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Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL 60076 Phone:(847) 673-5090 E-mail: [email protected] St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL Website: www.StLambert.org Sunday Masses: (5 pm Sat) 8am, 10am, 12pm Weekday Masses: 7:15 am (Mon-Fri) 8 am on Saturday 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 [email protected] Mr. George Mohrlein Religious Education : Gina Roxas [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. For guidelines and to register, email Debbie. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. For Online Giving: www.givecentral.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 send to [email protected].
Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come.
— Mark 13:33
St. Lambert Parish
Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord December 3, 2017
First Sunday of Advent
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Sunday Offertory Collection
November 18/19 2017 Envelopes: $6,236.31 Loose: 2,216.22 Total: $8,452.53 Youth Church: $52.96
CCHD: $981.36
For Online Giving go to: www.givecentral.org Thank you for your continued support!
The Coffee Hour will be hosted by the St Lambert
Senior Activity Club and the contact is Marilyn Sala. She can be reached at
847-675-5103. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated!
First Sunday of Advent ~ December 3, 2017
Masses for the Week
Saturday, December 2
5:00 † Beatrice Borre & Greg Trauth
Sunday, December 3
8:00 † Lydia & Elroy Gard
10:00 † Agnes Robst
12:00 People of St Lambert
Monday, December 4
7:15 † Patrick Gaynor
Tuesday, December 5
7:15 † Nancy Ryan
Wednesday, December 6
7:15 † Felix A. Maranon Sr.
Thursday, December 7
7:15 † Patrick Gaynor
Friday, December 8
7:15 † Ursala Blix
7:00 † Danny Morales
Saturday, December 9
8:00 † Leeson & Cederborg Families
5:00 Mike Jolls
Sunday, December 10
8:00 People of St Lambert
10:00 † Verlin Barr
12:00 † Raymond P. Cerceo
Join us on Sunday, December 3rd for the Eucharistic Vigil
starting at 1:15 pm followed by the Holy Hour.
Please spend one hour with the Lord.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Is 2:1-5; Ps 122:1-9; Mt 8:5-11 Tuesday: Is 11:1-10; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17; Lk 10:21-24 Wednesday: Is 25:6-10a; Ps 23:1-6; Mt 15:29-37 Thursday: Is 26:1-6; Ps 118:1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-27a; Mt 7:21, 24-27 Friday: Gn 3:9-15, 20; Ps 98:1-4; Eph 1:3-6, 11-12; Lk 1:26-38 Saturday: Is 30:19-21, 23-26; Ps 147:1-6; Mt 9:35 — 10:1, 5a, 6-8 Sunday: Is 40:1-5, 9-11; Ps 85:9-14; 2 Pt 3:8-14; Mk 1:1-8
St. Lambert Seniors Activity club will celebrate Christmas at a party December 14, 12 noon at White Eagle Restaurant, 6839 N. Milwaukee. Lunch and music starts at 12:30. Beginning 2018, the club will not meet in January and February, but will meet in July and August, dates to be announced. Summer excursions are planned for a river cruise and for a Willis Tower tour, followed by luncheon. New members, 55+ years , are invited to join us at the club's next regular meeting on March 8: 10:30am for stations of the cross, 11:30 for sign in and luncheon in Robert's Hall.
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Winning raffle booklet numbers are put back in the hopper. Giving you more
opportunities to win throughout the year!
PRIZES: $50 Monday-Saturday $100 Weekly Sunday (except 1st Sunday)
$500 Every 1st Sunday of the Month
GOD HAS A DIFFERENT PLAN
We begin the season of Advent with a heartfelt call for our own repentance. We remember God’s faithful love for us, and call upon God to help us to turn back. For “behold, you are angry, and we are sinful” (Isaiah 64:4). In the first reading and in the psalm, we recall God’s promises and lament our unfaithfulness and our guilt. We call upon God’s might and power in order to save us. With Isaiah, we ask God to “rend the heavens and come down, / with the mountains quaking before you” (Isaiah 63:19). Yes, God is faithful to us, because we are the work of God’s hands. God is the potter, we are the clay. And yet, our concept of how God will come to save us is rooted in our own expectations of a warrior God who crushes mountains and thunders into our lives with great noise and glory. But God has a different plan: the Incarnation. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc
Date Amt Book # Name
Sunday, Nov 26, 2017 $ 100.00 2539 Dionne, Barbara
Monday, Nov 27, 2017 $ 50.00 1521 Dentzer, Bill
Tuesday, Nov 28, 2017 $ 50.00 3208 FFOS Donated by Folkers
Wednesday, Nov 29, 2017 $ 50.00 1986 Beltran, Victoria
Thursday, Nov 30, 2017 $ 50.00 1708 Dela Vega, Eduardo
Friday, Dec 01, 2017 $ 50.00 2329 Luz, Rose
Saturday, Dec 02, 2017 $ 50.00 1724 Valdez, Maryann
We at St Lambert will collect Christmas gifts for the children of Most Holy Trinity Parish in Waukegan. We will have individual lists with the age, boy 0r girl, and size of clothing. We will also collect non-perishable food, and clothing (new or gently used) for St Thomas of Canterbury.
Please see Joanne Bookstein or George Mohrlein for more information.
Your generosity, as in past years is greatly appreciated. We will collect these gifts next
weekend, December 9 & 10.
LIKE A CHILD One who aspires to the grace of God must be pure, with a heart as innocent as a child’s. —St. Nicholas
SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: First Sunday of Advent Monday: St. John Damascene Wednesday: St. Nicholas Thursday: St. Ambrose; Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Friday: Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Saturday: St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — We are the clay and you, O LORD, are the potter: we are the work of your hands (Isaiah 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7). Psalm — Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved (Psalm 80). Second Reading — God is faithful; by God you were called to fellowship with the Son (1 Corinthians 1:3-9). Gospel — Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come. (Mark 13:33-37).
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Sister Perpetua Wawryk, OCSO, 90 “At 3 a.m., you know that you’re praying for the world,” says Sister Perpetua Wawryk, a member of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance (known as Trappistines) of Mount Saint Mary’s Abbey in Wrentham, Massachusetts. For more than 60 years of religious life, Sister Perpetua has been rising when most Americans are sleeping. “I get up at 2:30 to be in church by 3:00,” she explains. “At 3:20, we begin to pray, and the whole morning is focused on that prayer. It’s the best part of the day for me.”
Sister Emilia Irene Lara, MGSpS, 85 Sister Emilia Irene Lara, 85, a member of the Missionaries Guadalupanas of the Holy Spirit, grew up in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Although she often witnessed poverty and illness, her early years were happy and filled with faith and love. She had role models who provided her special attention and inspired her vocation. “My grandfather worked in the country, and each day he would first go to his local church,” recalls Sister Irene. “Since it was very early in the morning, the church doors would be closed, so he would kneel outside and offer his prayers.” Her grandfather also shared his phonograph and records with her, inspiring a lifelong appreciation of classical music.
Sister Cecile Jubinville, OCSO, 97 “Forget yourself and just give yourself to God,” says Sister Cecile Jubinville, 97. “Whatever is hard won’t last forever.” Also a member of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance of Mount Saint Mary’s Abbey in Wrentham, Massachusetts, Sister Cecile has been giving herself to God for nearly 70 years of religious life. She attended Catholic high school and was often asked by the chaplain to visit a nearby religious community. At one point, a sister asked her to consider religious life. “I told her, ‘not me,’” Sister Cecile remembers. “I didn’t like their habit.”
Second Collection next week-end.
Around The Archdiocese Devotions Carols by Candelight : Dec. 15, 7 p.m., festival of readings and carols in St. Mary of the Woods Church, 6955 N. Hiawatha Ave. Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols : Dec. 17, 5:30 p.m; includes Benediction and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament; Fr. Brian Kean will preside and music features the St. Julian Eymard adult choir at St. Julian Eymard Church, 601 E. Biesterfield Road, Elk Grove Village; free admission; for details call 847-593-8938. Entertainment “Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors” : Dec. 8 and 9, both concerts at 8 p.m.; presented by the Niles Metropolitan Chorus at St. John Brebeuf Church, 8307 N. Harlem Ave., Niles; tickets at the parish office and at door; for information, call 847-966-8145 or visit www.sjbrebeuf.org or www.nilesmetropolitanchorus.com.
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St. Lambert Youth Church
Christmas Show Bring the family and enjoy a delicious pasta dinner and stellar performances by or Youth Church students and
staff.
Sunday December 17th
2:00 pm Food and Entertainment 4:45 pm Family Rosary
5pm Mass Bring a dessert or beverage to share if able.
For more information or if interested in being part of the performance please email Gina Roxas at
EVANSTON CATHOLIC WOMAN’S CLUB Our Christmas meeting will be held at Zhivago’s Restaurant, 9925 Gross Point Road, at 12 noon on December 13th. The coral group from Misericordia the “Heartzingers” will be our entertainment. Please bring new or gently used hats, gloves and/or scarfs for St. Mary’s warming center. For reservations call Rita at 847-724-2534.
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Michelle Martin
Calm before the storm
November 22, 2017
I think I’ve decided that my favorite part of Thanksgiving weekend is the weekend. Not that I don’t like the holiday. It’s a wonderful holiday, full of family and food and a remarkable lack of commercialism, at least if you don’t count its status as unofficial start to the Christmas shopping season. The main expectation for Thanksgiving is a meal that includes roasted turkey and sweet potatoes. And supermarkets actually put turkey on sale in the lead-up to the day. Florists preparing for Valentine’s Day might want to take note. For the last several years, I haven’t even had to worry about making the turkey. I’m blessed with a lovely sister-in-law who says she actually enjoys making the whole meal, leaving us to contribute things like drinks and butter. I choose to believe her. But Thanksgiving Day is still an occasion. There are things to do and places to go and a schedule. The rest of the weekend, though, is like the calm before a storm. I know it’s not like that for everyone. Plenty of people spend Black Friday shopping; some even head out after dinner on Thanksgiving itself. I’ve done that before, and it can be fun in an “I did it and lived to tell the tale” kind of way. I even once got a portable vacuum cleaner on Black Friday for $9; it’s still going, I don’t know how many years later. These days, though. I prefer to spend the morning of Black Friday sleeping in as late as the
dog and the kids will let me, and then probably spending most of the morning in my PJs. Yes, even walking the dog. No one has school or work, and no one has to cook because there are plenty of leftovers. The rest of the weekend is equally quiet, even if the leftovers eventually lose their appeal and we do have to get going on the Christmas preparations. The holiday is still far enough away that there’s no real sense of urgency about it. This year, the Sunday after Thanksgiving is the Feast of Christ the King, with the first Sunday of Advent falling on the first Sunday of December. It will be a short Advent this year, with Christmas Eve falling on the fourth Sunday. That gives three weeks and a day instead of an actual four-week period. That means that we get one week to prepare ourselves for Advent, a time that is supposed to be for prayerful anticipation. This year, maybe we should take that time to make a plan to spend some getting ready spiritually. Maybe we can even set aside time in our schedules to reflect on the Advent readings, or to talk about Advent with our kids. It’s not stealing that time from the endless round of shopping and wrapping and baking and decorating and shopping some more. If anything, all of those things are stealing time from what we should be doing. So once I’m rested up from Thanksgiving, I’ll get ready for it. For More articles from Mary Martin order your Chicago Catholic today!
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Parable of the watchful porter ~ Mark 13:33-37 Be on guard! Be alert[ You do not know when that time will come. It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch. “Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. 37 What I say to you, I say to everyone: ‘Watch!’
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