St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord September 13, 2015 Matthew 16:24 Rectory 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL 60076 Phone:(847) 673-5090 St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL E-mail: saintlambert@aol.com Website: www.stlambert.org 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: www.rev-know-it-all.com Deacon: Mr. Chick O Leary Music Director: Mr. Steven Folkers Ministry of Care: Mrs. Carol Glueckert (847) 674-6456 Office Staff: Mr. George Mohrlein Mrs. Debbie Morales-Garcia debbie.stlambert@aol.com 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. Call the rectory to register. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Confessions: Saturday at 8:30am Religious Education : Fr. Richard Simon saintlambertsyouthchurch@ gmail.com To Register as a Parishioner of St Lambert please call the rectory or email us. For Online Giving: www.givecentral.org
Page 2 St. Lambert Parish 24th Ordinary Sunday Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 13, 2015 The Lord GOD is my help, therefore I am not disgraced. Isaiah 50:7 Masses for the week Saturday, September12 5:00 Roberto Pulusan Sunday, September 13 8:00 John Casper 10:00 People of St. Lambert 12:00 Nelly Rueda Monday, September 14 7:15 Rogelio & Aurora Garcia Tuesday, September 15 7:15 Martinez & Sanchez Families Wednesday, September 16 7:15 Gloria Salas Thursday, September 17 7:15 Osmundo L. Domingo Friday, September 18 7:15 Mary Krackenberger Saturday, September 19 8:00 Fernanda Rago 5:00 In Thanksgiving, Dave & Virginia Radler Sunday, September 20 8:00 People of St. Lambert 10:00 Bernard & Fernanda Rago 12:00 Gary Charlton READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Nm 21:4b-9; Ps 78:1bc-2, 34-38; Phil 2:6-11; Jn 3:13-17 Tuesday: 1 Tm 3:1-13; Ps 101:1b-3ab, 5-6; Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33-35 Wednesday: 1 Tm 3:14-16; Ps 111:1-6; Lk 7:31-35 Thursday: 1 Tm 4:12-16; Ps 111:7-10; Lk 7:36-50 Friday: 1 Tm 6:2c-12; Ps 49:6-10, 17-20; Lk 8:1-3 Saturday: 1 Tm 6:13-16; Ps 100:1b-5; Lk 8:4-15 Sunday: Wis 2:12, 17-20; Ps 54:3-8; Jas 3:16 4:3; Mk 9:30-37 The 2016 Mass Book is open for Intentions You may request up to 7 intentions which is 5 week day masses with 2 weekend (Saturday Vigil Mass and Sunday) We are allowed to accept only one stipended mass; Canon 13.2:945-58. The name of the person(s) for whom the stipend has been offered is written in the bulletin. There have been clerical errors in the bulletin but, no matter what is said in the bulletin, the mass is offered for the intention of the one who has given the stipend. The celebrant of the mass may or may not mention the intention. But on the day of his ordination, a priest makes a promise to say mass for the intention requested. An individual priest may mention anyone for whom he wishes to pray during the prayers of the faithful however, the principal intention of the mass is always offered for the person who has requested it at the parish of ice. This should be made clear in the prayers of the faithful if any intentions are mentioned. If there is a special request on the anniversary of an important event, that request may be made to the priest offering the mass, in the sacristy, immediately before that mass. The request should be made in writing; a monetary gift is not expected. The celebrant of the mass may agree or not agree to mention someone s name. This is his personal decision and not a parish policy. The request cannot be made through the of ice and in this case, the intention will not be published in the bulletin or the announcements previous to the mass. We cannot schedule extra masses beyond our regular daily and Sunday masses. Sunday Offertory Collection August 30/31, 2015 Envelopes: $5,829.00 Loose: 2,157.64 Total: $7,986.64
Sept. 13, 2015 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3 The Coffee Hour next week will be hosted by the FFOS and the contact is Teresita Decilio. She can be reached at 847-675-0183. Your donations are appreciated! Family Fun & Safety Fair Come and Join Us in Celebrating The Feast Day of San Lorenzo Ruiz De Manila & San Pedro Calungsod September 26, 2015 5:00 pm Mass St. Lambert Church Sunday, September 20, 2015 Noon-4 p.m. Bring the whole family as we celebrate our community with refreshments, activities, rides, music and information about how you can lead a healthy lifestyle. Free activities for the entire family Experts and medical staff from the hospital and the community will be on hand to share fun and entertaining tips to help improve the personal safety and health of your family. + Free lunch bags for the first 100 kids + Tour fire trucks, ambulances & EMS equipment + Free car seat safety checks + Kids games, rides, facepainting and storytime + Free BMI and Blood pressure screenings + Free Cholesterol and Diabetes screenings + Signs to recognize a heart attack or stroke + Food, music & more All activities and screenings are FREE of charge. Register to win an ipad Mini, gift cards, back to school gear and Presence Saint Francis Hospital swag! Get in touch. Presence Saint Francis Hospital 355 Ridge Avenue Evanston, IL 847.316.4000 Proceeds from the sale of lunch and snack items benefit the Anne Bleicher Operation Prom Night Program. In preparation for the feast day of San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila & San Pedro Calungsod, a daily novena will be held from September 17 at 7pm and September 18-25 at 6:45 pm (Sept. 23rd novena after the Mother of Perpetual Help novena) Preparing Priests for the New Evangelization Second Collection For Seminary Appeal on September 26-27
Page 4 St. Lambert Parish 24th Ordinary Sunday The Reverend Know-it-all What I don t know I can always make up! Le er to Calvin Mar n con nued... Martin Luther and the Poor of the Land Mar n had let the genie out of the bo le. In January of 1521, Mar n was summoned to the Diet of Worms by Emperor Charles VI. A note on the Diet of Worms: The word Diet comes for the La n word dies meaning day. A parliament was referred to in German as a Reichstag or Landtag, (tag meaning day in German) and Worms is a city in west central Germany. Worms is derived from a Cel c word meaning se lement in a swampy area. Swamptown, more or less. It has the sense of days of mee ng or court days, or, in a sense, a day in court. This has nothing to do with slimy invertebrates. The town is pronounced Vawrms. The invertebrates are Wuermer, pronounced Voeermer. Sort of. To properly pronounce some German vowels it is necessary to first suck on a lemon for half an hour. I suppose it could be called the Swamptown Parliament, but it is great fun to call the parliament of the city of Worms Germany by its classic name the Diet of Worms. It has provided endless school boy jokes, things about Charles downing a Fi h and forcing Luther to eat a diet of worms. This is not what happened. Mar n was given a safe passage to and from the Diet, but he was declared an outlaw by the Emperor. He mysteriously disappeared on the way home. He was kidnapped by Prince Frederick of Saxony who hid him in Wartburg Castle, where he lived under an assumes name (Juenker Joerge, translated Sir George, more or less) and translated the Bible the way he thought it should be translated. He also drank beer and went hun ng wild boar. The castle did not have cable TV or Wi-Fi. A er about a year, Mar n got bored with boar hun ng and boring transla on work and decided to risk going back to Wi enberg. The place was a mess. Luther wrote, During my absence, Satan has entered my sheepfold, and commi ed ravages which I cannot repair by wri ng, but only by my personal presence and living word. Fr. Mar n preached a series of La n sermons in which he talked about pa ence, and taught that violence was not the way. The peasants loved Luther s new religion because if the priests didn t need popes and bishops, they certainly didn t need the land lords and the aristocracy. Do you know what the Devil thinks when he sees men use violence to propagate the Gospel? He sits with folded arms behind the fire of hell, and says with malignant looks and frigh ul grin: Ah, how wise these madmen are to play my game! Let them go on; I shall reap the benefit. I delight in it. But when he sees the Word running and contending alone on the ba le-field, then he shudders and shakes for fear. Wi enberg calmed down, but the rest of the German speaking world was up for grabs. The Zwickau prophets Nicholas Storch and Thomas Muentzer encouraged the peasants to rise up and smash the gentry. Luther the nonviolent decided that enough was enough, so he wrote a tract with the charming name, Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants, in which he implored the nobility to smash the peasants. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay, and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hur ul, or devilish than a rebel... For bap sm does not make men free in body and property, but in soul; and the Gospel does not make goods common, except in the case of those who, of their own free will, do what the apostles and disciples did in Acts 4. They did not demand, as do our insane peasants in their raging, that the goods of others, of Pilate and Herod, should be common, but only their own goods. Our peasants, however, want to make the goods of other men common, and keep their own for themselves. Fine Chris ans they are! I think there is not a devil le in hell; they have all gone into the peasants. Their raving has gone beyond all measure. What strange mes are these when a prince can enter heaven by the shedding of blood more certainly than others by means of prayer!...
Sept. 13, 2015 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 It is no longer a ques on of tolerance, pa ence, pity. It is the hour of wrath and for the sword; the hour for mercy is past... No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody. Thus Luther the nonviolent reformer and friend of the poor. Martin and Katarina Luther slowly changed form Father Mar n to Dr. Luther over the next few years. In 1523 Mar n helped 12 nuns escape from the convent by hiding them in herring barrels. He managed to get them all married off, except one, Katharina von Bora, so he married her. She ever a er called him Herr Doktor. They had six children together. Katharina was 26. Mar n was 41. Doktor Luther really believed that sex was an accommoda on to human lust. For Catholics marriage is a sacrament, human sexual ac vity in marriage is a source of grace. For Luther marriage was a roll in the hay. Here are some quotes collected by Frank Nelte which I have borrowed from the web. The body asks for a woman and must have it; to marry is a remedy for fornica on... Since wedlock and marriage are a worldly business, we clergy and ministers of the Church have nothing to order or decree about it, but must leave each town... to follow its own usage and custom. In other words marriage is not a sacrament. It is a civil contract. In this sense, Luther is the inventor of civil marriage. In macy in marriage is essen ally sinful according to Luther In spite of all the good I say of married life, I will not grant so much to nature as to admit that there is no sin in it... no conjugal due is ever rendered without sin The matrimonial duty is never performed without sin. The matrimonial act is a sin differing in nothing from adultery and fornica on. Doktor Luther doesn t seem to have held women in very high regard either The Word and work of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or pros tutes...even though they grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not ma er; let them go on bearing children ll they die, that is what they are there for. And, most interes ng, It is not forbidden that a man should have more than one wife. PS If you don t believe this stuff, look it up. I am not making any of it up. Next week, Luther bobbles the ball! The Women's Center is a problem pregnancy help center. Because of the care and concern of our staff, volunteers, and benefactors, each year over 1,000 women who feel abortion is their only choice, decide in favor of life. We provide practical help, including counseling, clothing, baby furniture, referral services, etc. as needed. Looking for service hours, resume building, meeting super nice people or just wanting to make a difference for the prolife cause? The Women s Center is looking for new volunteers Mon-Frid at our Cicero Ave location. 1) We have two Lobby Front Desk openings that we need volunteers to cover - Tuesdays from 1-4pm and Wednesdays from 9am-12pm. 2) We need a man who can lift up to 40 lbs. to distribute baby furniture to clients on Thursdays from 10am-2pm. 3) We have an excellent opportunity for up to four people at a time to prepare baby bottles for our spare change campaigns (perfect for students or friends). 4) In anticipation of Respect Life Month in October, please consider hosting a baby shower for mothers and babies. (We can especially use new baby clothes 0-3 months, new bibs, crib bedding, baby and mother hygiene products and disposable diapers in sizes newborn, 1, 4, 5, and 6). For more information contact Paige at 773.794.8807 or pscarlett@womenscenter.org. We need 3 infant car seat/carriers, 2 toddler beds, 2 double strollers, 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 773-794-1313. The families who receive these things are grateful for your generosity.
Page 6 St. Lambert Parish 24th Ordinary Sunday 2:00 pm Sunday, September 20, 2015 (Free will Donation) St. Lambert/Trainor Hall 8148 Karlov Ave., Skokie Also, The Day the Shroud Foiled Hitler: A fascinating look at when the Shroud was removed from Turin & brought to a monastery south of Rome to keep it away from Hitler.
Sept. 13, 2015 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7 Can I find all these words? REGINA DOMINICAN SHADOW DAYS Regina Dominican invites prospective eighth grade and transfer students to shadow at the school September through December. During a Shadow Day, each student is partnered with a Regina Dominican Student Ambassador based on academic and extra-curricular interest. A Shadow Day begins at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 2:30 p.m. Due to the popularity of Shadow Days, registration is on a first come first serve basis. Registration may be completed online at www.rspace.rdhs.org/shadow15. Regina Dominican is located at 701 Locust Road, Wilmette, Illinois 60091. For more information about Regina Dominican and the admissions process, contact Pattie Fuentes, director of admissions, at 847.256.7660 ext. 223. Dates: Friday, September 25 Thursday, October 1 Tuesday, October 6 Tuesday, October 20 Friday, October 30 Tuesday, November 3 Wednesday, November 11 Friday, November 20 Thursday, December 3