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St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord

September 6, 2015

Be OpenedBe OpenedBe Opened And immediately the mans ears were opened

And people brought to Him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged Him to lay His hand on him. He took him off by Himself away from the crowd. He put His fingers into the mans ears and spitting touched His tongue; then He looked up to heaven, He sighed and said to him...

Mark 7:32-35

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 Saturday) 8am, 10am, 12pm Weekday Masses: 7:15 am (Mon-Fri) 8:00am on Sat.

Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon [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 Mrs. 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. Confessions: Saturday at 8:30am

Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Religious Education : Fr. Richard Simon saintlambertsyouthchurch@ gmail.com To Register as a Parishioner of St Lambert please call the rectory or email us. For Online Giving: www.givecentral.org

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Masses for the week

Saturday, September 5

5:00 † Anna Turi

the 45th Wedding Anniversary of Larry &

Barbara Dionne and the 56th Wedding

Anniversary of George & Donna Mohrlein

Sunday, September 6

8:00 † Margaret Gannon

10:00 Lojo Wedding Anniversay

12:00 People of St. Lambert Monday, September 7

7:15 Special Intention of Mateo & Mariana Weisgal

Tuesday, September 8

7:15 † Michael Roznai

Wednesday, September 9

7:15 † Ursula Blix

Thursday, September 10

7:15 Debbie & Ray Garcia Wedding Anniversary

Friday, September 11

7:15 † John & Rosaleen Burke and Joe Linehan

Saturday, September12

8:00 Nelly Rueda

5:00 † Roberto Pulusan

Sunday, September 13

8:00 John Casper

10:00 People of St. Lambert

12:00 † Nelly Rueda

Welcome to God’s Family

Huici R. Lin Gunawan

I am the bread of Life….whoever eats this bread will live forever. John 6:35-58

Congratulations to our First Communicants

Thea G. Abang Eva L. Rosagas Albiola

Eliza A. Ancheta Sophia C. Bobiles Reena Boragay Peter E. Castillo

Stephen J. Consing Dylan M. Fernando Julia R. Frampton

Huici R. Lin Gunawan Samantha E. Gutierrez

Kreg F. Jallorina Nathaniel G. Magsino Christian D. Maravilla

Christel M. Deza Moscardon Phillip Pham

Sedrik Claire V. Punzalan Louise G. Ruiz

Adrianna S. Sanchez Camila Smith

Zacharry D. Smith Nicholas Soruco

Akash Tirumalareddy John A. Villa-Abrille

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time September 6, 2015

Did not God choose those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs

to the kingdom? — James 2:5

Rectory Office Closed

The Safest Place—How to Stay Safe in the World Today

1. Avoid riding in automobiles because they are responsible for 20% of all fatal accidents. 2. Do not stay home because 17% of all accidents occur in the home. 3. Avoid walking on streets or sidewalks because 14% of all accidents occur to pedestrians. 4. Avoid traveling by air, rail, or water because 16% of all accidents involve these forms of transportation. 5. Of the remaining 33%, 32% of all deaths occur in hospitals. So...above all else, avoid hospitals. But...you will be pleased to learn that only.001% of deaths occur in worship services in church and these are usually related to previous physical disorders. Therefore, logic tells us that the safest place for you to be at any given point in time is at a CHURCH! (And Bible Study is safe too) The percentage of deaths during Bible Study is even less. So...for Safety’s Sake-attend church and read your Bible!

Father Welsh’s Bible Classes begin again on the Wednesday after Labor Day, Sept. 9th, from

9:30 am to 11 am in Roberts Hall. Mark your calendar!

The Coffee Hour will be hosted next week by the Senior Activity Group. The contact is Marilyn Sala and she can be reached at

847-675-5103. Your contributions are very

much appreciated!

Saint Lambert Senior Activity Club

Will hold its first meeting of the season On Thursday, September 10th At 11:30AM in Robert’s Hall

Come to: Meet old friends or

make new ones Enjoy a tasty lunch

Play bingo if you like Learn of upcoming trips

St. Lambert’s YouthChurch

Fall 2015 Program

Begins September 13th, 2015 from 9:45 am -11:45 am

Continues every 1st, 2nd and 4th Sundays. Third Sunday of every month is Family Day 2:30-6pm. Activities for the whole family!

* Breakfast * Games * Singing

YouthChurch is FREE for St. Lambert families! Copies of Baptismal Certificates are required

to register. Look for our registration table on Sunday after the 10am and Noon Mass.

* Bible Stories * Religious Education

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The St. Lambert Choir will begin rehearsals on Thursday, September 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the

Choir Room. The Choir sings each week at the 10:00 a.m. Mass and for other special seasonal Masses. New members are most welcome! If you’ve been thinking about joining the Choir,

this is your opportunity!

Sunday Offertory Collection

August 22/23, 2015 Envelopes: $5,191.00 Loose: 2,287.25 Total: 7,478.25

Thankyou!

Dear Rev. Know it all, How are you planning to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reforma on year a er next? Calvin Mar n Dear Calvin, On 31 October 1517, Luther posted the ninety-five theses, which he had composed in La n, on the door of the Castle Church of Wi enberg, according to university custom. In about one year the western world will break into paroxysms of joy to celebrate this momentous event, an event that forever changed the world. Bells will be wrung, prayer services and ecumenical gatherings will be convened and we will congratulate ourselves that we are be er than our ancestors who couldn’t just get along as the great American philosopher, Rodney King exhorted us. We are the flower of human history because we know that “everything is beau ful in its own way,” as the poet Ray Stevens taught us in the glorious 60’s and early 70’s. The heroic Luther defied pope and emperor by changing his name, hiding out in a remote castle and wri ng his own version of the new testament, se ng the tone for the present age in which we can do anything we want provided we have good inten on and are sincere. It turns out that the nailing of the 95 theses may be a myth. Erwin Iserloh pointed out that the nailing of the theses to the church door may be a myth created by Philipp Melanchthon who wasn’t at Wi enberg University at the me. The story appeared for the first me a er Luther's death. The grand celebra ons planned for reforma on day October 31st 2017 may just be the celebra on of something that never happened. Nonetheless, let us look at this hero of western culture, and the glorious legacy that he has inspired.

Much of the following is taken from Luther’s Tischreden. (Table Talk, a collec on of his sayings compiled by Johannes Mathesius. Mathesius, a disciple of Luther, was a great note taker who wrote down everything, even stuff that a less diligent or delicate student would have le out. It is interes ng what Luther let fly a er a couple of beers.) Luther, The Humble Mar n had a pre y high opinion of himself. He once said, “St. Augus ne or St. Ambrose cannot be compared with me.” (ref. Erlangen, Vol. 61, pg. 422). Luther added a word to the text of Scripture on which he and much of the world have based an en re religious philosophy. In St. Paul’s le er to the Romans, (3:28) we read “For we maintain that a person is jus fied by faith apart from the works of the law.” Mar n translated it to read, “a person is jus fied by faith ALONE.” The word alone doesn’t appear in the text. When one of his students said that all Christendom was wondering why he had added a word to the text, Mar n simply said, “If your Papist annoys you with the word (‘alone’), tell him straightway, Dr. Mar n Luther will have it so: Papist and ass are one and the same thing. Whoever will not have my transla on, let him give it the go-by: the devil’s thanks to him who censures it without my will and knowledge. Luther will have it so, and he is a doctor above all the doctors in Popedom.” (ref. Amic. Discussion, 1) I guess that includes Ambrose and Augus ne. Being personally infallible, Mar n just assumed that he understood the phrase “works of the law” meant kindness and generosity and morality. It is a shame that he hadn’t read the Dead Sea Scrolls. The phrase “works of the law” appears in only two places as far as we know St. Paul’s le ers and the Dead Sea Scroll. Allow me to quote Miqsat Ma’aseh HaTorah (Some Works of the Law, Dead Sea Scroll 4QMMT, a real page turner.) “And also concerning flowing liquids: we say that in these there is no purity. Even flowing liquids cannot separate unclean from clean because the moisture of flowing liquids and their containers is the same moisture.” In other words, if you are pouring water from a clay pitcher into a clay

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

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pot that has become ritually unclean, you will have to destroy both the pitcher and the pot because the ritual pollu on will jump up the stream of water from the pot and pollute the pitcher. The same principle applies to piddling on a power line. Don’t even try it! Luther somehow failed to no ce that in the previous chapter, (Romans 2:6) Paul warns us that God “will repay each one according to his works.” We have untold millions of people in the world who count themselves perfectly good Chris ans who cheat on their spouse, cheat in their business, cheat on everything and feel good about it because they are saved, and as Luthier also taught “Once saved, always saved!” Gosh I hope Luther was right. If Mar n is wrong, there are a lot of people in hell who are saying, “But I was saved!” Mar n just didn’t like good works at all. “It is more important to guard against good works than against sin.” (ref. Tischreden, Wi enberg Edi on, Vol. VI., p. 160). Mar ns dislike of good work and his personal infallibility also extended to the Commandments. The Ten Commandments were worse than pointless

2015 2014 $ Change

3460 · Family Fest Income 3460.1 · Raffle Tickets $ 21,891 $ 23,290 $ (1,399)

3460.3 · Food & Beverage 11,481 9,345 2,136

3460.4 · Miscellaneous Income 7,088 11,123 (4,035)

Total 3460 · Family Fest Income $ 40,460 $ 43,642 $ (3,182)

4561 · Family Fest Expense 4561.1 · Raffle Tickets $ 9,007 $ 8,985 $ 22

4561.2 · Pull Tab - 50 (50)

4561.3 · Food & Beverage 4,900 4,550 350

4561.4 · Equipment 5,781 4,145 1,636

4561.5 · Miscellaneous 730 581 150

4561.6 · Tax & License Fees 165 66 99

4561.7 · Music 850 725 125

4561.8 · Security 360 405 (45)

Total 4561 · Family Fest $ 21,792 $ 19,390 $ 2,402

Net Income $ 18,668 $ 24,252 $ (5,584)

as far as Mar n was concerned. “If we allow them (the Commandments) any influence in our conscience, they become the cloak of all evil, heresies and blasphemies” (ref. Comm. ad Galat, p.310). One of Mar n’s more startling beliefs had to do with “thou shalt not commit adultery.” Mar n once said, “Christ commi ed adultery first of all with the woman at the well about whom St. John tells us. Was not everybody about Him saying: ‘Whatever has He been doing with her?’ Secondly, with Mary Magdalen, and thirdly with the women taken in adultery whom He dismissed so lightly. Thus even, Christ who was so righteous, must have been guilty of fornica on before He died.” (ref. Tischreden, Weimer Edi on, Vol. 2, Pg. 107. Like I said, get a few beers in Him and the great reformer said some interes ng stuff. I bet you didn’t think people accused Jesus of sin un l the current era. Guess again. The current era is the fruit of the seeds that Mar n Luther planted. To be con nued: More impolite and intolerant stuff about Luther.

Bratfest Report Come and Join Us in Celebrating The Feast Day of

San Lorenzo Ruiz De Manila & San Pedro Calungsod September 26, 2015

5:00 pm Mass

In preparation for the feast day of San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila &

San Pedro Calungsod, a daily novena will be held from

September 17 at 7 pm and September 18-25 at 6:45 pm

(Sept. 23rd novena after the Mother of

Perpetual Help novena)

2:00 pm, Sunday, September 20, 2015

St. Lambert/ Trainor Hall (Free Will Offering Requested)

Also, “Seven Secrets of the Sacred Shroud” Beyond science & history lies the theology of the Shroud. This presentation focuses on seven proofs from theology and apologetics supporting the Shroud’s probable authenticity.

The concepts are powerful and will raise faith to new heights. (45 minutes)

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How fast can you find the words?

Please join us on Tuesday, September 8h at 7 pm at St. Monica Church

5136 N Nottingham Ave in Chicago Participate in the tradition of the living rosary with members of our community. All men, women and children are welcome . There is no cost to participate. • You do not need to know how to pray the rosary to attend • If you would like to be a participant in the living rosary, please be in the church by 6:30 pm

Tel: 773-763-1661