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First Sunday of Lent READINGS FOR THE WEEK February 18, 2018 Your ways, O LORD, Monday: Lv 19:1-2, 11-18; Ps 19:8-10, 15; make known to me; Mt 25:31-46 teach me your paths. Tuesday: Is 55:10-11; Ps 34:4-7, 16-19; Mt 6:7-15 — Psalm 25:4 Wednesday: Jon 3:1-10; Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19; Lk 11:29-32 Thursday: 1 Pt 5:1-4; Ps 23:1-3a, 4-6; Mt 16:13-19 Masses for the Week Friday: Ez 18:21-28; Ps 130:1-8; Mt 5:20-26 Saturday: Dt 26:16-19; Ps 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8; Saturday, February 17 Mt 5:43-48 5:00 † Bridget Fernando Sunday: Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18; Ps 116:10, 15-19; Rom 8:31b-34; Mk 9:2-10 Sunday, February 18 8:00 † Hristo Devedjiev & Will Arce 10:00 † Clara Genovaldi 12:00 People of St Lambert Monday, February 19 7:15 † Mr /Mrs Pedro Rustan Tuesday, February 20 7:15 † Clint Briggs Wednesday, February 21 7:15 Joseph & Michael Hloden and Family Thursday, February 22 7:15 Jonathan Rivera Friday, February 23 7:15 † Pat Albergo & John Crump Saturday, February 24 8:00 † Kirk & Keith Pamper 5:00 † Helen Nemmers Sunday, February 25 8:00 † Bridget Fernando 10:00 † Saul Hernandez 12:00 People of St Lambert

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Rite of Calling the Candidates to Continuing Conversion; Rite of Sending The Coffee Hour will be hosted by the Monday: Presidents’ Day; Julian Calendar Lent FFOS and the contact person is Wednesday: St. Lu Alog. She can be reached at Thursday: Chair of St. Peter the Apostle; 847-674-3995. Washington’s Birthday Friday: St. ; Abstinence Join us for fellowship and friendship! February 18, 2018 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3 The Reverend Know-it-all through the ranks of bishop and cardinal, naming “What I don’t know… him vice-chancellor of the . This made him so rich that he was actually able to buy the I can always make up!” papacy by bribing the electing cardinals. He had at Letter to Moses “Mo” Derniste least seven different children by a number of continued: “Why I remain a women. Rodrigo was refreshingly honest in so far ” as he recognized his children as his children. He also gave them lavish bequests at expense. I am a Catholic because the He made his son a cardinal at one point, is infallible. “What?” I hear you but Cesare eventually quit the job and went back say. “Have you read any history? to what he was good at; killing and soldiering. There have been some truly Giovanni de Medici said “Now we are in the power whackadoodle . What of a wolf, the most rapacious perhaps that this about Pope Boniface VIII (1235 – 1303)? He really world has ever seen. And if we do not flee, he will believed he was in charge of EVERTHING and inevitably devour us all.” I could go on for quite a EVERYBODY. For instance, he got into a fight with while. There are a lot more horrible popes. Read the powerful , and trashed several Mike Aquilina’s book, “Good Pope Bad Pope.” All of the towns they ran including Palestrina where this said, I am a Catholic because the pope is 6,000 citizens were killed. Then there’s Benedict infallible. “What?” Again I can hear you mutter. “I IX (1012 – 1065, maybe). He was made pope when wouldn’t be part of that institution for a minute!” he was a teenager and was tossed out of office Hold on a minute, there have been 266 popes and twice, because he was so dissolute and then only ten truly horrible ones. There have also been abdicated because he was not sure he could stay a lot of anti-popes. These are guys who thought pope and wanted to marry his cousin anyway. He they were pope, but weren’t. The list includes sold the papal to his uncle. He got tired of some very powerful men and some true loons being married and wanted to be pope for a third who put on a white beanie and declare, “I’m the time. He was finally deposed by Emperor Henry III pope. Jesus told me so.” There’s about five or ten of Germany. His father, a Roman politician, had of them around right now! I am not saying I am gotten him elected. He had no qualifications and Catholic because most of the popes have been led a dissolute life of rape, adultery, and murder. decent. I am a Catholic because the popes have St. Peter Damian said that Benedict was “a demon proved to be infallible. None of them have from hell in the disguise of a priest.” “His life as a succeeded in changing the universal teaching of pope,” wrote Pope Victor III, “was so vile, so foul, the to suite their own particular peculiarities. and so execrable, that I shudder to think of it.” There is a possibility that he repented and died as My point is this. There have been some very bad a . Let’s hope. popes elected. We have been blessed in modern times with good and holy men, so it may come as Everybody’s favorite bad pope is a Spaniard, a surprise to you that there have been some very Rodrigo Borgia, Pope VI (1431 – 1503), bad men who have parked their papal dignity on father of the murderous Cesare -and Lucretia, the the throne of St. Peter. That is one of the reasons I poison-pouring tramp (who actually may not have am a Catholic. The faith has not been derailed by been as bad as everybody says.) The whole Borgia the some of the worst men in history. The faith crew currently has a couple of miniseries going. handed down to us from the apostles Peter and are very popular in syndication. Paul remains intact. It has been assailed by Rodrigo’s uncle was Pope Calixtus III who whisked countless theologians, politicians and self-serving this very capable and crafty nephew through clerics and yet it remains. (Continued on page 4) Page 4 St. Lambert Parish First Sunday of Lent

(Continued from page 3) governments and kings, even in temporal Back to papal which, as history proves, questions. In other words, if the pope says it will is a real thing. What then is ? Here rain tomorrow, it will rain tomorrow. This means is the text book definition from the First Vatican that papal infallibility does not extend to political council. theory or weather forecasting. The popes may comment on such things, but they are not part of “We teach and define that it is a Divinely the deposit of Catholic faith. revealed that the Roman pontiff when he speaks ex , that is when in discharge of the office of Another limitation, the pope is infallible only when pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his speaking ex Cathedra. This is very important. In supreme Apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine times past a rabbi had a chair on which he sat regarding faith or morals to be held by the universal when teaching. We see in the of Matthew Church, by the Divine assistance promised to him in that Jesus goes up the mountain and sits down to Blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with teach his . The pope when which the Divine willed that his Church he “sits” in the Chair of Peter, that is he speaks as should be endowed in defining doctrine regarding the spiritual descendant of Peter, will not be faith or morals, and that therefore such definitions allowed by the Holy Spirit to fall into error. He still of the Roman pontiff are of themselves and not cannot predict the weather. That would be to “sit” from the consent of the Church irreformable.” in the chair of the 10 O’clock weather report. Different chair. The pope cannot change revealed What most people don’t understand is that the truth. He cannot add to revealed truth. He can doctrine of papal infallibility actually limits papal and must reemphasize and bring forward in power. For instance, in a document called the current language what and the Church “Dictaus Papae”, Pope Gregory VII, or one of his have always taught. His infallibility is a catholic minions in 1075, insisted “That all princes shall kiss infallibility. It is part of an unbroken chain of truth the feet of only the pope.” This means that the that reaches back to Christ. pope has complete political power. The doctrine of papal infallibility means that the pope is Infallibility does not give anyone the ability to infallible only in matters of faith and morals. He is contradict Christ and the consistent two thousand not politically infallible. He cannot dictate political year old deposit of faith. Take the case of Pope policy to anyone nor infallibly endorse one political Liberius (310 – 366) He got into a tussle with the system over another. The doctrine of papal Christian Roman emperor Constantius who infallibility is a reaction and a refutation to the favored Arianism. The doctrine that Jesus wasn’t error of really divine and there wasn’t really a Holy . Constantius arrested Liberius and after a couple Ultramontanism which means “beyond the years of exile, Liberius seems to have written a mountains”, the to be precise The pope lives couple of letters to Constantius that waffled on beyond the Alps, down there in sunny . Arianism, thus winning his freedom and returning Ultramontanism places strong emphasis on the to . These letters may or may not have been prerogatives and powers of the pope. From the written by Liberius, but they certainly weren’t ex 17th century on, Ultramontanism became closely Cathedra, and the faith in one God in three persons associated with the Jesuits, who take a vow of and the divine person of Jesus, fully human and personal loyalty to the pope. They were excellent fully divine in nature have been taught since teachers and were tutors in the royal courts in before the Scriptures were written and continue Europe. They were famous for their political to be taught. It is a universal that is “catholic” influence promoting papal interests in European teaching believed by the whole Church for its politics. They held the pope to be to entire history. To radically depart from the February 18, 2018 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 catholic nature of a teaching, that is its consistent The Holy Father usually marks the teaching throughout history, is to cease to be solemn opening of the Lenten fast with a Catholic. In a certain sense Jesus gave his procession and Mass on Ash Wednesday teaching chair to Peter and Peter gave it to his evening. He walks from the Benedictine successors, the bishops of Rome. When a pope monastery, San Anselmo, down the Aventine hill to the Dominican monastery of like Liberius or Alexander sits in his own chair he is . This very old tradition was simply not speaking infallibly. Despite all the revived by Pope John XXIII in the late corruption and the theological controversy of 1950s. Have you ever wondered who gives times past, the faith is still the faith and the little the pope his ashes? It’s the cardinal who has red lamp still burns before the tabernacle. And I been given the “” of the church of Santa am still a Catholic. Sabina. The pope’s homily at this Mass states his theme for Lent. Santa Sabina dates from the fifth Rev. Know-it-all century, and is one of the most beautiful churches in Rome. One of the panels on its main doors features the Crucifixion, a scene TODAY’S READINGS not normally depicted in art until much later. In the year 1219 the pope gave the First Reading — God’s covenant with Noah when he church to Dominic for his new was delivered from the flood (Genesis 9:8-15). religious order, the “Order of Preachers,” Psalm — Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those commonly called the Dominicans, and it who keep your covenant (Psalm 25). remains their world headquarters to this Second Reading — The water of the flood prefigured day. That pope, Honorius III, was a member , which saves you now (1 Peter 3:18-22). of the Savelli family, and this church was Gospel — This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of their personal family chapel. Sabina was a God is at hand (Mark 1:12-15). wealthy Roman lady who became a The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © Christian and was martyred, and whose 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. home became a place of prayer. 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