St. Lambert Parish

Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord September 8, 2019

Twenty-third Sunday in ordinary time

To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under “About Us” or by phone. For Online Giving go to: www.givecentral.org Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received at the office 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication. Submissions should be in electronic format and sent to debbie.stlambert.@aol.com.

Religious Education : Gina Roxas youthchurchred@gmail.com Baptisms: Third Sundays of the month at 1:30 pm. Baptismal Prep Class is the first Tuesday of each month at 7 pm. For guidelines and to register call the rectory. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Website: www.StLambert.org

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

For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, all who see it will begin to mock you Luke 14:29

Sunday Offertory Collection

August 24/25, 2019 Envelopes: $5,008.00 Loose: 1,867.05 GiveCentral: 765.00 Total: $7,640.05

Youth Church: $ 30.00

Thank you for your continued support!

For Online Giving go to: www.givecentral.org

Masses for the Week

Saturday, September 7

8:00

5:00

Sunday, September 8

8:00 † Michael Roznai

10:00 Linda & Dante Lojo Wedding Anniv.

12:00 People of St Lambert

Monday, September 9

7:15

Tuesday, September 10

7:15 Ray Garcia

Wednesday, September 11

7:15 † Sr. Mary Ellen Luczak, B.V.M.

Thursday, September 12

7:15

Friday, September 13

7:15

Saturday, September 14

8:00 Margaret Robinson & James Robinson Sr.

5:00

Sunday, September 15

8:00 People of St. Lambert

10:00

12:00 Elana Garay

Join St. Lambert Senior Activity Club!

Anyone 55 years or older is welcome to join the club for monthly

luncheons, entertainments, and excursions. So far this year we

have visited the Chicago Botanic Gardens, Drury Lane dinner theater, Wrigley Field,

and a boat tour on the Chicago River and Lake Michigan, among other places.

Come to the next meeting in St. Lambert's school building, Roberts Hall, 8148 Karlov, Skokie, Thursday,

Sept. 12 at 11:15 a.m. For more information, call Paul O'Malley, President, at 847-630-8886 or Frank

Ippolito, Activity chairman at 847-421-3871.

Our trip this month will be a pilgrimage to the shrine of

St. Maximillian Kolbe in Libertyville on Tuesday,

September 24. St. Maximillian was a Franciscan friar and priest

who was martyred in the Holocaust. Cost per person including transportation and

lunch is $45.

Training and Review for Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist and Acolytes on Saturday,

September 14, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, after the 8:00a.m. Mass. (we’ll

initially meet in Roberts Hall). The training is for new Extraordinary

Ministers of the Eucharist (EMS) and Acolytes/Altar Servers. This will also

serve as a refresher for current EMS and Servers who are encouraged to attend.

Our Deacon Chick O'Leary will be conducting the training. Looking forward to seeing you there!

There will be a meeting for our St Lambert parish Ministers of Care on Sunday, September 15th in Rm 103, classroom off of Roberts Hall, after the 10 o’clock Mass. All current, former and new Ministers are requested to attend.

Parishioners who may be interested in becoming a Minister are encouraged to attend.

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COME AND JOIN US IN CELEBRATING

THE FEAST DAY OF

SAN LORENZO RUIZ DE MANILA AND

SAN PEDRO CALUNGSOD

ON SEPTEMBER 28th 5:00 P.M. MASS

SAINT LAMBERT CHURCH

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

San Pedro Calungsod, a daily novena will be held from

Sept. 19 to Sept. 27th at 6:45 P.M.

(September 25 novena after the Mother of Perpetual Help novena)

Youth Church Registra on

Sundays from 8:30am until 1:30 pm in the Church vestibule September 8th and 15th

First day of class is Sunday, September 22

The Youth Church is a faith formation program for children, pre-K to 8th grade. Classes are held on the 1st, 2nd and 4th Sunday of the

month from 9:45 am until 11:45 am, breakfast and a snack are provided.

The 3rd Sunday of the month is Family Day, beginning after the noon mass until 3:00 pm.

There is no monetary fee to attend, with the exception of book fees for certain grades,

instead we ask families to donate their time and resources.

Please bring a copy of your child’s Baptism

certificate if he/she was not baptized at St. Lambert and your Parish envelope number.

For more information on registration or volunteering please contact Gina Roxas

youthchurchred@gmail.com

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READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Col 1:24 — 2:3; Ps 62:6-7, 9; Lk 6:6-11 Tuesday: Col 2:6-15; Ps 145:1b-2, 8-11; Lk 6:12-19 Wednesday: Col 3:1-11; Ps 145:2-3, 10-13ab; Lk 6: 20- 26 Thursday: Col 3:12-17; Ps 150:1b-6; Lk 6:27-38 Friday: 1 Tm 1:1-2, 12-14; Ps 16:1b-2a, 5, 7-8, 11; Lk 6:39-42 Saturday: Nm 21:4b-9; Ps 78:1bc-2, 34-38; Phil 2:6-11; Jn 3:13-17 Sunday: Ex 32:7-11, 13-14; Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 17, 19; 1 Tm 1:12-17; Lk 15:1-32 [1-10]

There will be no Coffee Hour next

week, September 15th

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

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF WORDS - PART 1

I am tired of commenting on the free fall of the Church and the culture in our times, so I am going to write about something I enjoy. You will just have to endure it. So, welcome to a new adventure in the exciting study of religion: The Rev. Know-it-all’s Wonderful World of Words! This is dedicated to those of us who can’t tell a Hosanna from an Aspergil. Why, you may ask is this important? If you go to church on a regular basis, you are saying “Hosanna” at least twice a week. For all most of know, when we say “Hosanna,” we may be asking the Almighty to slap us silly. Actually this is a more likely possibility with an aspergil. They sometimes come unscrewed and bonk somebody in the head during a spritzing with holy water. If this happens to you it means that God is really trying hard to get your attention. Let us begin with a discussion of the English language. Modern linguists now suspect that English is not so much a language as it is a failed attempt to create the world’s largest crossword puzzle. The story of English begins in the mists of prehistory when people who had not yet discovered cable television moved a lot of large stones around to create a henge made of stone. They called it Stonehenge. They then refused to tell subsequent generations why they had built it. My theory is that they had a lot of free time on their hands and they said to one another, “This should keep them guessing in years to come.” Currently large, pasty-faced, ungainly English people gather there on certain days of the year and pretend they are druids and such. They are practicing a very ancient religion which they just made up a few years ago. The Neolithic pranksters who built Stonehenge must be laughing themselves silly from beyond the

grave if that sort of thing is possible. We have no idea what language these ancient people spoke and their only contribution to modern English may, in fact be a few place names, but we can’t even be sure of that. Next came the Celts or Kelts or Gaelts or however scholars are pronouncing it this week. The Celts were an Indo-European people who took over Europe beginning about 4,000 years before Christ. The Indo-European peoples seem to have originated in Central Asia and as they moved with herds and flocks, they brought their language and their chromosomes with them. They don’t seem to have been very aggressive about the conquest, taking 4,000 years to accomplish it, but eventually descendants of the Indo-Europeans were to be found everywhere from India to Iceland. I suspect that it wasn’t really an invasion so much a slow migration with frequent conversations such as, “Hello, sir. I’m your new neighbor. May I date your daughter?” The Indo-European language family eventually came to dominate much of the world and most of Europe. Celtic was one branch of that language, as well as being a basketball team. Celtic was spoken by leprechauns, banshees and the snakes that St. Patrick drove out of Ireland. It is still spoken in Wales, Cornwall, Breton and far western Ireland. It, too, left very little imprint on the English language except some more place names and such words as smithereens, whiskey and flannel. (Hence the connection between whiskey and the condition known as flannel mouth). Then came the Romans right around the time of Christ. They invaded first in 55 BC and then tried again with more success in 43 AD. They managed to remain in Britain until around 410 AD and their legacy left little more than, you guessed it, place names. Then things really started to cook. The Germans invaded, and we Germans are too stubborn to adopt other people’s languages if we can possibly avoid doing so, at least that was my grandmother’s attitude. The particular tribes that invaded England were the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes. Perhaps you heard of the Anglo-Saxons, but the Jutes? That is probably because they are essentially Danish and very polite and do not want to draw attention to themselves. With them came an ancient form of German that is still spoken in East and West Frisia, which province is the butt of many

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modern German jokes. (“How many Frisians does it take to screw in a light bulb? Don’t be ridiculous. They don’t have electricity in Frisia yet.” And they say the Germans are humorless!) With the Frisian dialect spoken by the invaders, English was born. The Christian faith of Romano-Celtic Britons pretty much died out with the advent of the German invaders and their musical language and charming religion that involved burying people alive or burning them to death. The Kingdom of Kent in southern England was ruled by the pagan Aethelbert, whose queen was a French Christian princess named Bertha. Queen Bertha was a foot in the door for the faith and in 595, Pope Gregory sent St. Augustine of Canterbury, not to be confused with the Tunisian pear thief of the same name, with a bunch of Roman monks to reintroduce Christianity to Britain, the land of the Angles or, as you and I call it, England. Latin returned to England with the monks. Over the course of the next 200 years, the pagan Germans of England accepted Christianity and started to keep things like legal documents and perhaps strudel recipes stored in monasteries and written in the Latin language. Then came the Vikings around 800. They started out with just a little murder, rape and pillage, but then decided to move in. Large parts of England, Scotland and Ireland were now inhabited by the Scandinavians, who despite their many denials are fairly close relatives genetically and linguistically to the Germans. The Vikings brought more vocabulary and a different sentence structure with them and added these to the stew that is English. Then came the French in 1066, actually French-ified Vikings from Normandy. They were not going to speak the rough German/Viking language that the Saxons spoke. At the time English sounded like a case of terminal hairball. They kept speaking Norman French. They brought more Latin words to the language so that eventually about half of the English dictionary is Latin in origin. The grammar is German, but the vocabulary is half Latin. This invasion precipitated the greatest changes in the language. If English is your second language, you must have wondered about the “k” in knight and that extra “a” in aardvark, not to mention the “g” in daughter. We have not put those into the language just to make your life difficult. The truth is WE ACTUALLY USED TO PRONOUNCE THOSE LETTERS,

JUST AS THEY STILL DO IN GERMAN!!! Daughter for example was once pronounced “dawkhter” with an emphasis on the “Khhhh…” which sounds like a person being choked to death. The French would have none of it. They just started leaving out the offending letters. The enlightenment added more Latin and a bunch of Greek technical words because the doctors and professors wanted to let everyone know how much smarter they were than everyone else, for instance, by calling a bruise by its Greek name (hematoma). They do this just to be irritating, and to keep you in your place, peasant. So after a thousand or so years of war, pillage and invasion, we have English. Most languages develop from simplification of earlier languages at a fairly steady rate. English is a linguistic train wreck. England was repeatedly invaded because of its balmy climate and famous cuisine, I’m sure. They actually eat something called “spotted something-or–other” that sounds like a serious medical condition. What if anything does this have to do with religion? I’m getting there. All those Benedictine monks brought their cherished Latin manuscripts with their Greek and Hebrew religious terms to England. The Germanic peasants were suitably mystified by this and weren’t really interested enough in Christianity to even worry about what the crazy monks called their weird ceremonies. So it is that we have words like “Mass.” Do you know what “Mass” really means? In English it means, “ A property of matter equal to the measure of the amount of matter contained in or constituting a physical body that partly determines the body's resistance to changes in the speed or direction of its motion.” In Latin it means. “Go away. We’re done.” which was the part of the ceremony most interesting to the barely Christianized Anglo-Saxons and Normans forced to attend. This is why for those who do their religion in English. It is very important to know this stuff. The great bulk of us have no idea what the terms of our religion actually mean, even when we are hit on the head by a flying aspergil. Next week: Do you have any idea what “Hosanna” actually means?

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A Novena for Healing and Atonement An initiative of Catholic laity of Vicariate II to unite the faithful in addressing the issue of clergy sexual abuse, through prayer for healing, atonement, and for the guidance of the Holy Spirit within our Church.

Nine evenings of prayer and reflection will be hosted by the parishes below to give us opportunity to walk together in the Spirit toward reparation, forgiveness, and healing.

Saturday, September 21 through Sunday, September 29 ~ 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Saturday - 9/21 - Our Lady of Ransom 8300 N. Greenwood, Niles Sunday - 9/22 - Queen of Angels 2330 W. Sunnyside, Chicago

Monday - 9/23 - St. Mary in Evanston 1012 Lake St., Evanston.

Tuesday - 9/24 - St. Cornelius. 5430 W. Foster, Chicago.

Weds. - 9/25 - St. Clement 642 W. Deming Pl., Chicago.

Thursday - 9/26 - St. Gertrude 6200 N. Glenwood, Chicago.

Friday - 9/27 - St. Catherine Labouré 3535 Thornwood, Glenview.

Saturday - 9/28 - St. Gregory the Great 5545 N. Paulina, Chicago.

Sunday - 9/29 - St. Mary of the Lake 4200 N. Sheridan, Chicago. For further info, call the Vicariate II Office: 773-388-8670 or MBartosic@archchicago.org

The full cost of a seminary

education is frequently beyond the reach of men

who are discerning a call to the

priesthood. Your support ensures

that our seminarians

receive adequate tuition assistance, so that money is never an obstacle between a man

and this sacred vocation.

Seminarian Collection September 21/22, 2019

SINGERS! NILES METROPOLITAN CHORUS – Season 7

Invites You to Sing Your Heart Out! Join us for the 2019-20 Concert Season!

WHEN 7:00 – 9:00 PM TUESDAYS ~ Beginning 9.10.19 WHAT Fall Programs include BRUCKNER: MASS NO. 2 IN E MINOR JANSSON: MISSA POPULARIS 3:30 PM Sunday NOVEMBER 10, 2019 7th Annual D-I-Y HANDEL: MESSIAH 7:00 PM Tuesday DECEMBER 17, 2019 WHERE St. John Brebeuf Church – Music Rehearsal Room. 8307 N. Harlem Ave, Niles, IL 60714 between Oakton & Dempster WHO Marek Rachelski, Conductor Niles Metropolitan Chorus ~Musica Lumina Orchestra

Fill us at daybreak with your kindness, that we may shout for joy and gladness

all our days. — Psalm 90:14

15th Annual TRULY PRICELESS GARAGE SALE F L -S W D R

Our goods are not priced. Instead, dona ons are accepted to provide financial assistance to organiza ons serving these worthy causes. All proceeds are donated to Catholic Chari es, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the Women‘s Center - crisis pregnancy center, the Pro Life Ac on League, and the Fr. Michael J. McGivney Center for Hope and Healing - supported by the Knights of Columbus to provide care for women with difficult pregnancies who carry their babies to term.

Those who donate money for the “purchase” of goods select one or more charity(s) for their dona on. Every cent goes directly to the charity(s) chosen by the donor. The sale will be held at 303N.HickoryAve.,ArlingtonHeights.

For details, contact Marybeth or Mike at (847) 392-5506 or email - mschoney@wowway.com ~ Dona ons accepted beginning Monday, September 16, 2019 ~

Co-sponsored by the St. James RESPECT LIFE MINISTRY and the St. James Conference of the SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL