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 Wienberg theologians wisely “What I don’t know… acceded to the Duke’s finely craed arguments. Marn the brave, Marn who probably didn’t say at I can always make up!” the Diet of Worms, “Here I stand I can do no other!” Leer to Calvin Marn connued... 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 Chrisne of claiming that it was a maer of the seal of Saxony, daughter of Frederick of confession. Apparently Luther could sll be Catholic Saxony. Remember him, Marn Luther’s first went he wanted to be. Aer all, he had warned protector who hid Marn in the Wartburg Castle? Phillip that, “When it comes to wring, 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 Sll, 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 reformaon 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- denominaonal churches trace their roots back to Calvin, not to Luther. Lutheranism is a One of Luther’s collaborators, Phillip Melanchthon relavely small part of modern Chrisanity. There are came up with a novel soluon 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 mutaons of Calvinism. wife? Aer all, the patriarchs and kings in the Bible had busloads of wives. Hadn’t Doktor Luther said as I have already menoned 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-waing, Margarethe von der Saale. world should fall to pieces over it.” He had no idea Margarethe hesitated. She wanted to hear from how prophec 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 crical of family back in Saxony. Philip’s first wife, Chrisne 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.” Chrisanity has fractured The Lutheran theologians were hesitant. Aer 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 dispensaons.