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Luke 16:22

Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord St. Lambert Parish September 25, 2016

Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL 60076 Phone:(847) 673-5090 E-mail: saintlambert@aol.com

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 debbie.stlambert@aol.com Mr. George Mohrlein Religious Education : Jonathan Rivera saintlambertsyouthchurch@ gmail.com

To Register as a Parishioner: Call the rectory or email us. Baptisms: Third Sundays of the month at 1:30 pm. Please call the rectory for guidelines and more information Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication. Send to debbie.stlambert@aol.com.

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Saturday, September 24

5:00 † Ann Paliakas

Sunday, September 25

8:00 People of St. Lambert

10:00 † Reitberger Family

12:00 Schubert, Genenoso & Lozada Families Monday, September 26

7:15 † Leonardo Deza Sr.

Tuesday, September 27

7:15 † Manfred Jennert

Wednesday, September 28

7:15 Tiffany Chao

Thursday, September 29

7:15 William Pasterczyk

Friday, September 30

7:15 † William Hoke

Saturday, October 1

8:00 Leon Johns Birthday, In Thanksgiving

5:00 † Efrain Cordero

Sunday, October 2

8:00 Lina Devedjiev & Juan & Bernarda

Gestardo

10:00 † Dscd. Members of O’Kane Family

Flora, Dymphna, Mary & Joe 12:00 People of St. Lambert

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Jb 1:6-22; Ps 17:1bcd-3, 6-7; Lk 9:46-50 Tuesday: Jb 3:1-3, 11-17, 20 23; Ps 88:2-8; Lk 9:51-56 Wednesday: Jb 9:1-12, 14-16; Ps 88:10bc-15; Lk 9:57-62 Thursday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14 or Rv 12:7-12a; Ps 138:1-5; Jn 1:47-51 Friday: Jb 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5; Ps 139:1-3, 7-10, 13-14ab; Lk 10:13-16 Saturday: Jb 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17; Ps 119:66, 71, 75, 91, 125, 130; Lk 10:17-24 Sunday: Hb 1:2-3; 2:2-4; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9;

UNRECOGNIZABLE All God’s angels come to us disguised. —James Russell Lowell

The Coffee Hour will be hosted by the FFOS and the contact person is Lily Syfu.

She can be reached at 847-712-0833.

Your donations are always welcome.

Sunday Offertory Collection

September 10/11, 2016 Envelopes: $5,325.75 Loose: 2,577.20 Total: $7,902.95 YouthChurch: $159.10

For Online Giving: www.givecentral.org

Thank you for your continued support!

Masses for the Week

Congratulations to Don & Dorsey Jastrebski! Winners of $100 from the

special early bird drawing of the St Lambert Calendar

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Winning calendar raffle numbers are put back into the hopper giving participants 365 opportunities to win!

The first Regular drawing will begin on December 26, 2016 for the week of January 1 to 7, 2017. Winning

numbers will be pulled for the week on Sundays prior and will be published in the weekly bulletin. Checks will

be mailed to winners by St Lambert.

Pick up your Raffle Calendar today! The cost is $25 per booklet and proceeds will go towards the repairs of the

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Prolonged, multiple wars in the Middle East. Waves of immigrants crossing the borders. Ongoing economic recession. Increasing political polarization, often with religious overtones. Conflicts over ideologies that pit the progressive against the traditional. Life is cheap and the unwanted are readily disposed of. Sound familiar? These conditions not only describe the United States, but the situation of the Roman Empire in the third century. That situation led to religious persecution and the eventual collapse of the empire. In the middle of the third century, the Roman Empire was roughly the same age as the United States is now.

Mike Aquilina is author or editor of more than forty books, including The Fathers of the Church, The Mass of the Early Christians, and Angels of God. He has co-authored books with Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dion DiMucci, theologian Scott Hahn, and singer-songwriter John Michael Talbot, among others.

Jim Papandrea is a teacher, author, speaker, and musician. He received his M.Div. degree from Fuller Theological Seminary, with a concentration in youth ministry and went on to receive a Ph.D. in the history and theology of the early Christian church from Northwestern University, with secondary concentrations in New Testament interpretation and the history of the Roman Empire. He has also studied Roman history at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. Jim is currently Associate Professor of Church History at Garrett-Evangelical Seminary at Northwestern University, as well as a consultant in the area of Adult Faith Formation, and a regular speaker in parish and lay formation programs in the Chicago area.

Together, Jim Papandrea and Mike Aquilina help guide the St. Paul Institute for Biblical Theology and co-authored the book Seven Revolutions: How Christianity Changed the World and Can Change it Again.

This is the 7th year of the St. Lambert Patristics Seminar inaugurated by Fr. Richard Simon and Mike Aquilina to make people more aware of, and help them learn from the rich tradition inherited from the early Church.

St. Lambert Parish 8148 N Karlov, Skokie, IL 60076 847-673-5090

$25 cost includes lunch For further information or to register contact:

St. Lambert Parish at 847-673-5090, or Deacon Chick O’Leary at 773-775-6659

St. Lambert Parish 7th Annual Patristics Seminar

Mike Aquilina

Dr. Jim Papandrea

Saturday, October 22, 2016 9:00 am to 3:30 pm

Schedule of the day

SATURDAY, October 22, 2016

8:00 a.m. Mass (optional)

8:30 a.m. Check-in/Registration

9:00 a.m. Father Richard Simon: Invocation and Introduction

9:15 am Mike Aquilina: The First Pro-Life Movement: A Revolution in Human Dignity

10:30am Jim Papandrea: The Inevitable Counter-Revolution: How and Why the Church Was Persecuted

11:30 am LUNCH

12:45 pm Mike Aquilina: Saving Bodies, Saving Souls: A Revolution in Health Care

2:00 pm Jim Papandrea: The Revolution of Religious Liberty: Myth and Reality

3:00 pm Panel Discussion: Father Richard Simon, Jim Papandrea, Mike Aquilina

5:00 pm Saturday Vigil Mass 30th Sun. Ordinary Time

Christianity — A Revolution of Hope

(Another exciting installment of) The Rev. Know it all’s Wonderful World of Words! (Continued) There are lots of grand words being bandied about in church these days, words such as Eucharist, and Liturgy. These are Greek words, the meanings of which most people are quite ignorant. When I was a boy and directory information was a free service, we just called it Mass. Unfortunately, Mass is not the best

word for the central ceremony of the ancient Christian faith. Mass is a word that comes from the Latin word “Mitto” which means to send or to let go. Among the last words of the old Mass were, “Ite! Missa est,” which essentially means, “you can go now,” or even perhaps “get out of here, the priest needs a nap.” (This second translation is a bit looser than the first which is more literal.) “Go. It’s finished.” To which the congregation responded “Deo gratias!” (Or “thanks be to God!) Again, a more poetic translation of the congregational response may be, “Thank God, the old windbag is finally finished!” In the early Church, people went to Mass because it was a taste of heaven on earth. In later times when Christianity was the state religion there was a certain amount of force involved in the Sunday and holy day

The Reverend Know-it-all “What I don’t know… I can always make up!”

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St. Vincent DePaul- Skokie Conference

Bundle Weekend At St Joan of arc Parish

Make a difference in the lives of those in need by donating your gently used item to SVDP!

Friday, October 7—1 pm to 5pm Saturday, October 8—11 am to 4:30 pm Sunday, October 9—9:30 am to 2:30 pm

If you have large items to donate, such as furniture, we will have movers and a truck available to help you on Saturday, October 9.

To make arrangements, contact Frank Ziegler at

847-962-9612 or email frank.ziegler@gmail.com any time before or during the Bundle Event.

Tax letters will be provided.

obligation. If you weren’t at Mass regularly the local peasants might think you guilty of witchcraft or heresy or even worse, not believing in all this stuff. One patiently endured the service until those precious words were heard, “Ite, Missa est! Since “Missa” was one of the only intelligible words heard by the unwashed mob, they started calling it the Missa, in effect the “Go Away!” Imagine a conversation between two mud splattered peasant farmers in Lower Upper Hessia sometime during the Dark Ages “Are you going to the early Go Away or the late one?” “Oh, the early Go Away, of course. They never have a sermon or a choir at that one and it only takes fifteen minutes.” Don’t be shocked at my cavalier attitude. With the exception of knowing that the word “Mass” was derived from the word “to send away,” that is a conversation I often heard in my youth. Where I grew up, the Dark Ages as well as Prohibition lasted well into the 1960’s. So, what should we call the unbloody re-presentation of Christ’s saving sacrifice on the cross? I’m all for calling it “Mass.” After all, there has been a lot of linguistic water under the bridge. I always find people who talk about the Noon Liturgy or the Sunday Eucharist a bit tedious. Don’t get me wrong, the words Eucharist and Liturgy are useful especially when trying to speak with some theological precision. Still, you can always tell that someone has taken a theology course downtown when they bandy the word Eucharist or Liturgy about too frequently. If you meet any of these bandiers of fancy words, you will be able to ask them what these words mean and I’ll bet you they are clueless. If you can endure finishing this article you will know the precise meaning and origin of the terms and will be abler to make the fancy bandiers feel just a bit foolish. Sounds like fun, no? The word Eucharist is a Greek word that means thanksgiving. The sages of the Jews at the time of Christ held that when the messiah came all the sacrifices of the law would cease except for the thanksgiving sacrifice, or in Hebrew the Korban Todah, “korban” meaning sacrifice and “Todah” meaning thanks in Hebrew. If you can pull out some Hebrew word you will definitely impress. The thanksgiving sacrifice was a personal sacrifice. It could not be offered on Saturday, the Sabbath unless it was Passover. It is my theory that I pushed on you time and time again that the Christians offered Mass on Sunday, not on Saturday. They thought of the Mass as the

fulfillment of the belief that it was the ultimate, the messianic thanksgiving sacrifice. In the law, the thanksgiving sacrifice was offered when one had been saved from death. There was an offering of a lamb whose sacrifice blood was sprinkled along with loaves of bread and a pouring out of wine. The bread was taken home to be eaten by friends and family on that day, provided home was in Jerusalem. The reason that all the sacrifice of the law would be cancelled by the coming of the messiah is that there would be no more sin. The disciples quickly realized that Jesus had offered the messianic sacrifice at the last supper in which bread and wine became the lamb which was Christ. We have been offering it ever since, because our messiah Jesus has saved us from sin, the death of the soul, as well as giving us hope of eternal life. Next week, Liturgy PS the words “missal” and “ missalette”( the book or pamphlet from which the Mass is read) as well as “missile” a projectile sometimes carrying a nuclear warhead are all derived from the same Latin root of “Mitto” It is best not to confuse the terms. If someone shouts “Watch out, there is an incoming missile” he is probably not referring to any kind of prayer book.

Luke 16:19-31 Jesus told a story about a rich man who wore the finest clothes and lived in luxury. A beggar named Lazarus lay outside the rich man's gate. Lazarus was hungry and his body was covered with sores. He was hoping that the rich man might have pity on him and that he might be able to satisfy his hunger with the leftovers from the rich man's table. But every day the Rich man passed by Lazarus without even giving him a thought. I imagine that he passed by Lazarus so many times that he eventually got to the point that he didn't even see him at all. The Bible says that Lazarus died and went to heaven. The rich man also died, but he went to hell. In hell, he looked up and saw Lazarus in heaven with Abraham. He asked Abraham to let Lazarus dip his finger in water and come and touch it to his burning tongue, but Abraham said, "No." Then he reminded the

rich man how he had enjoyed such good things on earth while Lazarus had nothing. Did you know that God sometimes sounds a "wake up" alarm in our lives? He speaks to our heart and says, "It is time to wake up and follow me." Some people hit the snooze button and say, "Not now Lord, call me again -- a little bit later." Some people hit that "snooze button" so many times that they get to where they don’t even hear God’s voice. When they finally wake up, they find out that it is too late. That is what happened in our Bible story today. God is still sending "wake up" calls to people today. Let us pray that they will listen to his voice and follow him before it is too late.

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How fast can you find the words?

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