St. Lambert Parish

Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord May 7, 2017

I am the gate. I am the gate. Whoever enters through me Whoever enters through me

will be saved, and will come in will be saved, and will come in and go out and find and go out and find

pasture. pasture.

Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Ave, Skokie 60076 Phone: (847) 673-5090 E-mail: saintlambert@aol.com St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL Website: www.StLambert.org Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon Rev. Know-it-all: reverendknow-it-all.blogspot.com Deacon: Mr. Chick O’Leary

Sunday Masses: (5 pm Sat) 8am, 10am, 12pm Weekday Masses: 7:15 am (Mon-Fri) 8am on Sat. Confessions: Saturday at 8:30am Music Director: Mr. Steven Folkers Office Staff: Debbie Morales-Garcia debbie.stlambert@aol.com Mr. George Mohrlein Religious Education : Jonathan Rivera saintlambertsyouthchurch @gmail.com

To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under “About Us” also by email or phone. 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 requirements & to register, email Debbie. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication and can be sent to debbie.stlambert@aol.com.

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Masses for

the Week

Saturday, May 6

5:00 † Mary Hajduk

Sunday, May 7

8:00 † Liang Tieh Sheh

10:00 † Ellen & Edward Ringhofer

12:00 People of St Lambert

Monday, May 8

7:15 † Miguel Dela Paz

Tuesday, May 9

7:15 † Attilio De Franceschi

Wednesday, May 10

7:15 † Lucille Coughlin

Thursday, May 11

7:15 † Leonardo Deza Sr.

Friday, May 12

7:15 George & Millie Sklena 66th Anniv.

Saturday, May 13

8:00 † Elizabeth Roznai

5:00 † Elias & Jeannette Sahyouni

Sunday, May 14

8:00 † Dscd Members of the Heranadez/

Pulido Families

10:00 † Millie Sklena

12:00 People of St Lambert

Sunday Offertory Collection

April 22/23, 2017 Envelopes: $ 6,193.00 Loose: 1,944.60 Total: $ 8,137.60

Easter: $260.00

YouthChurch: $ 101.00

For Online Giving: www.givecentral.org Thank you for your continued support!

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Acts 11:1-18; Ps 42:2-3; 43:3, 4; Jn 10:11-18 Tuesday: Acts 11:19-26; Ps 87:1b-7; Jn 10:22-30 Wednesday: Acts 12:24 — 13:5a; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Jn 12:44-50 Thursday: Acts 13:13-25; Ps 89:2-3, 21-22, 25, 27; Jn 13:16-20 Friday: Acts 13:26-33; Ps 2:6-11ab; Jn 14:1-6 Saturday: Acts 13:44-52; Ps 98:1-4; Jn 14:7-14 Sunday: Acts 6:1-7; Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19; 1 Pt 2:4-9; Jn 14:1-12

HEAVEN The goal of religion is not to get us into heaven—but to get heaven into us.—Anonymous

Saint Lambert Senior Activity Club

will meet on Thursday, May 11th in church at 11:00AM

for our May Crowning of Mary followed by our regular meeting

and lunch in Robert's Hall at 11:30AM which will include entertainment

Remember we are sponsoring our annual BABY SHOWER

for the Women's Center at this meeting , so bring your gifts

There will be no Coffee hour next week so families can celebrate

Mother’s Day.

Catholic Charities Mothers Day Collection next

week-end. See letter from Cardinal Cupich on Page 5

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Mothers Day Flower Sale On Saturday May 13 & Sunday, May 14

St. Lambert will sell beautiful bouquets of fresh flowers after all Masses. You’ll find the perfect bouquet from a new, deluxe selections for this year. Each bouquet is wrapped in tissue and

ready to present to your Mother…. Stepmother… Mother-in-law...or Grandmother.

The proceeds from your purchase will be used to help teen girls and young women who are in a crisis pregnancy situation and

need assistance. Please support this life-saving work of The Women’s Center of Greater Chicagoland.

Thank you for your generous support.

Mixed floral Bouquets- $10, Roses Bouquet- $15, Bouquet of Carnations $10, Deluxe Hydrangea Bouquets $30

Calendar Raffle Winners Winning raffle booklet numbers are put back in the hopper. Giving you more opportunities to win throughout the year!

PRIZES: $50 Monday thru Saturday ~$100 Weekly Sunday (except 1st Sunday)

$500 Every 1st Sunday of the Month

Date Booklet# Name

Sunday, Apr 30, 2017 $ 100.00 1192 Underwood, Juli

Monday, May 01, 2017 $ 50.00 2566 Harder, Luz

Tuesday, May 02, 2017 $ 50.00 1465 Palomeno, Joanne

Wednesday, May 03, 2017 $ 50.00 1710 Dela Vega, Teresita

Thursday, May 04, 2017 $ 50.00 3265 Bowker, Ka e

Friday, May 05, 2017 $ 50.00 5041 Syfu, Lilia

Saturday, May 06, 2017 $ 50.00 3486 Falk, John

Continued from last week… It just occurred to me that before I get to Jesus, the Pharisees and us, I really should talk about the Essenes. They were a collection of Israelite sects that rejected the Jerusalem temple. There were a lot fewer of them than there were of the Pharisees and Sadducees. They lived in desert outpost as well as towns but practiced communal life and rigorous asceticism (strict penance), sort of the Opus Dei of their times. Some even seem to have practiced celibacy and voluntary poverty. Above all, they practiced frequent baptism (immersion) to the point of becoming water-logged. The term “Essene” (in Greek, theraputai, from the root word for healing) is discussed by a number of ancient authors. Josephus, Philo and Pliny mention them, and a lot of people assume they were one cohesive group. I suspect they were not. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a great source of information not about one sect called Essenes, but probably about the groups that came under the general heading of desert ascetics who had rejected the Maccabee/Herodian temple, the Herodian monarchy and the Roman controlled, politicized priesthood. What pray tell are the Dead Sea Scrolls? In November 1946 Some Bedouin shepherd boys discovered seven jars in a cave near the site of Khirbet Qumran. The boys hoped the jars might contain treasure, but were disappointed to find just some old and crumbling scrolls. They brought the scrolls back to their camp where the Bedouin tribesmen hung them (the scrolls) on a tent pole and they wondered what to do with them. They soon discovered that, in fact they HAD found treasure. Crazy infidels were willing to pay good money for these decaying bits of leather. This started a scroll rush in the Judean desert that

continues until the present. The purchase and discovery of the first scrolls in the midst of Middle Eastern wars and intrigue read like a spy novel. Why were the scrolls hidden in jars in the desert? Jews, like Catholics are slow to toss sacred things into the garbage. Every Catholic home has a drawer full of old bibles, missals, broken rosaries and statues that they are afraid to throw out. (When a sacramental loses its purpose, it ceases to be that revered thing and may be thrown out. That’s the party line. I still have a drawer full of formerly holy stuff). The Jews did and do the same thing. They put old scrolls in what is called a genizah. Perhaps we Catholics should call our holy drawer a genizah drawer. It would confuse people, and that can be great fun. A genizah in a Cairo synagogue went back to the eighth century providing a gold mine of Jewish history. The Qumran caves may have been a place to hide cherished documents from the invading Romans, or it might just have been a genizah. It matters neither way. The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called Qumran Caves Scrolls are at the present, a collection of 981 manuscripts and fragments discovered between 1946 and the present (2017) in 12 caves near the ancient, now uninhabited but museum-ificated site of in the eastern Judean Desert near the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, apparently the Scrolls come from the last three centuries before Christ and the first century AD. About 70 percent of the scrolls are copies of Biblical manuscripts, including some of the Hebrew originals of the so called “Catholic books.” The remaining 30 percent are copies of the literature of the antiestablishment messianic sects. Some of these books are zany beyond belief! A humorous anecdote. Being a professor has its perks. I was invited to a special showing of some of the Dead Sea fragments at a private museum showing. I could bring guests, so I invited my 10 year old godson, a studious child. He asked in turn if he could bring his friend, a recently emigrated Pole. He asked the lad if he would like to see the Dead Sea

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

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Scrolls, to which the young man, whose English was not yet perfect, responded “Dead Sea Squirrels? Vat Are Dead Sea Squirrels? Since then I have called the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls the Dead Sea Squirrels, inasmuch as they were pretty squirrely. Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Dead Sea Squirrels important? I believe that Christianity springs from them as much as from Judaism. They are an essential element of the milieu in which and the vocabulary by which Jesus, the unique Word of God, speaks to us even now. To understand what He was saying it helps to learn that vocabulary. Eusebius, a Christian historian of the fourth century, says in his History of the Church: “Those ancient Therapeutai (Essenes) were Christians, and their ancient writings were our Gospels.” The similarities in practice and belief between the first Christians and these messianic sects are almost too many to count. For instance, the early Church in Jerusalem was led by a group of twelve, among whom Peter, James and John had a special preeminence. The “community” mentioned in the scrolls was led by a council of 12 people, in which with three priests had oversight. The very role of a bishop is taken from the messianic scrolls. Deacons and elders are standard Israelite and synagogue roles, but overseer, that is bishop, comes to us from the desert sectaries. I suspect that John the Baptist was a leader of one of these communities of Dead Sea Squirrels and that the line between the disciples of Jesus and the disciples of John was a bit fuzzy at some point. Papias bishop of Hieroplois in the very first century of Christianity says as much and I suspect that the Gospel of John is so different from the first three Gospels is that the Gospel of John the evangelist was aimed at the Dead Sea Squirrels and their arcane vocabulary, and, as Papias says, aimed particularly the disciples of John the Baptist “These things have been written that you might know that Jesus is the Messiah.”(John 20:31) More next week: (Oh dear, He’s off on another tangent)

Office of the Archbishop 835 North Rush Street Chicago, IL 60611-2030 312.534.8230 archchicago.org

Spring 2017 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, This is a special year for the Archdiocese of Chicago as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Catholic Charities. Catholic Charities’ centennial year is truly a celebration for all of us because its great tradition of charitable care has included the support of volunteers and donors from every parish in the archdiocese. For 100 years, through every era of war, peace, poverty and prosperity, Catholic Charities has worked together with the faithful to fulfill the Gospel mission to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, welcome the stranger, comfort the afflicted, and bring hope to the hopeless. Each year on Mother’s Day, we have an opportunity to make a financial contribution to the Catholic Charities Mother’s Day Collection. This year, as we face increasing violence in our communities, it is a critical time for us to come together to support Catholic Charities. With more than 150 locations throughout Cook and Lake Counties, Catholic Charities’ services are intentionally located in the most troubled areas. Through food and nutrition programs, early childhood education, alternatives for at-risk youth, trauma and grief counseling, job training, domestic violence programs, and substance abuse treatment, Catholic Charities’ services are a powerful antidote the culture of drugs, gangs and violence that takes root in desperate areas. Your donation to Catholic Charities will help the Church’s efforts to promote peace, restore human dignity, and bring hope to those living with brutal violence and poverty. Please contribute as generously as you are able during Catholic Charities collection on Mother’s Day. Or, make your donations directly to Catholic Charities at 721 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, IL 60654, www.catholiccharities.net/donate. May God bless you and your families. Sincerely yours in Christ,

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich Archbishop of Chicago

Second Collection Next Week-end

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We are proud to congratulate the St Lambert Family Choir

for winning First Place in the Choir Challenge with a Grand Prize of $2,500!

Job well done!!

My sheep listen to my voice

John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

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My sheep hear my voice, and I know them,

and they follow me.