St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord March 31, 2019 Fourth Sunday of lent
Luke 15:20
While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him.
Rectory: Pastor: Religious Education : Website: 8148 N Karlov Avenue Rev. Richard Simon Gina Roxas www.StLambert.org Skokie, IL 60076 [email protected] Phone: (847) 673-5090 Rev. Know-it-all: To Register as a E-mail: [email protected] reverendknow-it-all. Baptisms: Parishioner: Third Sundays of the blogspot.com Go to stlambert.org under month at 1:30 pm. Baptismal St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL “About Us” or by phone. Prep Class is the first Deacon: Tuesday of each month at Bulletin Guidelines: Sunday Masses: (5 pm Sat) Mr. Chick O’Leary 7 pm. For guidelines and to Submissions should be
8am, 10am, 12pm register call the rectory. received at the office 10 Music Director: days preceding the date Mr. Steven Folkers Weekday Masses: Weddings: of bulletin publication.
7:15 am (Mon-Fri) 8am on Sat. Arrangements must be made Submissions should be Office Staff: 6 months in advance. in electronic format and Debbie Morales-Garcia Confessions: sent to:debbie.stlambert. [email protected] Saturday at 8:30am @aol.com. Mr. George Mohrlein Page 2 St. Lambert Parish Fourth Sunday of Lent
Eucharistic Vigil READINGS FOR THE WEEK
“The Lord thy God thou shalt adore, Monday: Is 65:17-21; Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-13b; Jn 4:43-54 and Him only shalt thou serve" Tuesday: Ez 47:1-9, 12; Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9; Jn 5:1-16 Matthew 4:10 Wednesday: Is 49:8-15; Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18; Jn 5:17- 30 Thursday: Ex 32:7-14; Ps 106:19-23; Jn 5:31-47 Join us April 7th for the Friday: Wis 2:1a, 12-22; Ps 34:17-21, 23; Jn 7:1-2, 10, Eucharistic Vigil starting at 1:15 pm 25-30 followed by the Holy Hour from Saturday: Jer 11:18-20; Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-12; Jn 7:40-53 3 to 4 pm and Latin Mass at 5 pm. Sunday: Is 43:16-21; Ps 126:1-6; Phil 3:8-14; Jn 8:1-11 Alternate readings (Year A): Please spend one hour with the Lord. Ez 37:12-14; Ps 130:1-8; Rom 8:8-11; Jn 11:1-45 [3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45]
Sunday Offertory Collection Masses for the Week
March 16/17, 2019 Saturday, March 30 Envelopes: $6,213.00 Loose: 2,222.25 8:00 † Kien Phan GiveCentral: 1,220.00 5:00 Gerard Agatha Urbanas Total: $9,655.25
Sunday, March 31 Youth Church: $ 3.00 8:00 † Dolores T. De La Paz Thank you for your continued support! 10:00 For Online Giving go to: www.givecentral.org 12:00 People of St Lambert Monday, April 1 The Coffee Hour will be hosted net week by our Pro Life Ministry and the contact person is Mary 7:15 Stefan Jankowski 76th B-Day Ann O’Kane. She can be reached at Tuesday, April 2 847-679-0274.
7:15 † Frank Niewiadomski Your donations and are very much Wednesday, April 3 appreciated!
7:15 † Edwin Poyatos Sr. Thursday, April 4 7:15 Friday, April 5 7:15 † Mary Hajduk Saturday, April 6 St. Lambert Intercessors’ prayer hour follows after the 8:00 noon mass every Sunday in the chapel. Our prayer teams 5:00 and members intercede for the needs of St. Lambert parish and individual parishioners. Join us in prayer; drop Sunday, April 7 your written petitions into our prayer box; or request of us 8:00 † Jerry Cascino immediate soaking prayer in private with you. You may also email us your petition (s) at 10:00 † Cheryl Megill [email protected] 12:00 People of St Lambert Blessings with affections in Christ, Intercessors of St. Lambert
April 7th at 1:30pm in Trainor Hall Rumors had swirled for decades that Dr. Kermit Gosnell's inner-city Philadelphia abortion clinic was a house of horrors.
In fact, Gosnell had even fled to the Bahamas for nearly a decade after a horrific event in 1972, known as the Mother's Day Massacre, in which nine of 15 poor women bused in from Chicago were badly injured by a gruesome experimental abortion procedure that he was testing on them. But it took an investigation of Gosnell illegally writing painkiller prescriptions to bring the man to justice … and to reveal the grisly, ghastly manner in which he went about performing illegal, live-birth abortions on viable babies, mostly for poor Philadelphia women.
Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer, is a fictionalized account of the crimes and trial of infamous Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, 77, who was convicted of first-degree murder in 2013 in connection with the killings of three babies during illegal late-term abortions at his West Philadelphia clinic. Prosecutors famously dubbed the clinic a "house of horrors." By Nick Vadala, Daily News Philly.com
Parents are encouraged to attend with their children and those children without a parent need a permission slip. We will have refreshments and pot luck donations are welcomed.
On Sunday, April 14th YouthChurch will attend the 40days4life.
For more information, contact Gina at: [email protected] Page 4 St. Lambert Parish Fourth Sunday of Lent March 31, 2019 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 5 The Reverend Know-it-all “What I don’t know… I can always make up!”
THE REV KNOW-IT-ALL’S GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND PART 7 St. Lambert Youth Church is hosting a baby shower for expectant mothers and I have already discussed the mothers in need. amazing ny-ness (new word) of Sunday, April 28th at 1:00PM in the Holy Land, but now I return to Trainor Hall the absolute i y-bi y-ness of the Food, games, and gifts will be provided to area in which Jesus did most of the mommies-to be! His work. This area is called the Gospel Triangle and is a small patch of ground beginning at Capernaum. If you are able to help with the event, One walks up the hill from the valley of the Sea of please contact Gina Roxas at Galilee to Chorazin. We are not quite sure that the [email protected] current site actually is Chorazin. They have found no ruins there that date to the me of Christ, but there Our list of needed items and donation are plenty of ruins from just a li le while later and boxes are throughout the entrances the earlier town is there somewhere. of the church. Bethsaida, which I have already men oned, is another four miles, give or take, to the east. It was a “Moral Suffering and the Gift of Self” Fr. Marek Duran, S.T.D. fishing village built where the northern part of the Jordan flowed into the Sea of Galilee by boat. SUNDAY, April 14, 2019 Capernaum is just about five miles southwest of
Bethsaida along the lake shore and that completes Fr. Marek Duran is Associate Professor of Moral Theology at USML, and a certified spiritual director the triangle. These three li le towns are named in through the Institute for Priestly Formation. He has the Gospels of Ma hew and Luke as the places membership in both the Society of Christian Ethics where Jesus performed his greatest miracles, yet and the Academy of Catholic Theology. they failed to repent. Because these towns rejected the Gospels they would not be li ed up, but would Fr. Duran has the M.Div, and STL degrees from the be worse off than Sodom and Gomorrah on the Day USML, and the STD degree from the Pontifical John of Judgment. They would not be exalted but Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage & Family. forgo en and so it was that these three towns were in fact lost to history in the first few centuries a er * What is “moral suffering”? the me of Jesus. They were only rediscovered by * What is the “total gift of self” to another? modern excavators. * How can we be both just and merciful to some one who hurts us, or who hurts our community/ Now they are uninhabited museums filled with society/ Church? tourists and pilgrims but have no real inhabitants. It Noon to 1:30 PM in the Rec Room is interes ng to think that this is only one place in the Gospels where Chorazin is men oned and St. Catherine Laboure Bethsaida is not men oned much more. Jesus did 3535 Thornwood, Glenview IL, 847-826-4704 most of his work there, yet they seem forgo en in Refreshments / Free-Will Offering Come & Bring a Friend! (Continued on page 6) Page 6 St. Lambert Parish Fourth Sunday of Lent
(Continued from page 5) brought Peter, James and John to a high mountain the Gospels. One remembers the words of the and that Jesus was transformed into a radiant light Gospel of John, “Jesus did many other things as well. before their eyes. The Gospels omit which mountain If every one of them were wriƩen down, I suppose this all happened. The earliest men on that Tabor is that even the whole world would not have room for the mountain comes from a local theologian, Origen the books that would be wriƩen.” (John 21:25) It is in the 3rd century. The town of Naim, now called amazing to realize that we only have a taste of Nein is down the hill form Mount Tabor. It is there Jesus’ ministry presented to us in the Gospels. that Jesus raised a widow’s son from the dead as his funeral procession le the town. He did this just All the wonder He worked in Chorazin and Bethsaida a er coming down the mountain with Peter, James go unmen oned. Jesus seems to have made and John. He raised the boy from the dead as if to Capernaum his headquarters when He was there repeat the promise of resurrec on that he had and one sees a marvelous modern church built over made on the mountain. It seems reasonable that if ancient ruins. In these excava ons, visible under a Naim was at the foot of the Mount of the glass floor of the present modern building there is Transfigura on, that Tabor was that mountain. an ancient house in which there is a very special room, which was plastered and marked with graffi The present church and the Franciscan priory were referring to St. Peter. The central room of this built in 1924 by the Italian architect Antonio Barluzzi ancient house contained the remains of oil lamps, on the ruins of an ancient Byzan ne church and a but no cooking ceramics. Thus, it is theorized that 12th-century crusader church. The visit is well worth this first century structure was a church built into the hair raising cab ride up the side of the mountain the house of St. Peter. Some scholars say nonsense, which is much bigger than it looks from a distance. but what do they know? More to come... From here we move on to Mt. Tabor, the place venerated as the site of the transfigura on of Jesus. Mt. Tabor is a natural stone outcropping, not a GOD FORGIVES The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have typical “tell” which a hill is caused by a succession of removed the reproach of Egypt from you.” After ancient villages built one on top of another. It has forty years of wandering in the desert, this hard- been for fied at mes, but seems never to have headed people have finally reached the Promised been occupied by a village. It is quite a walk up and Land. No more do they eat the manna in the there is no easy source of water there as far as I desert, but they partake of the fruits of their new know. Jesus was transformed in the sight of Peter, homeland. God has kept the promise to their James and John who wanted to put up three booths, parents in Egypt. Even though they were a sinful one for Jesus, and the others for Moses and Elijah people, many times questioning God and even who appeared with Him. This is a clear reference to worshiping false gods, God has forgiven them and the Jewish feast of booths. It is interes ng to note fulfilled the promise. The “take-away” for us is that there is no sin that is unforgivable. We may that Mount Tabor was one of the mountain peaks have offended our neighbors, given a bad example on which a beacon was lit to summon the Jews of to someone, even worshiped the false gods of Galilee for the celebra on of the Holy Days. A light money and power. But God is a merciful God, summoned people to the temple in Jerusalem, and a true to the words spoken to us. God forgives all brilliant light on the mountain summoned us to the and calls us back to love. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. heavenly Jerusalem when Jesus was transformed. HAPPINESS As with all things archaeological, the iden fica on Happiness will never be ours if we do not recognize of Mt. Tabor with the Mount of the Transfigura on to some degree that God’s blessings were given us for the well-being of all. —Anonymous is disputed. The New Testament says that Jesus March 31, 2019 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord Page 7
The Prodigal Son –Luke 15:20
After taking his share of his father’s inheritance, this young man spent the inheritance and made a mess of his life. When he finally realized the mistake he had made, he returned home where his father welcomed him with a forgiving and joyful heart.
Prayer: God, we are so thankful that you are a loving father. We are so glad that Jesus showed his love to all people even those who didn’t know about God at all. Help us always to stay close to you and your wonderful love. In Jesus, Amen!