Jesus said to her, Give me a drink

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1 John 4:14...whoever drinks the Jesus said to her, water I give them Give me a drink will never thirst St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord March 19, 2017 Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Ave, Skokie Phone: (847) saintlambert@aol.com St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL Website: Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon Rev. Know-it-all: reverendknow-it-all.blogspot.com Deacon: Mr. Chick O Leary Sunday Masses: (5 pm Saturday) 8am, 10am, 12pm Weekday Masses: 7:15 am (Mon-Fri) 8am on Saturday 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 7pm in the rectory. For requirements and to register, debbie.stlambert@aol.com. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. 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: Online at stlambert.org under About Us also by or phone. Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication and can be sent to debbie.stlambert@aol.com.

2 Page 2 St. Lambert Parish 3rd Sunday of Lent Third Sunday of Masses for the Week Saturday, March 18 5:00 Rachelle Bentivenga, Reynaldo Martinez & Eusebio Elefano Jr. Sunday, March 19 8:00 Dscd. Styczynski & Dionne Families Michael J. Polakowski 10:00 Janina Kedzia 12:00 People of St Lambert Monday, March 20 7:15 Norman Becker Tuesday, March 21 7:15 Ester Bracksaw Wednesday, March 22 7:15 Jean Falk Thursday, March 23 7:15 Jaime Garcia Sr. Friday, March 24 7:15 Marion Cascino Saturday, March 25 8:00 Josef Kepes 5:00 Charles A. Ryan Sunday, March 26 8:00 Ofelia Osias Birthday 10:00 John Krump 12:00 People of St Lambert The Coffee Hour will be hosted by the FFOS and the contact person is Lou Alog. She can be reached at Your participation and donations are welcome! Third Sunday of Lent March 19, 2017 While we were still sinners Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22; Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a or Lk 2:41-51a Tuesday: Dn 3:25, 34-43; Ps 25:4-5ab, 6, 7bc, 8-9; Mt 18:21-35 Wednesday: Dt 4:1, 5-9; Ps 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20; Mt 5:17-19 Thursday: Jer 7:23-28; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; Lk 11:14-23 Friday: Hos 14:2-10; Ps 81:6c-11ab, 14, 17; Mk 12:28-34 Saturday: Is 7:10-14, 8:10; Ps 40:7-11; Heb 10:4-10; Lk 1:26-38 Sunday: 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ps 23:1-6; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41[1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38] Support the Shamrocks for Kids Campaign! Mercy Home for Boys and Girls of Chicago need your help. The Stroot council of the Knights of Columbus is sponsoring drive to help Mercy Home serve troubled, neglected and abused children. After the masses on the week-end of the 25th and 26th, please give to the collection at the rear of the church. As a token of gratitude, you will receive a shamrock lapel pin, not to mention the graces bestowed on you for almsgiving in this season of Lent. March 4/5, 2017 Envelopes: $6, Loose: 1, Total: $8, YouthChurch: $ Sunday Offertory Collection For Online Giving: Thank you for your continued support! SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Third Sunday of Lent Monday: St. Joseph; Spring begins Thursday: St. Toribio de Mogrovejo Friday: Abstinence Saturday: The Annunciation of the Lord

3 March 19, 2017 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3 The Way of the Cross DOWNTOWN CHICAGO, GOOD FRIDAY 2017 Gather 8:45 AM DALEY PLAZA (Dearborn/Washington) 9:00 am IntroducƟon 9:15 am The walk begins 11:30 am The walk ends at HOLY NAME CATHEDRAL ( State/Superior) 12 noon Conclusion www. wayofthecrosschicago.org info@wayoōhecrosschicago.org April 14, 2017 Calendar Raffle Winners Sunday, Mar 12th $ #5088 Bolusan, Nellie Monday, Mar 13th $ #3215 Bobiles, Marissa Tuesday, Mar 14th $ #3252 Moscinski, Mary Wednesday, Mar 15th $ #3377 Kepes, Matthew Thursday, Mar 16th $ #3353 Kneip Boys Friday, Mar 17th $ #3313 Alog, Sephora Saturday, Mar 18th $ #1451 Santiago, Rolando & Delia Winning raffle booklet numbers are put back in the hopper. Giving you more opportunities to win throughout the year! PRIZES: $50 Monday through Saturday $100 Weekly Sunday (except 1st Sunday) $500 Every 1st Sunday

4 Page 4 St. Lambert Parish 3rd Sunday of Lent The Reverend Know-it-all What I don t know I can always make up! Continued from last week... Again, natural law is the fulfillment of our humanity, not a limit on our freedom. If our Christian theory is correct, that man is made in the image and likeness of God, then we are human only to the degree that we reflect the divine nature. If God is the author of life, then the murderer diminishes the divine image in Himself, and is thus less fully human. God is undying and faithful love. Thus the adulterer is less fully human. The enslavement to passion and pleasure of which our generation is so fond, is not freedom. It is suicide. It kills the eternal person made in the image of God. Jesus said I have not come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. (Matt 5:17) There are Christian sects that maintain Jesus meant we must still obey all the minutiae of the Old Testament, No pork, no shrimp, worship on Saturday instead of Sunday, etc. This completely misses the point as far as I am concerned. I believe that Jesus not only fulfills the law, but Messiah Jesus IS the fulfillment of the law. I once said this to Rabbi Lefkowitz. He said quite pointedly, What does that mean? Good question. How can a person be the fulfillment of the law? First what is the law? The word translated law in English is Torah. Torah refers to the first five books of the Bible, sometimes called the Pentateuch. The word Torah does not quite mean what we mean by the word law. Torah in Hebrew means teaching, or instruction. Webster defines law as a binding custom or practice of a community: a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority. In our understanding, then, law is to be defined as the rules. There are rules in the Torah, certainly, but Torah is a lot more than rules enforced by an authority. Torah is divine instruction on how things work here on spaceship earth. It is meant to be the user s manual for human life. Perhaps the idea is made clearer by the Hebrew word Halakha. Halakha is the collection of Jewish religious laws derived from the Written and Oral Torah. It includes the 613 mitzvoth. Mitzvoth means commandments. This is an important word. As I understand it, a Mitzvah, (singular of the word Mitzvoth ) means not only a commandment but also implies that its very observance is a blessing. The Halakhot are found in Talmudic legal interpretation and the customs gathered in the book, Shulchan Aruch (Hebrew for the prepared table, the Torah being a banquet). All this comes from a Hebrew verb, halakh which simply means to walk. The Jews often speak of Halakhic law, no meat and milk together, no cheeseburgers no shrimp tacos. The Torah thus teaches us how to walk, how to make our way in the world. If one understands that Torah is infinitely more than a rule book, but an instruction about how to walk in the world, how to live, then to say that Jesus is the fulfillment of the law is much more understandable, at least to one who is His follower. Moses gave us a book to teach us. In Himself, Jesus gave us a vision of the Almighty. He is the visible image of the invisible God. (Col 1:15) One might say that He is the Torah come to life. His way of life is the perfect instruction. The Torah is not a rule book, but it most certainly contains rules, or mitzvoth, 613 of them to be precise. I maintain that Jesus of Nazareth is the fulfillment of all of them together and each of them individually. There s the word again: fulfillment. What does that mean? I was at Passover at the Rabbi s house one year a while ago, and though the little congregation in my neighborhood was very small and very poor, mostly old Russian exiles, they splurged and got a fancy schmanzy Khazzan (cantor) for the Holidays. The cantor, a bit of a stickler, actually he stickled a lot, was also at the Passover Seder (Seder, Hebrew for order of service). At a certain point in the dinner the cantor started to stuff as much

5 March 19, 2017 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 Matzo (unleavened bread) in his mouth as he possibly could. I thought we were going to have to perform a Heimlich maneuver as he turned red and continued to jam matzo into his already stuffed mouth. I asked the Rabbi s son, Levi, what the cantor was doing. Levi said, He s fulfilling the mitzvah. Moses told us to eat unleavened bread during Passover, He didn t say how much. The cantor is trying to make sure that he has fulfilled the mitzvah by doing as much as possible, just to be on the safe side. Bingo! Light goes on over my head! In my soul I am doing the dance of joy. To fulfill the law! To do more than is required. Most of us want to know the rules so we can do the bare minimum. To fulfill the law is to want to do the maximum. If the law is a good thing, and teaches us how to live and walk, we want more of it, not less. Teach me, O Lord, your ways! (Psalm 86:11) The Torah and its mitzvoth are not rules applied by an external authority. They are insights into the very nature of reality. It is fascinating that in the very attempt to fulfill the Law of Moses, the cantor admitted its incompleteness. Moses told us to eat unleavened bread. He didn t say how much. The Torah is thus lacking. Jesus answers that question when he says, I am the bread come down from heaven. The one who eats my flesh will have life eternal. (Jn 6:54) the verb here is very strong. It literally means not eat, but to chew continuously. That pretty much answers the cantor s question. Exodus (13:6) says Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Thus Jesus fulfills one of the mitzvoth by becoming bread, and by bread becoming the messiah. Now we only have 612 more laws to explain. HOLY NAME CATHEDRAL Saturday, April 1, 2017 Mass 7:30 p.m. Celebrant and Homilist: Father Michael K. Trail Associate Pastor, St. Damian, Oak Forest, IL Nightfever 9:00 p.m. Night Prayer 11:30 p.m. ADORATION MUSIC RECONCILIATION THIRSTING FOR LIFE-GIVING WATERS Especially during the Lenten, Holy Week, and Easter seasons, the prayer texts of the Eastern Church revel in paradoxical images of Christ: the eternal life who is put to death, the host of the supper who is also its meal, the thirsty crucified one with living water streaming from his side. These images flow from the evangelists portrayals of Jesus and from his very ministry, during which he often upset or reversed people s expectations about him or the ways of God. This reversal is at play in today s Gospel, as Jesus speaks to an enemy foreigner who is also a woman beneath his status. In addition he, the thirsting one, shows the woman to be the one truly thirsting. He whose parched lips will say I thirst before he dies is the source of life and life-giving water. Lent calls upon us to dwell on how each of us is thirsting for Christ, and it leads us, ultimately, back to the life-giving waters of our baptism into his Body. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

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7 March 19, 2017 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7 John 4:7-42. Woman at Jacob's well Jesus rested at Jacob's well in Samaria. He talked to a woman who came for water about the water for eternal life. Copyright 2017 All right reserved. This site is a project of MMBOX PRODUCTION