St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord August 5, 2018 Eighteenth Sunday in ordinary time 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 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 Religious Education : Gina Roxas youthchurchred@gmail.com Office Staff: Debbie Morales-Garcia debbie.stlambert@aol.com Mr. George Mohrlein To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under About Us or by phone. 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 basement. For guidelines and to register email Debbie. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received at the office 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication. Submissions should be in electronic format and sent to debbie.stlambert@aol.com
Page 2 St. Lambert Parish 18th Sunday Ordinary Time Eucharistic Vigil The Lord thy God thou shalt adore, and Him only shalt thou serve" Matthew 4:10 Masses for the Week Saturday, August 4 4:00 Marsha Laskowski Sunday, August 5 8:00 People of St Lambert 10:00 Bridget & Dunstan Fernando and Desmond Surath 12:00 Theresa Kim Monday, August 6 7:15 Martin Barnes Tuesday, August 7 7:15 Steven Laskowski Wednesday, August 8 7:15 Eusebia De Leon Thursday, August 9 7:15 Victor Martinez Friday, August 10 7:15 Marta Morales Saturday, August 11 8:00 Brunner Family and Mary Johnson 5:00 Jasmin Bañadery Sunday, August 12 8:00 Maurice Julian 10:00 Charles & Ellen Kelly and Family 12:00 People of St Lambert The Coffee Hour will be hosted next week by Betty Kovathana and she can be reached at 847-675-8353. Your help and your baked goods are needed! Join us on Today, August 5th for the Eucharistic Vigil starting at 1:15 pm followed by the Holy Hour and Latin Mass. Please spend one hour with the Lord. Sunday Offertory Collection: July 21/22, 2018 Envelopes: $ 6,319.00 Loose: 1,822.15 Total: $ 8,141.15 Mission Collection: $ 1,314.00 Thank you for your continued generosity! For online giving go to: www.givecentral.org READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9; 2 Pt 1:16-19; Mk 9:2-10 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, 10-14 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: 2 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 112:1-2, 5-9; Jn 12:24-26 Saturday: Hb 1:12 2:4; Ps 9:8-13; Mt 17:14-20 Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:4-8; Ps 34:2-9; Eph 4:30 5:2; Jn 6:41-51 The St. Lambert Senior Activity Club August meeting will be on Thursday, August 16. That's the third Thursday, instead of the usual second Thursday of the month. On the 16th, members can reserve a ticket for the popular River and Lake cruise followed by lunch. This excursion is planned for August 23rd at a cost of $60pp. Call Frank Ippolito, our activity coordinator, at 847-933-9705 for further details.
August 5, 2018 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3 Aug. 26, noon-7 p.m., at St. Odilo Parish music, pig roasts, Mexican food, beverages, a bouncy house and mechanical bull; at St. Odilo Parish, 23rd Street and East Avenue, in Berwyn; call the rectory at 708-484-2161 for more information. St. Joseph Feast : Aug. 26, beginning with 10:30 a.m. Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 1170 N. River Road, Des Plaines; includes a procession with the statue of St. Joseph, music, entertainment, Italian food and fireworks; for more information visit, www.facebook.com/society-of-saint-joseph-chicago- 298201253975204/.
Page 4 St. Lambert Parish 18th Sunday Ordinary Time CHICAGOCATHOLIC What Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom gets right and wrong July 25, 2018 The original Jurassic Park film from 25 years ago rather inventively explored a theme that has been prominent in Western culture from the time of the Romantic reaction to the Enlightenment namely, the dangers of an aggressive and arrogant rationalism. Beginning in the late 18th century, poets and philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Herder, William Blake and John Keats warned that the lust to understand and control nature would result in disaster for both the human soul and for the physical world. Goethe, for instance, railed against the Newtonian scientific practice, which involved the intrusive questioning of nature rather than the patient and respectful contemplation of it. Blake memorably complained of the Satanic mills, which is to say, the forges and factories that had begun to blight the English countryside with the onset of the Industrial Revolution. But the most famous and influential meditation on this theme was undoubtedly Mary Shelley s novel Frankenstein. It is hardly accidental, of course, that the author in question was the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the greatest of the Romantic poets. As readers of Shelley s book or viewers of the Boris Karlov movie can testify, Frankenstein s successful attempt to create life artificially rather spectacularly backfired, producing misery on all sides. Shelley s point was that seizing godlike authority over nature, though it perhaps satisfies our pride and our desire to dominate the world, in point of fact unleashes powers that we cannot, even in principle, control. John Hammond, the character played so genially by Richard Attenborough in the original Jurassic Park, was an updated and far friendlier version of Frankenstein. Blithely turning back the momentum of evolution and placing ferocious life forms in a combination zoo/amusement park, he perfectly embodied the typically modern, rationalistic attitude that sees everything as an object of manipulation. That he was backed up by greedy financiers and lawyers only made him more dangerous. Jeff Goldblum s character, the quirky chaos theory specialist, gave voice, wisely, to the standard Romantic critique: John, the kind of control you re attempting here is, ah, it s not possible. That the chaos theorist had it right was bloodily proven in the original movie and in pretty much every iteration of Jurassic Park since. Well, in the most recent installment of the series, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, still other Frankensteins and John Hammonds emerge. This time they are an elderly tycoon, his youthful business colleague, a ruthless wrangler and a whole coterie of unscrupulous arms dealers willing to pay exorbitant prices so as to acquire and weaponize the dinosaurs. Once more, the tale is told through rampaging beasts and piles of corpses: The kind of control you re attempting here is, ah, it s not possible. Please don t get me wrong, this is a good message. Mary Shelley was right and so are the makers of the Jurassic Park movies. If you want Catholic confirmation of this theme, take a good long look at Pope Francis letter Laudato Si, which excoriates our arrogant attempts to master
August 5, 2018 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 and manipulate nature. What is bothersome in the latest film is the emergence of a new and much more problematic motif namely, the moral equivalence of human beings and other animals. The heroes of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom want to rescue the dinosaurs from Isla Nublar, which is threatened by a catastrophic volcanic eruption and, as Jerry Seinfeld would say, there is nothing wrong with that. However, when the dinosaurs end up on the mainland in cages and are menaced by the release of toxic chemicals (watch the movie for the plot details), one of the heroes elects to open their prisons and let them go free, which is to say, to wander out into the forests of Northern California. The final scene of the film depicts a velociraptor looking down from a ridge over a denselypopulated area, evidently free to hunt at will. As she presses the button, freeing the dinosaurs, the young hero says, We can t let them die. I had to. They re alive like me. The pretty clear implication is that the dinosaurs have the same dignity as human beings and deserve to live as much as we do. They must be released, even if it means thousands of people will die. Well, no. Nature should always be respected, and the arrogant attempt to manipulate nature indeed results in disaster. However, since there exists a qualitative difference between human beings and other living creatures, one must always, in a case of conflict, opt for the former over the latter. The Bible is quite insistent on the goodness of nature and how the non-human world is ingredient in God s great plan of salvation, but it is equally insistent that human beings are made specially in the image and likeness of God and hence have a unique dignity and inviolability. No matter how magnificent an animal might be, it is not a subject of infinite value, as is a human person, and when that distinction is blurred, another version of Frankenstein s monster is unleashed. Bishop Robert Barron is an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Learning to lose July 25, 2018 Teresa joined her father and I for an afterdinner game of Parcheesi the other evening. For anyone not familiar, it s kind of the forerunner of Trouble or Sorry. Players race to get their pieces out onto the board and around the course. The first one to get all four pieces safely home wins. It relies both on luck, in the form of rolls of the dice, and some strategy, in deciding which pieces to move and whether to block or send other players back to the start. Both my husband and I took it pretty easy on Teresa, given that she s 8. We generally didn t send her back if there was any other option, and tried not to block her path, at least not for too long. We did not extend the same courtesy to one another. So, of course, she was way ahead of us, three of her pieces already home and the fourth nearly there when she rolled doubles three times in a row. Doubles in Parcheesi are very lucky you get to move based on the number of pips on the top and bottom of the dice and roll again. Two sets doubles in a row is doubly lucky. (Continued on page 6)
Page 6 St. Lambert Parish 18th Sunday Ordinary Time (Continued from page 5) Three sets of doubles is not lucky at all. You have to send your closest piece to home all the way back to the beginning. That threw Teresa into a tailspin. She complained, she walked away from the table, she came back and complained some more about how unfair it was. We explained that much of the game is based on the luck of the dice, and it would be unfair for one person to not have to follow the rules. We also told her that she was so far ahead she would still likely win. Annual Pilgrimage/Retreat to Central America January 14-25, 2019 She was having none of it, so we put the game away without a winner. No one was having fun anymore. And that s OK. Losing with grace or accepting reversals that make you think you are going to lose is something you have to learn. Only children, or children whose siblings are all significantly older than they are, might have a harder time with that lesson, especially within their own families. Teresa doesn t seem to feel entitled to win when she plays with other children, or competes against them in swimming or other sports. At home, years of shuffling the cards so they d fall in her favor in Candy Land came home to roost. I hope we can play Parcheesi again soon, and I hope she has more fun with it. There s no shame in playing and losing. Sometimes things don t go your way. Sometimes they do, and you win on sheer luck. But having time to play together as a family? To me, that s winning. Michelle Martin is staff writer at Chicago Catholic. For more articles from Michelle Martin and Bishop Barron, subscribe to Chicago Catholic the Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Call 833-813-6400. Saint Oscar Romero Blessed Fr. Stan Rother Walk with us in the footsteps of modern-day martyrs to El Salvador and Guatemala! For almost 20 years, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers have been accompanying clergy on a pilgrimage to El Salvador and Guatemala to visit the Shrines of Central American Martyrs. This pilgrimage offers a special opportunity to know better and celebrate the sacrifices these martyrs made. During the pilgrimage we will visit Santiago Atitlan in Guatemala where Oklahoma diocesan priest, Blessed Fr. Stan Rother gave his life for his Mayan Indian parishioners. Estimated Cost: $1,000 includes accommodations, in-country travel and meals. Participants are responsible for their travel to and from Central America Deposit: $100.00 due August 15, 2018 Balance: $900.00 due by November 15, 2018 For more information contact Claudia Velardo at: cvelardo@maryknoll.org
August 5, 2018 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7 The Bread of Life John 6:25-65. Jesus taught the crowd that he is the bread of life, with which you will never be hungry nor be thirsty again. He is the bread of life for all the people who believe in him, to be saved and get the eternal life. Copyright 2018 All right reserved. This site is a project of MMBOX PRODUCTION