St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord April 16, 2017 Easter Sunday Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Ave, Skokie 60076 Phone: (847) 673-5090 E-mail: saintlambert@aol.com St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL Website: www.stlambert.org Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon Rev. Know-it-all: reverendknow-it-all.blogspot.com Deacon: Mr. Chick O Leary Sunday Masses: (5 pm Sat) 8am, 10am, 12pm Weekday Masses: 7:15 am (Mon-Fri) 8am on Sat. Confessions: Saturday at 8:30am Music Director: Mr. Steven Folkers Office Staff: Debbie Morales-Garcia debbie.stlambert@aol.com Mr. George Mohrlein Religious Education : Jonathan Rivera saintlambertsyouthchurch@gmail.com To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under About Us also by email or 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. For requirements & to register, email Debbie. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication and can be sent to debbie.stlambert@aol.com.
Page 2 St. Lambert Parish Easter Sunday Masses for the Week 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 Monday, April 17 7:15 Nelson Corpuz II Tuesday, April 18 7:15 Denita & Luis Lojo Wednesday, April 19 7:15 Edwin Revinna Birthday Thursday, April 20 7:15 William Russ Friday, April 21 7:15 Millie Sklena Saturday, April 22 8:00 Miguel Rios 5:00 Oscar Angeles Sunday, April 23 8:00 People of St Lambert 10:00 The Perez Family Grandchildren 12:00 Jesus & Maida Montero Wedding Anniversary DANCING FOR JOY The people say that the sun dances on this day in joy for a risen Savior. Alexander Carmichael READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Acts 2:14, 22-33; Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-11; Mt 28:8-15 Tuesday: Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33:4-5, 18-20, 22; Jn 20:11-18 Wednesday: Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-4, 6-9; Lk 24:13-35 Thursday: Acts 3:11-26; Ps 8:2, 5-9; Lk 24:35-48 Friday: Acts 4:1-12; Ps 118:1-2, 4, 22-27; Jn 21:1-14 Saturday: Acts 4:13-21; Ps 118:1, 14-21; Mk 16:9-15 Sunday: Acts 2:42-47; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 Pt 1:3-9; Jn 20:19-31 Sunday Offertory Collection April 1/2, 2017 Envelopes: $8,367.44 Loose: 1,894.99 Total: $10,262.43 YouthChurch: $ 140.00 For Online Giving: www.givecentral.org Thank you for your continued support! Saint Lambert Senior Activity Club We will meet on Thursday April 20th at 11 am in Roberts Hall There will be no Coffee Hour today but next week, April 23rd the FFOS will host and the contact person is Lily Syfu. Join us!
April 16, 2017 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3 REJOICE AND BE GLAD This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad (Psalm 118:24). Let us remember that these words of today s responsorial psalm are not only sung from the hearts of those gathered in our parish. They are also sung by the poor in tiny barrios throughout Central and South America. They are sung by those denied religious freedom in our world; these Christians lift their voices in clandestine places of worship. These words are sung by people who have lost loved ones to acts of terrorism and war around the globe. Even in the midst of conflict and division, Christians still come together to declare that poverty, loneliness, violence, and division will never, ever have as much power as the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Indeed, let us rejoice this day and be glad! Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. Hop To It Check out our 2 day Craft Sale Sacred Heart Convent 2221 Elmwood Ave., Wilmette Friday & Saturday April 21 & 22 from 13 to 4 pm Follow the signs to the back of the convent & enter the door near the garage marked Craft Sale Slippers Baby Afghans Catholic Charities Collection on Mother s Day No one should know the pain of losing a child to violence or the darkness of gang life. Struggling families have the right to raise healthy children, safely. Catholic Charities brings grace and dignity to the most troubled neighborhoods in the city and suburbs, healing deep-seated wounds and providing alternatives for a better way of life. Your Mother s Day gift will help people live productive, secure, and fulfilling lives. Catholic Charities has provided hope for 100 years. Learn more at www.catholiccharities.net. Summer Hats And Much More!! Calendar Raffle Winners 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 Sunday, Apr 09, 2017 $ 100.00 #2375 Ancel, Terry Monday, Apr 10, 2017 $ 50.00 #3022 Lendsey, Maria Tuesday, Apr 11, 2017 $ 50.00 #1813 Jaboni, Edna Wednesday, Apr 12, 2017 $ 50.00 #3365 Kepes, Edward Thursday, Apr 13, 2017 $ 50.00 #3483 Falk, John Friday, Apr 14, 2017 $ 50.00 #3199 FFOS Donated by the Folkers Saturday, Apr 15, 2017 $ 50.00 #1575 Warnick, Jeffrey
Page 4 St. Lambert Parish Easter Sunday The Reverend Know-it-all What I don t know I can always make up! Letter to Grace Uberlaw continued: Before I can launch into a discussion of the Pharisees, there really is a bit more I have to tell you about the Temple. As you remember, the First Temple, built in 957 BC by King Solomon, the son of David and Bathsheba and replaced Mishkan Tent (the Tabernacle) constructed in the Sinai Desert by Moses. The new Temple, was an amazing structure. It was soon sacked by Pharaoh Shoshenq of Egypt only thirty or forty years after it was finished. It was patched back together, but was thoroughly restored by King Jehoash of Judah in 835 BC at considerable expense, only to be plundered again by the Judeans themselves in an attempt to bribe Sennacherib, King of Assyria around 700 BC. At that point he had already deported the northern tribes of Israel. It was completely destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC (or 425 BC according to rabbinical Jewish commentators.) Some of the Judeans returned from exile in Babylon in 583 BC after about sixty years in exile. They rebuilt the temple in 515 BC, but it was a mere shadow of the splendor of Solomon s Temple and the Ark of the Covenant had been lost or hidden, probably during the Babylonian invasion of Judea sixty years before. At the heart of this new but poor reconstruction was an empty room, the Holy of Holies. The Ark of the Covenant was gone. The few old men who remembered Solomon s Temple from childhood before they were exiled, wept for sorrow when they saw how much shabbier this second Temple was when compared to the first. Nonetheless, the Persians were decent rulers at the time and there was a pretty boring period of almost two hundred years of relative peace. The real center of Jewish life remained in Babylon, the New York City of the ancient Mideast. Jerusalem was a bit of a backwater with its sleepy, shabby Temple. However peace never seems to last forever. The Temple was almost destroyed again in 332 BC when the Jews refused to allow the worship of Alexander the Great. They schmoozed Alexander who was calmed down by shrewd diplomacy and a lot of flattery. Alexander died in 323 BC, and the Greek Ptolemies, descendants of one of Alexander s generals, were the new rulers of Egypt and the adjoining area. In 198 BC, Antiochus, a descendant of Seleucus, another of Alexander s generals, became the dominant local power. He ruled Syria and edged the Egyptian Ptolemies out of the Holy Land among other places. Antiochus wanted to make everyone Greek. He insisted on the worship of the Greek gods in the Jerusalem Temple, built a theater and gymnasium (Oh the Horror!) in Jerusalem and forbad circumcision. One of his successors a few years later zealously enforced the process of Hellenization (Greekification as it were.) He forbad the observance of Sabbath and circumcision. He set up the image of Zeus in the Jerusalem Temple and had Greek priests sacrifice pigs (the favorite food of the Greek gods) in the Temple itself. Enough was enough! Not long after, a Jewish priest, Mattathias of the Hashmon Family, killed a Greek official who was trying to enforce the worship of the Greek gods in the hill town of Modein. In about 167 BC, the people rose up to join him and his sons in a war of independence and eventually they expelled the Syrian Greeks. His son Judas Maccabaeus, (Maccabeus is a nickname that means Hammer because he hammered the Greeks) re-dedicated the Temple in 165 BC. The feast remembering the restoration of the Temple is called Hanukkah. Around 63BC, Pompey the Roman general conquered Jerusalem and desecrated the Holy of Holies by entering it, but left the Temple standing. The Jews then revolted unsuccessfully against Roman rule in 43 BC. At some point in all this revolting, the Hasmoneans,
April 16, 2017 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 better known as the Maccabees, expanded the Temple platform on top of Mount Moriah, probably for military purposes. They also arrogated the position of High Priest and king to themselves. High Priests were descended from Zadok the priest and kings were descended from David. The Temple platform, a sacred space built by Solomon, was 500 cubits (750feet) square. It was not a rectangle and was not to be used for any purpose but the worship of God. The Hasmoneans/ Maccabees managed to defile the priesthood, the monarchy and the Temple. And it gets worse. Along comes Herod the Great. He was a hack politician who had inveigled himself into the Maccabee family, married the last princess of the dynasty, killed off the rest of them and petitioned Rome to make him King of the Jews. Around 20 BC, he rebuilt the Temple from top to bottom and expanded the 500 cubit platform to the size of 24 football fields almost 145 acres. The front of the central shrine was said to have been plated in gold. It was reputed to be the most beautiful building in the ancient world, a magnificent monument to the glory of Herod. It was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD during the Siege of Jerusalem. And since about 690AD is the site of a Muslim shrine and the El Aksa mosque. Jews pray at what remains of the western wall of the Herodian expansion. History. Read it and weep! TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Easter is nearly three weeks later this year than last. Why does the date wobble around the calendar so? The way of calculating the date was set by the Emperor Constantine in 325. The decision ended a very bitter controversy in the church. Some people wanted to synchronize the Pasch with Passover on the fourteenth day of the Jewish month Nissan, and their opponents wanted it after the Passover was complete, on the Sunday after the first full moon of springtime. The ecclesiastical rules do not exactly connect with the astronomical rules. The emperor squashed the hopes of the quartodecimans, as the fans of 14 Nissan were called, and chose Sunday. The traditional rule is that Easter is the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the vernal equinox, the fourteenth day of the new moon, and later than March 21. Thus, Easter wobbles between March 22 and April 25. The actual tables and methods for computing the date are extraordinarily detailed, with subtle variations and mind-bending exceptions and charts with golden numbers, dominical letters, and epacts measuring leap years. In 1954 and 1962 the ecclesiastical calculations actually overrode the astronomical new moons and bumped Easter back a month! Today, there is a movement in the World Council of Churches (Protestants and Orthodox) for all Christians to combine their celebrations, based on the star charts for the Jerusalem skies. In principle, the Catholic Church is open to an ecumenical agreement on a fixed date for Easter, but we desire a unanimous decision from the World Council. Rev. James Field, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co.
Page 6 St. Lambert Parish Easter Sunday Office of the Archbishop 835 North Rush Street Chicago, IL 60611-2030 312.534.8230 archchicago.org Easter Sunday 2017 Dear Sisters and Brothers in the Risen Lord, This year s Easter gospel comes to us from Saint Ma hew. He describes Easter morning. Women go to the tomb at dawn on the first day of the week. An angel appears and speaks to them: Do not be afraid! I know that you are seeking Jesus the crucified. He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples. In these words, we find the essen al Easter message directed to each one of us today in our uncertain world and amid the painful burdens we carry: do not be afraid, come and see, go and tell. Easter eases our fear when we come to know God s triumph in the resurrec on of Jesus. Easter invites us to come and see with fresh eyes what God has done in conquering sin and death. Easter summons us to go and share our faith and hope with others. When we hear this message and recognize Jesus Christ as the Risen Lord of life, how can we not praise and thank God? How can we not walk together with new confidence and hope? In a me when violence and death-dealing forces seem rampant in the world and even in our own neighborhoods, we truly need new confidence and hope. And when we listen to the Lord, as we have been trying to do in the Archdiocese of Chicago, to seek direc ons for the renewal of our local Church, we surely need new confidence and hope. Pray with me that we may all truly hear the words do not be afraid, come and see, go and tell and so draw new life from them for our loved ones, our world, our city and metropolitan area, our Church, and our very selves. Sincerely yours in Christ, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich Archbishop of Chicago
April 16, 2017 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7 Resurrection of Jesus Matthew 28:1-6 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord came down from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. And the angel answered and said unto the women, Do not be afraid for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, just as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.