Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Ave. Skokie, IL 60076 Phone:847-673-5090 E-mail: saintlambert@aol.com Website: www.stlambert.org St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL Sunday Masses: (5 pm Sat) 8am, 10am, 12 pm Weekday Masses: 7:15 am (Mon-Fri) 8am on Saturday Confessions: Saturday at 8:30 am 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 : Jonathan Rivera saintlambertsyouthchurch @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 the rectory. Please email Debbie for requirements and to register. St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord April 9, 2017 Palm Sunday Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. 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.
Page 2 St. Lambert Parish Palm Sunday Masses for the Week Saturday, April 8 5:00 Jerome Cascino Sunday, April 9 8:00 Sally Del Rosario 10:00 Hipolita Hernandez 12:00 People of St Lambert Monday, April 10 7:15 Telesforo Gamido Tuesday, April 11 7:15 Mille Sklena Wednesday, April 12 7:15 M/M Jose H. Perez Holy Thursday, April 13- no Morning Mass Mass of the Lords Supper at 7:00 pm Good Friday, April 14- no Morning Mass Stations of the Cross at 12 noon Confessions at 1 pm Seven Last Words at 3 pm Veneration of the Cross at 7 pm Holy Saturday, April 15 - no Morning Mass Confessions at 8:30 am Blessings of the Easter Baskets at noon 8:00 pm Easter Vigil Mass Dscd. Families of Sri Lanka Easter Sunday, April 16 6:30 Salubong Mass 8:00 Monica Liu 10:00 Angel & Gilberto Mercado 12:00 People of St. Lambert READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Is 42:1-7; Ps 27:1-3, 13-14; Jn 12:1-11 Tuesday: Is 49:1-6; Ps 71:1-6, 15, 17; Jn 13:21-33, 36-38 Wed.: Is 50:4-9a; Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31, 33-34; Mt 26:14-25 Thursday: Chrism Mass: Is 61:1-3ab, 6a, 8b-9; Ps 89:21-22, 25, 27; Rv 1:5-8; Lk 4:16-21 Lord s Supper: Ex 12:1-8, 11-14; Ps 116:12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18; 1 Cor 11:23-26; Jn 13:1-15 Friday: Is 52:13 53:12; Ps 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn 18:1 19:42 Saturday: a) Gn 1:1 2:2 [1:1, 26-31a]; Ps 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 13-14, 24, 35; or Ps 33:4-7, 12-13, 20-22;b) Gn 22:1-18 [1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18]; Ps 16: 5, 8-11; c) Ex 14:15 15:1; Ex 15:1-6, 17-18; d) Is 54:5-14; Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-13;e) Is 55:1-11; Is 12:2-6; f) Bar 3:9-15, 32 4:4; Ps 19:8-11; g) Ez 36:16-17a, 18-28; Ps 42:3, 5; 43:3-4 or Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 or Ps 51:12-15, 18-19; h) Rom 6:3-11; i) Mt 28:1-10 Sunday: Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23; Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8; Jn 20:1-9 or Mt 28:1-10 or (at an afternoon or evening Mass) Lk 24:13-35 Saint Lambert Senior Activity Club We normally meet on the Thursday of the month which is April 13th this month but this happens to be Holy Thursday. Therefore our meeting is transferred to Thursday April 20th Sunday Offertory Collection March 25/26 2017 Envelopes: $5,318.50 Loose: 1,817.44 Total: $7,135.94 YouthChurch: $148.00 For Online Giving: www.givecentral.org Thank you for your continued support! Next week Easter Sunday NO Coffee Hour
April 9, 2017 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3 SEEING CHRIST CLEARLY We start today looking through the portals of Jerusalem, seeing crowds of people, cheering and waving palm branches in the air. The whole atmosphere is one of joy, triumph, and celebration. We can get distracted or enthralled by the scene, and not see clearly the features of Jesus as he enters. But our readings from Isaiah and Paul s letter to the Philippians clarify his features for us. He is the Suffering Servant, meek and mute before his captors and persecutors; he is the very image of the unseen God, yet will not clutch at equality with God before he endures his final confrontation in humility. Isaiah and Paul help us behold the Lamb of God before we hear the story of his final and greatest confrontation. It is important that we see Christ clearly before we hear the account of his passion, for we his Body through baptism, the church now bear his face. We must, with him, enter into this time of trial so we can, also with him, enter into his final triumph. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. THE CROSS We should glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, in whom is our salvation, life and resurrection; through whom we are saved and delivered. Entrance Antiphon, Evening Mass of the Lord s Supper, Roman Missal Calendar Raffle Winners Sunday, Apr 02, 2017 $ 500.00 # 1133 Jolls, Dan Monday, Apr 03, 2017 $ 50.00 # 1178 Kuman, Izabela Tuesday, Apr 04, 2017 $ 50.00 # 2281 Aguirre, Purificacion Wednesday, Apr 05, 2017 $ 50.00 # 2977 Briones, Regino & Adora Thursday, Apr 06, 2017 $ 50.00 # 1873 Raspapovich, Hannah Friday, Apr 07, 2017 $ 50.00 # 3561 Bosque, Ciriaca Saturday, Apr 08, 2017 $ 50.00 # 1902 Doreza, Hadley Winning raffle booklet numbers are put back in the hopper. Giving you more opportunities to win throughout the year! PRIZES: $50 Monday thru Saturday $100 Weekly Sunday (except 1st Sunday) $500 Every 1 st Sunday of the Month
Page 4 St. Lambert Parish Palm Sunday The Reverend Know-it-all What I don t know I can always make up! Letter to Grace Uberlaw continued: To make heads or tails of this whole business we are going to need a slightly longer trip into the history of Israel, Judaism/ Rabbinic Phariseeism and Christianity. We are going to have to set the wayback machine for about 1,500 BC. 1Kings 6: 1 says that the Exodus, the escape of the descendants of Israel from slavery in Egypt, happened 480 years before Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem in 957 BC. That would put the date of Exodus around 1446 BC, but scholars who consider the Exodus a real event place it around 1250 1200 BC. There is a very fascinating and very garbled reminiscence of the Exodus in the writing of the Greek historian Hecataeus of Abdera around 300BC. He wrote that the Egyptians blamed a plague on foreigners whom they drove out of Egypt. Their leader, Moses led them into the land of Canaan. Still more interesting and also more garbled are the writings of Manetho, an Egyptian historian (also around 300 BC) who is quoted by the Jewish historian Josephus (37-100 AD). Manetho wrote about the Hyksos, a despised foreign people from Asia. They conquered Egypt but were eventually expelled by the indigenous Egyptians. When they were expelled they founded the city of Jerusalem and its Temple. In a second story Manetho says that 80,000 lepers and other unclean foreigners led by the priest Osarseph, united with the Hyksos in Jerusalem in an attempt to take over Egypt, but again, the pharaoh and his son chased them out of Egypt. Osarseph finally gives these lepers a code of law. The name Osarseph sounds like a combination of the names Moses and Joseph. Who knows? All that said, the most ancient archaeological reference to Israel is found on the Stele of Merneptah. A stele is a kind of stone plaque on which kings, particularly Egyptian kings, loved to point out how wonderful and victorious they were. The Pharaoh Merneptah reigning from 1213 to 1203 BC brags on this particular stele that he had conquered the Libyans but the stele also throws in a few other conquests in case you weren t that impressed by conquest of Libya. Canaan has been plundered into every sort of woe. Ashkelon has been overcome. Gezer has been captured. Yano'am is made non-existent. Israel is laid waste and his seed is not. Merneptah should visit Rogers Park or Skokie, if he thinks that Israel is no more. Merneptah claims to have defeated Israel in about 1210 BC. If Israel actually left Egypt in 1250 BC and wandered 40 years in the desert, they would not even have finished unpacking their suit cases before Merneptah obliterated them. My point is this; it seems that Israel was well established in the hill country of Canaan (present day Israel) by 1210 BC. Another interesting detail is hinted at by the song of Miriam. It is the most archaic Hebrew text in the Bible. More usually called the Shiryat Hayam, the Song of the Sea (Exodus 15:1 18). It recounts the deliverance of Israel from the Egyptians and the crossing of the Red Sea. The style of its Hebrew comes from before 1,000 BC. We still sing it at our Easter Vigil Mass. It is a marvel that a song written at least 3.100 years ago, recounting an event that may have happed 3,500 years ago will be sung in Skokie, Illinois next week as we remember the event. Songs are easy to remember and persist for centuries even with their archaic language. All of us know that beloved old English song, Sumer is a cumin in, lude sing cuku. Well, at least I know it. It is medieval English at least 800 years old. Songs persist. This would hint that the song of the sea was written well before the building of the temple. It may actually date to the Exodus in 1500 BC. (or 1250?) There was in fact an Exodus. Moses in fact
April 9, 2017 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 received the law. It may not have happened exactly the way we remember it from the classic 1956 film Exodus starring Charlton Heston, Yule Brenner, Edward G. Robinson and that smoldering femme fatale, Ann Baxter. We all assume that Rameses the Great, (Yul Brenner) was the pharaoh of the Exodus, and therefore the Exodus had to happen around 1250 BC when Yul Brenner, I mean Rameses, was pharaoh of Egypt. This is of course because they built the city of Pi-Ramses. There is a slight detail worth mentioning. The city of Rameses existed for centuries before Pharaoh Rameses was born. Rameses like many politicians enjoyed naming other people s accomplishments after himself. Three things should be remembered. Israel was well established in Canaan by 1200 BC, the Song of the Sea detailing the deliverance of Israel from slavery in Egypt by means of a miracle goes way back and finally something happened that later Egyptians wanted to spin: Israel didn t escape, we threw them out! that accompanied them in the desert. The law in the ark in the tabernacle in the temple, like Russian nesting dolls, are the foundation of all things Jewish and Christian. As far as Rabbinic Phariseeism/Judaism is concerned, the ark is gone, the tabernacle is gone, the temple is gone. Only the law endures. As far as traditional Orthodox and Catholic Christianity is concerned they are not gone, Jesus, the Messiah is the law come to life, the womb of the Virgin Mary was a living ark, we are the tabernacle made of living stones where the presence of God dwells and we are the temple that is a house of prayer for all nations. The things seen in the desert and housed in Jerusalem were just foreshadowings of the true temple made of living stones, the Church, the Israel of God. Next week: More about the Pharisees. They really were and are a fascinating bunch. The Bible sometimes presents history that is poetic and telescoped, but it does present history. The Exodus and the gift of the law created Israel and have sustained Israel. Our relation to the Law of Moses is one of the great themes of the Bible. This law commanded that building of an ark, the ahron into which were placed the stone tablets of the law which Moses had received from Heaven. This ahron was carefully veiled and placed inside the inner chamber of a special tent called the mishkan, or the dwelling. This tent is called the tabernacle in English, a word that means little hut or little dwelling in Latin. It s the same word we Catholics use for the box in which we reserve the Holy Eucharist. That was then surrounded by a large roofless structure made of fabric called the tent of meeting, or the sanctuary. The ahron/ark travelled with the people in the desert and eventually came to the city of Shiloh in central Canaan, about twenty miles north of Jerusalem. About 1,000 BC, David brought the ahron/ark to Jerusalem his new capital, and his son Solomon built the Temple to house the ahron/ark in imitation of the tabernacle and the sanctuary
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April 9, 2017 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7 Hosanna in the highest Matthew 21:7-11, Mark 11:7-10, Luke 19:36-40, John 12:12-15. On the way to Jerusalem, people covered the path with their cloaks. Others spread palm leaves. People praised God loudly and joyfully. "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!". Some Pharisees asked Jesus to stop them. Then Jesus answered, "I tell you, if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out." Copyright 2017 All right reserved. This site is a project of MMBOX PRODUCTION