Have mercy on me,

send Lazarus that he may dip

the tip of his finger and cool

my tongue

St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ

as Lord

September 29, 2019 Twenty-Sixth Sunday in

ordinary time

Website: www.StLambert.org To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under “About Us” or by phone. 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. See Deacon Chick to register. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance.

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 Mr. George Mohrlein

Luke 16:24

Sunday Offertory Collection

September 14/15, 2019 Envelopes: $5,650.00 Loose: 1,892.11 GiveCentral: 1,015.00 Total: $8,557.11

Youth Church: $ 96.00

Thank you for your continued support!

For Online Giving go to: www.givecentral.org

Masses for the Week

Saturday, September 28

8:00 † Dscd. Members of Styczynski/

Dionne Families & Michael J. Polakowski

5:00 Barbara Jankowski

Sunday, September 29

8:00

10:00

12:00 People of St Lambert

Monday, September 30

7:15

Tuesday, October 1

7:15

Wednesday, October 2

7:15 † Rosa Aberin

Thursday, October 3

7:15 † Maria & Joe Etzl

Friday, October 4

7:15 Daniel Jolls

Saturday, October 5

8:00 Gerardo Rosagas in Thanksgiving

5:00 † Dulce & Jose Perez

Sunday, October 6

8:00 People of St Lambert

10:00 † Thac Phan

12:00

There will be a Christmas Toy drive

this year. Further info to follow soon. Any question call

Joanne Bookstein.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Zec 8:1-8; Ps 102:16-21, 29, 22-23; Lk 9:46-50 Tuesday: Zec 8:20-23; Ps 87:1b-7; Lk 9:51-56 Wednesday: Neh 2:1-8; Ps 137:1-6, 10-11; Mt 18:1-5, 10 Thursday: Neh 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12; Ps 19:8-11; Lk 10:1-12 Friday: Bar 1:15-22; Ps 79:1b-5, 8-9; Lk 10:13-16 Saturday: Bar 4:5-12, 27-29; Ps 69:33-37; Lk 10:17-24 Sunday: Hb 1:2-3; 2:2-4; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; 2 Tm 1:6-8, 13-14; Lk 17:5-10

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Eucharistic Vigil “The Lord thy God thou shalt adore, and Him only shalt thou serve" -Matthew 4:10

Join us October 6th for the Eucharistic Vigil starting at 1:15 pm followed by the Holy Hour from 3 to 4 pm.

Please spend one hour with the Lord.

The Coffee Hour will be hosted by the FFOS and the contact person is Lu Alog. She can be reached at 847-674-3995. Your donations are appreciated!

Please donate to the Knights of Columbus' drive for the intellectually disabled – the Tootsie Roll drive. We will be collecting near the church exits. Any

donation is greatly appreciated. The containers of mini-tootsie rolls - when empty, are useful as banks for coins.

diminish God. Certainly it can be said that there are those God loves, perhaps as you might love a pet dog, but if necessary you would put your dog down. Your dog is in no way your equal, and certainly not free to do as he pleases against your will. Such Unitarians logically believe that God is absolutely sovereign. He cannot be love. He cannot be three in one. Herein appears the weak spot in the argument. If God is, as the Unitarians say, is absolutely sovereign, then who are we to say that he cannot have a son? Who are we to say that He cannot humble himself for love of Man? That is exactly the point that we believe Jesus of Nazareth taught. The creator of the universe did not create all things in it just for the sake of creating. As the Hebrew Scriptures say, “He who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited.” He made it for love of us, we Christians believe. The Unitarians are absolutely right if God is completely other. They are absolutely wrong if God is love. If God is love, they say He would be dependent on the beings He loves for His very existence. That would be true, if humanity is all He had to love. That is why if He is love, He must be a trinity. A father who loves perfectly by loving his perfect son, breathes out the Breath of Love, a love so perfect that it is itself a third perfect person. St. John Paul the Great said that God is not a solitude as our fellow monotheists say, but a solidarity, not a lonely sovereign, but a loving father. This changes everything in our culture. When one is a strict Unitarian, the ultimate purpose of life becomes acquisition, pleasure, self- aggrandizement. That is the ultimate success. That is heaven. We Christians believe that unity with God, membership in that relationship, that family which is God is life’s ultimate purpose, “to know love and serve Him in this world and to be happy with Him forever in heaven.” The Trinity provides the only possibility of a person

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

The Rev. Know it all’s Wonderful World of Words! Part 4 (Continued) Speaking of dunking, we kind of re-dunk every time we walk into a church and we put our hand into the holy water fountain to remind ourselves of our baptism as we say, “In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.” We profess the basic creed into which we were once baptized every time we make the sign of the Cross. A lot of people think the Trinity is just not reasonable. “If you are going to believe in one God, do not say three. God has no companion or equal. He does not beget nor is he begotten.” Those who believe that the oneness of God is corrupted by the concept of a trinity (three divine persons in one divine being, equal in majesty and divinity) are called Unitarians. Of the three Abrahamic religions, two are Unitarian. Only Christianity believes in the three in one concept of divinity. Our other monotheist brethren think the idea of a trinity is simply illogical and unnecessary. Actually, the trinity is absolutely reasonable if you concede one point, that God is Love. The largest single Unitarian religion in the world today insists that though man should love God, God does not love man in equal and reciprocal way. To love Man as an equal would be to lower himself. Love would put God at the level of God’s beloved, and thus it would make a mere human out of God. God is not love! Love would

St. Lambert Intercessors’ prayer hour follows after the noon mass every Sunday in the chapel. Our prayer teams and members intercede for the needs of St. Lambert parish and individual parishioners. Join us in prayer; drop your written petitions into our prayer box; or request of us immediate soaking prayer in private with you. You may also email us your petition(s) at kevinpatterson1@comcast.net. Blessings with affections in Christ, Intercessors of St. Lambert.

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who can perfectly love, and of a person who is completely worthy of that love. Christianity teaches that the creator of all things humbled Himself for love of humanity by coming into the world as a humble working man. His becoming one of us for love of us does not diminish his greatness. It defines his greatness. If you think God is power, omniscience, sovereignty, the idea of God become Man is preposterous. For God to be powerless humble and limited is utterly contradictory. If the all-powerful humbles Himself, He would cease to be God! But if you believe that God is Love and that life’s purpose is true and sacrificial love, then it is possible to think that Love laid aside its grandeur and power but never ceased to be love. He never abandoned who He was and remains: perfect sacrificial love. If Jesus of Nazareth was correct and is who claimed to be, there is nothing more reasonable than the Trinity. It all rests on a theory, the theory that God is love. The Cross is love’s great manifestation. The Resurrection is Love’s great proof. C. S. Lewis in the Screwtape letters assigns the idea that love is impossible for the devil. The demon Screwtape says that the “Enemy,” really believes in this nonsense about love, but the dynamic philosophy of hell teaches that two things can only become one by devouring, the stronger devouring the weaker. It is sheer nonsense to think that two can be one without the destruction of one or the other. That is exactly the truth. If God is power, He cannot be more than one. If God is Love, He can and must become two in one, and more than two, for love is life giving. The spirt of Love can transform weak and sinful human beings into members of that family which embrace all the angels and saints as well as Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen. That’s what you are saying when you put your fingers in the Holy Water fount. That is what you are saying when the Mass begins. You are saying that you believe in Love, even though in this war weary world, it may be an outdated concept.

What Gives Us Human Dignity and Worth? Are we inherently valuable because we are human, or are there certain qualities (like appearance) that make some of us more valuable than others? In America in the 1800's, a slave was not considered a person. Oh yes, intellectually, everyone knew that a slave was a biological member of the human race – but that was not enough. Instead of having inherent worth, a slave was denied rights. Similarly, Hitler exterminated thousands of the mentally and physically ‘unfit’ before turning on millions of gypsies, homosexuals and Jews. Are you a valuable human being? Are you worthy of life and rights? If so, why? Is it because of your age? Your appearance? Your size? Your intelligence? Your success in life? The amount of money you have? Your race? Your gender? Your capabilities? Or is it because you are a human being? If you have inherent worth simply because you are a living human and not because of external characteristics, then what of a preborn baby? Abortion is wrong for the same reasons as slavery and other human rights violations are wrong--- because it victimizes a human being with inherent worth and dignity. Pro-Life Articles

Baby Bottles benefiting the Women’s Centers.

This is a simple, but crucial fundraising effort for The Women’s Centers. Bottles will be available in the vestibule next week. Please pick up a bottle on the way out. Thank you for helping defend life, and remember to keep all pro-life undertakings in your prayers.

INVOLVEMENT Our job is to get in the game, not keep score. —Anonymous

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The rich man asked Abraham… ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me! Send Lazarus to me so that he can dip his finger in water and cool my tongue. I am suffering in this fire! Abraham said, “ My child, remember when you lived? You had all the good things in life. But Lazarus had nothing but problems. Now he is comforted here, and you are suffering.

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