December 29, 2019 the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph and Jesus Page 2 St

St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord

Mt 2:15

I have called my son out of Egypt.

December 29, 2019 The Holy Family of Mary, Joseph and Jesus Page 2 St. Lambert Parish The Holy Family

Eucharistic Vigil

“The Lord thy God thou shalt adore, and Him only shalt thou serve" -Matthew 4:10

Join us on next Sunday, January 5, 2020 for the Eucharistic Vigil starting at 1:15 pm followed by Masses for the Week the Holy Hour from 3 to 4 pm and Saturday, December 28 Latin Mass at 5 pm. 5:00 READINGS FOR THE WEEK Sunday, December 29 Monday: 1 Jn 2:12-17; Ps 96:7-10; Lk 2:36-40 8:00 Tuesday: 1 Jn 2:18-21; Ps 96:1-2, 11-13; Jn 1:1-18 Wednesday: Nm 6:22-27; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Gal 4:4-7; 10:00 † Basilio Poyatos Jr. Lk 2:16-21 12:00 People of St Lambert Thursday: 1 Jn 2:22-28; Ps 98:1-4; Jn 1:19-28 Friday: 1 Jn 2:29 — 3:6; Ps 98:1, 3cd-6; Jn 1:29-34 Monday, December 30 Saturday: 1 Jn 3:7-10; Ps 98:1, 7-9; Jn 1:35-42 7:15 † Sunday: Is 60:1-6; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-13; Tuesday, December 31 Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6; Mt 2:1-12 7:15 The Coffee Hour will be hosted next week by 5:00 the St Lambert Senior Club and the contact Wednesday, January 1, 2020 is Marilyn Sala. She can be reached at 847-675-5103. Your assistance is 10 am greatly needed. 12 pm

Thursday, January 2 If you would like to host a coffee hour please contact Marcella Young. 7:15 Friday, January 3 NEW YEAR 7:15 The object of a new year Saturday, January 4 is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should 8:00 have a new soul. 5:00 ―G. K. Chesterton Sunday, January 5 8:00 People of St Lambert Sunday Offertory Collection 10:00 † Maxine & Robert Madsen Dec 14/15, 2019 12:00 Envelopes: $5,120.00 Loose: 1,669.00 St. Lambert Intercessors’ prayer hour follows after the GiveCentral: 655.00 noon mass every Sunday in the chapel. Our prayer Total: $7,444.00 teams and members intercede for the needs of St. Lambert parish and individual parishioners. Youth Church: $ 25.00 Simbang Gabi:$1,510.60 Join us in prayer; drop your written petitions into our prayer box; or request of us Thank you for your continued support! immediate soaking prayer in private with you. You may also email us your petition(s) at For Online Giving go to: www.givecentral.org [email protected]. Blessings with affections in Christ, Intercessors of St.Lambert Bulletin Cover: Flight Into Egypt – Tiepolo December 29, 2019 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3

The Escape to Egypt - Matthew 2:13-15

An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him." So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son."

Creches tell the Nativity story using materials, symbols of local culture whom were in provincial dress. The scene intended to emphasize that everyone, wealthy and poor alike, must By Katie Rutter | Catholic News Service, December 16, 2019 come to the manger.

An Italian Nativity scene A Nativity from New Mexico following the Pueblo tradition displayed at the was made of clay painted with traditional colors and University of Dayton in Ohio Dec. 2, 2019, shows geometric shapes. Each face was fashioned to have a St. Joseph observing the prominent nose and a wide open mouth. arrival of the Magi. The university selects about 100 Nativity sets from its "The idea behind it is what is most important in life is collection of around 3,600 to display each indeed life, and so therefore the breath of life, or the open Christmas season. mouth, and the nose that highlights that," Father Roten (CNS photo/Katie Rutter) said in an interview for Catholic News Service.

Another set from Australia contained both a koala and a DAYTON, Ohio (CNS) -- Each culture, if not every home, kangaroo. Some figures were depicted as European and has its own unique rendition of the Nativity. The Christ others as indigenous people; showing peace between child may lay on a manger made from materials as two groups often at odds. diverse as wax, blown glass, yarn, papier-mache and terra cotta. Mary might don the dress of a first-century A Swiss creche painted in subdued tones carried a peasant or Renaissance royalty. subliminal message characteristic of the German tradition. Two of the wooden shepherds were intentionally The ubiquitous manger scene makes the perfect identical. illustration of enculturation, that is, adapting the principles "You have to go to the manger in order really to know of faith to a specific cultural setting. The Incarnation, the who you are, your identity as a human person because moment God becomes human, allows the nations to there is a danger to always consider one's self as envision Christ as one of their own. interchangeable with another person," said Father Roten.

"Enculturation is a step further from the Incarnation," said "In other words, the two identical figures actually are a Marianist Father Johann Roten, a scholar at the way of saying we have a tendency of seeing ourselves in University of Dayton and expert on cultural interpretations whoever we meet. So the alter ego idea is highlighted of the Nativity. there, typical of the German tradition, very ambitious and very psychological," he said. "The Incarnation is the son of God becoming human and enculturation will then be, he becomes not only human, The depiction of the Nativity spans across not only but he becomes Afghani or he is Persian or he is German cultures, but also centuries. St. Francis of Assisi is or French," Father Roten told Catholic News Service. credited with erecting the first live Nativity scene in 1223 in Greccio, Italy, recreating the moment using animals, The University of Dayton, which is a Catholic and people and perhaps even an infant stand-in for Christ. Marianist institution, has amassed what curators believe is the largest collection of Nativity sets in North America. The Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome contains The archives contain about 3,600 creches from around fragments of a Nativity scene by the 13th-century sculptor 100 different countries. Arnolfo di Cambio. Around the 18th century, small Nativity sets began to be displayed in homes, allowing for even "They're really important examples of popular devotion," more devout customization of the scene. said Sarah Cahalan, director of the Marian Library at the university, which houses the Nativity sets. "We have "Our own beliefs and religion actually hinges upon our pretty comprehensive coverage for Europe and North own tradition, the life of the family, what we heard from America," she said, "so we're really excited these days to our father, mother, the kind of objects they left us," get donations of materials from the African continent, explained Father Roten. from Asia. We have a great deal of materials from Latin America." Each December the university publicly displays "We need to be very visual, very concrete, in order to around 100 curated sets. represent our beliefs. ... The Bible is very important, but it's abstract. We need something a little bit more that On Dec. 2, the opening day of the Nativity display, a speaks, that actually talks to the heart," he said. creche from France filled three tables in an attempt to portray an entire Provencal village. Along with the Holy Father Roten suggested that, no matter what cultural Family, there were depictions of fishermen, peasants traditions were followed, the Nativity be used as a tool to carrying wood, the parish priest and the town mayor, all of bring the family together in the "feast of love" known as Christmas. Page 6 St. Lambert Parish The Holy Family

The Reverend Know-it-all some reason bureaucrats think that going to meetings “What I don’t know… is real work. They will plan endless meetings that you

I can always make up!” will be expected to attend. The devil will gradually convince you that there is nothing spiritual about the ADVICE TO A YOUNG SEMINARIAN - priesthood, by having you forget that he even exists. PART 8 Again, C. S. Lewis:

Letter to Robinson K. Russo a young “There are two equal and opposite errors seminarian, continued… into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The For our struggle is not against ﬂesh and other is to believe, and to feel an excessive blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, and unhealthy interest in them. They against the powers of this dark world and against the themselves are equally pleased by both spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians errors and hail a materialist or a magician 6:12) with the same delight.”

As a priest, you will be in constant danger of thinking You will get some very strange people who think that that your struggle is against the parish council, the everything is going bump in the night. I remember a finance committee and the diocesan bureaucracy. It is woman who was absolutely frantic about being not. Our struggle is against the devil. In his brilliant attacked by demon-possessed birds. They would book, “The Screwtape Letters,” C.S. Lewis has the devil charge at her windows and terrify her. I explained that calling human beings, “amphibians.” We live like frogs male birds will charge their own reflection during on the edge of the pond. We, like the frogs, live in two mating season and that nothing supernatural was worlds. They live in water and on the land. We live in a going on. She was not convinced. spiritual realm and a physical realm. It is much easier to On the other hand, you will meet people who, when live on the land, quite frankly. You can see what’s out they see someone floating five feet over a bed will there more easily and travel becomes simply backward insist that there is just a strong updraft in the room. and forward sort of arrangement; whereas in the The middle position is the correct one. Part of the job water, vision may be obscured, and opportunities as of the priest is to be a little skeptical about spiritual well as dangers are much more omni-directional. phenomena. A little skeptical, just a little. We usually So it with us, especially us priests. The visible world is become so skeptical that if a miracle or a demon came much easier to deal with. The devil will try to convince up and bit us in the ankle, we wouldn’t notice it. us that the real work of the priesthood is dealing with That’s just where the devil wants the clergy. He wants baptisms, weddings and funerals (called the hatch, us firmly planted on our fundamental fundament, and match and dispatch part of the business) we get the never on our knees. There is a saying, “Whom the devil ceremonies done with as little hassle as possible. It cannot make bad he makes busy.” I would change it always amazes me that people will complain to the slightly for the clergy, Whom the devil would make bad proper authority, meaning the bishop if they were he would first make busy. unhappy with your “performance.” (I am not making this up. A person, not a parishioner, not even a I am a lousy prayer. There is so much else I have to do. Catholic, used that exact word in a letter to the bishop God is very patient. When I come late to prayer, and regarding a funeral I offered.) You will fight with spend only a little time, the Lord never gets mad. On wedding planners who want the bride brought down the other hand, the people who so want you to see the aisle in a chariot drawn by llamas, and you will fight things the way they seem things will get very huffy if with the mother of the bride who wants the llamas to you are late for their event, or only spend a little while remain in the sanctuary during the Mass. (This part I at it. The Almighty usually gets the leftovers in my life, am making up, but not by much.) because, oddly, the All Powerful never insists on having

His own way – unlike the head of the parish llama Above all, the devil will want you to believe that the herding committee. most important thing you will do is go to meetings. For December 29, 2019 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7

The worst is the late-night party. People will invite you believe in modern English primarily means “to be of an to an event that starts at 8:00 PM. They will expect you opinion” the word in the text of scripture, “pisteuein” to stay until midnight. No mind that you must be up at primarily means to trust. The Christian’s ﬁrst task is to 5:30 AM to be awake for a 6:30 AM Mass at which you trust Jesus. will be expected to preach a reasonably coherent, but very brief, sermon. They will say, “But father, it’s only How do you learn to trust someone? By getting to once in a blue moon.” For them maybe. For you it know them. Time spent in the study of Scripture and happens a few times a week. There are birthdays, there time spent on one’s knees before the Blessed are anniversaries, there is the arrival of the Nouveau Sacrament is the great task of the priest. If you have no Beaujolais. Most people celebrate the great events in spiritual power, what can you give a world ensnared by the lives of ten or twenty people. You will have a family the devil? There is a great deal of talk these days about of thousands. That’s at least three or four birthdays a accompanying the people. What good is my company, day. They will expect you to get just a little tipsy to help if Christ does not accompany me? The great work of the them celebrate the great event. That means you will priest is accomplished in prayer; and the world, the need treatment for alcohol or liver failure or maybe ﬂesh, and the devil will conspire to keep you from both in pretty short order. prayer, and for the most part I go happily along with them, forgetting the incredible power that waits for me Once Jesus was asked, “What is the work of in prayer. God?” Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” (John 6:29) Remember To be continued. that the Greek word in question is “pisteuein.” To

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