St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord September 20, 2015
Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL 60076 Phone:(847) 673-5090
St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.StLambert.org
Sunday Masses: (5 pm Sat) 8am, 10am, 12pm
Weekday Masses: 7:15 am (Mon-Fri) 8am on Sat.
Confessions: Saturday at 8:30am
Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon
Email: [email protected]
Rev. Know-it-all: www.rev-know-it-all.com
Deacon: Mr. Chick O’Leary
Music Director: Mr. Steven Folkers
Ministry of Care: Mrs. Carol Glueckert (847) 674-6456
Office Staff: Mr. George Mohrlein Debbie Morales-Garcia, [email protected]
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 call the rectory to register.
Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance.
Religious Education : Fr. Richard Simon [email protected]
To Register as a Parishioner: Call the rectory or email us.
For Online Giving: www.givecentral.org
Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received at the rectory office 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication. If possible submissions should be in electronic format and send to [email protected]. Thank you. Page 2 St. Lambert Parish 25th Ordinary Sunday
September 20, 2015 Support our seminarians as they prepare to The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace become your future priests. Consider giving to for those who cultivate peace. Chicago’s excellent seminary system. — James 3:18
Masses for the week
Saturday, September19 5:00 In Thanksgiving, Dave & Virginia Radler Sunday, September 20 8:00 People of St. Lambert 10:00 † Bernard & Fernanda Rago
12:00 † Gary Charlton “...if a young man has felt in his heart the desire to be a Monday, September 21 priest...it is God who planted that seed.” -Pope Francis 7:15 † Mary Krackenberger Tuesday, September 22 Second CollecƟon Next weekend. 7:15 † Edwin Don Lopez Wednesday, September 23 Come and Join Us in Celebrating 7:15 Abigail Tumang Birthday The Feast Day of Thursday, September 24 San Lorenzo Ruiz De Manila & 7:15 † Sarath Gunawardana San Pedro Calungsod Friday, September 25 September 26, 2015 7:15 For the Grandchildren of Donna & George 5:00 pm Mass Saturday, September 26 St. Lambert Church 8:00 In Thanksgiving, John’s Birthday 5:00 † Bernard & Fernanda Rago Sunday, September 27 8:00 People of St. Lambert 10:00 Teresa Dulay 12:00 † Mary Krackenberger
Sunday Offertory Collection for Aug 29/30, 2015
Envelopes: $5,829.00 Loose: 2,157.64 In preparation for the feast day of Total: $7,986.64 San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila & San Pedro Calungsod, a daily novena will The Coffee Hour will be hosted next be held from September 17 at 7pm and week by our Pro Life Committee and the contact person is Mary Ann O’Kane. September 18-25 at 6:45 pm She can be reached at 847-679-0274. (Sept. 23rd novena after the Mother of Your contributions of baked goods are Perpetual Help novena) very much appreciated! St. Lambert Parish 6th Annual Saturday, October 24, 2015 8148 N Karlov, Skokie, IL 60076 847-673-5090 Patristics Seminar 9:30 am to 4:00 pm Learning to Pray from The Church Fathers Mike Aquilina Matthew
Leonard
Schedule of the day Prayer is at the heart of the Christian life. In the Gospels, Jesus models prayer for us and in his epistles St. Paul instructed us to “...pray always”. Noted author and patristics scholar, Mike SATURDAY, October 24, 2015 Aquilina together with Executive Director of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology Matthew 8:00 a.m. Mass (optional) Leonard will examine what the Fathers of the Church have to teach us about prayer. 8:30 a.m. Check-in/Registration Mike Aquilina is author or editor of more than forty books, including The Fathers of the Church, 9:15 a.m. Father Richard Simon: Invocation The Mass of the Early Christians, and Angels of God. He has co-authored books with Cardinal and Introduction Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dion DiMucci, theologian Scott Hahn, 9:30 am Matt Leonard: "The Old School: and singer-songwriter John Michael Talbot, among others. Matthew Leonard is a Catholic blogger, Progress in Prayer According to author, speaker, and former Evangelical missionary who converted to Catholicism in 1998. He is the Church Fathers" the author of Louder Than Words: The Art of Living as a Catholic, and Prayer Works! Getting a Grip 10:45am Mike Aquilina: "Through Hymns, on Catholic Spirituality. He blogs at MatthewSLeonard.com and hosts a podcast on iTunes titled, With Hymns, In Hymns: How the “The Art of Catholic.” Choir Converted the World" Together, Matthew Leonard and Mike Aquilina help guide the St. Paul Institute for Biblical 12:00 pm LUNCH Theology founded by Dr. Scott Hahn, as Executive Director and Executive Vice-president/Trustee, 1:00 pm Matt Leonard: "Love Letters: The respectively. Early Christians Prayed the Scriptures -- Do You?" This is the 6th year of the St. Lambert Patristics Seminar inaugurated by Fr. Richard Simon and 2:15 pm Mike Aquilina: "Mother to the Mike Aquilina to make people more aware of the rich tradition inherited from the early Church. Fathers: Marian Devotion in the Early Church" $25 cost includes lunch 3:15 pm Panel Discussion: Father Richard For further information or to register contact: Simon, Matt Leonard, Mike St. Lambert Parish at 847-673-5090, or Aquilina Deacon Chick O’Leary at 773-775-6659 Page 4 St. Lambert Parish 25th Ordinary Sunday The Reverend Know-it-all would be toast. The Wi enberg theologians wisely “What I don’t know… acceded to the Duke’s finely cra ed arguments. Mar n the brave, Mar n who probably didn’t say at I can always make up!” the Diet of Worms, “Here I stand I can do no other!” Le er to Calvin Mar n con nued... acquiesced, but told Phillip to keep it a secret. Having secured the “secret advice of a confessor” Last week I le off with the Luther namely Luther and Melanchthon, Philip married wife quote “It is not forbidden that a man number two on March 4, 1590. A few weeks later should have more than one wife.” Philip's sister spilled the beans and the scandal ran Luther said this for a very specific through Germany like beer through a German. reason. In 1523 Phillip the Fair, Luther, refused to admit his part in the mess, Duke of Hesse, married Chris ne of claiming that it was a ma er of the seal of Saxony, daughter of Frederick of confession. Apparently Luther could s ll be Catholic Saxony. Remember him, Mar n Luther’s first went he wanted to be. A er all, he had warned protector who hid Mar n in the Wartburg Castle? Phillip that, “When it comes to wri ng, I shall be She was as ugly as the back side of a mud fence and a quite competent to wriggle out of it and to leave heavy drinker. This was not a problem for Phillip, an your Grace in the lurch.” In other words Luther was aristocrat; there were plenty of women available. smart enough not to leave a paper trail. The dodge S ll, the whole thing was bothersome. Luther said didn’t work. Luther lost the leadership of the that Phillip was living in sin and thus could not reforma on to John Calvin, the disciple of Luther’s receive communion. Phillip was grieved in arch enemy Huldrych Zwingli, who became the rising conscience, but he couldn’t just dump the daughter star of the protestant revolt. Most protestant and so of the duke of Saxony. called non- denomina onal churches trace their roots back to Calvin, not to Luther. Lutheranism is a One of Luther’s collaborators, Phillip Melanchthon rela vely small part of modern Chris anity. There are came up with a novel solu on that he thought might probably around 100 million Lutherans in the world. apply just as well to Henry VIII of England. Why There are 1billion 200 million Catholics in the world. couldn’t the King of England or Phillip the Fair or The other 6 or 700 million Protestants in the world another rich important person have more than one are various muta ons of Calvinism. wife? A er all, the patriarchs and kings in the Bible had busloads of wives. Hadn’t Doktor Luther said as I have already men oned Luther’s humility. I would much? Armed with this deep spiritual insight, Phillip like to revisit the topic. He once humbly said, “What I the Fair decided to marry the daughter of one of his teach and write remains true even though the whole sister's ladies-in-wai ng, Margarethe von der Saale. world should fall to pieces over it.” He had no idea Margarethe hesitated. She wanted to hear from how prophe c these words would be. In his tract, theologians as well as Philip’s first wife and her “On War Against the Turk, Luther is far less cri cal of family back in Saxony. Philip’s first wife, Chris ne was the Muslim Turks than he is of the Pope, whom he fine with the arrangement as was her family, calls an an -Christ, or the Jews, whom he describes probably glad to have the old sot living elsewhere. as “the Devil incarnate.” Chris anity has fractured The Lutheran theologians were hesitant. A er all into a myriad of sects, some large some small. Luther Luther, like HenryVIII of England disputed the pope’s weakened Europe just as the Caliphs of Islam were right to give dispensa ons. Now Philip the Fun Loving about to overwhelm her. Were it not for the wanted a dispensa on to have two wives. Bucer, steadfastness of the Hapsburgs and Spain and another collaborator of Luther’s understood Phillip’s especially the bravery of the Poles, all of the women logical argument that Phillip would ally himself with in Europe would be wearing burkas and walking the Catholic Emperor if the Protestant theologians behind their husbands. All the depreca on of didn’t agree to the marriage, and the new religion marriage and women, all the polygamy and violence would not have bothered Luther one li le bit, September 20, 2015 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 thought the Islamic prohibi on against alcohol might our hearing. For we cannot with a good conscience have been difficult for him, despite his many tea listen to this or tolerate it… He who hears this name totaling followers, “Whoever drinks beer, he is quick [God] from a Jew must inform the authori es, or else to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!” him away.” (Mar n Luther; On the Jews and Their A couple more Luther quotes: “I am but a man prone Lies). to let himself be swept off his feet by society, It sounds a lot like Kristallnacht, when the Nazis drunkenness, and the movements of the flesh.” And, burned the synagogues and the scrolls. Mar n “Why, do you think, do I drink too much wine ...? It is con nues, “Burn their synagogues. Forbid them all when the Devil prepares to torment me and mock that I have men oned above. Force them to work me and I wish to take the lead.” In a couple of years, and treat them with every kind of severity, as Moses the man will be lionized, but he sounds more like did in the desert and slew three thousand… If that is Raspu n than Christ. In Luther are laid the seeds of no use, we must drive them away like mad dogs, in our current disaster, the redefini on of the family, a order that we may not be partakers of their private, self-serving morality and all the rest. Our abominable blasphemy and of all their vices, and in licen ous age finds its parent in Luther “Be a sinner, order that we may not deserve the anger of God and and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be damned with them. I have done my duty. Let be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor everyone see how he does his. I am excused.” and “If over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins I had to bap ze a Jew, I would take him to the bridge while we are here, for this life is not a place where of the Elbe, hang a stone round his neck and push jus ce resides… No sin can separate us from Him, him over with the words I bap ze thee in the name even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of Abraham.” of mes each day.” “The Jews deserve to be hanged on gallows seven Europe is dying. It was Luther who killed it. The mes higher than ordinary thieves.” Doktor Luther terminal illness was made obvious by the German wrote the prescrip on for the death camps of the Na onalism that caused the Franco Prussian war Nazi monsters. Hitler was the pharmacist who filled when the Prussian Lutherans and Calvinist tried to the prescrip on. So what will I be doing to celebrate make an empire. It matured in the First World War Reforma on day 2017? I suppose I will be hiding and finally exploded in an orgy of hatred, murder and under my bed saying the Rosary. racism in the Nazi madness which gripped the German speaking peoples in the middle of the 20th Yours, century. Hitler and his Nazis skillfully used Luther’s The Rev. Know it all an -Semi sm to inflame an en re people to insanity. These are Luther quotes, not Hitler quotes: Join us in Celebrating the Feast Day of Our Lady of “My advice, as I said earlier, is: First, that their Fatima on October 10, 2015 at the synagogues be burned down, and that all who are 5 pm Mass. The Mass will conclude able toss sulfur and pitch; it would be good if with an outdoor candlelight vigil. someone could also throw in some hellfire… Second, that all their books– their prayer books, their In preparation for the feast day of Talmudic wri ngs, also the en re Bible– be taken Our Lady of Fatima a daily novena from them, not leaving them one leaf, and that these will be held from October 1 to be preserved for those who may be converted… October 9 at 6:45 pm Third, that they be forbidden on pain of death to praise God, to give thanks, to pray, and to teach (Oct 3rd novena after the 8 am mass publicly among us and in our country…Fourth, that & Oct 7th after the OMPH novena) they be forbidden to u er the name of God within Chicago 40 Days For Life
Location: The Albany Medical Surgical Center (FPA) 5086 N. Elston Ave., Chicago
Opening Ceremony: Wednesday, September 23 at 7pm Mass across the street from Clinic
Hours: Beginning September 24 12:01 a.m. to Midnight (every day)
Local Contact: Theresa Jedziniak @ 847.674.7794 or Email [email protected]
For more information, visit: 40daysforlife.com/Chicago September 20, 2015 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7
READINGS FOR THE WEEK This October our church will be participating in the Monday: Eph 4:1-7, 11-13; Ps 19:2-5; Mt 9:9-13 Baby Bottle Project benefiting The Tuesday: Ezr 6:7-8, 12b, 14-20; Ps 122:1-5; Women’s Centers. This non-profit Lk 8:19-21 organization directly assists mothers Wednesday: Ezr 9:5-9; Tb:13:2, 3-4abefghn, 7-8; and families experiencing crisis pregnancies by offering emotional, Lk 9:1-6 financial, material, and spiritual Thursday: Hg 1:1-8; Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b; Lk 9:7-9 support through counseling, clothing Friday: Hg 2:1-9; Ps 43:1-4; Lk 9:18-22 & monetary provisions, prayer, and Saturday: Zec 2:5-9, 14-15a; Jer 31:10-12ab, 13; other aid. Please take a Baby Bottle Lk 9:43b-45 home with you from the church on October 3rd /4th, Sunday: Nm 11:25-29; Ps 19:8, 10, 12-14; fill it with your spare change, and return it the weekend Jas 5:1-6; Mk 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 of October 25th.