Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL 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 Email: saintlambert@aol.com Rev. Know-it-all: reverendknow-it-all.blogspot.com But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, O God, be merciful to me a sinner. Luke 18:13 Deacon: Mr. Chick O Leary Music Director: Mr. Steven Folkers Office Staff: Debbie Morales-Garcia debie.stlambert@aol.com Mr. George Mohrlein Baptisms: Third Sundays of the month at 1:30 pm.. Please call the rectory for more information or email debbie.stlambert@aol.com Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Religious Education : Jonathan Rivera saintlambertsyouthchurch@gmail.com To Register as a Parishioner: Call the rectory or email us. For Online Giving: www.givecentral.org St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord October 23, 2016 Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received at the rectory office 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication. Submissions should be in electronic format and send to debbie.stlambert@aol.com. If you care to post a flyer in the church vestibule it must first be approved by Fr Simon. If possible, please email flyer to the parish. Fliers posted without permission will be taken down.
Page 2 St. Lambert Parish 30th Sunday Ordinary Time Masses for the Week Saturday, October 22 5:00 Francis Perera & Annie Costa Sunday, October 23 8:00 People of St. Lambert 10:00 Rocco Gillio 12:00 William Pasterczyk Monday, October 24 7:15 Zenaida Ducduc Jangoz Tuesday, October 25 7:15 Frank Niewiadomski Wednesday, October 26 7:15 Irving Lieberman Thursday, October 27 7:15 Regnald Stanton Friday, October 28 7:15 Dcsd. Members of the Vergara Family Saturday, October 29 8:00 Helen Acosta 5:00 Thomas Fernando & Mary Ellen Fernando Sunday, October 30 8:00 People of St. Lambert 10:00 Mark & Linda Lojo, In Thanksgiving 12:00 James & Virginia Cerceo Sunday Offertory Collection October 8/9, 2016 Envelopes: $ 5,451.50 Loose: 2,136.78 Total: $ 7,588.28 YouthChurch: $ 160.94 For Online Giving go to: www.givecentral.org Thank you for your support! Front Cover: Eugene Burnand The Unjust Judge Friends: I am writing to remind you about the need to register as a member of St. Lambert s Parish, and to use parish envelopes. I have often said that it doesn t matter to me whether or not there is a contribution in the envelope. The envelope is evidence of your participation in the Mass. Frequently people will register when they need to baptize a child or some similar situation. We look in the records, and see that yes they registered two years ago, but we have no evince of their subsequent participation. If you don t use the envelopes in any way, how do I know if you have in fact been participating in the life of the parish? I maintain that if you are not coming to Mass, you are not in communion with the parish and the wider Church. Why is registering and using envelopes important? It is the only way I have of certifying a person as an active member of the parish. It seems unimportant, actually a bother, until one needs a recommendation for a job, or a letter of good character, or perhaps a letter recommending a person as a godparent or sponsor at baptism or confirmation. I know some people in the parish very well. Every Sunday I stand in the vestibule and people stop to chat. Others go to their cars as quickly as possible. Some people I know by name, some by face, and some not at all. If you are not someone I see every Sunday and are not registered and you ask me for a letter of recommendation, you are asking me to lie. In effect, you are asking me to commit a sin by saying that I know you and can vouch for your good character. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO ASK ME, OR MEMBERS OF THE PARISH STAFF, TO PERJURE OURSELVES. Fr. Simon The Coffee Hour will be hosted by our Haitian Community and the contact person is Irma Lemithe. Your assistance and baked goods are needed. Please contact Irma at 847-912-6792.
October 23, 2016 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3 Caring by Preparing Come join us for a presentation that can help change the way you view and plan for the future. ST. LAMBERT AFTER DINNER DANCE We ll address such important questions as: Which is a better option for me a will or a living trust? What are the various funeral options? What about cemetery considerations? Preplanning? What family issues should I be aware of when considering my estate planning? Featured Speakers: Mr. Richard Kehoe, Family Service Counselor, Haben Funeral Home Mr. Richard Witry, Attorney, Life-long Skokie resident Where? When? Roberts Hall St. Lambert Parish Thursday, Nov. 3 2:00pm & 7:00pm Sessions Even though this seminar is free, please help us plan for space by calling Richard @ 847.673.6111. Take-home materials and light refreshments will be available. Sponsored by Haben Funeral Home READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Eph 4:32 5:8; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 13:10-17 Tuesday: Eph 5:21-33 or 5:2a, 25-33; Ps 128:1-5; Lk 13:18-21 Wednesday: Eph 6:1-9; Ps 145:10-14; Lk 13:22-30 Thursday: Eph 6:10-20; Ps 144:1b, 2, 9-10; Lk 13:31-35 Friday: Eph 2:19-22; Ps 19:2-5; Lk 6:12-16 Saturday: Phil 1:18b-26; Ps 42:2, 3, 5cdef; Lk 14:1, 7-11 Sunday: Wis 11:22 12:2; Ps 145:1-2, 8-11, 13-14; 2 Thes 1:11 2:2; Lk 19:1-10 Our parish is planning to connect with Most Holy Trinity Parish in Waukegan for this years Christmas gifts for Children. Anyone interested in helping please call the rectory and speak to George or see Joanne Bookstein for more information.
Page 4 St. Lambert Parish 30th Sunday Ordinary Time The Reverend Know-it-all What I don t know I can always make up! Maybe you don t want to read this. It s a little pessimistic) I suppose it is the right of old men to reminisce. I have been thinking of the world of my childhood. I grew up in a suburb that is now rather elegant, but when I was a child it was almost the end of the train line to downtown. It wasn t quite rural, but Groucho Marx and his brothers once had a chicken farm there and we did go picking sweet corn in the next town over, which is also become a rather pricey place to live. Life was as it was always meant to be. We would sit on our front porches on hot summer days, because those day were pre-air conditioning and some of them even pre-tv! At night we would quite literally watch the radio. There was one telephone in the front hall. It was black. There was one car in the garage. It was old. In summer, all the kids would rush out of the houses after breakfast and chores, and sometimes morning Mass. We would hike in the forest; play in the street or in the parish parking lot (which we called the playground). We would pick mulberries in summer and apples in the fall. We would skate on the old mill pond in winter, or go canoeing on the creek in summer. There were ball games and camping trips and dances in the school hall. We were not rich, and no one in our neighborhood was rich. We were seven kids, and most of the people in our neighborhood had families that size. Clothes were patched, and handed down and we ate a lot of hamburger and tuna casserole. Everything except the drugstore was closed on Sunday and after church life was the Sunday funnies and napping on the worn old sofa in the front room and perhaps going outside after a big Sunday dinner to play ghost tag in the twilight and maybe even catch lightning bugs. The war had been over for a decade, but we worried about the godless communists. Life revolved around the parish and things deemed to be the way they were supposed to be. They were the way they had been before the wars and the way they would always be. I had no idea that the civilization that so valued friends, faith and family had died 30 years before I was born and I was just enjoying a memory, a ghost of a world that may once actually have existed, but was now evaporating like a morning mist. Europe and her colonies committed suicide in the first and second world wars. The monarchs and the potentates threw it all away out of greed and arrogance. Women lost their unique dignity as mothers and teachers to become industrial wage slaves as their husbands went off to kill and die for the glory of the cause, the nation, and the wars to end all wars. Certainly there were sweat shops cotton mills and rural poverty and the dignity of woman had been assailed, but what was new was that the masculinization of the world was now a virtuous thing. The enslavement of women by the industrial revolution was made virtuous by war. After all, everyone had to do their part for the war effort, and mother dearest became Rosie the Riveter. The violence of a century of war made the domestic virtues of peace seem obsolete. Masculinity was in. Femininity was out. Women are and always have been the mainstays of culture. The authors, the scientists, the explorers may have been men, but the creators of stability have always been women. What good is a civilization to the homeless? When there are no women, there is no civilization. There has never been a feminist movement. There has been a masculinist movement. The things men do are important. Doctors, lawyer soldiers, these are important. A wife and mother? What good is that? So it is war that has killed western womanhood, and thus killed civilization. Where there are no women there is no future. Only a woman can give life. We are facing perhaps the greatest crisis on
October 23, 2016 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 the history of humanity. For the first time in human history the population is beginning to shrink, not because of war or natural disaster, but because of a failure of motherhood. Beginning around 2050, it is quite possible that the population of the world will begin to shrink, and to do so irretrievably. When there are no children there is no economy. Economies are what allow people to do things like eat and live in buildings. Like the pied piper of Hamlin, the lure of wealth and power the lure of war and masculine aggression have stolen all the children leaving a dying civilization of old people. We in the Church are living in as much of a fool s paradise as I did in the 1950 s. With the death of European civilization, the Church in Europe has also died. She died in the trenches of world war one, when men blamed God for the disaster they had caused. They came back with shaken faith, and now perhaps 4 percent of Europe and her colonies all told, believe in the Catholic faith in any realistic way. The Church flourishes in Africa and Asia, but not in sad suicidal Europe and her suicidal children in her former colonies. We, in the European/Colonial Church still fool ourselves by carrying on business as usual. I wonder how long it is before a person who has died realizes he is dead? It seems some ghosts linger for years. I suppose they go to ghost meetings to discuss the situation. Happy Halloween. Rev. Know it all Notre Dame College Prep will host Open House on Sunday, October 30 (11 am - 2 pm) Notre Dame College Prep, a college preparatory for young men, will host an Open House for grade school boys and their families on Sunday, October 30 from 11 am to 2 pm. The Open House will feature personal tours of the facilities, and information about academic, athletic and extracurricular programs. Located at 7655 West Dempster Street in Niles, Illinois, NDCP provides young men with educations in faith, scholarship and service. It offers a challenging curriculum that meets the individual needs of a diverse student body. With 16 interscholastic sports and more than 30 clubs, activities and intramurals, the 800 students, achieve well-balanced educations and nearly 100 percent of its graduates go on to college. Students come from the United States, Asia and Europe. Discover the Notre Dame College Prep Difference! For more information regarding the Open Houses, contact LaVerne Bontempo at 847.779.8615 or lbontempo@nddons.org.
Page 6 St. Lambert Parish 30th Sunday Ordinary Time The Catholic Campaign for Human Development funds programs in communities across the United States. By giving a hand up, rather than a handout, CCHD helps people loving in poverty join together to identify problems, make decisions, and find ways to improve their lives and neighborhoods. Your support helps to end poverty through building solidarity in our communities. Working together, we can reach out to our brothers and sisters living on the periphery of society. Please visit www.povertyusa.org for more details of CCHD s efforts to spread Christ s love by helping to break the cycle of poverty in your community and across the country. Second Collection Nov. 20, 2016 300 Family Rummage Sale in Deerfield High School Cafeteria, 1959 N. Waukegan Rd, Deerfield IL 60015. Friday & Saturday, Nov 11 th & 12 th. Clothes, Shoes, Toys & Games, Books, Electronics, Sporting goods, Furniture, Holiday decorations, Jewelry, Linens, Art, Housewares, bikes & MUCH MORE. OPEN HOUSE NOVEMBER 9TH 9:00 AM 11:00 AM 1740 Lake Ave., Wilmette, IL 847.256.7870 I stjospehwilmette.com Donated items may be dropped off on Thurs, Nov 10 from 4-6:30 PM behind school at the Cafeteria entrance. Sale hours: Fri 8-3, Sat 9-Noon. $5 bag sale on remaining items 9- Noon Saturday. CASH ONLY. Profits go to charity.
October 23, 2016 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7 Help me find the words! Luke 18:9-14 Pharisee and a tax collector Jesus told a parable for those who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on other people. A Pharisee and a tax collector were praying at the temple. The Pharisee prayed and thanked God, saying that he was a right person, and not a sinner, and that he was doing right things for God. The tax collector prayed and begged for forgiveness recognizing he was a sinner. Jesus said that it was not the Pharisee, but it was this tax collector who was justified before God.