St. Lambert Parish. Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord. September 20, Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL Phone:(847)

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1 St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord September 20, 2015 Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL Phone:(847) St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL saintlambert@aol.com Website: 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 saintlambert@aol.com Rev. Know-it-all: Deacon: Mr. Chick O Leary Music Director: Mr. Steven Folkers Ministry of Care: Mrs. Carol Glueckert (847) Office Staff: Mr. George Mohrlein Debbie Morales-Garcia, debie.stlambert@aol.com 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. Please call the rectory to register. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Religious Education : Fr. Richard Simon saintlambertsyouthchurch@gmail.com To Register as a Parishioner: Call the rectory or us. For Online Giving: Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received at the rectory office 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication. If possible submissions should be in electronic format and send to debbie.stlambert@aol.com. Thank you.

2 Page 2 St. Lambert Parish 25th Ordinary Sunday September 20, 2015 The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who cultivate peace. James 3:18 Masses for the week Saturday, September19 5:00 In Thanksgiving, Dave & Virginia Radler Sunday, September 20 8:00 People of St. Lambert 10:00 Bernard & Fernanda Rago 12:00 Gary Charlton Monday, September 21 7:15 Mary Krackenberger Tuesday, September 22 7:15 Edwin Don Lopez Wednesday, September 23 7:15 Abigail Tumang Birthday Thursday, September 24 7:15 Sarath Gunawardana Friday, September 25 7:15 For the Grandchildren of Donna & George Saturday, September 26 8:00 In Thanksgiving, John s Birthday 5:00 Bernard & Fernanda Rago Sunday, September 27 8:00 People of St. Lambert 10:00 Teresa Dulay 12:00 Mary Krackenberger Support our seminarians as they prepare to become your future priests. Consider giving to Chicago s excellent seminary system....if a young man has felt in his heart the desire to be a priest...it is God who planted that seed. -Pope Francis Second Collec on Next weekend. Come and Join Us in Celebrating The Feast Day of San Lorenzo Ruiz De Manila & San Pedro Calungsod September 26, :00 pm Mass St. Lambert Church Sunday Offertory Collection for Aug 29/30, 2015 Envelopes: $5, Loose: 2, Total: $7, The Coffee Hour will be hosted next week by our Pro Life Committee and the contact person is Mary Ann O Kane. She can be reached at Your contributions of baked goods are very much appreciated! In preparation for the feast day of San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila & San Pedro Calungsod, a daily novena will be held from September 17 at 7pm and September at 6:45 pm (Sept. 23rd novena after the Mother of Perpetual Help novena)

3 St. Lambert Parish 8148 N Karlov, Skokie, IL th Annual Patristics Seminar Saturday, October 24, :30 am to 4:00 pm Learning to Pray from The Church Fathers Mike Aquilina Matthew Leonard Prayer is at the heart of the Christian life. In the Gospels, Jesus models prayer for us and in his epistles St. Paul instructed us to...pray always. Noted author and patristics scholar, Mike Aquilina together with Executive Director of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology Matthew Leonard will examine what the Fathers of the Church have to teach us about prayer. Mike Aquilina is author or editor of more than forty books, including The Fathers of the Church, The Mass of the Early Christians, and Angels of God. He has co-authored books with Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dion DiMucci, theologian Scott Hahn, and singer-songwriter John Michael Talbot, among others. Matthew Leonard is a Catholic blogger, author, speaker, and former Evangelical missionary who converted to Catholicism in He is the author of Louder Than Words: The Art of Living as a Catholic, and Prayer Works! Getting a Grip on Catholic Spirituality. He blogs at MatthewSLeonard.com and hosts a podcast on itunes titled, The Art of Catholic. Together, Matthew Leonard and Mike Aquilina help guide the St. Paul Institute for Biblical Theology founded by Dr. Scott Hahn, as Executive Director and Executive Vice-president/Trustee, respectively. This is the 6th year of the St. Lambert Patristics Seminar inaugurated by Fr. Richard Simon and Mike Aquilina to make people more aware of the rich tradition inherited from the early Church. $25 cost includes lunch For further information or to register contact: St. Lambert Parish at , or Deacon Chick O Leary at Schedule of the day SATURDAY, October 24, :00 a.m. Mass (optional) 8:30 a.m. Check-in/Registration 9:15 a.m. Father Richard Simon: Invocation and Introduction 9:30 am Matt Leonard: "The Old School: Progress in Prayer According to the Church Fathers" 10:45am Mike Aquilina: "Through Hymns, With Hymns, In Hymns: How the Choir Converted the World" 12:00 pm LUNCH 1:00 pm Matt Leonard: "Love Letters: The Early Christians Prayed the Scriptures -- Do You?" 2:15 pm Mike Aquilina: "Mother to the Fathers: Marian Devotion in the Early Church" 3:15 pm Panel Discussion: Father Richard Simon, Matt Leonard, Mike Aquilina

4 Page 4 St. Lambert Parish 25th Ordinary Sunday The Reverend Know-it-all What I don t know I can always make up! Le er to Calvin Mar n con nued... Last week I le off with the Luther quote It is not forbidden that a man should have more than one wife. Luther said this for a very specific reason. In 1523 Phillip the Fair, Duke of Hesse, married Chris ne of Saxony, daughter of Frederick of Saxony. Remember him, Mar n Luther s first protector who hid Mar n in the Wartburg Castle? She was as ugly as the back side of a mud fence and a heavy drinker. This was not a problem for Phillip, an aristocrat; there were plenty of women available. S ll, the whole thing was bothersome. Luther said that Phillip was living in sin and thus could not receive communion. Phillip was grieved in conscience, but he couldn t just dump the daughter of the duke of Saxony. One of Luther s collaborators, Phillip Melanchthon came up with a novel solu on that he thought might apply just as well to Henry VIII of England. Why couldn t the King of England or Phillip the Fair or another rich important person have more than one wife? A er all, the patriarchs and kings in the Bible had busloads of wives. Hadn t Doktor Luther said as much? Armed with this deep spiritual insight, Phillip the Fair decided to marry the daughter of one of his sister's ladies-in-wai ng, Margarethe von der Saale. Margarethe hesitated. She wanted to hear from theologians as well as Philip s first wife and her family back in Saxony. Philip s first wife, Chris ne was fine with the arrangement as was her family, probably glad to have the old sot living elsewhere. The Lutheran theologians were hesitant. A er all Luther, like HenryVIII of England disputed the pope s right to give dispensa ons. Now Philip the Fun Loving wanted a dispensa on to have two wives. Bucer, another collaborator of Luther s understood Phillip s logical argument that Phillip would ally himself with the Catholic Emperor if the Protestant theologians didn t agree to the marriage, and the new religion would be toast. The Wi enberg theologians wisely acceded to the Duke s finely cra ed arguments. Mar n the brave, Mar n who probably didn t say at the Diet of Worms, Here I stand I can do no other! acquiesced, but told Phillip to keep it a secret. Having secured the secret advice of a confessor namely Luther and Melanchthon, Philip married wife number two on March 4, A few weeks later Philip's sister spilled the beans and the scandal ran through Germany like beer through a German. Luther, refused to admit his part in the mess, claiming that it was a ma er of the seal of confession. Apparently Luther could s ll be Catholic went he wanted to be. A er all, he had warned Phillip that, When it comes to wri ng, I shall be quite competent to wriggle out of it and to leave your Grace in the lurch. In other words Luther was smart enough not to leave a paper trail. The dodge didn t work. Luther lost the leadership of the reforma on to John Calvin, the disciple of Luther s arch enemy Huldrych Zwingli, who became the rising star of the protestant revolt. Most protestant and so called non- denomina onal churches trace their roots back to Calvin, not to Luther. Lutheranism is a rela vely small part of modern Chris anity. There are probably around 100 million Lutherans in the world. There are 1billion 200 million Catholics in the world. The other 6 or 700 million Protestants in the world are various muta ons of Calvinism. I have already men oned Luther s humility. I would like to revisit the topic. He once humbly said, What I teach and write remains true even though the whole world should fall to pieces over it. He had no idea how prophe c these words would be. In his tract, On War Against the Turk, Luther is far less cri cal of the Muslim Turks than he is of the Pope, whom he calls an an -Christ, or the Jews, whom he describes as the Devil incarnate. Chris anity has fractured into a myriad of sects, some large some small. Luther weakened Europe just as the Caliphs of Islam were about to overwhelm her. Were it not for the steadfastness of the Hapsburgs and Spain and especially the bravery of the Poles, all of the women in Europe would be wearing burkas and walking behind their husbands. All the depreca on of marriage and women, all the polygamy and violence would not have bothered Luther one li le bit,

5 September 20, 2015 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 thought the Islamic prohibi on against alcohol might have been difficult for him, despite his many tea totaling followers, Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer! A couple more Luther quotes: I am but a man prone to let himself be swept off his feet by society, drunkenness, and the movements of the flesh. And, Why, do you think, do I drink too much wine...? It is when the Devil prepares to torment me and mock me and I wish to take the lead. In a couple of years, the man will be lionized, but he sounds more like Raspu n than Christ. In Luther are laid the seeds of our current disaster, the redefini on of the family, a private, self-serving morality and all the rest. Our licen ous age finds its parent in Luther Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where jus ce resides No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of mes each day. Europe is dying. It was Luther who killed it. The terminal illness was made obvious by the German Na onalism that caused the Franco Prussian war when the Prussian Lutherans and Calvinist tried to make an empire. It matured in the First World War and finally exploded in an orgy of hatred, murder and racism in the Nazi madness which gripped the German speaking peoples in the middle of the 20 th century. Hitler and his Nazis skillfully used Luther s an -Semi sm to inflame an en re people to insanity. These are Luther quotes, not Hitler quotes: My advice, as I said earlier, is: First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss sulfur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire Second, that all their books their prayer books, their Talmudic wri ngs, also the en re Bible be taken from them, not leaving them one leaf, and that these be preserved for those who may be converted Third, that they be forbidden on pain of death to praise God, to give thanks, to pray, and to teach publicly among us and in our country Fourth, that they be forbidden to u er the name of God within our hearing. For we cannot with a good conscience listen to this or tolerate it He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authori es, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away. (Mar n Luther; On the Jews and Their Lies). It sounds a lot like Kristallnacht, when the Nazis burned the synagogues and the scrolls. Mar n con nues, Burn their synagogues. Forbid them all that I have men oned above. Force them to work and treat them with every kind of severity, as Moses did in the desert and slew three thousand If that is no use, we must drive them away like mad dogs, in order that we may not be partakers of their abominable blasphemy and of all their vices, and in order that we may not deserve the anger of God and be damned with them. I have done my duty. Let everyone see how he does his. I am excused. and If I had to bap ze a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone round his neck and push him over with the words I bap ze thee in the name of Abraham. The Jews deserve to be hanged on gallows seven mes higher than ordinary thieves. Doktor Luther wrote the prescrip on for the death camps of the Nazi monsters. Hitler was the pharmacist who filled the prescrip on. So what will I be doing to celebrate Reforma on day 2017? I suppose I will be hiding under my bed saying the Rosary. Yours, The Rev. Know it all Join us in Celebrating the Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima on October 10, 2015 at the 5 pm Mass. The Mass will conclude with an outdoor candlelight vigil. In preparation for the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima a daily novena will be held from October 1 to October 9 at 6:45 pm (Oct 3rd novena after the 8 am mass & Oct 7th after the OMPH novena)

6 Chicago 40 Days For Life Location: The Albany Medical Surgical Center (FPA) 5086 N. Elston Ave., Chicago Opening Ceremony: Wednesday, September 23 at 7pm Mass across the street from Clinic Hours: Beginning September 24 12:01 a.m. to Midnight (every day) Local Contact: Theresa or taj3047@att.net For more information, visit: 40daysforlife.com/Chicago

7 September 20, 2015 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7 READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Eph 4:1-7, 11-13; Ps 19:2-5; Mt 9:9-13 Tuesday: Ezr 6:7-8, 12b, 14-20; Ps 122:1-5; Lk 8:19-21 Wednesday: Ezr 9:5-9; Tb:13:2, 3-4abefghn, 7-8; Lk 9:1-6 Thursday: Hg 1:1-8; Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b; Lk 9:7-9 Friday: Hg 2:1-9; Ps 43:1-4; Lk 9:18-22 Saturday: Zec 2:5-9, 14-15a; Jer 31:10-12ab, 13; Lk 9:43b-45 Sunday: Nm 11:25-29; Ps 19:8, 10, 12-14; Jas 5:1-6; Mk 9:38-43, 45, This October our church will be participating in the Baby Bottle Project benefiting The Women s Centers. This non-profit organization directly assists mothers and families experiencing crisis pregnancies by offering emotional, financial, material, and spiritual support through counseling, clothing & monetary provisions, prayer, and other aid. Please take a Baby Bottle home with you from the church on October 3rd /4th, fill it with your spare change, and return it the weekend of October 25th.