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Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL 60076 Phone: (847) 673-5090

E-mail: [email protected] 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-itall.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 7 pm. For guidelines and to register, call the rectory. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Website: www.StLambert.org To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under “About Us” or by phone.

St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL

Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Rise, and do not be

afraid.”

Matthew 17:7

Lent SECOND

SUNDAY OF

March 8, 2020

St. Lambert Parish

Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord

Sunday Offertory Collection

February 22/23, 2019 Envelopes: $5,121.00 Loose: 1,368.85 GiveCentral: 1,150.00 $7,639.85

Youth Church: $ 145.00

Thank you for your continued support!

For Online Giving go to: www.givecentral.org

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 [email protected]. Blessings with affections in Christ, Intercessors of St. Lambert.

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 [email protected].

Anyone at least 55 years of age is invited to join the St. Lambert Senior Activity Club at our next meeting March 12 at 11:30 a.m. in Roberts Hall. Our activities include excursions to plays, dinners, tours and other

entertainments. Our monthly meetings consist of lunch fellowship, bingo, and talks about matters of interest to seniors. Members new and old will be

asked to sign in, provide an email address, if possible, and pay dues of $15 for the 2020 year.

St. Lambert Parish Second Sunday of Lent

This week, our special collection supports the Church in Central and Eastern Europe. Your

donation today helps restore the Church and build the future in more than 20 countries still struggling to recover from Communist rule. Funds from this

collection support reconstruction, education, formation, and poverty outreach. Please be generous to the collection today. For more information, please

visit www.usccb.org/ccee.

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

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Dn 9:4b-10; Ps 79:8, 9, 11, 13; Lk 6:36 -38 Tuesday: Is 1:10, 16-20; Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23; Mt 23:1-12 Wednesday: Jer 18:18-20; Ps 31:5-6, 14-16; Mt 20:17-28 Thursday: Jer 17:5-10; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 16:19-31 Friday: Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a; 17b-28a; Ps 105:16- 21; Mt 21:33-43, 45-46 Saturday: Mi 7:14-15, 18-20; Ps 103:1-4, 9-12; Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 Sunday: Ex 17:3-7; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; Rom 5:1-2, 5-8; Jn 4:5-42 [5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40- 42]

March 8, 2020 Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord

SAINT FRANCES OF ROME (1384-1440) March 9 Nature and human nature—plagues and wars—turned late medieval Rome into a living hell, particularly for the sick and poor. Frances, by birth and marriage well provided for, was a devoted wife and mother; but like Benedictine Oblates, who to this day “pray and work” while living with their families and working in the world, she joined like-minded laywomen friends in ministering to society’s most vulnerable. Frances’ charity was not only “hands on” but “in home.” Her palace became a hospital after the plague claimed two of her three children. When her husband’s death ended their loving marriage of forty years, Frances joined other widowed Oblates in community. In an interesting link to the United States, our nation’s premier religious congregation for women of color, the Oblate Sisters of Providence, in 1833 established bonds of spiritual communion with these Oblates of Saint Frances in Rome. Though Black History Month is past, take a moment to learn about the good work that Mother Lange’s spiritual daughters are doing still and consider supporting them as a Lenten project: www.oblatesisters.com. —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS all events at Resurrection College Prep High School

7500 West Talcott Avenue, Chicago, IL 60631

TUES, MARCH 10 Vaping & Teen Drug Use @Resurrection College Prep High School, 7500 West Talcott Ave., Chicago. All parents and community members are welcome to attend the Resurrection Parents Club Speaker & Social on Tuesday, March 10 at 6:30 in the school library. The evening will begin with a time for parents to socialize and will feature a guest speaker at 7 pm. Lori Kehoe, a clinical mental health counselor and the Community Relations Coordinator for Rosecrance, will give a presentation on the topic Vaping & Teen Drug Use. Rosecrance is recognized as a leading addiction and mental health treatment provider for teens, adults, children and families. Time: 6:30 pm Cost: free

CCW Winter Bingo Party at St. Bonaventure on Sunday, March 15th

A Winter Bingo Party will be held on Sunday, March 15 at noon in the gym at

1625 W Diverey Parkway - a great way to cure the winter doldrums. $15 for 15 games, plus specials and a raffle. Lunches, desserts and beverages will also be available for purchase.

Please remember, Illinois law requires players to be at least eighteen years old. For tickets or further

information for either of these events, call or text Norma at 773-348-7180 or Pamela at 773-636-8506.

A Series of Essays “On the Business of Religion” by the Rev. Know it all Essay Five: More Fun Facts about the Papacy I have told you at least twice that the Bishop of Rome is the Pope; the Pope is not the Bishop of Rome. Let me explain yet again. The bishop of Rome is the spiritual heir of Sts. Peter and Paul. He is the guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy and was acknowledged as such at least as early as 180AD and probably much earlier. He was called “papa” but so were all bishops. The leading bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church is also called “papa”. Greek orthodox priests to this day are called “pappas.” In the west the term became limited to the Bishop of Rome. His essential title is Bishop of Rome, successor to St. Peter. Job one for the first popes was the salvation of the souls of Rome, a very wicked city! He might kibbitz as did Pope St. Clement of Rome in his letter to the church in Corinth which had apparently dumped their bishop around 100 AD, but Pope Clement was responsible for the Diocese of Rome above all. It is interesting to know that the bishops of the church get their spiritual power and authority by virtue of their ordination in the line of apostolic succession. What, you may ask, is apostolic succession? Your bishop was ordained with the laying on of hands by another bishop who was ordained by another bishop who was ordained by…. I imagine you get my point. Keep going back about two thousand years and you get to one of the Twelve who were chosen by Christ. Any one of the Twelve would do. It didn’t have to be Peter. It could have been, say, Thomas. Or James. Or John. The validity of a bishop’s ordination is not dependent on the pope but a bishop should submit to the teaching authority of the pope.

Things have changed over the centuries and the pope in our times has a great deal to do with the choosing of a bishop. That is a rather recent phenomenon. In times past, the people or the clergy or the local king duke or baron, or a tense combination of the whole lot of them chose the local bishop. The pope’s approval was necessary, technically, but the “Vatican” didn’t usually do the choosing. (Another fun fact: the “Vatican” wasn’t a “thing” until 1450 or thereabouts. The popes lived in the Lateran palace and a number of other places. So, at least by Catholic standards, the Vatican is a kind of modern way to talk about papal authority. Pope Nicholas V moved to the Vatican because it was more easily fortified than some other places. Times were tough. What can I say?) The bishops of the world had a slightly different relationship with the pope until modern times. The pope didn’t even appoint the bishops of Italy until 1871 and finally in 1917 canon law limited the appointment of bishops to the pope. Betcha’ didn’t know that! Where was I. Oh yes, bishops. In essay four I told you that for the first eight centuries a bishop could never change his diocese. He was married to the diocese, which is why he wears a ring. To change diocese was considered adultery. And how did that change? Simple! Pope Marinus I (elected pope in 882) Marinus, the son of a priest, was the Bishop of Caere, a suburb of Rome. He was in effect an auxiliary bishop of Rome. No one thought his election would be a problem, he was already a bishop of Rome, so what’s wrong being THE bishop of Rome? His election was still considered a scandal. Think about it. Before 882, if you were a bishop you would never be pope. Never. You were going to be buried in your diocese, so you had better make the best of it. Episcopacy was the limit of clerical ambition. The election of non-bishops was still quite common into the 19th century, but after Marinus, it was all different. A bishop could aspire to be pope! The world doesn’t really understand that a bishop is meant to be the father to a particular group of


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


people. His primary job is the wellbeing of his flock. The world sees him as upper management whose job is to tend to the business of the world wide corporation. The Lord sees him as the shepherd of the flock, a father to his diocese. Pope Francis decried what he called airport bishops, those bishops who were always jetting off to some important conference or other, thus becoming in effect absentee bishops. Ironically, he said this in an airport.

Bishop Bartosic revisits acting roots at St. Gregory Church

By Joyce Duriga | Editor Wednesday, February 19, 2020

When Auxiliary Bishop Mark Bartosic entered the priesthood, he le his days as a professional actor behind. But on Feb. 8, he revisited his ac ng roots in the performance “Broken Fount: The Le ers of Abelard and Heloise” at St. Gregory the Great Church, 5545 N. Paulina St. Abelard and Heloise were famed 12th century medieval lovers and scholars. Bishop Bartosic portrayed Abelard, reading from a podium at the front of the church. Actress Jennifer G. Smith played the part of Heloise, and musical group The Slaps provided instrumental breaks. The

performance was part of the parish’s Evangeliza on Through the Arts ministry, which began more than 18 years ago. As part of that program, ar sts have space on the church campus and offer programs and performances to the parish and community. “It now has become one of the mainstays of St. Gregory the Great Church — reaching out to the community through this evangeliza on, showing the beauty of God, the beauty of holiness, but without prosely zing. Just allowing ar sts to come in and show the beauty of God through the various disciplines of their different art,” said Joe Malham, an iconographer who has been an ar st in residence since 2001 and who convinced Bishop Bartosic to return to the stage. Malham creates icons and offers classes to the public. “When people hear the word ‘evangeliza on,’ they want to turn and run as far as they can because they think it’s going to be a lot of hi ng over the head with Scripture quotes. But it’s actually showing people the beauty of everyday life, if it’s wri ng, music, the visual arts,” he said. “That’s what we’ve been endeavoring to do.” Bishop Bartosic chose the material and edited it down for the performance, and Malham took care of the music and publicity. “It is really neat to see a bishop, a professional actress and these three young men from DePaul — professional musicians — all coming together from different backgrounds and trying to find this sort of sacred synthesis of their art, to come to the same end, which is honoring God through the gi s and the talents that they have been given,” Malham said. Bishop Bartosic said when Malham approached him with the idea, it took some ge ng used to. In the end, he saw an opportunity to spotlight the parish’s unique ministry. “As the vicar of Vicariate II, I thought, this is a great place to do something like that. I was happy once I got over the ini al resistance to the idea,” he said. “I think there’s a tremendous spirituality in the arts,

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and that we don’t always find ways to integrate very crea ve people into the life of the church.” The arts and faith have a natural rela onship, he said. “Anything beau ful comes from God. God is beauty. God is clarity. He is brilliance. But God is also true. Any me we can get a person’s heart resona ng with what’s beau ful and true, I think we’re leading somebody to him,” Bishop Bartosic said prior to the performance. “I think there’s both beauty and tremendous truth in this piece tonight. I think we would all recognize a li le of ourselves in Abelard and Heloise.” Bishop Bartosic doesn’t regret his decision to leave ac ng and become a priest. “I really wanted to find something worthy of giving my life to. It’s not that theater isn’t that, but it wasn’t for me,” he said. “I’ve never looked back.” Kerry Reid is a parishioner at St. Gregory the Great and a ended the performance to support the parish community. “I loved it. It was a surprising and wonderful theatrical experience,” she said. “Especially to see our bishop in this role was really deligh ul.” Parishioner Eric Heath agreed. “My family has come to a lot of the Evangeliza on Through the Arts programs over the years. That’s one of the things that drew us to this church to begin with, the emphasis on the arts and finding the common ground between art and faith,” he said. “I think this is a perfect example of it tonight. It was complicated but beau ful, like life is.”

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For Widowed Men & Women Feeling stuck? Need something?

There will be a retreat/workshop for widowed men & women on

March 14 & 15 at Our Lady of the Angels, (Mt. Assisi Center Bldg.)

13820 Main St., Lemont, IL

Overnight available. To register call: 708-354-7211 or

Email: [email protected]

St. Patrick Dinner March 21st 6 to 10 p.m

St. Isaac Jogues

8101 W. Golf Road, Niles Corn beef dinner catered by

Harrington's; entertainment by Sheila Tully Irish Dancers and

singer Kathy Cowen Raffles; $40/person; tickets for

sale until March 15; for information or tickets, call

parish office at 847-966-1180

CHANGE Lent is all about change and change is usually not easy. In order to change we have to leave something behind. Today we hear about a very old man who decides to answer God’s call. Abram experiences a tremendous amount of change when he leaves everything behind, risking it all for God’s promise. Jesus changes, is transfigured, right before the eyes of his disciples. The Lenten scriptures issue the call for us to change, to be transfigured, so that we, too, will soon share in the glory of God. What is it that the Lord is asking us to leave behind? Are we willing to take the risk for the promise made by God? These questions are at the heart of the Lenten journey of conversion. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.


Retired? Semi-retired? Open the Doors of Your Heart! Join the Ignatian Volunteers Corps! IVC is a program for retired adults which provides service, spiritual formation, and community. Volunteers are matched with meaningful opportunities to serve the poor and marginalized two days each week from September until June. Monthly, they come together for presentations, conversations and prayer based in Ignatian spirituality. Mass, lunch and fellowship enrich these gatherings. Individual meetings with a spiritual reflector and an annual, two-night retreat round out this special program. Detailed information is online at www.ivcusa.org/chicago. To learn more about Ignatian Volunteer Corps, volunteer opportunities and to meet current volunteers, please attend an information session on Monday, March 23 at 2pm at St. Gertrude Ministry Center, 6214 Glenwood Avenue, Chicago. Register online www.ivcusa.org or contact Jacqueline Fitzgerald 312-961-6206 or [email protected]

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