Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Avenue whoever drinks the water Skokie, IL 60076 Phone: (847) 673-5090
I shall give E-mail: [email protected] will never thirst; 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-itall. 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 7 pm. For guidelines and to register, call the rectory.
Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance.
Website: www.StLambert.org
To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under “About Us” or by phone.
St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL
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SAINT JOSEPH, HUSBAND READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN Monday: 2 Kgs 5:1-15b; Ps 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4; MARY Lk 4:24-30 March 19 Tuesday: Dn 3:25, 34-43; Ps 25:4-51b, 6, 7bc, 8-9; Joseph, someone once Mt 18:21-35 Wednesday: Dt 4:1, 5-9; Ps 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20; joked, was indeed the perfect Mt 5:17-19 husband: the only major Thursday: 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; character in Jesus’ story who Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22; Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a or never utters a word! But the Lk 2:41-51a Gospel recounts and the liturgy Friday: Hos 14:2-10; Ps 81:6c-11ab, 14, 17; celebrates his silent witness of Mk 12:28-34 faith-filled deeds: “With a husband’s love he Saturday: Hos 6:1-6; Ps 51:3-4, 18-21ab; Lk 18:9-14 cherished Mary, the Virgin Mother of God; with Sunday: 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ps 23:1-6; fatherly care he watched over Jesus” (Preface of Saint Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41[1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38] Joseph, Sacramentary). Catholic devotion, therefore, hails him as patron-protector of the universal Church. Some cultures set a festive “Saint Joseph’s Table,” Catholic Charities welcoming the poor and strangers to feast with family Senior Services and friends. Tradition keeps today as the anniversary Catholic Charities of his death, which we presume was peaceful, with senior programs Jesus and Mary present. Thus, Catholics invoke Joseph as Patron of a Happy Death. Descended from provide care, David’s house, which God finished “building” through enrichment, Joseph’s provision of a home for Mary and Jesus, he independence, and opportunities for socializing for was, fittingly, a carpenter by trade; thus, patron of older adults at every life stage. From drop in senior workers. Spring, nature’s rebirth, begins between his centers where older adults can join a book club or feast and Annunciation (March 25), appropriately, exercise class to home visits and adult day care, older since Joseph’s silent obedience and Mary’s “Let it be adults will experience done to me according to your word” (Luke 1:38) usher professional, caring staff in humanity’s spiritual rebirth. —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. safe, bright and well maintained facilities activities for spirit, mind, and body Our services are designed to provide as little or as Sunday Offertory Collection much support as you need and are customized by Feb 29/March 1, 2019 client. Choose from Envelopes: $7,596.00 Drop-In Senior Centers Loose: 1,647.00 In-Home Care GiveCentral: 1,030.00 Adult Day Care Total: $10,273.00 Rehabilitation
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Thank you for your continued support! St. Lambert Intercessors’ prayer hour follows after the For Online Giving go to: www.givecentral.org noon mass every Sunday in the chapel. Our prayer teams and members intercede for the needs of St. Lambert parish and individual parishioners. Join us The Coffee Hour will be in prayer; drop your written petitions into hosted by Valerie Kakolires our prayer box; or request of us immediate and she can be reached at soaking prayer in private with you. You 630-415-5149. Your may also email us your petitio(s) at contributions of baked goods [email protected]. and your assistance is very Blessings with affections in Christ, much appreciated! Intercessors of St. Lambert. March 15, 2020 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 3
One-on-one Consultations with the Metropolitan Tribunal : April 6, May 11; 5 to 7 p.m.; Quigley Pastoral St. Raymond de Penafort Center, 835 N. Rush St.; free; for anyone with questions about March 26, 6-8 p.m.; March 27, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; declarations of nullity (annulments) March 28, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and how to get started; no St. Raymond Church gym, 301 S. I-Oka, Mount Prospect; appointments needed; in English $5 on March 26; other days free; and Spanish; for information, call for information, call 847-253-8600 or email 312-534-8280 or email [email protected] [email protected]. Speaker Series 2019-2020 Sunday, April 5, 2020
Msgr. Robert J. Dempsey “What is the ‘Magisterium’?”
Msgr. Dempsey is Pastor at St. Patrick Parish in Lake Forest, IL. He has served on the Presbyterial Council, the College of Consultors, the Archdiocesan Bioethics Commission, the Priests’ Advisory Committee of the Respect Life Office, as Visiting Lecturer at the Liturgical Institute of USML, and as Magistral Chaplain of the Order of Malta.
Join us for an in-depth look at the teaching authority of the Church.
* What is the authority of Scripture and Tradition in Catholic doctrinal and moral teaching? * What is the difference between the “Ordinary” and the “Extraordinary” Magisterium * In what sense is (or is not) “lived experience” formative of the Church’s doctrinal and moral teaching?
Noon to 1:30 in the Rec Room
St. Catherine Laboure 3535 Thornwood, Glenview Refreshments / Free-Will Offering / 847-826-4704 March 15, 2020 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 The Reverend Know-it-all them, had a great deal of influence over the Is back! “What I don’t know… I can bishop. They could disagree with him publicly, and worse they could withhold cooperation in fund always make up!” raising, and could not be removed for either. A pastor with tenure could only be removed for A Series of Essays “On the Business of Religion” by the Rev. insanity, immorality, heresy, or an interesting Know it all combination of the three and these had to be proved by a canonical trial! If the bishop needed Essay Six: Pastors of Long Ago funds, he had to schmooze his pastors. They knew where the money was and how to get it. When I was a boy, and the wooly mammoth still roamed, there All this seems rather cynical, but don’t kid yourself. were two kinds of pastors in the Religion doesn’t come cheap. There are buildings Catholic Church. There were to maintain, staffs to be paid, schools, charities irremovable pastors who could only be removed soup kitchens, orphanages retirement homes, by the pope and there were removable pastors hospitals, etc. etc., etc. to be maintained. And tuck who could only be removed by the pope. If you -pointing. Tuck-pointing! The very word sends a were a removable pastor you could be removed by chill down the spine of a pastor. Just try tuck- the bishop, but you had the right of appeal to pointing a five story brick building. The cost can Rome and the process took so much time and run into the high hundreds thousands if you’re effort on the part of the bishop, why bother? In lucky! So, if you want to take the high road and do effect a pastor had tenure and was expected to not want to mix filthy lucre with religion you might leave a parish, carried out feet first. (Dead, for as well throw out your Bible. From the Old those of you who are humor impaired.) Testament through the New, there is an honest presentation of the relationship between worship All this changed one day in Chicago in, I believe, and money, so get off your high horse. 1972. Those were the heady days of the Age of Aquarius, the post-conciliar era when the changes Where was I? Oh yes… pastors. The priests of wrought by the Second Vatican council were going Chicago threw away their right to tenure and in to make everything perfect. The young priests of those exhilarating times after the council, as Chicago realized that the liturgical changes that Chicago went so went the nation. As the nation would be needed to introduce this Golden Age went, so went the world. Pastors in most places would never happen as long as the old don’t have limited terms of pastorate, but they do curmudgeon pastors occupied the “plum” have an obligatory retirement. The results of that parishes. fateful meeting in 1972 have been wide ranging.
So at a meeting of the Priest’s Senate of the Here is one result. There is something called the Archdiocese of Chicago, the clergy assembled cathedraticum. (Cathedra meaning the bishop’s asked Cardinal John Cody to petition Rome for chair which is kept in the cathedral.) The permission to limit the terms of pastors to two cathedraticum is the money owed the bishop from terms of six years each. It is said that Cardinal Cody the Sunday collection. I have no idea what the responded, “If that’s your wish, my sons, (he cathedraticum was in my youth. I have heard that talked that way sometimes) I will petition the Holy was about 3 percent of the parish revenues, but Father.” It is also said that his eminence left the this cannot be accurate. The cathedraticum in this hall smiling. He realized that if the pastors lost country seems to have been around 10 percent of tenure, they would lose any control over the a pastor’s income as far as I can tell and is bishop of a diocese. The old “barons,” as we called (Continued on page 6) Page 6 St. Lambert Parish Third Sunday of Lent
(Continued from page 5) discussing finances which I hope will become clear in future essays. currently 10 percent of the regular parish collections . The whole thing is very confusing. In times past, the collections, funeral stipends and pew rentals seem to have been considered the Michelle MarƟn pastors personal property and from these he owed the bishop a substantial amount. From the Sorry! rest he maintained the parish and the school, Wednesday, March 4, 2020 paying the salaries of priests nuns and lay people who maintained the parish. All those income Love means never having to say you’re sorry, at sources were removed from the pastor in the least according to the 1970 movie “Love Story.” latter half of the twentieth century and the priest was given a salary. Tell that to Hasbro, and it’s Sorry! board game.
After working for the “company” for 45 years the For anyone unfamiliar — is anyone unfamiliar? — salary paid me by the parish is around $30,000 it’s similar to Parcheesi and Trouble, with each after taxes. Yes, I pay taxes. Lots of them. In player moving mul ple pawns around the board, addition to the salary we have automobile trying to get all their pieces into their home area insurance, health insurance until we qualify for first. As in those other games, though, it’s not Medicare and housing. That housing is above the simply a race; players can send their opponents store, so in effect we are also night watchmen. In back to the start, so the lead can change the past priests did not retire. As I have said, it was unpredictably. expected that they died in their rectories. That was the retirement plan. Now it is expected that We’ve been playing a lot of Sorry! lately, as it has we must accept retirement the year we turn 70 and we receive the generous pension of $1,200 a become one of Teresa’s favorite games. This is a month, provided we do not live in a rectory. If we good thing; a few years ago, playing games like live in rectory or other church facility, I believe that Sorry! and Parcheesi meant tears every me she our pension goes down to $600 a month. got sent back to the start. Maybe we let her win at Candy Land too much, but the idea that it was a At the moment, to the best of my knowledge, the game, and that she might lose, and that her official cathedraticum is still about 10 percent, but parents might do something that would make it to that is added 6% for the Priests retirement fund, more likely that she would lose, seemed to come formerly unnecessary, insurance assessments and as a shock. a 7% expectation for the annual diocesan fundraising campaign. To this is added the special Not anymore. collections for various diocesan charities. This all seems rather dry and unreligious. But it has a far Not that she’s happy to get sent back, but she more important significance. Financial control has accepts that it’s part of the game, and if she ends effectively been removed from the pastors. It is in up losing, she shrugs it off. You don’t always draw the hands of an ever growing professional the card you need at the right me, and that’s a bureaucracy that uses a business model. lesson best learned young. At the same me, she strategizes to put herself in a posi on to send PS. I am not poor. I have other sources of income other players back, and giggles in glee when she than my parish salary. Diocesan priests don’t take succeeds, offering the game’s trademark “Sorry!” a vow of poverty. I have other reasons for March 15, 2020 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7 in a tone that’s not sorry at all. some circumstances, can make winning more likely, that’s all to the good. Of course, that’s not real life. In real life, we are in Lent, a season of atonement, a me when we are As long as everyone remembers to help clean up supposed to reflect on our sins and our when the game is over, and that real-life sorrys shortcomings, take stock of the ways we have have real meaning, it looks like family game night hurt one another and damaged our rela onship is going to stay on the calendar. with God, and seek forgiveness and absolu on. It’s the exact opposite of ruthlessly thwar ng a loved one’s plans and tossing off a sarcas c non- apology.
Real apologies, of course, include not just an expression of regret, but an a empt to make things right and the inten on to not repeat the offense.
No wonder the game is confusing for young children, whom we want to be secure in the love of their parents and to whom we promise our support. Except, you know, if we’re playing a Woman at Jacob's well game. Jesus rested at Jacob's well in Samaria. That’s the point, though. A game is a game, not He talked to a woman who came for water about the water for eternal life. real life. Playing a game with your children — playing with your children — is good, for the kids Copyright © 2020 All right reserved. This site is a project and for the parents. If it gives the kids a low- MMBOX PRODUCTION stakes way to learn that luck is not always good, that losing is not the end of the world even if winning is more fun and that a li le planning, in