St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord

Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

18 2020 Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon Deacon: Mr. Chick O’Leary Music Director: Mr. Steven Folkers Rev. Know-it-all: Office Staff: Rectory: reverendknow-itall.blogspot.com Debbie Morales-Garcia Website: 8148 N Karlov Avenue [email protected]. www.StLambert.org Skokie, IL 60076 Sunday Masses: (5 pm Sat) Phone: (847) 673-5090 8am, 10am, 12pm Religious Education: St. Lambert Parish - Gina Roxas Skokie, IL E-mail: Confessions: [email protected] [email protected] Saturday at 3:30 pm Page 2 St. Lambert Parish 29th Sunday Ordinary Time

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Only 2 other ways your donation can come Monday: Eph 2:1-10; Ps 100:1b-5; Lk directly to the parish, they are…. 12:13-21 Tuesday: Eph 2:12-22; Ps 85:9ab-14; Lk 1. Online, using our GiveCentral home page at: 12:35-38 givecentral.org/location/204 Wednesday: Eph 3:2-12; Is 12:2-3, 4bcd- (There is a small fee for each transaction to the parish) 6; Lk 12:39-48 Thursday: Eph 3:14-21; Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 11-12, 18-19; Lk 12:49-53 Friday: Eph 4:1-6; Ps 24:1-4ab, 5-6; Lk 12:54-59 Saturday: Eph 4:7-16; Ps 122:1-5; Lk 13:1-9 Sunday: Ex 22:20-26; Ps 18:2-4, 47, 51; 1 Thes 1:5c-10; Mt 22:34-40

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All clocks fall back one hour on November1st, All Saints Day. October 18, 2020 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3

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Maximizing our assets #11

I suppose I should rap this interminable thing up. Let's review. A bishop, including the bishop of was chosen by a consensus of the priests, deacons and laity of a town large enough to have a bishop. The candidate was then approved and ordained by the neighboring bishops. At a certain point the bishop of Rome,that is, the had the final right of approval, but the candidate was put forward by local people. Bishops were generally chosen form among the deacons and presbyters (priests) of the town. A bishop was expected to remain in that town as bishop until his death. To do otherwise was considered adultery. He was in effect married to the Bride of Christ, the local church. The job of the papacy was to correct error and to guard against heresy, not to teach doctrine. It was a sure thing that if you were already a bishop you would never be pope.

That all changed around 850AD when Bishop Marinus of Caere was made bishop of Rome. That meant if you were already a bishop, you could aspire to the papacy. I suspect that's around when bishops started to “trade up”. At the same time, the Holy Roman Emperors started to meddle in the affairs of the Church as the Byzantine Emperors had done before them. The politicization of the church in Europe grew by leaps and bound. Emperors appointed bishops and bishops elected emperors. The secularization of the government of the Church has continued until our times, and titles such as “Prince of the Church” and “Excellency” and “Eminence” started to replace the term “Father” for the hierarchy. In the first days of the Church the only reason to be a bishop or priest or deacon was the love of Christ and his Bride. It was dangerous to be ordained. when the government persecuted the Church they didn't go for the laity, they went for the clergy. By the year, say, 900, there were marked advantages to be ordained. There was actual POWER and STATUS to be had. One might love the Lord, but there were other perfectly good reasons to get involved in the business of religion and there still are.

I believe until we restore the familial nature of the clerical state and the permanence of pastoral relationship, both bishop and pastor, we Catholics will have to endure the same old scandals and corruption that we have endured for more than a thousand years. Bishops should make a promise of stability. Pastors should should again be assigned to parishes for life and if a diocese is large enough to need an auxiliary bishop, it should be split into two dioceses.

No one is happy about the scandals that have recently plagued the clergy. There may, however, be a silver lining to this dark cloud. We are once again vilified and hated just as we are meant to be, just as Christ and the apostles were. There is less and less civil power to be had in the church. Until we repudiate the last vestiges of secular power we will continue to have scandals. Civil power is just too tempting to those who don't really love Christ and the Gospel. The Church exists for three reasons: evangelism, catechesis and worship. In English that means 1)to bring people to a saving knowledge of Christ, 2)to teach people about Christ and His Bride, the Church and 3) to have people fall in love with the Lord and to serve him in the world and in the Church. That's what we are here for and where those three things are neglected for the business of religion, the Church will continue to wither and die.

I would like to recommend the movie “The Apostle” starring Robert Duvall. It is the finest and only film I know that contrasts the mega church and the familial Church. The Church is either a mega church business or it is an intimate family of believers. In “The Apostle” a mega church pastor who is soaked in a world of power and sexual scandal rediscovers the simple faith of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit to change lives, especially his own. If we don't do the same thing in the Roman in America, we will soon be nothing more than a historical curiosity, a society of buffoons prancing about in royal robes instead of the garments of Christ.

Fr. Simon

Give to God what is God’s Matthew 22:15-22

Pharisees and Herodians tried to trap Jesus, asking if it was right to pay taxes to Caesar. Jesus who knew their plan already said "You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? Show me the coin used for paying the tax. Whose portrait is this? and whose inscription?" "Caesar's." they replied. Then Jesus said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." By this answer they were amazed and lost the ways to trap Jesus. Page 6 St. Lambert Parish 29th Sunday Ordinary Time Saints (1560-16456) and John De BréBeuf (1593-1649) and their Companions ~ October 19

Six Jesuit priests, Fathers Isaac Jogues, John de Brébeuf, Anthony Daniel, , Charles Garnier, and Noël Chabanel—and Jesuit lay volunteers René Goupil and John LaLande—shared the gospel with the Native Americans they met, in languages they painstakingly learned, and through images they creatively adapted to the indigenous cultures (for example, John de Brébeuf’s “ ’Twas in the Moon of Wintertime: the Huron Carol”).

The Hurons were constantly warred upon by the , and in a few years Father Jogues was captured by the Iroquois and imprisoned for 13 months. His letters and journals tell how he and his companions were led from village to village, how they were beaten, tortured, and forced to watch as their Huron converts were mangled and killed.

An unexpected chance for escape came to Isaac Jogues through the Dutch, and he returned to France, bearing the marks of his sufferings. Several fingers had been cut, chewed, or burnt off. Pope Urban VIII gave him permission to offer Mass with his mutilated hands: “It would be shameful that a martyr of Christ not be allowed to drink the Blood of Christ.”

Welcomed home as a hero, Father Jogues might have sat back, thanked God for his safe return, and died peacefully in his homeland. But his zeal led him back once more to the fulfillment of his dreams. In a few months he sailed for his missions among the Hurons.

In 1646, he and , who had offered his services to the missioners, set out for Iroquois country in the belief that a recently signed peace treaty would be observed. They were captured by a Mohawk war party, and on October 18, Father Jogues was tomahawked and beheaded. Jean de Lalande was killed the next day at Ossernenon, a village near Albany, New York.

The first of the Jesuit missionaries to be martyred was René Goupil who with Lalande, had offered his services as an oblate. He was tortured along with Isaac Jogues in 1642, and was tomahawked for having made the sign of the cross on the brow of some children.

Father Anthony Daniel, working among Hurons who were gradually becoming Christian, was killed by Iroquois on July 4, 1648. His body was thrown into his chapel, which was set on fire.

Jean de Brébeuf was a French Jesuit who came to Canada at the age of 32 and labored there for 24 years. He went back to France when the English captured Quebec in 1629 and expelled the Jesuits, but returned to his missions four years later. Although medicine men blamed the Jesuits for a smallpox epidemic among the Hurons, Jean remained with them. He composed catechisms and a dictionary in Huron, and saw 7,000 converted before his death in 1649. Having been captured by the Iroquois at Sainte Marie, near Georgian Bay, Canada, Father Brébeuf died after four hours of extreme torture.

Gabriel Lalemant had taken a fourth vow—to sacrifice his life for the Native Americans. He was horribly tortured to death along with Father Brébeuf.

Father Charles Garnier was shot to death in 1649 as he baptized children and catechumens during an Iroquois attack.

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Father Noel Chabanel also was killed in 1649, before he could answer his recall to France. He had found it exceedingly hard to adapt to mission life. He could not learn the language, and the food and life of the Indians revolted him, plus he suffered spiritual dryness during his whole stay in Canada. Yet he made a vow to remain in his mission until death.

Though their evangelization was caught up in turmoil beyond their control: the smallpox epidemic, battles between French and English trading interests, (the traders united only by their willingness to exploit the Native Americans) and the conflict among the tribes themselves, Huron, Mohawk, Iroquois; the missionaries’ perseverance bore fruit. Immediately in Kateri Tekakwitha’s sanctity and eventually in the Catholicism that still flourishes in the United States and Canada.

Faith and heroism planted belief in Christ’s cross deep in our land. The Church in North America sprang from the blood of martyrs, as has been true in so many places. The ministry and sacrifices of these saints challenges each of us, causing us to ask just how deep is our faith and how strong our desire to serve even in the face of death. THE JESUIT MARTYR SAINTS OF NORTH AMERICA

These eight Jesuit martyrs of North (Standing) America were canonized in 1930. Fr.Chabanel Fr.Lalemant Fr.de Brèbeuf Fr.Jogues Fr.Daniel

(Kneeling) cJohn de LaLande Fr. Garnier Rene Goupil