graciousness that she extends even to the very persons who are the source of her tension. Only after a long time is the tension is finally resolved and her forbearance in not forcing an earlier, premature resolution, her willingness to carry the tension to term, helps bring about deeper life for everyone, not least for herself. This is the essence of chastity. After the Italian, spiritual writer, Carlo Carretto, had spent a number of years living as a hermit in the Sahara desert, he was asked what message he would give to the world if someone asked him the question: What, in your solitude and prayer, do you hear God saying to those of us who are living active lives in the world? Carretto replied: God is saying: learn to wait, learn to wait for everything for love, for fulfillment, for consummation, for God! Learning to wait, giving God and life the space to unfold as they need to, is the very essence of chastity. In a number of his books, Nikos Kazantzakis, both fondly and bitterly, makes this assertion: God, it seems, is never in a hurry, while we are always in a hurry. He s right: Life unfolds according to its own innate rhythms which try our patience and it will not let themselves be rushed, except at a cost. Life and love demand both the time and the space within which to unfold according to their own internal dictates. Whenever, because of impatience, selfishness, or our unwillingness to stay inside a tension, we short-circuit that process we, in slight or deep ways, violate their reality. Chastity is the virtue that invites us to live in patience, to wait, to respect what s other, and to carry tension long enough so that the other can truly be other and gift can unfold precisely as gift. The word sublime takes its root in the word sublimation. Nothing can be sublime unless there is first sublimation. Nobody gives birth to a baby without a long period of gestation, nobody writes a doctoral thesis in two hours, nobody creates an artistic masterpiece without long hours of sweat and labor, and nobody becomes a heroic individual without carrying unbearable tension. Cinderella only got to go to the ball after she had spent sufficient time in the ashes. Jesus only got to the glory and freedom of Easter Sunday by first sweating blood in the garden. That is why the Messiah can only be born from a chaste womb and come to life fully only inside of a chaste heart. Christmas allows for no shortcuts.

4 Our Lady of the Brook Parish Northbrook, Illinois 4 Brook Happenings Sunday, January 11, :15 AM Choir Warm-ups 10:00 AM Mass 11:30AM Dcn Dennis Scripture Study NEW TIME Monday, January 12, :00 AM Liturgy Committee Meeting Tuesday, January 13, :10 PM Communion Service 7:00 PM Friends of Bill Wednesday, January 14, :00 AM Staff Meeting Thursday, January 15, :15 AM & 7 PM Adult Faith Formation 12:10 PM Communion Service Friday, January 16, 2015 Saturday, January 17, :00 AM Bereavement Meeting 4:15 PM Confessions 5:00 PM Mass Sunday, January 18, :00 AM Mass REHEARSAL Psalms are sung in the home and rehearsed in the streets. St. Ambrose FREE FREE FREE Please help yourself to a 2015 Calendar in the back of church. They are courtesy of N. H. Scott & Hanekamp Funeral Home. Get one while they last! Don t forget that our bulletin is available online at our parish website. It s in color, and has all the information you might have missed! Deadline is noon on the Monday before the weekend. We also have a page on Facebook, which posts updates regarding Holiday Events, photos from recent events, and more. Scan the code to the right with a smartphone to go directly to our home page. Readings for the Week of Jan. 11 Monday: Heb 1:1-6; Ps 97:1, 2b, 6, 7c, 9; Mk 1:14-20 Tuesday: Heb 2:5-12; Ps 8:2ab, 5, 6-9; Mk 1:21-28 Wednesday: Heb 2:14-18; Ps 105:1-4, 6-9; Mk 1:29-39 Thursday: Heb 3:7-14; Ps 95:6-11; Mk 1:40-45 Friday: Upcoming Dates Mark your Calendars Now! Jan. 25: Chili Supper (see pg. 7) Heb 4:1-5, 11; Ps 78:3, 4bc, 6c-8; Mk 2:1-12 Saturday: Heb 4:12-16; Ps 19:8-10, 15; Mk 2:13-17 Sunday: 1 Sm 3:3b-10, 19; Ps 40:2, 4, 7-10; 1 Cor 6:13c-15a, 17-20; Jn 1:35-42 Stewardship of Treasure 2015 Dec. 28 Jan. 4 Collection $4, $9, Goal/Budget: $6, $6, Excess/(Deficit): $(1,758.00) $ 2, Poor Box $86.24 (Dec. 28 Jan. 4) FSF $80.00 $5330 December E-Giving $6304 Christmas to Date: $31,972 (as of 1/5/15) (Goal = $39,000) Have you switched to Electronic Giving yet? Thank you for your continued support. Remember Our Lady of the Brook Parish in your will.

5 Baptism of the Lord January 11, Bulletin Building Blocks - Baptism of the Lord TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION In the 1560s, the Council of Trent attempted to standardize the widely variant customs for the pastoral care of the sick and dying. We had inherited a practice called extreme unction, from the Latin words meaning anointing at the point of death. The deeper tradition, however, is about the prayer of faith that will heal and restore the sick person, and is straight from the Letter of James. The Fathers went back to the beginning, and while not discarding the extreme unction name, made a plea for the proper use of this sacrament. As soon as a person is in danger of death from sickness or old age, they reasoned, the time for the sacrament had already arrived. As a result of this desire, the next ritual text for anointing contained an innovation: a rite for visiting the sick that included readings from scripture, psalms, and prayers. Old customs fade slowly, however, and the quality of pastoral care languished for centuries while people delayed the celebration of a consoling and effective sacrament, sometimes missing the opportunity completely. A priest ministering to a dying and unconscious patient alone in a room has never been the desire of the Church. Our tradition is far too rich for this sacrament to be celebrated in such a diminished and ungenerous manner. Rev. James Field, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. SAT. 5 pm Presider TBA TBA Lector Suzanne Noonan Jan Zorn Ministers of Communion Altar Servers Greeters Ushers Sacristan Ministry Schedule: January 17 & 18, 2015 Linen Sacristan Chuck Sansone Mary Vollkommer Susan Mart Maxine Ratajczyk Dcn McAllister Suzanne Noonan Marian Reid Mary Fran Bubak Colleen Liebman Wayne Liebman Chuck Sansone Wayne Bubak Sun. 10:00 am Ray Hudash Medy Newman Lettie Bratta Ginny Hartzer Dcn Duderstadt Renee Mayer Peg Kritek Joanie Sosinski Leo Mayer Nolan Whalen Dennis Morrissey Kathy Carroll Michael Nees Roland Catenacci Joe Vitu Patti Whalen John Willson Wilmer Lasquite Lynn Siau Carla Milazzo Man to Man Men, please join us on Saturday, January 11, from 8am to 10am in Grace Hall at St Norbert. Our speaker will be Fr. Bob Lombardo, founder (at the request of Cardinal George) of the mission at Our Lady of the Angels Parish on the West Side of Chicago. Fr. Bob will share his personal insights of aspects of Pope Francis and his vision for the Church. Join us and bring a friend!! Catholic Charities First Look for Charity Zoom on over to First Look for Charity the exclusive preview night of the Chicago Auto Show taking place at McCormick Place in Chicago on February 13, Catholic Charities of Chicago s pre -event reception with Monsignor Michael M. Boland begins at 5:30 p.m. In our private suite, enjoy cocktails, gourmet food, musical entertainment, a silent auction and raffle. A special appearance will be made by Lauren Petty of NBC5 Chicago. (Continued on page 6)

6 Our Lady of the Brook Parish Northbrook, Illinois 6 ADULT FAITH FORMATION To grow in discipleship throughout life, all believers need and are called to build a vibrant parish and diocesan communities if faith and service. Such communities cannot exist without a strong, complete, and systematic catechesis for all its members. By complete and systematic we mean a catechesis that nurtures a profound, lifelong conversion of the whole person and sets forth a comprehensive, contemporary synthesis of the faith (Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us, the Bishops pastoral plan for adult faith formation) Adult faith formation is as diverse as retreats, days of reflection, sacramental preparation (baptism, confirmation, and marriage), ministerial formation, our parish mission, and our speaker series, as well as on-going scripture and catechetical study. Winter Ordinary Time Our Sunday Scripture reflection Who Do You Say that I Am? led by Dcn Dennis McAllister will continue on the first and second Sundays of each month at a new time and place beginning January 4, 2015 after the 10:00AM Mass at 11:30PM in the Library of the religious education wing. When we begin the new year, our adult faith formation offering will be Fr. Robert Barron s Untold Blessings: Three Paths to Holiness. Sessions will be on Thursdays, at 9:15AM and again at 7:00PM in the Mother Cabrini Room, beginning on January 8 and running through to February 19. Registration forms are on the wall racks and on our website. Our Greatest Gifts Speakers Series continues to evolve so that as speakers are lined up, we will announce their dates and topics. We hope you will enjoy the diversity of this year s offerings and will avail yourself of the opportunity as time and circumstances permit to attend one or more of our adult faith formation offerings. Dcn Peery Poverty Awareness Month In 2012, 14.5% of American households were food insecure. That means 1 in 5 children were unsure of when their next meal was coming. In Matthew s Gospel, Jesus tells his disciples, Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me. In these few words, Jesus invites us to live in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in order to honor Him. Matthew s Gospel moves the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) as they work to combat the threats that poverty poses and empower the poor through self-help programs. Are you moved too? You can help empower low-income persons during Poverty Awareness Month by taking part in the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). To learn more about CCHD, meet the grantees, hear their stories, participate in the CCHD Youth Art Contest and more, visit chicagopeaceandjustice.org/ poverty. Proceeds benefit our Maternity and Adoption programs and our Neighbors in Need Fund. Tickets are $250 per person. Be sure to select Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago when purchasing your ticket. The Auto Show floor opens from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. with live entertainment, cocktails, hors d oeuvres, an all-access pass to the premier display of vehicles and a chance to win a 2014 Toyota Highlander or 2014 Toyota Corolla. Tuxedo attire is mandatory. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit

7 Baptism of the Lord January 11, Religious Education & Youth Ministry Children s Liturgy of the Word Children s Liturgy of the Word is offered at the 10:00 AM Mass through June. This program is for children age 3 through grade 5. Liturgy of the Word for Children is an opportunity for families to attend Mass together, with children dismissed during the Liturgy of the Word to experience and learn about the readings with a community of other young people. OLB Women s Club Presents: Sunday, January 25 4:00 to 6:30 pm $5/person ($7 at door) $20/family ($25 at door) 50/50 Raffle, Live Entertainment & Much More! Tickets on sale weekend of Jan. 11, 18 and 25 St. Norbert Daddy- Daughter Dance Saturday, January 31, :30 9:00 pm in St. Norbert Gym Come and celebrate Valentine s Day with your favorite Valentine!! All ages welcomed! DJ Dancing-Flowers-Cupcakes $40.00 per couple / $20.00 per additional daughter Questions- please Ann Furby (amfurby@comcast.net) or Christine Jarka (jcjarka@comcast.net) Send check and names to St. Norbert School by Jan. 25

8 Our Lady of the Brook Parish Northbrook, Illinois 8 Theology of Park Ridge Warm Touch of the Spirit Jan. 14: Pauline Viviano, PhD, Assoc. Professor, Loyola University, A Gentle Breeze and Blazing Fire: The Spirit in the Bible Jan. 28: Kenneth J Brucks, Sr. Mgmt Analyst, H. U. D. Priesthood of Everybody Feb. 11: Rev. Richard Fragomeni, Professor at C.T.U. The Joy of the Gospel 2013, The Warm Touch of Pope Francis Fills the Pages of the Apostolic Exhortation To Register: send check for $35, payable to Theology of Park Ridge with name & address to : Mary Lou Murphy, 5813 N Nicolet, Chicago, IL Men & Women invited. $10 per single session. Located at Our Lady of Hope, 9711 W Devon Ave, Rosemont, IL Northbrook Premise Alert Program The Village of Northbrook Senior Services Commission offers a Premise Alert Program, a state program aimed at providing first responders with vital information for people with special needs. The Premise Alert Program allows people to notify police and fire departments about a family member who may require special assistance or treatment in an emergency at home. That could be a lifesaver for people who have autism, Alzheimer s, are blind, or paralyzed. Operators at 911 call centers will have access to the information and will share it with police, firefighters, and paramedics who respond to an emergency. Northbrook has the computer-aided dispatch technology necessary to make use of this program. The Parish Office has forms that may be used to enroll in the program. Return them to the Northbrook Police Dept. Or visit Wednesdays at 9:15 am. For more info, go to Adult Faith Formation at St. Catherine Laboure Forgiving Our Enemies with Dr. Kevin Embach, SJ from the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. Jesus forgives his enemies even as they seem to triumph over him, and calls us to follow his example. Learn how to forgive our enemies, to ask for forgiveness, and to forgive ourselves. Sunday, Jan. 11 from noon to 1:30 pm at St. Catherine Laboure, 3535 Thornwood, in Glenview. (847) No charge for this event. Refreshments will be served.