Religious Education : Gina Roxas youthchurchred@gmail.com To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under “About Us” or by phone. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. 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 basement. For guidelines and to register call the rectory.

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

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

Blessed is the fruit of your womb

St. Lambert Parish

Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord

Fourth Sunday of advent

December 23,2018

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Monday: 2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; Lk 1:67-79 Tuesday: Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Ps 89:4-5, 16-17, 27, 29; Acts 13:16-17, 22-25; Mt 1:1-25 [18 -25] Night: Is 9:1-6; Ps 96:1-3, 11-13; Ti 2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn: Is 62:11- 12; Ps 97:1, 6, 11-12; Ti 3:4-7; Lk 2:15- 20 Day: Is 52:7-10; Ps 98:1-6; Heb 1:1- 6; Jn 1:1-18 [1-5, 9-14] Wednesday: Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59; Ps 31:3cd-4, 6, 8ab, 16bc, 17; Mt 10:17-22 Thursday: 1 Jn 1:1-4; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12; Jn 20:1a, 2-8 Friday: 1 Jn 1:5 — 2:2; Ps 124:2-5, 7b-8; Mt 2:13 -18 Saturday: 1 Jn 2:3-11; Ps 96:1-3, 5b-6; Lk 2:22- 35 Sunday: Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 or 1 Sm 1:20-22, 2 28; Ps 128:1-5 or Ps 84:2-3, 5-6, 9-10; Col 3:12-21 [12-17] or 1 Jn 3:1-2, 21-24; Lk 2:41-52

The coffee hour will be hosted by our Religious Ed group, Youth Church. The contact person is Gina Roxas and she can be reached at 312-560-6799. Your assistance is very much appreciated!

Masses for the Week

Saturday, December 22 5:00 † Poglitsch & Dentzer Families

Sunday, December 23 8:00 † Mary Hajduk

10:00 People of St Lambert

12:00 For Catherine’s recovery

Monday, December 24 7:15 † Sarath Gunawardana

5:00 † Bridget & Dunstan Fernando & † Sarath & Desmond Gunawardana

10:00 Cheryl, Aimee, Emma & Izzy Christmas Tuesday, December 25

8:00 † Pedro & Victoria Alvarado 10:00 † Dscd. Members of Styczynski/ Dionne Families & Michael J.

Polakowski 12:00 People of St. Lambert

Wednesday, December 26

7:15 † Frank Niewiadomski

Thursday, December 27

7:15 † Kedzia & Pelc Family

Friday, December 28 7:15 † Dorothy Tardy

Saturday, December 29 8:00 † Arsenio Musni

5:00 † Dorothy Tardy

Sunday, December 30

8:00 Mikos & Krofl Families

10:00 People of St Lambert

12:00 Joseph Dunne Family

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Sunday Offertory Collection:

December 8/9, 2018 Envelopes: $5,413.00 Loose: 1,754.30 Total: $7,167.30 YouthChurch: $171.00 Immaculate Conception: $1,876.00 Retirement Fund for Religious: $2,946.86

Thank you for your continued generosity!

For online giving go to: www.givecentral.org

If you are willing to lead a Coffee Hour group, please call Marcella Young at 773-698-2163. We greatly value your

cooperation!

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175th anniversary: Old St. Mary’s, the archdiocese’s first parish By Michelle Martin | Staff writer November 8, 2018 In April 1833, Chicago wasn’t much more than a small frontier settlement, a collection of houses and commercial buildings surrounding Fort Dearborn. It was not yet a town, let alone a city. But it housed enough Catholics to petition Bishop Joseph Rosati of the Diocese of St. Louis for a priest to start a parish. “We, the Catholics of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, lay before you the necessity there exists to have a pastor in the new and flourishing city. We count about 100 Catholics in this town. We will not cease to pray until you have taken our important request into consideration,” their petition said. St. Mary of the Assumption was born May 5, 1833, when Father John Mary Irenaeus St. Cyr arrived and celebrated the first Mass in a log building near the Sauganash Tavern, where he was staying. Shortly thereafter, a log building was built at State and Lake streets for worship. Chicago first incorporated as a town, with 350 people, about three months after St. Cyr arrived. By the time Chicago became a city on March 4, 1837, the population had grown to 4,170. That marked the beginning of the somewhat nomadic history of Chicago’s oldest parish. Today the parish, is housed in one of the newest church buildings in the archdiocese at 1500 S. Michigan Ave.

St. Cyr saw his parish grow to about 2,000 Catholics before he was recalled to St. Louis in 1837. By that time, Chicago was part of the newly formed Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana, and a new pastor, Father Timothy O’Meara, was sent from there.

The building was moved to the northwest corner of Madison Street and Michigan Avenue. By 1843, the third pastor, Father Maurice de St. Palais, built a bigger church on the southwest corner of the intersection. The next year, the parish — still the only one in the city of Chicago, although a handful had sprung up in surrounding areas — became the cathedral of the newly created Diocese of Chicago, led by Bp. William Quarter.

It served as the cathedral until after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, when Holy Name Cathedral was being built. After the fire destroyed its buildings, the parish moved to the former Plymouth Congregational Church at the corner of Ninth Street and Wabash Avenue. No longer the cathedral, the church became known as Old St. Mary’s. The parish, which had housed the first Catholic schools in Chicago (for girls and for boys, both opened in 1846) closed its parish school in about 1880. The parish would not have another school until 2004. But the 1880s saw more changes. Father Augustus Tolton, the first acknowledged African-American priest, began celebrating Mass for black Catholics in the basement, before being given St. Monica Parish on the South Side. As its South Loop location became more and more

The original frame structure of St. Mary’s Church was moved from Lake Street to Madison Street just west of Michigan

Avenue, where it was enlarged and given a small open belfry. (Photo from St. Mary’s 100th anniversary book, 1933, courtesy

Archives and Records)

Flyer Guidelines: If you care to post a flyer in the church vestibule it must first be approved by Fr Simon. If possible, please email flyer to saintlambert@aol.com. Any fliers posted without permission will be taken down. Thank you.

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commercial, Archbishop James Quigley called it “the church of the stranger,” and of workers and travelers passing through rather than the usual stable base of parishioners. That fit with the mission of the Paulist Fathers, a New York-based congregation founded in 1858 to evangelize North America. In 1903, Archbishop Quigley invited the Paulists to take charge of Old St. Mary’s. In 1931, the parish began offering outreach to Filipino Catholics in the archdiocese, and in 1954 opened a chapel at Wabash Avenue and Van Buren Street. By 1971, with the old church in poor condition, the parish moved to the chapel and the 9th Street church was demolished, despite its landmark status. The current Old St. Mary’s Church opened in 2002. This story was published Feb. 17, 2008, and has been updated. ChicagoCatholic, Newspaper for the Archdiocese of Chicago

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

In ancient pagan Rome, these days in mid-December were a time for general slacking off at work and far too much rejoicing. The period of leisure after the harvest and a whole

cluster of pagan festivals were a force for the church to reckon with. The Saturnalia, breaking out on December 17, was a time of high living and loose morals. Christians were

advised by their bishops to drop out of the mayhem and do some serious fasting. A famous church council at Saragossa in Spain made a season of fasting mandatory from December 17th to 23rd, exactly coinciding with the Saturnalia. The bishops at that time

were perhaps less concerned with preparing for Christmas than with resisting the kind of loose living going on.

Modern times have restored a bit of the Saturnalia spirit to our culture, so that a general

period of partying with a vague connection to religion is now upon us. How does a Christian keep balance? The practice of charity by remembering the poor in our gift giving,

of hospitality in finding a place at our holiday tables for the poor and lonely, and of daily prayer in the home and at church are great helps. Although Advent is not a penitential

season like Lent, it is a time for making room in our lives for what matters most. —James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received at the rectory office 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication. If possible please send submissions in electronic format and send to debbie.stlambert@aol.com.

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Second Collection January 19/20, 2019

St. Lambert Christmas Mass Schedule: December 24th 7:15 a.m., 5:00 pm, Christmas Carols at 9:30 pm with Vigil Mass at 10 pm December 25th 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. and 12 noon December 31st 7:15 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. January 1, 2019 10:00 a.m. and 12 noon