St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord February 11, 2018 Sixth Sunday in ordinary time A leper came to him and kneeling down begged him and said, If you wish, you can make me clean. Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, I do will it. Be made clean. Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL 60076 Phone: (847) 673-5090 E-mail: saintlambert@aol.com St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL Website: www.stlambert.org Sunday Masses: (5 pm Sat) 8am, 10am, 12pm Weekday Masses: 7:15 am (Mon-Fri) 8am on Saturday 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 : Gina Roxas youthchurchred@gmail.com Baptisms: Third Sundays of the month at 1:30 pm. Baptismal Prep Class is the first Tuesday of each month at 7pm in room 103. For guidelines and to register email Debbie. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Confessions: Saturday at 8:30am To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under About Us or by phone. Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received at the office 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication. Submissions should be in electronic format and send to debbie.stlambert.@aol.com.
Page 2 St. Lambert Parish 6th Sunday Ordinary Time READINGS FOR THE WEEK Saturday, February 10 5:00 Frank Folkers Sunday, February 11 8:00 Glen Del Rosario 10:00 People of St Lambert 12:00 Irma Lemithe Birthday Monday, February 12 7:15 Jose A. Cabasag Jr., Masses for the Week Ester C. Cadayona & Grandparents Tuesday, February 13 7:15 Dscd. Members of the Wood Family Ash Wednesday, February 14 7:15 Ernesto & Remedios Lantin 7:00 Ray Garcia Thursday, February 15 7:15 Holy Souls in Purgatory Friday, February 16 7:15 Valentin Puno Saturday, February 17 8:00 Mary Anne Stolz 5:00 Bridget Fernando Sunday, February 18 8:00 Hristo Devedjiev & Will Arce 10:00 Clara Genovaldi 12:00 People of St Lambert A BOOK TO READ There is a great difference between the eager person who wants to read a book and the tired person who wants a book to read. G. K. Chesterton Monday: Jas 1:1-11; Ps 119:67-68, 71-72, 75-76; Mk 8:11-13 Tuesday: Jas 1:12-18; Ps 94:12-13a, 14-15, 18-19; Mk 8:14-21 Wednesday: Jl 2:12-18; Ps 51:3-6ab, 12-14, 17; 2 Cor 5:20 6:2; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 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: Gn 9:8-15; Ps 25:4-9; 1 Pt 3:18-22; Mk 1:12-15 The Coffee Hour will be hosted next week by our Haitian community and the contact person is Irma Lemithe. She can be reached at 224-678-8607. Your continued generous support is always welcome! GIVE GOD THE GLORY A curious feature of the first half of Mark s Gospel is the pattern of Jesus working a miracle, then telling the recipient of the miracle to keep still about it. Many theories have been offered: Mark is setting the stage for the great secret revealed when Peter will proclaim Jesus the Messiah at Caesarea Philippi; more skeptical commentators offer that Jesus, fully aware of human nature, knew that the way to spread the news was to tell people to keep it secret. The insight into this secret-keeping that serves us well, however, is that Jesus was initiating his public ministry according to the pattern that Paul describes. He was doing it for the glory of God not for his own benefit, but for that of all. Paul would later write in Philippians that Jesus humbled himself to become like us. And we see this humility at work in today s healing of the leper. Jesus is trying to reveal the presence of God s reign among the people, not so that he himself might receive the glory, but so that God would be glorified through him. Imitating this pattern, which Paul encourages the Jewish and Greek Christian factions in Corinth to do, still serves us well today. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. Sunday Offertory Collection January 27/28, 2018 Envelopes: $6,436.30 Loose: 2,159.00 Total: $8,595.30 Youth Church: $ 137.00 Thank you for your continued support! For Online Giving go to: www.givecentral.org
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Page 4 St. Lambert Parish 6th Sunday Ordinary Time The Reverend Know-it-all What I don t know I can always make up! Letter to Mo Derniste continued: Why I remain a Catholic I remain a Catholic because of relics, statues and religious images. We Catholics get a lot of grief because of statues etc. The Bible forbids graven images doesn't it? Not exactly. It forbids the making of idols, that is the images of gods. Admittedly Catholics allow the representation of Christ and the Trinity because God chose to show his own divine image in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. As for the rest of our imagery, it is the saints that we picture. No true Catholic believes that a saint is a god or goddess. We may honor the Blessed Mother and the saints, but we certainly don't worship them. It is interesting to me that those same people who criticize our religious art often are themselves guilty of idolatry. They make over the image of God in their own likeness. Perhaps you've heard someone say that, " I could never worship a god who...(fill in the blanks; allows the holocaust, or doesn't permit artificial birth control; or abortion, or divorce and remarriage...etc, etc.) We have religious art, but those who invent their own religion and create a god who blesses their favorite sins are the true idolaters. We Catholics live in a world populated by saints. Relics, religious art and sacred architecture remind us constantly that we are part of something much bigger than ourselves. We live in a communion of saints. Perhaps you have heard of the treasury of the merits of the saints, perhaps not. I think of it like this. On a ship you have water tight compartments. They are sealed when the ship is in danger of sinking. That's how I think of the saints. The Church constantly hits obstacles, but the lives of the saints, their writings, their works and their prayers are sealed and unshakeable. They sustain the Church in difficult times. We are a communion of two thousand years and more. Our imagery and our relics remind us that the present difficulties are only a small part of the story. In a certain sense, there are three testaments. the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Lives of the Saints. This third Testament teaches us how to live in the world and in the Kingdom of God at the same time. Modern people constantly want to reinvent the truth to suite our present situation. They forget that we are part of something that has been and that will be. The narcissism of the present age demands that truth conform itself to our needs, forgetting that we stand on the shoulders of the saints and we are responsible to generations yet unborn. There is an old saying, "He who is married to the spirit of the age soon? finds himself a widower." The communion of the saints surrounds and sustains us in these tangible reminders, the images, the relics and their lives and writings. We are part of something eternal. The faith is not our plaything. It has been handed on to us from the first saints and martyrs all the way down to Mother Teresa of Calcutta and St. John Paul the Great and the great host of current martyrs. I will do my best to hand it on to those who come after me. Rev. Know-it-all Your St. Lambert Offertory Envelopes are available for pick up in the vestibule of the Church. Please be sure to pick up your set on your way out. Boxes are placed in alphabetical order. If there is a change to your address, phone number or other information, please contact the rectory office or email Debbie at debbie.stlambert@aol.com. NEW PARISHIONER? Call the rectory office to register or go to register electronically, go to this link, http://www.stlambert.org/registration-and-other-forms.
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Page 6 St. Lambert Parish 6th Sunday Ordinary Time Michelle Martin January 25, 2018 someone else s home, and the host learns about hospitality, instead of everyone just being treated like a customer. Cake for breakfast Teresa turned 8 years old this month. There s nothing particularly remarkable about that; I d bet that nearly everybody reading this turned 8 years old some time ago. But it s the first time she has been 8, and she s testing it out, trying to get a feeling for what this new situation means. She started the week before her birthday, when she informed me that if anyone asked her age, she was just going to say she was 8, because she had to get used to the idea. This year, she celebrated with a party at home with several friends. They ate pizza and cake, made paper bag puppets and played Twister and bingo. Everyone got prizes from the games, and everyone took home a little goody bag. I think everyone had a good time. Teresa had fun, although at times it was hard for her to remember that her guests were just that guests and we had to make sure they felt included. Sometimes, she said, it felt like the party was more about them than her, especially when they started suggesting games. We do have one tradition that doesn t change from year to year: When it s someone s birthday, everyone in the house gets cake for breakfast. Sometimes it s homemade, sometimes we buy it, but it s there on the actual birthday date, not the next convenient weekend. Everyone gets up before school or work, and we light the birthday candles and sing and open cards and, for the kids, presents from Mom and Dad. Because however you do it, birthdays are worth celebrating. It s worth it to remember that God gave you the gift of your life at the same time he made a gift of you to your family. It s worth it to take a moment to taste the sweetness of life, to blow out the candles and to look forward to another year. For more articles by Michelle Martin subscribe to Catholic New World at 833.813.6400 Where did I leave my offertory envelope? We congratulated her, because that s how you know you ve thrown a good party. This isn t the first at-home birthday party we ve had, not even the first one we ve had for Teresa. They seem to go in cycles: we have a party at home, which reminds us that it costs money as well as time to plan, prepare, execute and clean up; then we host a party somewhere else, at one of the many businesses that will host children s parties, and are reminded that those cost even more money, and it often feels like the birthday child is just one among the guests; and then some years we forgo a party and just celebrate with family. As much as I complain about doing them (and I do complain), I think I like the at-home parties the best. I get to see and get to know the kids friends better, and they get to come to our house and play with their things. The guests learn how to be guests in 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 to givecentral.org to sign up!
February 11, 2018 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7 Help Support Our Seminarians by entering the 2018 SunShine Game You have a chance to win every month from March 2018 to and including February of 2019. Funds generated help Catholic Seminarians. Fifteen dollars per number or ( buy 3 and get the 4 th free ). Itʹs open to, ANYONE. Winners do not have to be present, Checks will be mailed to you. To Enter : Please include, NAME of each entrant and FULL ADDRESS. MAIL TO: Ray Lakoske, 232 Cottonwood Rd., Northbrook, IL. 60062-1302. Make check payable to Fr. Stroot Council K of C. Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, Skokie