St. Lambert Parish

Rectory
8148 N Karlov Avenue
Skokie, IL 60076
Phone:(847) 673-5090
E-mail:
saintlambert@aol.com
Website:
www.StLambert.org
St. Lambert Parish
Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord
March 25, 2012
Rev. Know-it-all:
www.rev-know-it-all.com
Pastor:
Rev. Richard Simon
Resident:
Rev. James Heyd
(847) 673-6819
Deacon:
Mr. Chick O’Leary
Mr. Rick Moritz
Music Director:
Mr. Steven Folkers
Religious Ed
Director
Mrs. Liz Frake
(847) 329-1201
Ministry of Care:
Mrs. Carol Glueckert
(847) 674-6456
Office Staff:
George Mohrlein
Debbie Morales-Garcia
Sunday Masses:
(5:00 PM Saturday)
8am, 10:00am, 12:00
noon
Weekdays:
7:15 am (Mon-Fri)
8:00am on Sat.
Confessions:
Saturdays at 8:30 am
Weddings:
Arrangements must
be made 6 months in
advance.
Baptisms: Third
Sundays at 1:30 pm.
Baptismal Preparation
Class the first Tuesday
of each month at 7pm
in the rectory. Please
telephone the rectory to
register.
Bulletin Guidelines:
Submissions for the
weekly bulletin should
be received at the
rectory office 10 days
preceding the date of
bulletin publication. John 12:26

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Fifth Sunday of Lent
March 25, 2012
I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts;
I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
— Jeremiah 31:33
Masses for the week
Saturday, March 24
5:00 † Marion Cascino & John Krump Sr.
Sunday, March 25
8:00 † Stephen Radler
10:00 † Herb Raef
12:00 People of St. Lambert
Monday, March 26
7:15 † Josef Kepes
Tuesday, March 27
7:15 † Mary Margaret Boesen
Wednesday, March 28
7:15 Erick Tumuang Birthday
Thursday, March 29
7:15 † Mary Margaret Boesen
Friday, March 30
7:15 † Luis & Carlos D’Avis
Saturday, March 31
8:00 Dale Obinger
5:00 † Charles A. Ryan
Sunday, April 1
8:00 † Berta Sohen
10:00 † Bernard Dentzer
12:00 People of St. Lambert
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday: Is 7:10-14, 8:10; Heb 10:4-10; Lk 1:26-38
Tuesday: Nm 21:4-9; Jn 8:21-30
Wednesday: Dn 3:14-20, 91-92, 95; Jn 8:31-42
Thursday: Gn 17:3-9; Jn 8:51-59
Friday: er 20:10-13; Jn 10:31-42
Saturday: Ez 37:21-28; Jn 11:45-56
Sunday: Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16; s 50:4-7; Ps 22;
Phil 2:6-11;Mk 14:1 — 15:47 [15:1-39]
Deacons Honored
Men and women of the
Archdiocese’s
diaconate community were
honored for achievements
in ministry at the
Diaconate Convocation
held Jan. 27-29.
Deacon Chick O’Leary of St. Lambert received
the St. Philip Award, given for evangelization
ministry and ministry of the Word.
The Coffee Hour will be hosted
by the Couples for Christ and
Family Life. The contact person
is Jean De Guzman and she can
be reached at 847-674-8054.
We appreciate your donations.
The "Bisita Iglesia"
(Church Pilgrimage) will be
conducted right after the
Holy Thursday Liturgy.
Please call Alice Melecio at
847-676-1069
for details.
Sunday Offertory Collection
March 10/11 2012
Envelopes: $7,128.00
Loose: $ 1,128.96
Total: $ 8,256.96
Thank you for your generosity!

March 25, 2012 St. Lambert Parish Page Three
Please join us on Sunday, (Today) March 25, at
1:30 P.M. in Roberts Hall as we continue our study of Tim
Staples book Nuts & Bolts. If you have not yet attended one of
our sessions, please come. Each session is offered as a “stand
alone” topic, that is, these sessions do not
build upon each other. Our session this
week is titled “Baptism Now Saves
You”.
This is a beginning book of Catholic
apologetics. Apologetics does not mean
that one apologizes for being Catholic.
Rather, as the cover says, it explains and
defends our Catholic faith. Tim Staples is
a former Protestant who is now Catholic
and now works for Catholic Answers in
San Diego, California, the largest
Catholic apologetics organization in the U.S. Our main reason
for studying this book is so that you can delve deeper into
understanding our precious faith.
We will continue to meet on the Fourth Sunday (yes, we did
change the Sunday from last year) until we finish the book. The
cost will be $13 to cover the cost of the book. Please bring a
Bible with you as we will be referring to numerous passages of
Scripture. If you have any questions please contact Deacon
Rick through the rectory.
THE DIVINE MERCY NOVENA
This Novena consists of praying THE DIVINE
MERCY CHAPLET on nine consecutive days.
On Good Friday, 1937, Jesus requested that
St. Faustina make a special novena before the
Feast of Mercy, beginning on Good Friday and
through the following Saturday. He suggested to St.
Faustina the specific intentions she was to use in this
Novena. (These suggestions were for her,
individually, but can be our intentions as well).
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
those
Day 5
Day 6
of
Day 7
Day 8
Day 9
All mankind, especially all sinners
The souls of priests and religious
All devout and faithful souls
Those who do not believe in God and
who do not yet know Me
The souls of those who have separated
themselves from My Church
The meek and humble souls and the souls
little children
The souls who especially venerate and
glorify My mercy
The souls who are detained in Purgatory
Souls who have become lukewarm
April 6, 2012 - St Lambert will begin the nine day
Novena at 8:00am /after 7:15 Mass
Support Christianity in the
Holy Land.
Please give generously.

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The Reverend Know-it-all
“What I don’t know…
I can always make up!”
letter to Helena Hahn Basquette
continued...)
So, let me sum up my position. The
pill is a disaster because recreational
sex is a disaster. Recreational sex
destabilizes marriage, it demeans
women, it makes men irresponsible,
it makes children homeless through
the break up of their families. They
may have houses, but they don’t
have homes. They don’t have brothers and sisters that a
large family provides. They are shuttled from day care
to school to Dad’s house to Mom’s house, then to
Grandma’s and back to Dad’s house then to day care
again. They live in their parents’ cars just as surely as the
families that I met parked in their broken down old cars
in front of the rectory of the church I pastored in
Uptown. They are orphans when their parents are
alive and twice orphaned when their parents die.
Sex is not recreation. It is a gift that brings a man and a
woman together to create the stable, life long
relationships that are necessary for the well being of the
culture and the security of children. Though it can be a
source of joy and of pleasure, it is more importantly the
cause of love. Real love. Sacrificial love. That Love
which is God. In marriage there is meant to be an
unbreakable linking of the three loves, eros, philia and
agape. The love which is desire, the love which is
friendship and ultimately the love which is sacrifice
come together in a faithful marriage and family. Our
modern age demands the right to stop at eros, (desire)
so it never arrives at friendship (philia) and that love
which is God Himself, sacrificial love (agape). What a
wonder it is to see two old people in love. The fires of
youth have cooled to the warmth of friendship and
then billows out once again into the passion of sacrifice,
a life lived for others, a life lived for one another, for
children, a life lived for God. We moderns end the
process when eros cools, because we know no other
kind of love. We say, “I am no longer in love with you.
I have gotten a lawyer. I am taking the house and the
kids. Get out.” We never experience what love can be
when we end it unreasonably. You may counter with
“We practiced birth control and we did just fine, no
divorce, close to the kids and the grand kids. It’s all
good.” Maybe you did. Most of us didn’t. You were
fine in your lifeboat while the ship sank.
Congratulations. You avoided a lot of hard times. Still,
hard times are meant to stretch us. Children are the
teachers of love, because they demand sacrifice.
My mother was the daughter of privilege. She told me
that when she was married she had never cooked a
meal nor touched an iron. As a girl, she spent summer
on the Canadian shore in a twenty-room “cottage” or
sometimes went on summer cruises on the Great Lakes.
She went to the best Catholic schools and graduated
from college in about 1929. She grew up surrounded by
servants when her father was flush, and when he wasn’t
they pretended. She met a boy, a young university
graduate at a party. He was her brother’s best friend.
They called him “Si”. He wasn’t from prosperous
people, but he was ambitious. He sold newspapers to
put himself through university. In addition he taught
rhetoric and debate to put himself through grad-school.
He planned to become a lawyer.
They met at a party on the eve of Easter. He invited her
to come along on his paper route with him. Her
brother and “Si’s” girl friend, also at the party, were
going along. It would be fun. After a while, Dad’s girl
friend and mom’s brother got tired and gave up, but
mom continued with the paper route and as the sun
rose, they went to early Mass together. They were
Catholics. Soon they were engaged.
The depression hit, Dad got a real job, left school and
they married. My father did well despite the
depression. He didn’t make much money, but managed
to stay employed. He was an up and coming young
stock expert, I think with Dun and Bradstreet. Things
were tight in the depression, but Mom was a social
worker and they managed to hire a girl to act as nanny
and housekeeper and the future looked bright. He and
his friends came up with the company through the great
depression into the hard times of the war.
In about 1946, the company transferred Dad to
Chicago. They found a house they could afford in a
parish they liked with a good Catholic school and
settled in. The company called again and said that they
were going to transfer him one more time. The sixth
child had been born. The seventh was on the way. He
couldn’t uproot them again. He found a job with
Morris B. Sachs. They gave him lots of titles and not
much money. They had old furniture and threadbare
rugs. The days of privilege and ambition were long
gone. I can remember Mom on wash day, wearing her
old dress and tying her hair back with a shoe string. She
had almost no jewelry and no furs. Even the diamond
chips had fallen out of her wedding band. My Dad

March 25, 2012 St. Lambert Parish Page Five
always kicked himself that he had never made a million.
All his friends in the “freshman class” at Dun and
Bradstreet were millionaires many times over. I
remember our “vacations” back to Detroit where we
stayed with Uncle Ed in his very nice home or went to
his “cottage” on the Canadian shore. We would visit
family and friends from my folks’ youth. I remember
they all had such nice things. Mom and Dad put all
seven of us through Catholic schools including
university, and eventually Dad’s very canny investments
paid off and they were comfortable. He kicked himself
that unlike his old friends form Dun and Bradstreet, he
never made a million. He plodded through a job he
hated and why? Because he loved his children and his
wife more than he loved the security and the things that
money could buy. Every time Mom found out that she
was pregnant, Dad would say, “Where will we find the
money?” Mom would say “God will provide.” and He
did. They were Catholics.
There is an old Yiddish lullaby. “Du, mein Sohn, mein
lieber Kaddish..” Kaddish is the prayer said for the dead
among the Jews. It is an old custom to call one’s child
his Kaddish, because that child is the one who will
recite the mourner’s Kaddish at his parents grave. If
another Catholic teaching is true, that love goes beyond
the grave and that prayer reaches heaven, who will
pray for us when we stand at the judgment seat of
God? I am the seventh child of two people who
sacrificed all their ambitions for me and my brothers
and sisters. Friends worried about my mother and her
pregnancies. They encouraged her to “do something
about it.” I was born a month late. I’m sure my father
worried that he was going to lose the woman he loved
in a difficult labor. I’m sure my mother worried too,
but she never told me. That was all a long time ago.
They are dead now. Thirty years after his death, twenty
after hers, I still go to their graves to pray. I am so
grateful for their sacrifices that gave me life and faith.
When I say Mass, at the memorial of the dead, I think
of them with love and pray for the repose of
their souls. I am their seventh child. I am their Kaddish.
Rev. Know it all
PS
I know that this letter in 4 parts is pretty rough. And I know
that I get pretty personal and paint things in my family life
as pretty rosy. Believe me, they weren't. As
anyone who knows me will tell you, there was at least
one screwball in the family, the one who writes this
column. My parents were convinced by their faith to obey
papal authority in the most intimate details of their life,
and, as I have pointed out, I didn't really accept or teach
these ideas in my early ministry. I was convinced of the
easy Catholicism that swept the Euro/American members
of the Church and their clergy. If you were convinced by
idiots like me to salve your conscience and do what you
pleased, don't beat yourself up. "Well, isn't it a little late?"
It's never too late as long as God gives us life in this
world. The goal is sacrificial love. If you are long past the
time when Humanae Vitae and artificial birth control are
an issue, do a little sacrificial loving. Visit a hospital. Call
a sick friend. Volunteer at an orphanage. Better still
volunteer at a pro-life crisis pregnancy center. Tutor at an
inner city school. Bake a cake for a shut in neighbor.
Donate to a worthy cause. If you can't do any of those,
pray! My wonderfully wise mother once said, as I
effusively apologized for something I had done, "Don't just
say you're sorry! Do Something!!! Again I regret being so
blunt and so harsh, but I suspect that there is a grizzly
bear just behind us, and I thought I should mention it.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but it sure looks like a very
hungry grizzly bear who is going about seeking someone
to devour!
Mass from Mercy Home
Our parishioners attended the filming
of the Mass for Palm Sunday. If you
have the chance tune into this Mass and
worship with us on the TV. This
program reaches over 40,000 home
bound in our Chicago area and is a
comfort for those not able to go to
Church. Consider going with us the next time there is
a filming.
Please call Joe or Pat Dunne 847-982-1903 if you can
give us your help
Father Thomas Tivy 50th Anniversary
Fr. Thomas Tivy who served at our parish will
be celebrating his 50th Anniversary of
Ordination to the priesthood.
You are invited to a Mass of Thanksgiving
which will be celebrated on:
April 28th at 4:30 pm
in Resurrection Church
3043 N. Francisco,
Chicago, 60618
Join Fr. Tivy in this Mass of Thanksgiving and
a reception to follow in Resurrection Parish
Hall. If you can’t join us please offer a prayers
of thanks for Fathers 50 years of service. To
RSVP call 773-478-9705

continued…
ENCYCLICAL LETTER
HUMANAE VITAE OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF PAUL VI
TO HIS VENERABLE BROTHERS THE PATRIARCHS, ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS
AND OTHER LOCAL ORDINARIES IN PEACE AND COMMUNION WITH THE APOSTOLIC SEE,
TO THE CLERGY AND FAITHFUL OF THE WHOLE CATHOLIC WORLD, AND TO ALL MEN OF
GOOD WILL,ON THE REGULATION OF BIRTH
Interpreting the Moral Law
4. This kind of question requires from the teaching authority of the Church a new and deeper reflection on the
principles of the moral teaching on marriage—a teaching which is based on the natural law as illuminated and
enriched by divine Revelation.
No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the
natural moral law. It is in fact indisputable, as Our predecessors have many times declared, (l) that Jesus Christ,
when He communicated His divine power to Peter and the other Apostles and sent them to teach all nations His
commandments, (2) constituted them as the authentic guardians and interpreters of the whole moral law, not
only, that is, of the law of the Gospel but also of the natural law. For the natural law, too, declares the will of
God, and its faithful observance is necessary for men's eternal salvation. (3)
In carrying out this mandate, the Church has always issued appropriate documents on the nature of marriage,
the correct use of conjugal rights, and the duties of spouses. These documents have been more copious in recent
times. (4)
Special Studies
5. The consciousness of the same responsibility induced Us to confirm and expand the commission set up by
Our predecessor Pope John XXIII, of happy memory, in March, 1963. This commission included married
couples as well as many experts in the various fields pertinent to these questions. Its task was to examine views
and opinions concerning married life, and especially on the correct regulation of births; and it was also to
provide the teaching authority of the Church with such evidence as would enable it to give an apt reply in this
matter, which not only the faithful but also the rest of the world were waiting for. (5)
When the evidence of the experts had been received, as well as the opinions and advice of a considerable
number of Our brethren in the episcopate—some of whom sent their views spontaneously, while others were
requested by Us to do so—We were in a position to weigh with more precision all the aspects of this complex
subject. Hence We are deeply grateful to all those concerned.
The Magisterium's Reply
6. However, the conclusions arrived at by the commission could not be considered by Us as definitive and
absolutely certain, dispensing Us from the duty of examining personally this serious question. This was all the
more necessary because, within the commission itself, there was not complete agreement concerning the moral
norms to be proposed, and especially because certain approaches and criteria for a solution to this question had
emerged which were at variance with the moral doctrine on marriage constantly taught by the magisterium of
the Church.
Consequently, now that We have sifted carefully the evidence sent to Us and intently studied the whole matter,
as well as prayed constantly to God, We, by virtue of the mandate entrusted to Us by Christ, intend to give Our
reply to this series of grave questions.

March 25, 2012 St. Lambert Parish Page Seven
Planning for Year of Sunday Mass
July 2012 to June 2013
THE STRATEGIC PASTORAL PLAN ENTERS
YEAR TWO IN JULY WITH YEAR OF
SUNDAY MASS.
Peace Through Music
In The Spirit of John Paul – Chicago 2012
Concert in Honor of the First Anniversary
of the Beatification of Pope John Paul II
Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center
Monday, April 23, 8 p.m.
Details: www.archchicago.org
Tickets: www.cso.org
Widowed?
Trying to find joy in living again?
A retreat/workshop for widows &
widowers is being held at St. Edward
Parish April 28 & 29, 2012
Call: 708-354-7211 for info.
Website: www.joyfulagain.
We want to hear from people of all ages throughout
the Archdiocese about why Sunday Mass is important
personally and for the community. Tell us your stories
and your thoughts about Sunday Mass and any suggestions
you have about how to reach Catholics who
rarely or infrequently come to Mass.
Simply click on View Points – What About Sunday Mass?
on the front page of the website, www.archchicago.org
and share your point of view.
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