St. Lambert Parish. Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord. Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 31, Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon

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1 But God said to him, You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared? St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 31, 2016 Luke 12:20 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 St. Lambert Parish 18th Sunday Ordinary Time Masses for the Week Saturday, July 30 5:00 Karla Anderberg Sunday, July 31 8:00 People of St Lambert 10:00 Edward & Ellen Ringhofer 12:00 Donna Mohrlein Monday, August 1 7:15 Barbra, John & Mary Lux Tuesday, August 2 7:15 Cathrine Gafin & Nellie Henegan Wednesday, August 3 7:15 Richard Sala Thursday, August 4 7:15 Teresa Guain Friday, August 5 7:15 Desmond & Sarath Gunawardana Dunstan & Bridget Fernando Wedding Anniversary Saturday, August 6 8:00 John & Maureen Cederborg 5:00 Anthony Wojciechowski Sunday, Aug 7 8:00 People of St Lambert 10:00 Milisa Mil, In Thanksgiving 12:00 Luz Bilag Sunday Offertory Collection July 16/17, 2016 Envelopes: $ 4, Loose: 1, Total: $ 6, For Online Giving: Thank you for your continued support! READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Jer 28:1-17; Ps 119:29, 43, 79, 80, 95, 102; Mt 14:13-21 Tuesday: Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22; Ps 102:16-21, 29, 22-23; Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, Wednesday: Jer 31:1-7; Jer 31:10, 11-12ab, 13; Mt 15:21-28 Thursday: Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:12-15, 18-19; Mt 16:13-23 Friday: July 31, 2016 Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. Psalm 90:12 Na 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7; Dt 32:35cd-36ab, 39abcd, 41; Mt 16:24-28 Saturday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9; 2 Pt 1:16-19; Lk 9:28b-36 Sunday: Wis 18:6-9; Ps 33:1, 12, 18-22; Hb 11:1-2, 8-19 [1-2, 8-12]; Lk 12:32-48 [35-40] The Coffee Hour will be hosted next week by the FFOS and the contact person is Lily Syfu. Your donations are welcome. You can reach her at Come join us for coffee and fellowship! HITTING IT BIG It seems to be commonly accepted nowadays that everyone wants to win the lottery, hit the slots big at the casino, or be a millionaire. This attitude is akin to what the first hearers of the parable of the successful farmer would have thought: Why, of course he d want to find a way to preserve his good fortune for the future, to secure for himself a life of leisure, eating, drinking, and merriment. It s exactly the kind of life that the right ticket, hand of cards, or quiz show answer might bring us today. Being surrounded by this common wisdom makes the words of Qoheleth, the psalmist, Paul, and Jesus all that much harder to hear today. Perhaps good fortune will be ours, perhaps it will not be. But if we make that fortune or the quest for it the heart, the very center, of our lives, then we will live to regret it. We will not achieve the future security we pursue, and we will lose the present moment in the chase. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co.

3 Come One, Come All and share in the Family Fun! Food, Drinks and a Raffle with a Grand Prize of $5,000! Kids Games and... Live Music! Where? St. Lambert Parking Lot 8148 Karlov Ave., Skokie, IL Urban Rhythm 4-5 pm Reggae, Caribbean & Soul andi and i 3-4pm Jazz, Folk & Soul The Pawnshop Band 6-8pm Dance, Pop & Soul

4 Page 4 St. Lambert Parish 18th Sunday Ordinary Time Walk-Wiffle-Bike: September 11, 2016 Join us on Sunday, September 11, 2016 for our Pro-Life Challenge: Walk-Wiffle-Bike. This year s event includes a Wiffle Ball tournament complete with trophies. Everyone is invited to participate in all the activities regardless of age or expertise. Participants will receive T-shirts, snacks, a picnic lunch and a chance to win fun prizes. This year s event will take place at two locations: North: Caldwell Woods (Devon & Milwaukee, Chicago) South: St. Alexander Parish (126 th & 71 st Ave, Palos Heights) For complete details, download our Pro-Life Challenge flyer and registration form. Or you can register online now by visiting our Fundeasy page at

5 July 31, 2016 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 The Reverend Know-it-all What I don t know I can always make up! Dear Rev. Know it all, Why does the Catholic Church oppose science, and why did the Catholic Church torment poor innocent Galileo who was just sta ng the facts? Yours, Cyrus Si N. Tifique Dear Si, You are almost as mistaken as was Galileo. Allow me to reproduce here one of the most cogent and brief explana ons of the Galileo/Va can silliness I have ever received. The Big Lie is everywhere that the Church fears science and that she shut-up a heroic scien st. Never mind Nicolaus Copernicus dedica on to Pope Paul III in his De revolu onibus orbium coeles um (On the Revolu ons of the Heavenly Spheres, (1543). And that Copernicus's work was used in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII to reform the calendar. Now, we know that today, everybody is an expert! As they d say back in the shtetl, A dog without teeth will also a ack a bone. Okay, in brief: Galileo lied to the Pope. He first promised to not publish his work un l he could correct a few but large mathema cal errors. Then he went ahead and published his work without emenda ons. He knew that there were flaws in his theory; but he was sure his supposi on was true. He lacked evidence to prove that the Earth had both rota on and transla on mo ons. He was able to show some flaws in the full geocentric model, and he did leave us a legacy of observa onal astronomy; but he did not prove that Earth rotates on its axis or revolves around the Sun; nor did he even answer the arguments against those posi ons that had been well-known for 2000 years. Pythagoreans suggested heliocentrism 2000 years prior to Galileo, but he offered no reason beyond numinous clap-trap in its defense. Aristotle had rebuffed the Pythagorean idea for the same reason that, centuries later, the Church would hold in abeyance Galileo s: it lacked necessary evidence to support it. I hold that Galileo is remembered and celebrated by academic circles less for his contribu ons to knowledge than for his usefulness as an -Catholic propaganda. Consider Galileo s higher standing in academia against that of Tycho Brahe, and his student Johannes Kepler, who far more ought to be known and read in schoolbooks. Galileo's own argument for heliocentrism was grounded in the des: Earth moves since water moves. Can one think of a more laughably inadequate stab at proof? For one thing, it proves li le and for another it falls apart as a theory. Galileo dismissed the sugges on that the des' mo on was due to the moon, as put forth by (Saint) Thomas Aquinas and Tycho's student Johannes Kepler. Consider the case of Galileo versus Galileo, and that the man never saw the contradic on. On one hand he considered that ocean des might be the consequence the Earth's rota on. He dismissed as astrology sugges ons that des were influenced by the moon. Yet, his theory ran counter to his be er arguments concerning why we cannot feel the rota on of the Earth. Even if one insists against facts that there had been any fault of Rome s in the Galileo Pope Urban VIII controversy, the ma er serves to point out an anomaly and not a pa ern. No related experience preceded or ensued. So you see, the church wasn t going to bless Galileo s theory un l he could prove it. Why wouldn t they take a leap, and why were they so hard on Galileo? Simple: the world was being torn apart by religious war that masqueraded as religious reform. Italy and Spain were free from the wars of religion that ravage Germany, France, England and Holland. The reformers were governed by the principle of sola scriptura (bible alone). To call the common understanding of Scripture into ques on without adequate proof was invi ng the chaos that was destroying northern Europe. The Church told Galileo to calm down un l he could prove (Continued on page 6)

6 Page 6 St. Lambert Parish 18th Sunday Ordinary Time (Continued from page 5) his theories, lest they lead to social chaos. Galileo stamped his feet like a two year old and said NO! I m right even though I can t prove it. I don t care who dies or lives. The church has always encouraged real science. Most recently, the discoverer of the Big Bang was a Catholic priest, Georges-Henri Lemaitre. The church has always been suppor ve of learning, but has resisted pseudo-sciences like the pseudo-science of 19 th century Darwinism which laid the ground work for Nazism and the Holocaust, or the social pseudoscience of Marxist-Leninism which murdered and enslaved untold millions. Then, of course, there is the pseudo-science of Freudianism which has convinced the world that it is not to blame for the chaos of the present age. Or how about the latest pseudo-science of gender studies? How much harm will that do before we come to our senses? You like science? Science is an unmi gated good? Tell that to the dead and wounded in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tell that to the ghosts of the Nazi Holocaust, the Nazis were very scien fic. They made a true science of genocide. Science unleashed without a soul is not necessarily a blessing. Yours, The Rev. Know it all AROUND THE ARCHDIOCES: BENEFITS Third Annual Old Irving Park Beer & BBQ Challenge: Aug. 1, 1-5 p.m. in the St. Viator parking lot, 3644 N. Kedvale Ave.; 18 barbecue teams, 36 local craft brews; admission gets one sample of each and chance to vote on winners; general admission $55 in advance, $65 at gate; VIP admission (enter at noon, mingle with celebrity judges) $80 in advance, $90 at gate; proceeds benefit St. Viator parish and school; tickets available at Let s Dance: Aug. 20, 6:30-11 p.m., St. Benedict High School Gym; 3941 N. Bell Ave.; $35 includes sandwiches, sides and soft drinks; wine and beer available at cash bar; register at Alumni.StBenedict.com/Lets-Dance/ call Benjamin Mazzone at or BMazzone@StBenedict.com with questions. Society of St. Vincent de Paul Chicago - Please Support Our Thrift Stores! Our thrift stores are a blessing to the community providing employment opportunities, volunteer and community service hours, and affordable clothing, furniture, electronics, appliances, and much more for those with a limited budget. Thrift store donations and proceeds support many of our programs and services including our Emergency Voucher Program a source of hope for those who are unable to purchase basic necessities such as back to school clothing or pots and pans to prepare meals. Not sure what to donate? Here's a list of essential items: Microwaves, coffee makers, blenders, mixers, can openers Musical instruments, radios, clocks and clock radios Pots and pans, dishes, china, silverware Jewelry Children s clothing Kitchen tables and chairs, dining tables and chairs Sofas, recliners, living room chairs Dressers and Chest of Drawers Back-to-school supplies and clothing Thrift Store Donations may be dropped off at: 1125 S. Milwaukee Avenue, Libertyville Mon-Sat: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun: 11 a.m.-4 p.m Delta Parkway, Schiller Park Mon-Fri: 9a.m.-1:30 p.m. To schedule a FREE furniture pick-up, call (773) , ext. 1. Financial donations to offset thrift store operations and building maintenance costs are always needed and appreciated! Visit svdpchicago.org to make a secure online donation today. Thank you and God bless. P.S. Last year, we served more than 215,000 hours and traveled nearly 235,000 miles to help the needy. Please consider traveling with us. Call (773) or visit to learn how you can help your neighbors in need through membership, volunteerism or donations.

7 Parable of the rich fool And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.' "Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry."' "But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' "This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God." Luke 12:16-21 Help me find the words!