June 16, 2019 the Most Holy Trinity

St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord June 16, 2019 The Most Holy Trinity

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

E-mail: [email protected]

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

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

Deacon: Mr. Chick O’Leary

Music Director: Mr. Steven Folkers

Religious Education : Gina Roxas [email protected]

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

St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL

Website: www.StLambert.org

Baptisms: Third Sundays of the month at 1:30 pm. Baptismal Prep Class is the first Tuesday of each month at 7 pm. For guidelines and to register call the rectory.

Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Father’s day

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MassesMasses for for the the Week Week READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 2 Cor 6:1-10; Ps 98:1, 2b, 3-4; Mt 5:38-42 Tuesday: 2 Cor 8:1-9; Ps 146:2, 5-9a; Mt 5:43-48 Saturday, June 15 Wednesday: 2 Cor 9:6-11; Ps 112:1bc-4, 9; 8:00 † Roberto & Alfredo Cochico Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 Thursday: 2 Cor 11:1-11; Ps 111:1b-4, 7-8; Mt 6:7-15 5:00 Friday: 2 Cor 11:18, 21-30; Ps 34:2-7; Mt 6:19-23 Sunday, June 16 Saturday: 2 Cor 12:1-10; Ps 34:8-13; Mt 6:24-34 Sunday: Gn 14:18-20; Ps 110:1-4; 1 Cor 11:23-26; 8:00 † Dscd Members of Styczynski/ Lk 9:11b-17 Dionne Families & Michael J. Polakowski

10:00 † Frank Niewiadomski 12:00 People of St Lambert

Monday, June 17 7:15 † Donald Tardy Are you wondering about the trips to Mercy? Tune Tuesday, June 18 in to channel nine at nine thirty on Sunday morning 7:15 for the Mass for the homebound. Our parishioners will join in the congregation on Trinity Sunday June Wednesday, June 19 16th and Corpus Christi June 23rd. Going to Mercy Home is a work of Mercy - like visiting the sick. 7:15 Thank you to those who attended Thursday, June 20 7:15 There will be no Coffee Hour next week Friday, June 21 for Corpus Christi. 7:15

Saturday, June 22 St. Lambert Intercessors’ prayer hour follows after the 8:00 noon mass every Sunday in the chapel. Our prayer teams and members intercede for the needs of 5:00 St. Lambert parish and individual parishioners. Join us Sunday, June 23 in prayer; drop your written petitions into our prayer box; or request of us immediate 8:00 People of St Lambert soaking prayer in private with you. You may also email us your petition(s) at 10:00 [email protected] 12:00 Blessings with affections in Christ, Intercessors of St. Lambert

Sunday Offertory Collection

June 1/2, 2019 Youth Church: $52.00 Latin Mass: $472.00 Envelopes: $7,110.35 Ascension: $398.00 Loose: 1,598.83 GiveCentral: $1,075.00 Total: $9,784.18

Thank you for your continued support! For Online Giving go to: www.givecentral.org June 16, 2019 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3 Parishioners of St. Lambert Celebrate

The Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Next Saturday, June 22, 2019 at 5 pm

For more information, contact: Mrs. Irma Lemithe 224-678-8607 Mrs. Rita Justinien 847-971-4952

A reception will follow immediately after the Mass in Roberts Hall Page 4 St. Lambert Parish The Most Holy Trinity

When: Saturday, August 17th 2019 Where: Saint Lambert's Time: 2:00 PM *Interested in Volunteering? Fill out the form below, and drop the completed slip in the box in the vestibule by Saturday, August 3rd 2019. *KNOW A LOCAL BUSINESS? Think they would be interested in sponsoring our event? Please reach out to Kristine Hernandez at [email protected] *Donations for Bratfest will be accepted after every mass. We thank you for your support and generosity. Stay tuned for more details to come! We look forward to celebrating with you all!

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PRAY Pray for the Holy Father as he reaches out compassionately to make the world less cold and more just and pray for those suffering around the world who will benefit from this collection.

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GIVE Please give generously to the collection to be a witness of charity and offer hope to those who suffer around the Second Collection on June 29/30th globe.

The Reverend Know-it-all Exodus a real event place it around 1250–1200 BC. “What I don’t know… There is a very fascinating and very garbled I can always make up!” reminiscence of the Exodus in the writing of the Greek historian Hecataeus of Abdera around 300BC. He wrote DIDN'T JESUS DO AWAY WITH ALL THE RULES? PART 4 that the Egyptians blamed a plague on foreigners Letter to Grace Uberlaw continued: whom they drove out of Egypt. Their leader, Moses led them into the land of Canaan. Still more interesting To make heads or tails of this whole (and more garbled) are the writings of Manetho, an business we are going to need a slightly Egyptian historian (also around 300 BC) who is quoted longer trip into the history of Israel, by the Jewish historian Josephus (37-100 AD). Manetho Judaism/Rabbinic Phariseeism and Christianity. We are wrote about the Hyksos, a despised foreign people going to have to set the Wayback machine for about from Asia. They conquered Egypt but were eventually 1,500 BC. expelled by the indigenous Egyptians. When they were expelled they founded the city of Jerusalem and its 1Kings 6: 1 says that the Exodus, the escape of the Temple. In a second story Manetho says that 80,000 descendants of Israel from slavery in Egypt, happened lepers and other unclean foreigners led by the priest 480 years before Solomon built the temple in Osarseph, united with the Hyksos in Jerusalem in an Jerusalem in 957 BC. That would put the date of attempt to take over Egypt, but again, the pharaoh and Exodus around 1446 BC, but scholars who consider the (Continued on page 6) Page 6 St. Lambert Parish The Most Holy Trinity

(Continued from page 5) Robinson and that smoldering femme fatale, Ann his son chased them out of Egypt. Osarseph ﬁnally Baxter. We all assume that Rameses the Great, (Yul gives these lepers a code of law. The name Osarseph Brenner) was the pharaoh of the Exodus, and sounds like a combination of the names Moses and therefore the Exodus had to happen around 1250 BC Joseph. Who knows? when Yul Brenner, I mean Rameses, was pharaoh of

Egypt. This is of course because they built the city of All that said, the most ancient archaeological reference Pi-Ramses. There is a slight detail worth mentioning. to Israel is found on the Stele of Merneptah. A stele is The city of Rameses existed for centuries before a kind of stone plaque on which kings, particularly Pharaoh Rameses was born. Rameses like many Egyptian kings, loved to point out how wonderful and politicians enjoyed naming other people’s victorious they were. The Pharaoh Merneptah reigning accomplishments after himself. Three things should be from 1213 to 1203 BC brags on this particular stele that remembered. Israel was well established in Canaan by he had conquered the Libyans but the stele also throws 1200 BC, the Song of the Sea detailing the deliverance in a few other conquests in case you weren’t that of Israel from slavery in Egypt by means of a miracle impressed by conquest of Libya . “Canaan has been goes way back and ﬁnally something happened that plundered into every sort of woe. Ashkelon has been later Egyptians wanted to spin: Israel didn’t escape, we overcome. Gezer has been captured. Yano'am is made threw them out! non-existent. Israel is laid waste and his seed is not.”

Merneptah should visit Rogers Park or Skokie, if he The Bible sometimes presents history that is poetic and thinks that Israel is no more. Merneptah claims to have telescoped, but it does present history. The Exodus defeated Israel in about 1210 BC. If Israel actually left and the gift of the law created Israel and have Egypt in 1250 BC and wandered 40 years in the desert, sustained Israel. Our relation to the Law of Moses is they would not even have ﬁnished unpacking their suit one of the great themes of the Bible. This law cases before Merneptah obliterated them. commanded that building of an ark, the “ ahron” into

which were placed the stone tablets of the law which My point is this; it seems that Israel was well Moses had received from Heaven. This ahron was established in the hill country of Canaan (present day carefully veiled and placed inside the inner chamber of Israel) by 1210 BC. Another interesting detail is hinted a special tent called the “ mishkan”, or the at by the song of Miriam. It is the most archaic Hebrew “dwelling.” This tent is called the tabernacle in English, text in the Bible. More usually called the “ Shiryat a word that means “little hut” or “little dwelling” in Hayam,” the “Song of the Sea” (Exodus 15:1–18). It Latin. It’s the same word we Catholics use for the box recounts the deliverance of Israel from the Egyptians in which we reserve the Holy Eucharist. That was then and the crossing of the Red Sea. The style of its surrounded by a large rooﬂess structure made of fabric Hebrew comes from before 1,000 BC. We still sing it at called the tent of meeting, or the sanctuary. our Easter Vigil Mass. It is a marvel that a song written at least 3,100 years ago, recounting an event that may The ahron/ark travelled with the people in the desert have happed 3,500 years ago will be sung in Skokie, and eventually came to the city of Shiloh in central Illinois next week as we remember the event. Songs Canaan, about twenty miles north of Jerusalem. About are easy to remember and persist for centuries even 1,000 BC, David brought the ahron/ark to Jerusalem his with their archaic language. All of us know that new capital, and his son Solomon built the Temple to beloved old English song, “Sumer is a cumin in, lude sing house the ahron/ark in imitation of the tabernacle and cuku.” Well, at least I know it. It is medieval English at the sanctuary that accompanied them in the desert. least 800 years old. Songs persist. This would hint that The law in the ark in the tabernacle in the temple, like the song of the sea was written well before the Russian nesting dolls, are the foundation of all things building of the temple. It may date to the Exodus in Jewish and Christian. 1500 BC. (or 1250?)

As far as Rabbinic Phariseeism/Judaism is concerned, There was in fact an Exodus. Moses in fact received the the ark is gone, the tabernacle is gone, the temple is law. It may not have happened exactly the way we gone. Only the law endures. As far as traditional remember it from the classic 1956 ﬁlm “Exodus” Orthodox and Catholic Christianity is concerned they starring Charlton Heston, Yule Brenner, Edward G. are not gone, Jesus, the Messiah is the law come to June 16, 2019 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7 life, the womb of the Virgin Mary was a living ark, we Come and join the fun and are the tabernacle made of living stones where the win BIG. We have great presence of God dwells and we are the temple that is prizes, players and most of th a house of prayer for all nations. The things seen in all it’s FUN and exciting. Split the Pot on the 13 Game! the desert and housed in Jerusalem were just Friday, June 21st, 6 –9:00pm (Doors open at 5pm) Where: Saint Zachary Parish 567 W. Algonquin Rd foreshadowings of the true temple made of living Des Plaines, IL 60016 stones, the Church, the Israel of God. Selling: Admission Packet, Daubers, Additional cards, Pull Tabs, Food and Drinks Next week: More about the Pharisees. They really (Kids under 18 yrs. old are not allowed in the Bingo Hall) were and are a fascinating bunch. For more info, call St. Zachary 847.956.7020, 9am -4pm

There are three parts to the Holy Trinity. First is God the Father, then Jesus, His only Son, and the Holy Spirit together as One!

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