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1 St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord November 20, 2016 Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe today you will be with me in Luke 23:43 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: Jonathan Rivera saintlambertsyouthchurch@ gmail.com To Register as a Parishioner: Call the rectory or us. Baptisms: Third Sundays of the month at 1:30 pm. Please call the rectory for guidelines and more information Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication. Send to: debbie.stlambert@ aol.com.

2 Page 2 Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Nov. 20, 2016 Masses for the Week Saturday, November 19 5:00 Frank Niewiadomski Sunday, November 20 8:00 People of St. Lambert 10:00 Luz Tumang 12:00 Gary Charlton Monday, November 21 7:15 Attilio De Franceschi Tuesday, November 22 7:15 Claudia Cuellar Wednesday, November 23 7:15 Juan Bernardo Cuellar Thursday, Thanksgiving November 24 10:00 Angel & Lourdes Mil Friday, November 25 7:15 Rev, Jacques Hemel, Martyred and Rev. Tom Uzhunnalil Saturday, November 26 8:00 Theresa O Shea & Ramon Merin 5:00 Frank Gazzolo Sunday, November 27 8:00 People of St. Lambert 10:00 Sullivan Family 12:00 Violet Gattuso 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. Prices range from $5 to $40. Benefiting the Women s Center READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Rv 14:1-3, 4b-5; Ps 24:1bc-4ab, 5-6; Lk 21:1-4 Tuesday: Rv 14:14-19; Ps 96:10-13; Lk 21:5-11 Wednesday: Rv 15:1-4; Ps 98:1-3ab, 7-9; Lk 21:12-19 Thursday: Rv 18:1-2, 21-23; 19:1-3, 9a; Ps 100:1b-5; Lk 21:20-28 Thanksgiving Day (suggested): Sir 50:22-24; Ps 145:2-11; 1 Cor 1:3-9; Lk 17:11-19 Friday: Rv 20:1-4, 11 21:2; Ps 84:3-6a, 8a; Lk 21:29-33 Saturday: Rv 22:1-7; Ps 95:1-7ab; Lk 21:34-36 Sunday: Is 2:1-5; Ps 122:1-9; Rom 13:11-14; Mt 24:37-44 Sunday Offertory Collection November 5/6: Envelopes: $ 7, Loose: 1, Total: $ 8, Youth Church: $ For online Giving go to: Front Cover: Titian (c ), Jesus Christ and the Good Thief, c. 1563

3 St. Lambert Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3 St. Lambert Church 2017 DAILY CALENDAR RAFFLE PURPOSE: Saint Lambert Parking Lot Repair HOW IT WORKS Cost - $25 per calendar raffle booklet Winning raffle booklet number are put back in the hopper. 365 opportunities to win for every one booklet purchased. Winning booklets for the week will be pulled on Sundays (prior to the week) and will be posted weekly in the Parish website and published in the Parish bulletin the following week. Checks are mailed weekly to winners by St Lambert. PRIZES * $50 Monday through Saturday (Jan 2 Dec 30, 2017) * $100 Weekly Sunday (Other than the 1 st Sunday of the Month) * $500 Every 1 st Sunday of the Month 1 st REGULAR DRAWING BEGIN December 26, 2016 for the week of January 1 to 7, 2017 A Gift That Keeps On Giving 8148 Karlov Avenue ~ Skokie, Illinois Telephone: (847) ~ Fax: (847) Website:

4 Page 4 Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Nov. 20, 2016 The Reverend Know-it-all What I don t know I can always make up! I was a part time hippie and a fashionable socialist. I actually owned a Mao jacket and the Little Red Book of the Saying of Chairman Mao. I marched in protest. I sat in protest and I played the guitar in protest. I slept on the floor. I tried to be a vegetarian. I was partial to Trotsky, but I think that was really about the cool glasses he wore. I actually leafletted for feminism. I was an idiot. I snapped out of it when the peace committee at my college had a huge fight between the violently non-violent and the nonviolently non-violent. (I took the side of the nonviolently nonviolent.) I was also dallying with interesting religions at the time and ended up in a Pentecostal prayer group at the same time that I was giving up on political activism. I found out that prayer works a whole lot better than community organizing. It seems inevitable that today s liberators are tomorrow s tyrants. You can t have a just society without just citizens. The conversion of the citizen is the only way to change a nation. We, the clergy of the sixties, blew it. We failed utterly. I spent my early ministry pre- and post- ordination on the Puerto Rican west side. We had a huge youth prayer group, four or five hundred teenagers. They weren t all saints, by any means. It was a great place to meet girls. The gangs would actually wait to kill people coming out of the prayer group. There were prayer meetings that exited to gunfire. I was too dumb to know how dangerous it was, and what was really going on in the back pews. Now it s 40 years later. I don t hear much about Puerto Rican gangs on the west side anymore. I hear about Puerto Rican accountants, attorneys, electricians, mechanics and secretaries. What happened? A lot of things, but one thing that I know happened for many was conversion. There were so many different groups all pushing for conversion to Christ. We used to hold youth rallies that would attract a thousand kids. We would work out truces with the gangs so kids could pass over gang boundaries for the weekend. We had no budgets, and not much organization, but we fed and entertained a thousand kids for whole weekends. The highlight of the rally always came when a thousand kids surged forward to accept Jesus as their personal Lord and savior. It was hokey, tears and slobber and people walking around with Kleenex boxes. It was about as theologically deep as a puddle. It had all the decorum and dignity of a clown car. The Saul Alinsky, Carl Rogers trained clergy of the neighborhood were appalled and did their best to put an end to it. This unbalanced and overly emotional sort of thing was dangerous and certainly not Catholic as far as they were concerned. So, a lot of these kids went unpastored after their conversion and a lot of them joined protestant Pentecostal churches that were happy to shepherd them. Some drifted back into old ways, but they could never quite forget their encounter with Christ and now, 40 years later as I look back at that time that has absorbed so much of my life and energy, it occurs to me that, on a certain level, it worked. To find out that God was real and that Jesus loved them broke the cycle of poverty and violence for many of them. We never told them that society had messed them up. We told them that sin had messed them up and that they could repent and Christ would accept them. The Latin community that I knew was torn by marital instability, violence, alcohol, substance abuse, gambling and prostitution. When someone experienced a conversion, especially in a fundamentalist church, it was the end of gambling, the end of wasting money on the botanicas (voodoo stores) the end of smoking, drinking, gambling, etc. Automatically, a person who underwent a conversion and was socialized into one of the strict store front churches was suddenly richer,

5 St. Lambert Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 safer and more involved with their families. I won t say that they were all happily-ever-after-stories, but they certainly were not sad-and- hopeless-ever -after stories. The local Catholic pastors, and their fundraising efforts never seemed to mind drinking, smoking and bingo in the basement. That sort of thing kept the schools open. I have no objection to a dance or a Las Vegas night or any of that stuff when its purpose is to bring people together as a family, especially in a community that isn t enslaved by all that, but when slowly, quietly become the main focus of the institution; it ceases to be a religious institution. Well, guess what? We have to close a lot of things, and my suspicion is that back in the grand old sixties if we the clergy had been what the Lord had wanted and not so much a community organizing group, we would not be facing this kind of current mess. CATHOLIC CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (CCHD) Open to me the gates of justice; I will enter them and give thanks to the Lord Psalm 118:19 CCHD empowers the poor by funding organizations that: Increase access to affordable housing Work towards criminal justice reform Advocate for the right of seniors, workers, immigrants, and people with disabilities. Please support the CCHD in todays second collection To be continued We at St Lambert will collect Christmas gifts for the children of Most Holy Trinity Parish in Waukegan. We will have individual lists with the age, boy 0r girl, and size if clothing. We will also collect non-perishable food, and clothing (new or gently used) for St Thomas of Canterbury. Please see Joanne Bookstein or George Mohrlein for more information. Your generosity, as in past years is greatly appreciated. We will collect these gifts on the weekend of December 3 rd & 4 th and 10th & 11th Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Young Women and the Word Wednesday, Decmebr 14, 7-9 pm. Connect with other women of faith. Hear God s voice in your life. Find your center. Join women, ages 18-50, for an evening of scripture, prayer, and refreshments. Explore the bible through Lec o Divina, a Benedic ne prayer tradi on, and discover God s guidance for your life! Group led by Sister Belinda Monahan, a Benedic ne Sister and Archaeologist. St. Scholas ca Monastery, 7430 N. Ridge Blvd, Chicago. Near public transporta on. Free parking. More info: osbchicago.org/word Sign-up:

6 Page 6 Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Nov. 20, 2016 Featuring Cabaret Artists Kevin Wood, Carla Gordon, Amy Stoner, Beckie Menzie and Tom Michael St. Lambert Senior Activities Club Invite you & your friends to the 2016 Christmas Celebration on December 7th (Wednesday) at the White Eagle, 6839 N. Milwuakee Ave. in Niles. Dinner & Show for $ For more information o r reservations call Frances Napoleon or Rosalie Genovaldi The Coffee hour will be hosted next week by Betty Kovathana and she can be reached at Your participation and baked goods are always appreciated! In Everything Please join the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Chicago for our Inaugural Jingle Bell Walk on Saturday, December 3, In its first year, we are expecting over 1,000 walkers to join in the holiday cheer. The Jingle Bell Walk will feature a 3K through Lincoln Park with choirs caroling along the way, hot chocolate and fresh cookies, kid's crafts, a special visit from Santa, and view of the zoo and city holiday lights. Net proceeds will go to alleviating poverty among the poor, cold and hungry during the holiday season Sign up today at

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