St. Lambert Parish

Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord April 23, 2017

Divine Mercy

"Have you come to believe because you have seen me?

Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Ave, Skokie 60076 Phone: (847) 673-5090 E-mail: saintlambert@aol.com St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL Website: www.StLambert.org Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon Rev. Know-it-all: reverendknow-it-all.blogspot.com Deacon: Mr. Chick O’Leary

Sunday Masses: (5 pm Sat) 8am, 10am, 12pm Weekday Masses: 7:15 am (Mon-Fri) 8am on Sat. Confessions: Saturday at 8:30am 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: Go to stlambert.org under “About Us” or by phone. 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. For requirements and to register, email Debbie. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions must be received 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication and can be sent to debbie.stlambert@ aol.com.

John 20:29

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Saturday, April 22

5:00 † Oscar Angeles

Sunday, April 23

8:00 People of St Lambert

10:00 The Perez Family Grandchildren

12:00 Jesus & Maida Montero Wedding

Anniversary

Monday, April 24

7:15 Chris Gualberto, In Thanksgiving

Tuesday, April 25

7:15 † Venencio de los Santos Jr.

Wednesday, April 26

7:15 † Mariamma Antony

Thursday, April 27

7:15 † the Poor Souls in Purgatory

Friday, April 28

7:15 Alan Rosagas

Saturday, April 29

8:00 † Rizalina Jaramillo

5:00 † Julia Guerrero

Sunday, April 30

8:00 Jaime Garcia, In Thanksgiving

10:00 † Esther Tobin

12:00 People of St Lambert

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Acts 4:23-31; Ps 2:1-9; Jn 3:1-8 Tuesday: 1 Pt 5:5b-14; Ps 89:2-3, 6-7, 16-17; Mk 16:15-20 Wed: Acts 5:17-26; Ps 34:2-9; Jn 3:16-21 Thursday: Acts 5:27-33; Ps 34:2, 9, 17-20; Jn 3:31- 36 Friday: Acts 5:34-42; Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14; Jn 6:1-15 Saturday: Acts 6:1-7; Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19; Jn 6:16- 21 Sunday: Acts 2:14, 22-33; Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-11; 1 Pt 1:17-21; Lk 24:13-35

The origins of the custom of burning a lamp before the tabernacle are in Jewish worship, where a lamp called ner tamid or “eternal flame” burns before the ark in every synagogue. The ark contains the sacred scrolls of the Torah. The flame represents the menorah in the Temple, and therefore is never extinguished. In fact, the word “tabernacle” itself is derived from Hebrew, as taber is the Hebrew word for “tent,” and hearkens back to the forty years of wandering in the desert. The pilgrim people were sustained in hope by an awareness that God was not only in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, but had quite literally “pitched his tent with them” in the shelter for the Ark of the Covenant. Some artisans have used this theme of “ark” or “tent” to design a tabernacle for the Blessed Sacrament. In Christian practice, Anglicans and Catholics use a sanctuary lamp to point toward the presence of the reserved sacrament, and Lutherans use it as a sign of God’s presence in the house of worship, but not necessarily as a clue that the Eucharist is reserved. Why, even in an age of electric light, is the sanctuary lamp an oil light or candle? Perhaps not only to point to Christ, the light of the world, but also to point to sacrifice. For the light to exist, there must be sacrifice. The oil or wax is transformed into light, just as those who pray here, or who will receive viaticum from here, are called to transformation in Christ. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

Masses Masses for the for the WeekWeek

Sunday Offertory Collection April 8/9, 2017 Envelopes: $6,755.50 Loose: 2,333.65 Total: $9,089.15

YouthChurch: $ 102.00

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Thank you for your continued support!

The coffee hour will be hosted next wee, April 30th by the

St Lambert Senior Club and the contact is Marilyn Sala. She can be

reached at 847-675-5103. Your participation and baked goods

are welcome!!

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Continued from last week… We are getting very close to talking about the Pharisees. I promise, but first we have to talk about the synagogue. The synagogue in no way replaces the Temple in Jerusalem. It is a house of prayer where Scripture may or may not also be studied. A Jew can be a perfectly good Jew without ever going to a synagogue, though I don’t know any orthodox Jews who are not synagogue members. In Hebrew its called a house of assembly or a house of prayer. In Yiddish it is a “shul,” or school. Halakhic law (Jewish practical law) dictates that communal Jewish worship can be carried out wherever a minyan is present. A “minyan” is ten circumcised men who have celebrated their bar mitzvah which is a Jewish coming of age ceremony. The phrase bar mitzvah literally means son of the commandment in Aramaic. One can prayer with fewer than ten people assembled together, but certain prayers should only be said in the presence of a minyan, and the Scroll of the Torah should not be taken out of its special cabinet or niche unless a minyan is present. In Hebrew this cabinet is called an ahron (ark) to remind is of the lost ark of the Jerusalem temple. Notice, there is no rabbi or cantor or presider necessary for the service, just ten men in the covenant, usually plus one. The plus one is so that if some old guy has to excuse himself during the service, they have to put the Torah back in the ahron if they go below a minyan of ten. This eleventh fellow is sometimes designated by the Yiddish word “pisher” for some reason. The northern tribes of Israeli were taken into exile in Assyria in 732 BC. They had abandoned the Temple in Jerusalem at the death of Solomon

931BC because of the harsh policies his son and successor Rehoboam, who was a real (fill in the blank.) The northern tribes chose a former official of the department of urban development in the government of Solomon. No, really. Lest people return to their old allegiances by going down to Jerusalem to pray at the Temple, Jeroboam built two new temples, one in the north of the new kingdom of northern Israel and one in the south. Two temples. How convenient. One didn’t have to travel that far. Thus the northerners developed a nice inclusive religion of convenience. A little Astarte worship, a bit of Baal worship, some sacred prostitutes etc. It had all the convenience that Canaanite religion had to offer, plus the god of Abraham at no extra price. One could worship the Lord and whatever else tickled your theological fancy. As the inevitable result, two hundred years later, when the Assyrians swooped in and deported the people to northern Iraq, their religious lives fell apart. They lost their religion and so lost their identity as a people. The southern tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Simeon as well as those Levites who were in the south went in the opposite direction. They underwent a series of religious reforms and went into the in Babylon (586 BC) with a little more backbone than their northern cousins. During the exile in Babylon, the Men of the Great Assembly formalized and standardized the language of the Israelite prayers. Before that, people prayed individually. Communal worship happened in the liturgy of the Temple. Individual prayers seem to have had a lot of variation. The Temple had a strict and consistent liturgy. The Temple however was gone. The Torah was increasingly the focus of prayer in the exile and coming together, which is what the Greek word synagogue means, and became the glue that held the Judahite community together in Babylon. It was this experience that really formed what we now call Judaism as a development of the religion of Israel. It was the coming together, the assembling together that mattered whether it was

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

in a designated community space, or wherever a minyan happened to be.

Synagogues existed well before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. There is an example in Egypt that dates from the 3rd century BC. A synagogue existed in Jericho around 75 BC at the Maccabees’ winter palace. Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, (born 30 BC) was a big believer in the idea of the synagogue as a specific building for worship wherever there were Jews. So the synagogue became an integral part of Jewish life right at the time that Jesus of Nazareth was born and Christianity came into existence. There is no mention of the synagogues in the Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament for you politically incorrect types), None. Nada. Zilch. No mention.

The synagogue was never part of worship in ancient Israel. The synagogue is, in a sense, the dividing line between the religion of Israel and its direct descendant, Judaism, the religion of Judah. A devout orthodox Jew reading this should be steaming by now. Every orthodox Jew knows that Moses had payes (side curls) wore a yarmulke and ate gefiltefish on Shabbos, just like every good Catholic knows that St. Peter, the first pope wore a white cassock and a little white beany and that the Blessed Mother had a blue cloak. Aren’t these things in the Bible? Sadly, they are not.

Enter the Pharisees!

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The top five finalists are invited to perform two songs at our 9th Annual Friends of the Poor®

Benefit on April 30, 2017 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m to determine a Grand Prize winner. Grand Prize winning choir receives a $2,500 donation, and each runner-up choir finalist receives a $1,000 donation.

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“Works of Mercy in Our Daily Life” Fr. Pawel Komperda

Fr. Pawel Komperda is Associate Pastor at Incarnation Parish in Palos Heights. He also serves as an Adjunct Spiritual Director at USML Seminary and the Bishop Abramowicz Formation Program. He was ordained in the Archdiocese of Chicago in 2006. Previously, Fr. Komperda was Director of Liturgy and Pastoral Formation at St. Joseph College Seminary at Loyola University in Chicago. Come an explore the commandment of love realized in Jesus as the foundation of our Christian life! Bring a friend! ~ Refreshments ~ Free-Will Offering

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Pope horrified by 'unacceptable

massacre' in Syria

By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis strongly condemned a shocking chemical attack in Syria that left some 70 people, including at least 10 children, dead. "We are horrified by the latest events in Syria. I strongly deplore the unacceptable massacre that took place yesterday in the Idlib province, where dozens of civilians, including many children, were killed," the pope said April 5 before concluding his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square. Images of dead men, women and children lying on the streets provoked international outrage following the attack April 4 in a rebel-held area. Western leaders have accused Syrian President Bashar Assad and the country's military of perpetrating the attack, based on reports that warplanes dropped chemical bombs in the early morning. According to The New York Times, the Syrian military denied attacking the town and said the attack was caused by insurgents who blame the Syrian government for similar attacks "every time they fail to achieve the goals of their sponsors." Pope Francis encouraged those helping with relief efforts in Idlib province, and he appealed to world leaders to put an end to the violence. "I appeal to the conscience of those who have political responsibility at the local and international level, so that this tragedy may come to an end and relief may come to that beloved population who for too long have been devastated by war," the pope said. The attack occurred the same day representatives from more than 70 countries were gathering in Brussels for an April 4-5 conference on resolving the humanitarian crisis in Syria and to discuss ways to support a peaceful resolution to the conflict. Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Vatican secretary for relations with states, was among the representatives

and addressed the conference April 5. The Holy See, he said, "remains deeply concerned about the tremendous human suffering, affecting millions of innocent children and other civilians who remain deprived of essential humanitarian aid, medical facilities and education." He called for humanitarian laws to "be fully respected," especially "with regard to the protection of civilian populations" and the "conditions and treatment of prisoners." "The Holy See invites all parties to the Syrian conflict to spare no effort to end the seemingly endless cycle of violence, to restore that sense of solidarity that is the

basis of social cohesion and peaceful coexistence," Archbishop Gallagher said. The pope also said his thoughts and prayers were with the victims of the bombing of a metro station in St. Petersburg, Russia, that killed 14 people and left 50 wounded. Chaos erupted April 3 when a bomb was detonated in a subway train. Police said the bomber was Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, a Russian citizen born in Kyrgyzstan. Following the attack, security forces said a second bomb was found at a nearby station, but it had failed to explode. "As I entrust to God's mercy those who have tragically died, I express my spiritual closeness to their families and to all who

suffer because of this tragic event," Pope Francis said. In an April 5, statement, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington backed the pope's condemnation and his call to the international community and said they were praying for "and end to the carnage in Syria." They said the chemical attack "shocks the soul."

"The many innocent lives targeted by these terrible tools of war cry out for humanity's protection," it said. "In this season of Lent when Christians draw near to the suffering of Christ, let us match the horrific indifference shown for innocent life with a fervent prayer for love to break through the evil." The statement was issued by the USCCB's president and vice president, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston and Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles. They said they would pray that God will help those who suffer and bring them consolation. Copyright ©2017 Catholic News Service / U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

CNS photo/EPA A child receives treatment

inside a field hospital in Idlib, Syria, after an April 4 chemical attack. Pope Francis strongly condemned the attack, which

left more than 70 people, including at least 10 children,

dead. (CNS photo/EPA) See POPE-SYRIA-RUSSIA April 5, 2017.

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Thomas doubted the resurrection of Jesus John 20:24-29. Thomas doubted the resurrection of Jesus. Jesus showed Thomas his hands and said to him "Stop doubting and believe."

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