Do Not Be Afraid. February 7, 2016 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Religious Education : Jonathan Rivera gmail.

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1 St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Do Not Be Afraid Luke 5:10 February 7, 2016 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Rectory 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL Phone:(847) St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL saintlambert@aol.com Website: Sunday Masses: (5 PM Saturday) 8am, 10am, 12pm Weekday Masses: 7:15 am (Mon-Fri) 8:00am on Sat. Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon saintlambert@aol.com Rev. Know-it-all: 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 Ministry of Care: Mrs. Carol Glueckert (847) To Register as a Parishioner of St Lambert, please call the rectory or us. For Online Giving: Confessions: Saturday at 8:30am Baptisms: Third Sundays of the month at 1:30 pm. Baptismal Prep Class is the first Tuesday of each month at the rectory. Please call to register. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication. Send electronic formats to debbie.stlambert@aol.com.

2 Page 2 St. Lambert Parish 5th Sunday Ordinary Time Masses for the Week Saturday, February 6 5:00 Filomena & Gregorio Carnero Sunday, February 7 8:00 Adeline Kizior 10:00 Soledad Gastardo 12:00 People of St Lambert Monday, February 8 7:15 Chau Tran Tuesday, February 9 7:15 Chau Tran Ash Wednesday, February 10 7:15 Ray Garcia 7:00 John Joseph Seibert Thursday, February 11 7:15 Irma Lemithe Birthday Friday, February 12 7:15 Kay Holzmeister, God s Blessing Saturday, February 13 8:00 Irene Puno, In Thanksgiving 5:00 Ann Taylor Sunday, February 14 8:00 People of St Lambert 10:00 Blessings & Good Health, Krystyna Gotebiowski 12:00 Mary Krackenberger Keep forgetting your offertory envelope? Why not use GiveCentral? GiveCentral is a way for donors to give easily to non profit organizations. GiveCentral is not only convenient for you, it the lowers cost for a non-profit organization to collect credit card, debit card and electronic checking payments online. If you have not signed up for electronic giving please consider doing so. It is painless and quick, so go givecentral.org Your Offertory Envelopes can be found in the vestibule of the Church. If newly Registered and/or have a change of information; please fill out forms found on the table and drop it in the collection basket. St. Lambert s Gophers St. Lambert Parish is ready to launch it s newest group: St. Lambert s Gophers! Our group consists of volunteers from our parish family. The group s mission is to provide aid and companionship to our needed parishioners. Rest in Peace Donna Jean Mohrlein Saint Lambert Senior Activity Club We will meet this Thursday, February 11th in Robert's hall at 11:30 am for Friendship Valentine lunch and Bingo We will have details on our February 27th trip to Horseshoe Casino. Are you homebound and need a ride to church? Do you have a need for someone to take you to a doctor? Would you like help with picking up basic groceries or prescriptions? Too much snow on the ground in the winter? Overgrown weeds in the summer? How about someone to visit, chat and pray with you? If you or someone you know needs this kind of help, call St. Lambert s rectory (847) and request a gopher. For more information, please contact the rectory or Pablo Montero (847)

3 February 7, 2016 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3 I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth. Psalm 138:1 READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Kgs 8:1-7, 9-13; Ps 132:6-7, 8-10; Mk 6:53-56 Tuesday: 1 Kgs 8:22-23, 27-30; Ps 84:3-5, 10-11; Mk 7:1-13 Wednesday: Jl 2:12-18; Ps 51:3-6ab, 12-14, 17; 2 Cor 5:20 6:2; Mt 6:1-6, Thursday: Dt 30:15-20; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 9:22-25 Friday: Is 58:1-9a; Ps 51:3-6ab, 18-19; Mt 9:14-15 Saturday: Is 58:9b-14; Ps 86:1-6; Lk 5:27-32 Sunday: Dt 26:4-10; Ps 91:1-2, 10-15; Rom 10:8-13; Lk 4:1-13 TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION As the Roman Empire shattered and collapsed, the bishops were the people best equipped to catch the falling stones. In the West (that s us), they sought to stabilize society by weaving a structure of laws and courts to uphold the rights and dignity of married couples in a chaotic world. The bishops in the East had a different approach, even allowing the dissolution of marriages in certain cases. To an extent, the bishops took a measure of control away from the fathers of families in order to provide pastoral care for those who suffered most in the social collapse: women and children. In the West, much of the marriage law was contained in the penitential books the bishops devised to regulate the lives of public sinners. In the seventh century, Theodore of Canterbury s penitential book said that he had the power to give consent to remarriage in the case of a poor fellow whose wife had been carried off by the Vikings. If the Vikings subsequently brought her back, she could remarry, too! No bishop ever made peace with divorce, but there was never a time when the pastoral concern of the church was not struggling with how to care for people in unhappy situations. Rev. James Field, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. The Women s Center In our na on about 1 million abor ons are performed each year. The babies aren t the only vic ms of abor on. The other vic ms are their mothers, who in many cases were pressured into the abor on. Sooner or later they experience horrible grief and depression. At The Women s Centers we try to help women struggling with a problem pregnancy and save them from grieving later. Save the date: Saturday, February 13, 2016 is the date for our 31st Life Banquet. We are excited to announce our keynote speaker is Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood Director, now 100% pro-life. The banquet will be at Belvedere Banquets in Elk Grove, IL. The super price for the banquet is $65.00 per person or $ for a table of 10 and $30 for under age 18. For ckets call VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: The Women s Center pregnancy resource center welcomes volunteers to join us Monday-Friday 9am-5pm (primarily at our 5116 N. Cicero Ave. loca on). 1) We are looking for a strong volunteer (ideal for a re red man) to assist in the Baby Furniture Room on Tuesdays 10am-2pm. Handy skills helpful but not required. 2) We are in need of a volunteer for Lobby Desk on Fridays from 1-4pm. 3) We are looking for folks with open availability to learn both lobby desk and simple phone areas. 4) We have an opportunity to clean, tag, and box bo les for Baby Bo le Campaigns a great opportunity for students needing service hours. 5) We are looking for warm -hearted volunteers to answer a er-hours calls on their phones on Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday 5pm to 9am the next day to book appointments for our counseling office. 6) We are looking for volunteers with flexible Saturday availability for recep on at our Evergreen Park office. For more details, reach Paige at or We need 7 pack n plays, 5 infant car seat/carriers, 3 toddler beds, 4 strollers, 3 double strollers, 4 baby bathtubs, 2 walkers, 2 changing tables, 3 bouncers, 4 high chairs, 3 bassinets, and 3 swings. It will be a great help if you can deliver these to us. For our address, or if a pick-up by a volunteer is needed, please call The families who receive these things are grateful for your generosity.

4 Page 4 St. Lambert Parish 5th Sunday Ordinary Time The Reverend Know-it-all What I don t know I can always make up! Continued from last week. There were three pilgrimage feasts for which all Israel was expected to gather in Jerusalem. They were Pesach (Passover), which commemorated the deliverance of Israel form slavery in Egypt, Shavuot (Weeks or Pentecost), which commemorated the receiving of the Torah by Israel at the foot of Mt. Sinai and Sukkot ( Booths) during which Israel would camp out for a week in lean-tos or tents to commemorate their wandering in the desert. Jesus and his followers had almost derailed Passover by entering Jerusalem a few days before the feast. They entered in royal style declaring Jesus king and messiah and worse, they caused a riot in the temple. The Saducees who controlled both temple and law courts at the time, had nipped things in the bud by having Jesus executed on the day before the Passover when people would be busy preparing and thus too preoccupied to riot. It would have worked perfectly except for that empty tomb. Now came Shavuot, the feast Weeks, the next pilgrimage feast just fifty days after Passover. The city was again overflowing with crowds of the devout from all over the world. The followers of Jesus the Nazarene chose this moment to strike. There was a commotion in the southeast quarter of the city. The followers of Jesus acted like madmen shouting in obscure babble like prophets of old claiming that they had been filled with the Holy Spirit of the Lord. After a rousing sermon by the Simon Bar Jonah, called Peter, the gullible mobs had rushed to the Essene baths just outside the walls and had been baptized in the mikvehs in the name of Jesus who they claimed was still alive. It was Jesus and John the Baptist all over again. Thousands had participated in this charade. This sect of the Nazarene s followers was now numerically as large as the party of the Pharisees and certainly larger than the sects of the Essenes and the Sadducees. Worst of all, the pilgrims would soon return home to their respective countries in the Hebrew diaspora claiming that the messiah had come, and was Jesus of Nazareth. He had proved His divinity by rising from the dead. Things would never be the same. They preached that observance of the rules of Torah weren t enough. All should be baptized. All should be converted. Being born in the covenant wasn t enough. There was nothing strange about the immersion in the waters of the mikveh. Israel had always practiced Baptism, a Greek word that simply meant immersion, but the immersion required by the Nazarenes was different. A mikveh is a bath required to regain ritual purity after contact with things that were considered unclean. A person had to be ritually pure to enter the Temple. If one was not in a fit state to enter the temple for worship, one had to be purified by immersion in a mikveh. Sometime, more was required depending on the nature of the impurity, but it was always capped off with the cleansing bath of the mikveh. These baptizing Nazarenes like Jesus and John were insisting on purification for everyone, without regard to the requirements of the law. All were unclean. This new washing would allow a person to enter the new temple, the temple not made with stones, the living temple of the Messiah s body, His assembly, and to participate in the messianic thanksgiving sacrifice of Jesus crucified and risen flesh, in the form of bread and wine. The Temple of Herod was over. The messiah had restored the temple and these crazy people were claiming to be that temple. What they believed sounded like cannibalism, and worse still, they were repeating Jesus blasphemous claims of divinity. All this was insanity. Where was all this in the Torah? The Torah never clearly mentions the

5 February 7, 2016 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 messiah, much less a dying-rising, priest- king, divine and human messiah. It was a non-torah fabrication perpetrated by uneducated Galileans. It was all the most outrageous foolishness and blasphemy and now it was on its way throughout the world. How could any of this appeal to a reasonable person? Things went from bad to worse. These madmen met daily in the temple by the thousands for prayer and study, listening to the musings of yokels like Peter who had no right to claim the title Rabbi and here were thousands hanging on his every word. John was another of the ringleaders, a kinsman of Jesus from a priestly family, well known to the Great Priest. He and Peter were on their way into the temple courts one morning for their usual gathering when a lame beggar who had been at the same temple gate for years caught their eyes. Peter said that he had no money, but would give what he had. He took the beggar by his arm, hoisted him to his feet and the faker started to walk. Anyone who went to the temple knew him and had believed him to be lame. Now he could walk. Had he ever really been lame? It didn t matter. Now they were claiming miraculous powers like the Nazarene before them. It had to be stopped. Pete and John were arrested. Gamaliel, ever the peacemaker, convinced the Sanhedrin to release them. He said that if it was from God, it could not be stopped. If it wasn t from God, it would die of its own foolishness like so many other messianic movements before it. Why make martyrs? Still, one could help it go away by means of a little intimidation. There was a young firebrand who claimed to be a Pharisee, who supposedly had studied at the feet of Gamaliel. He was called Saul from the Greek town of Tarsus. He managed to organize a lynch mob that stoned one of the Nazarenes to death after a quick trial. Perhaps Gamaliel s wise counsel was not what the situation required. Perhaps the time had come for harsher measures against this Nazarene nonsense. This Saul bore watching. He could be useful. REFLECT is for and about single men & women (mid 30 s to 50 s) looking to connect with others who also face the unique challenges of being mid-life single in a couple s world. It s a great way to get to know and share with others in a caring, Christ-centered environment. The next REFLECT week-end is March 4-6, The cost is $ for a single occupancy room, meals and materials for the week-end. Next Week: Saul of Tarsus betrays the Sanhedrin

6 Page 6 St. Lambert Parish 5th Sunday Ordinary Time On the first, second and fourth Sundays of the month when Youth Church is in session, Deacon Chick O Leary facilitates a session for adults from 10:45 am to 11:45 am in room 103 of the school, just off of Roberts Hall. This Winter and Spring we are using the program Eucharist: Discovering Mass in the Bible as presented by Dr. Brant Pitre. Listed below is a schedule which we will be following. All are welcome to attend any or all of these sessions. Family Manual Schedule 2016 Date Subject Feb 10:15 am Eucharist: Miracles of Jesus: Cana - Water and Wine Feb 14 Eucharist: Miracles of Jesus: Loaves, and Fishes Feb 21 Family Day Feb 28 Open Discussion (or catch up from earlier sessions) Mar 6 Eucharist: Bread of Life Discourse part 1 Mar 13 Eucharist: Bread of Life Discourse part 2 Mar 20 Family Day PALM SUNDAY Mar 27 EASTER Open Discussion (or catch up from earlier sessions) Apr 10 Eucharist: Last Supper - The New Passover of Christ Apr 17 Family Day Apr 24 Eucharist: Last Supper - The Words of Institution May 1 Eucharist: The Mass - The Road to Emmaus May 8 Eucharist: The Mass - The Mystery of the Eucharist May 15 Family Day PENTECOST May 22 Eucharist: Revelation and The Wedding Feast of the Lamb May 29 No Family Manual CORPUS CHRISTI Sunday Offertory Collection Jan. 23/24, 2016 Envelopes: $6, Loose: 2, Total: $ 8, YouthChurch: $ We appreciate for your continued support! Please pick up your offertory envelopes on the way out today. Blank box sets can be found at the far north end of the tables. New and current parishioners, please use the Registration and/or Change of Information form and include your box number on the form. You may place it into the collection basket next time you are at Mass. Thank you! The Coffee Hour will be hosted by the FFOS and the contact is Teresita Decilio. She can be reached at Your participation and donations are always welcome! Catholic Charities Maternity & Adoption Services If you are pregnant and in need of advice or help you can turn to Catholic Charities. Catholic Charities Maternity & Adoption Services has resources to serve teens, women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies. We can talk about your options as you plan for your child s future. Whether you decide to parent your child, or make a plan of adoption, we are here to help. If you are not sure what to do, our 24-hour hotline has caring & professional counselors available. Our services are free and confidential. Call CARE-002 or Visit for more information. Catholic Charities Volunteer Opportunities Are you looking for an opportunity to volunteer? Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago is looking for helpful, friendly volunteers to serve as greeters at the hospitality table at 721 N. LaSalle St. in Chicago. The volunteers will welcome guests and help with the intake of clothing donations. The volunteer would serve a 2 or 3 hour shift on a Monday, Thursday, or Friday of their choice between 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. For more information volunteer@catholiccharities.net or call the Volunteer Relations department at

7 February 7, 2016 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7 The Call of Simon the Fisherman Luke 5:5-11 The fishermen were all amazed at the many fish they caught. When Simon Peter saw this, he bowed down before Jesus and said, Go away from me, Lord. I am a sinful man! James and John worked together with Simon and were amazed too. Jesus said to Simon, Don t be afraid. From now on your work will be to bring in people, not fish! The men brought their boats to the shore. They left everything and followed Jesus. Copyright 2016 All right reserved. This site is a project of MMBOX PRODUCTION