Corpus Christi Sunday

SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY

St. Lambert Parish Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord May 29, 2016

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

Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon Rev. Know-it-all: reverendknow-it-all.blogspot.com Deacon: Mr. Chick O’Leary Music Director: Mr. Steven Folkers Religious Education : Jonathan Rivera saintlambertsyouthchurch@gmail.com Office Staff: Debbie Morales-Garcia debbie.stlambert@aol.com Mr. George Mohrlein

Ministry of Care: Mrs. Carol Glueckert (847) 674-6456 To Register as a Parishioner: Call the rectory or email us. Baptisms: Third Sundays of the month at 1:30 pm. Please call the rectory for guidelines and more information. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication. Send to debbie.stlambert@aol.com.

Saturday, May 28

5:00 † Anne Kwiecinski

Sunday, May 29

8:00 † Mieczyslaw Chiebowski 10:00 People of St Lambert

12:00 † Digna Ravelo

Monday, May 30

7:15 † Richard Glueckert

Tuesday, May 31

7:15 † Justina Mendoza & Teresita Urbano

Wednesday, June 1

7:15 † William & Joseph Russ

Thursday, June 2

7:15 † Felisa Asidao

Friday, June 3

7:15 † Josefina Puno

Saturday, June 4

8:00 † John & Maureen Cederborg

5:00 † Howard Nelson

Sunday, June 5

8:00 People of St Lambert 10:00 † Donna Mohrlein

12:00 † Leonedes Perpetua

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Sunday Offertory Collection

May 14/15, 2016 Envelopes: $5,886.50 Loose: 2,827.00 Total: $8,713.50 For Online Giving: www.givecentral.org

Thank you for your continued support!

The Coffee Hour will be hosted next week by the FFOS and the contact

person is Lily Syfu. She can be reached at 847-712-0333. Your donations are

appreciated.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 2 Pt 1:2-7; Ps 91:1-2, 14-16; Mk 12:1-2 Tuesday: Zep 3:14-18 or Rom 12:9-16; Is 12:2-3, 4bcd-6; Lk 1:39-56 Wednesday: 2 Tm 1:1-3, 6-12; Ps 123:1b-2; Mk 12:18-27 Thursday: 2 Tm 2:8-15; Ps 25:4-5ab, 8-10, 14; Mk 12:28b-34 Friday: Ez 34:11-16; Ps 23:1-6; Rom 5:5b-11; Lk 15:3-7 Saturday: 2 Tm 4:1-8; 1 Sm 2:1, 4-8abcd; Lk 2:41- 51 Sunday: 1 Kgs 17:17-24; Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-13; Gal 1:11-19; Lk 7:11-17

The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ As often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,

you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes. -1 Corinthians 11:26

Masses for The Week

The Lord thy God thou shalt adore, and Him only shalt thou

serve" Matthew 4:10

Join us this Friday, June 3rd for the Eucharistic vigil. Please sign up to spend one hour with the

Lord. Sign up sheet located in the vestibule.

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West Wall Repairs Underway…..

Bargains on toys, clothes, books, crafts & more!

Rain date occurs only if June 4th date is cancelled by 11 AM.

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Dear Rev Know it all, Can you make a suggestion as to a nice gift for a priest? Yours, Jennifer “Jen” E. Russ Dear “Jen,” How honest do you want me to be? I am not sure about gifts for order priests, but for a diocesan (parish) priest, it is to be kept in mind that they are responsible for their own retirement at the age of 70, unless of course they keel over before then. So, cold hard cash is always an appreciated gift. I can’t say what would be good for religious order priests who, unlike diocesan priests, take a vow of poverty, and are supposed to hand over any gifts to their order. Retired diocesan priests hand over their money to pharmacists, doctors, care givers, the IRS, etc. (Yes, I pay personal taxes. Lots of ‘em. I am not a non-profit organization.) I can tell you more easily what not to give: religious art! I have enough folkloric Guatemalan multicolored stoles to carpet the Vatican. I also have shelves full of books that I won’t get to read unless I survive until retirement, and rooms full of icons, statues and inspiring wall plaques. In fact I am looking at one now that particularly irritates me. It is a small glass sign in a wooden stand that says “TRUTH” in big letters. I keep it on my desk where I have to look at it every day so it can make me feel rotten. I wish it said “NICE.” Nice is a lot better than truth. I like being liked, and speaking the truth always puts one at risk of not being perceived as NICE. No matter how polite one is about it, the truth is never what another really wants to hear. Husbands, how often have you lied to your wives when they ask that most dangerous of questions, “Does this outfit make my …um… ankles look fat?” “No, dearest, if anything your…um…ankles are as petite and graceful as the day

we were wed.” I have no idea what women lie to men about. They must be very good at it, or maybe it’s just that I’m not married. Yes, truth does no one any good. I am not saying that I could tell the truth even if I might recklessly attempt to do so. The best I can hope for is to say what I perceive to be the truth, knowing that I am probably wrong, at least in some measure if not completely. So here goes…. I noticed a few weeks ago that I had my pastoral hand in your pocket seven times at each weekend Mass. There was the regular collection, after communion a special collection for a diocesan agency, two simultaneously running pledge drives, a collection for some natural disaster and a sale of things in the church vestibule for a truly good cause. I forget the seventh. I think it was some fundraising event to be held in a few weeks. This is crazy. What in the name of sweet heavenly glory is going on? We here in the diocese of Frostbite Falls need to ask ourselves some very honest questions, and I for one don’t want to do it. That @#$%& plaque is staring me in the face even as I write! The truth, or at least my limited perception of it, will do no one any good, least of all me who is responsible for keeping the cash rolling in so that we maintain the status quo until something finally happens to fix the mess or to end it. Oh well, there’s that stupid plaque two feet from my head. Here goes: Have you ever heard of Ni Tuosheng? You may recognize the English version of his name, Watchman Nee. He wasn’t Catholic. In fact I think he was rather anti-Catholic. He was a Chinese evangelical theologian born in 1903, arrested in 1952 after the communist revolution. He spent the rest of his 20 years in jail and eventually died of maltreatment, still under arrest in 1972. Before the revolution he worked to establish the faith Fuzhou Province and even after his arrest he continued to convert his prison guards. His last words were found written on a slip of paper hidden in his jail cell under his pillow: “Christ is

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

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the Son of God who died for the redemption of sinners and resurrected after three days. This is the greatest truth in the universe. I die because of my belief in Christ.” Once he said, “Isn’t it interesting that money can be such a good tool for discernment.” I thought this rather disturbing until I had been in the business of religion for a while. To use the words money and discernment in the same sentence seemed wrong. Eventually I realized what he meant. If the work is God’s, there is always just enough to accomplish it. When I was in my second parish some kid named Louie had a very unrealistic idea. He participated in the Pentecostal style youth group in the parish. It was a very poor Puerto Rican parish that barely managed to keep its head above water in a very poor and dangerous neighborhood. Louie, the dreamer, thought that the Holy Spirit wanted us to host a big rally to get all the gang members saved. We would find a big hall and have Christian Music groups and preaching and we would feed them all breakfast and lunch for the whole weekend. There was no budget. It never seemed to worry the kids that there was no source of income to fund such an undertaking. They scattered to the four winds, begged food donations, had the local shopkeepers put signs in their windows and somehow managed to reserve the local Catholic girls’ school gym rent free for a whole weekend. The great event came and about a thousand young people showed up to hear the Gospel preached for two days, meals included. No budget. A thousand hungry kids. Breakfast and Lunch. They even gave the speakers small stipends and made a donation to the nuns who ran the school. This went on for a few years until local religious organizations decided to help. Youth ministries and professional youth ministers were happy to collaborate as long as they could take credit for the rallies in their official reports. The whole thing fizzled when there was something successful to argue about. But for two or three years, a thousand kids heard the Gospel preached

(Continued from page 5) and learned to pray at no expense to any diocesan organization. There was no money in it. Nobody made any money off of it. Didn’t have to be any money in it. God was in it. Isn’t it interesting that money can be such a good tool for discernment? Next week: This was going to be a short article. No such luck.

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708.449.8026• www.prmaa.org

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Annie Ryan Run – June 5: The 17th annual Annie Ryan Run will take place on Sunday, June 5 at 9 a.m. at York Rd. and South St. in Elmhurst. The event features a chip med 5k, 1-Mile Kids Dash and a special performance from the Jesse White Tumblers. Funds will benefit the Catholic Chari es Children’s Programs. Runner registra ons are s ll available. Contact Jodi Hill at johill@catholicchari es.net or (312) 948-6797 for addi onal informa on. Please visit www.catholicchari es.net/annierun to register and learn more. Diamonds Are Forever Bou que & Luncheon – June 16: The 2nd Annual Diamonds Are Forever Bou que & Luncheon will be held on Thursday, June 16 at the Westmoreland Country Club in Wilme e. Shopping at the bou que and the silent auc on begins at 10 am, and the luncheon will be served at noon. Thirteen vendors will be displaying their exci ng crea ons for purchase. Catholic Chari es will receive a por on of the sales receipts and all proceeds benefit Catholic Chari es Programs in the North Suburbs. Reserva ons are $65 and sponsorships are also available. Contact Karen Daniels at kadaniels@catholicchari es.net or (847) 376-2121 for addi onal informa on. Please visit www.catholicchari es.net/diamonds to register or for informa on.

The School of Heroes

a Youth Church AP event St. Lambert Summer Camp is a week-long “parish mission” that seeks to inspire young people. The Youth Church faculty will engage the youth of the parish through the use of skits, songs, games and inspiring, interactive teaching. No matter the students’ skills or interests, there is a way for them to participate, share and contribute to their group.

RegistrationopensJuly3,2016. The School of Heroes is currently looking for volunteer assistance and food donations. If you are interested in helping out, please contact Youth Church at: saintlambertsyouthchurch@gmail.com

Grades7-12July 17-22

Sunday-Friday7:00-9:00pmCost$20perchild

Grades1-6July 25-29

Monday-Friday8:30am–3:00pmCost$25perchild

Familyofthreeormore:$50.00