Proclaiming Jesus Christ As Lord September 17, 2017 Twenty Fourth Sunday Ordinary Time

St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord September 17, 2017 Twenty Fourth Sunday Ordinary Time

Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL 60076 Phone:(847) 673-5090

E-mail: [email protected]

St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL

Website: www.StLambert.org

Sunday Masses: (5 pm Sat) 8am, 10am, 12pm

Weekday Masses: 7:15 am (Mon- Fri) 8am on Saturday

Confessions: Saturday at 8:30am

Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon

Rev. Know-it-all: reverendknow-it-all.blogspot.com

Deacon: Mr. Chick O’Leary

Music Director: Mr. Steven Folkers

Office Staff: Debbie Morales-Garcia [email protected] Mr. George Mohrlein

Religious Education : Gina Roxas [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. For guidelines and to register, email Debbie.

Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance.

For Online Giving: www.givecentral.org

To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under “About Falling to his knees, his fellow servant Us” or by phone.

begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received at the office 10 will pay you back.’ days preceding the date of bulletin publication. Submissions should be in electronic format and send to Matthew 29:18 [email protected]. Page 2 St. Lambert Parish 24th Sunday Ordinary Time Rest in Peace

Shirley Livingston

Masses for the Week

Saturday, September 16 FORGIVE OTHERS 5:00 † Jacqueline Mohrlein Sunday, September 17 There are many kinds of alms the giving of which helps us to 8:00 People of St Lambert obtain pardon for our sins; but none 10:00 † Agnes Robst is greater than that by which we forgive from our heart a sin that 12:00 † Romeo Batad someone has committed against us. —St. Augustine Monday, September 18 7:15 † Ursala Blix Sunday Offertory Collection:

Tuesday, September 19 Sept 2/3, 2017 7:15 † Poor Souls Envelopes: $ 5,792.50 Wednesday, September 20 Loose: 1,744.12 Total: $ 7,536.62 7:15 Rita Ellen Murphy Thursday, September 21 Latin Mass: $1,351.00

7:15 Michael Holden, health & well being For Online Giving: www.givecentral.org Friday, September 22 Thank you for your continued support!! 7:15 † Keith Pamper

Saturday, September 23 READINGS FOR THE WEEK 8:00 † Lorraine Weimer Monday: 1 Tm 2:1-8; Ps 28:2, 7-9; Lk 7:1-10 5:00 Abigail Tumang Tuesday: 1 Tm 3:1-13; Ps 101:1b-3ab, 5-6; Sunday, September 24 Lk 7:11-17 Wednesday: 1 Tm 3:14-16; Ps 111:1-6; Lk 7:31-35 8:00 People of St Lambert Thursday: Eph 4:1-7, 11-13; Ps 19:2-5; Mt 9:9-13 10:00 † Agnes Robst Friday: 1 Tm 6:2c-12; Ps 49:6-10, 17-20; Lk 8:1-3 Saturday: 1 Tm 6:13-16; Ps 100:1b-5; Lk 8:4-15 12:00 † Ursala Blix Sunday: Is 55:6-9; Ps 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18; Phil 1:20c-24, 27a; Mt 20:1-16a

The Coffee Hour will be hosted next week by the Couples for Christ and the contact person is Jean De Guzman. She can be reached at 847-674-8054. Your donations of baked goods is always appreciated!

Front Cover: Sir John Everett Millais, Bt ‘The Unmerciful Servant’, published 1864 September 17, 2017 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3 St. Lambert Youth Church Come and Join Us in Family Day Celebrating The Feast Day of San Lorenzo De Manila and San Pedro Calungsod On September 23rd Sunday, September 17 5 pm Mass Robert’s Hall Food and Activities: 1:30pm to 4:30pm Childrens Rosary: 4:30pm to 5:00pm Family Mass: 5:00pm

Meet our staff, learn about our program and have some fun. All new and returning families intending to enroll their child for the 2017-2018 Youth Church school year must attend this event. Registration for the upcoming year will be available.

Please bring a dish or beverage to share if able. ST. LAMBERT CHURCH Any questions or if you would like to volunteer 8148 Karlov Ave., Skokie, IL 60076 please email Gina Roxas at:[email protected] In preparation for the feast day of San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila & Calendar Raffle Winners! San Pedro Calungsod, a daily novena will be held from Sept.14th to Date Amount Book # Name Sept. 22nd at 6:45 pm.

Sun, Sep 10, 2017 $ 100.00 2315 Redito, Joe September 20 novena after the Mon, Sep 11, 2017 $ 50.00 2178 Chi, Sonia Mother of Perpetual Help novena

Tues, Sep 12, 2017 $ 50.00 2275 Ticzon, Denise Winning raffle booklet numbers are put back in Wed, Sep 13, 2017 $ 50.00 5264 Folkers, Ester the hopper. Giving you more opportunities to win throughout the year! Thurs, Sep 14, 2017 $ 50.00 1811 Gotanco, Neny PRIZES: $50 Monday-Saturday Ambubuyog, Fri, Sep 15, 2017 $ 50.00 1275 $100 Weekly Sunday Amore (except 1st Sunday) $500 Every 1st Sunday of the Month Sat, Sep 16, 2017 $ 50.00 1063 Ortmann, Elizabeth Page 4 St. Lambert Parish 24th Sunday Ordinary Time The Reverend Know-it-all Gospel of John “Jesus did many other things as “What I don’t know… well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not I can always make up!” have room for the books that would be Continued from last week… written.” (John 21:25) It is amazing to realize that we only have a taste of Jesus’ ministry presented I have already discussed the to us in the Gospels. amazing tiny-ness (new word) of the Holy Land, but now I return All the wonder He worked in Chorazin and to the absolute itty-bitty-ness of Bethsaida go unmentioned. Jesus seems to have the area in which Jesus did most made Capernaum his headquarters when He was of His work. This area is called there and one sees a marvelous modern church the Gospel Triangle and is a small built over ancient ruins. In these excavations, patch of ground beginning at Capernaum. One visible under a glass floor of the present modern walks up the hill from the valley of the Sea of building there is an ancient house in which there is Galilee to Chorazin. We are not quite sure that the a very special room, which was plastered and current site actually is Chorazin. They have found marked with graffiti referring to St. Peter. The no ruins there that date to the time of Christ, but central room of this ancient house contained the there are plenty of ruins from just a little while remains of oil lamps, but no cooking ceramics. later and the earlier town is there somewhere. Thus, it is theorized that this first century structure was a church built into the house of St. Peter. Bethsaida, which I have already mentioned, is Some scholars say nonsense, but what do they another 4 miles, give or take, to the east. It was a know? fishing village built where the northern part of the Jordan flowed into the Sea of Galilee by boat, From here we move on to Mt. Tabor, the place Capernaum is just about five miles southwest of venerated as the site of the transfiguration of Bethsaida along the lake shore and that completes Jesus. Mt. Tabor is a natural stone outcropping, the triangle. These three little towns are named in not a typical “tell” which a hill is caused by a the Gospels of Matthew and Luke as the places succession of ancient villages built one on top of where Jesus performed his greatest miracles, yet another. It has been fortified at times, but seems they failed to repent. Because these towns never to have been occupied by a village. It is rejected the Gospels they would not be lifted up, quite a walk up and there is no easy source of but would be worse off than Sodom and water there as far as I know. Jesus was Gomorrah on the day of judgement. They would transformed in the sight of Peter, James and John not be exalted, but forgotten, and so it was that who wanted to put up three booths, one for these three towns were in fact lost to history in Jesus, the others for Moses and Elijah who the first few centuries after the time of Jesus. They appeared with Him. This is a clear reference to the were only rediscovered by modern excavators. Jewish feast of booths. It is interesting to note that Mount Tabor was one of the mountain peaks Now they are uninhabited museums filled with on which a beacon was lit to summon the Jews of tourists and pilgrims but have no real inhabitants. Galilee for the celebration of the Holy Days. A It is interesting to think that this is only one place light summoned people to the temple in in the Gospels where Chorazin is mentioned and Jerusalem, and a brilliant light on the mountain Bethsaida is not mentioned much more. Jesus did summoned us to the heavenly Jerusalem when most of his work there, yet they seem forgotten in Jesus was transformed. the Gospels, One remembers the words of the As with all things archaeological, the identification September 17, 2017 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 of Mt. Tabor with the Mount of the FORGIVENESS Transfiguration is disputed. The New Testament Nearly ten years before, a son and father had says that Jesus brought Peter, James and John to parted ways when the a high mountain and that Jesus was transformed business they shared into a radiant light before their eyes. The Gospels went bankrupt. The son blamed the father. omit which mountain this all happened. The They did not speak to earliest mention that Tabor is the mountain comes each other again. from a local theologian, Origen in the 3rd century. Then the father The town of Naim, now called Nein is down the hill became seriously ill. form Mount Tabor. It is there that Jesus raised a The mother called the widow’s son from the dead as his funeral son and told him he procession left the town. He did this just after had better come soon. coming down the mountain with Peter, James and The son walked John. He raised the boy from the dead as if to sheepishly into the repeat the promise of resurrection that he had hospital room. The father motioned his made on the mountain. It seems reasonable that son to him and if Naim was at the foot of the Mount of the whispered: “Did you ever think you could do Transfiguration, that Tabor was that mountain. anything that would keep me from loving you?” The present church, and the Franciscan priory Resentment and anger are foul things, the first were built in 1924 by the Italian architect Antonio reading from Sirach tells us. Remember the last Barluzzi on the ruins of an ancient Byzantine things. Stop hating. Live by the commandments. As church and a 12th-century crusader church. The Saint Paul writes to the Romans, we are to live for visit is well worth the hair raising cab ride up the the Lord and die for the Lord. side of the mountain which is much bigger than it Jesus’ parable in today’s Gospel reminds us of looks from a distance. God’s compassion. The immense sin of humanity has been forgiven and stricken from the record. We are to forgive others in the same way. 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St. Padre Pio relics visit Chicago Sept. 25-26

Join St. Francis Borgia and St. Its Parishes in welcoming oﬃcial relics of St. Pio of Pietrelcina — commonly known as Padre Pio — Sept. 25-26. On Sept. 25 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. the relics, which include a lock of his hair, blood from his wounds, a glove used to cover his stigmatized hands and part of his religious habit, will be on display at St. Francis Borgia Church, 8033 W. Addison St. A multilingual Mass with Bishop John Manz will take place at 7 p.m.

On Sept. 26, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. relics will be available for veneration at St. Ita Church, 1220 W. Catalpa Ave. Bishop Joseph Perry will celebrate Mass at 7 p.m.

These relics are part of a national tour marking the 130th anniversary of Padre Pio’s birth, and the 15th anniversary of his canonization. It is being sponsored by the Saint Pio Foundation, which works to promote awareness of the saintly priest and continue his work. For more, visit www.padrepiochicago.com.

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Forgive others seventy times seven Matthew 18:21-35.

Peter asked Jesus how many times he should forgive others, guessing seven times. Jesus told him to forgive seventy times seven times. Jesus also told him a parable about a man who were forgiven ten thousand talents and did not forgive an hundred pence.