John 20:21

“Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”

Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL 60076 Phone: (847) 673-5090 E-mail: saintlambert@aol.com 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-it-all.blogspot. com Deacon: Mr. Chick O’Leary Music Director: Mr. Steven Folkers Office Staff: Debbie Morales-Garcia debbie.stlambert@aol.com Mr. George Mohrlein Religious Education : Gina Roxas youthchurchred@gmail.com 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. To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under “About Us” or by phone. Website: www.StLambert.org St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL

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Masses for the Week

Sunday Offertory Collection

April 13/14, 2019 Envelopes: $5,995.40 Loose: 1,792.96 GiveCentral: 1,020.00 Total: $8,808.36

Youth Church: $ 129.00

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

kevinpatterson1@comcast.net Blessings with affections in Christ,

Intercessors of St. Lambert.

Masses for the Week

Saturday, April 27

8:00

5:00

Sunday, April 28

8:00 People of St Lambert

10:00 In Thanksgiving for Perez Fa. Children

12:00

Monday, April 29

7:15 †

Tuesday, April 30

7:15 †

Wednesday, May 1

7:15 †

Thursday, May 2

7:15

Friday, May 3

7:15

Saturday, May 4

8:00 † Juan Bernarda Gasgardo

5:00

Sunday, May 5

8:00 † Miguel De La Paz

10:00

12:00 People 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 debbie.stlambert.@aol.com.

The Coffee Hour will be hosted next week by our Sri Lankan group and the contact person is Rochelle Xavier. She can be reached at 847-329-7988

Eucharistic Vigil “The Lord thy God thou shalt adore, and Him only shalt thou serve" Matthew 4:10

Join us May 5th for the Eucharistic Vigil starting at 1:15 pm followed by the Holy Hour from 3 to 4 pm and Latin Mass at 5 pm. Please spend one hour with the Lord.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Acts 4:23-31-37; Ps 2:1-4, 7-9; Jn 3:1-8 Tuesday: Acts 4:32-37; Ps 93:1-2, 5; Jn 3:7b-15 Wednesday: Acts 5:17-26; Ps 34:2-9; Jn 3:16-21 or (for the memorial) Gn 1:26 — 2:3 or Col 3:14-15, 17, 23-24; Ps 90:2-4, 12-14, 16; Mt 13:54-58 Thursday: Acts 5:27-33; Ps 34:2, 9, 17-20; Jn 3:31-36 Friday: 1 Cor 15:1-8; Ps 19:2-5; Jn 14:6-14 Saturday: Acts 6:1-7; Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19; Jn 6:16-21 Sunday: Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41; Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-13; Rev 5:11-14; Jn 21:1-19 [1-14]

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Flowers are a Mother’s favorite!

On Saturday, May 11 and Sunday, May 12,

St. Lambert will sell beautiful bouquets of fresh-cut

flowers after all Masses. Choose the perfect bouquet

from a variety of colors and assortments.

CARNATIoN BoUQUETS -- $10;

SPRING MIXED BoUQUETS -- $10;

RoSE/DAISY BoUQUETS -- $15. Proceeds will be used to help young women

facing a crisis pregnancy situation and in need assistance.

Please support this life-saving work of The Women’s Centers of Greater Chicagoland.

Since its founding in 1984, The Women’s Centers have helped saved more than 40,000 babies and their mothers from the tragedy of abortion. For more information, please visit their website at

www.GoTwc.org. Thank you for your generous support.

Catholic Charities Collection on Mother’s Day As an ailing senior, Cochise relies on the help of a dependable home aide to help her with daily tasks and errands so she could continue to live in her own home and enjoy a high quality of life. When she had trouble finding an aide that would fit her needs, she reached out to Catholic Charities who worked with her to find somebody she was comfortable with. Last year 364,373 seniors were supported by Catholic Charities through many programs including home delivered meals, adult day care, senior centers, congregate meals, family caregiver assistance, transportation services, the hospital transition program and more. The support seniors receive from Catholic Charities, ensures that they

continue to live comfortably in their own homes and communities for as long as possible with dignity and compassionate support. Please give to Catholic Charities on Mother’s Day to help seniors stay healthy. Learn more at www.catholiccharities.net. “ … We are all a little fragile, the elderly. Some, however, are particularly weak, many are alone, and affected by illness. Some depend on the indispensable care and attention of others which as Catholics we must provide.” – Pope Francis

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The Reverend Know-it-all “What I don’t know… I can always make up!” THE REV KNOW-IT-ALL’S GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND PART 11 Con nued from last week… As I said before, now on to Jericho! But, one must ask, “…which Jericho?” There about 20 Jericho’s that stretch back 13,000 years. Throughout the Holy Land you will see hills. Some are just hills. But there are hills that are more than they appear. They’re called “tells” and they have a tale to tell. (Sorry. Couldn't resist the pun. I hate puns. They are downright punishing). “Tell” or “ tel” is a Hebrew word that means hill. By the way, “ Wad” is an Arabic word that means “gulch or ravine.” We pseudo-scholarly types delight in using words that no one really understands. It makes us look smart even when we are lapidarily dense. A Tell or Tel is really a colossal monument to poor sanita on, In the midst of prehistory when the first hunter gatherer cave persons se led down, they did so by springs or rivers or fields of barley. In fact the most recent theory is that farming and se led life emerged just when we discovered that last week’s barley soup fermented, developed bubbles and tasted good. Not to men on making one smile. They called it beer. Wandering humanity se led in stable communi es in order to grow and harvest barley so they could make more barley soup and s ck around while it aged. Well, if you drink too much of last week’s barley soup, you tend to throw stuff out the window un l the garbage just piles up and you have to either throw out the trash or build over it. In a male dominated society you can imagine what happened. Soon you were living on a hill and that convenient stream was down the hill and the water had to be schlepped up the hill. This was no problem. The carrying of water was the job of women. The job of men was to chase a pig around town, or to watch the other guys chasing the pig. (The probable origin of football — now we chase the pigskin around a field and not the en re pig.) The problem with Jericho is that there are lots of

Jericho’s. Some even have walls that have fallen down. If you assume Ramses the Great was the pharaoh of the Exodus, then the Israelites would have entered the Holy Land around 1200BC. Tel Jericho (how’s that for scholarship?) was unoccupied at that me. The reason that we assume Ramses was the pharaoh of the Exodus is that 1) the Hebrew slaves built the city of Pi-Ramses and 2) Yul Brenner made such a great Ramses in the film “ The Ten Commandments.” The Bible (1 Kings 6:1) places the Exodus 480 years before the building of Solomon's Temple. That would mean Exodus happened around 1450 BC. Manetho, the ancient Egyp an historian also favors a more ancient though more gradual exodus. Saying that Ramses built Pi-Ramses is like saying the English se led New York. Ramses and the English were fond of renaming things. The Dutch se led New York but called it New Amsterdam. Pi-Ramses existed long before Ramses. In the 1400's BC there was a Jericho up there on the tell, though not much of a town. Remember these are men telling the story and they probably also fished. No one ever catches a fish that got away that wasn't an aqua c monster. Enjoy Jericho. It really is the place where Israel entered the Holy Land and where Zacchaeus climbed the tree. Next we arrive at the inn of the Good Samaritan. This is the place where the story of the Good Samaritan didn't happen. It was a parable. A story. It’s a great story. But it didn't happen. The locals will enthusias cally show you where it didn’t happen. On the road going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, there are the remains of a building that fits the parable very nicely. In the 6th century, a monastery with pilgrim facili es was built on the site of what was may have been a travelers’ inn at or before the me of Christ. The Crusaders built a fort on a nearby hill to secure the road for pilgrims. In 2009, Israel built a museum there. The remains of the monastery church were rebuilt with an altar but no Chris an symbols. In my pseudo-scholarly opinion, the sites in Galilee are pre y good archaeology as is Bethlehem and the church of the Holy Sepulcher. These have good archaeology and good history behind them. Next Jerusalem!!

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SEEING IS BELIEVING Seeing is believing! Since cellphone screens connect us instantly to social media, live TV, and loved ones’ faces near and far, “Doubting Thomas” could be our patron saint: “Unless I see, I will not believe!” But how comforting for any of us who share Thomas’s doubt, or love “doubters” who do, to see how kindly Jesus responds. By offering the very evidence that Thomas demanded, Jesus doesn’t scold Thomas, but seems to understand such skepticism. Could Jesus have been thinking of us, who long to believe that “Jesus is risen!” but see so much suffering, and perhaps even cause some, that we wonder, how could something so wonderful be true? In today’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles, the risen Jesus’ healing love comforts through disciples who love others. In Revelation, “our brother John” doesn’t just claim he saw Jesus alive, but passes on Jesus’ life-giving words, “Do not be afraid.” Seeing Jesus in others is believing! Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

Retreat for Widowed men & woman. All are welcome

Family and friends can’t even imagine how different your life is now.

Joyful Again! is a program designed to help the widowed sort out these

changes and learn to find joy in living again, while treasuring

memories of their spouse. Dates/loca ons: June 22 & 23, 2019

St. Julie’s - Tinley Park July 20 & 21, 2019

Holy Family – Inverness August 10 & 11, 2019

Mary Queen of Heaven Parish – Elmhurst

For info or to register call 708-354-7211

St. Dismas Parish rummage and bake

sale : May 16 and 17, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; May 18,

9 a.m. to noon; refreshments for sale;

no strollers on May 16; at St. Dismas,

2600 Sunset Ave., Waukegan; for details

call Linda at 847-336-2923.

Women’s Center : Main of ice at 5116 N. Cicero Avenue, is looking for volunteers to answer phones and other tasks, call Terry Jones at 773-794-4771 or email tjones@gotwc.org.

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Second Sunday of Easter / of Divine Mercy; Julian Calendar Easter Monday: St. Catherine of Siena Tuesday: St. Pius V Wednesday: St. Joseph the Worker Thursday: St. Athanasius; National Day of Prayer; Yom Ha-Shoa (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Friday: Ss. Philip and James; First Friday

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Catholic Charities North Regional Services Presents Diamonds are Forever Boutique & Luncheon

Benefiting Struggling Families in Our Community

Thursday, June 13, 2019 NEW LOCATION! North Shore Country Club 2601 Glenview Road, Glenview featuring unique boutique vendors and this season’s fashion trends from

J. McLaughlin 10 a.m. Boutique Open for Shopping Noon Luncheon and Fashion Show 2–3 p.m. Shopping and Raffle of a Boutique Vendor Item Individual Reservations: $65 Includes luncheon, shopping, and fashion show Table of 10: $650 Raffle Tickets: $5 each or 6 for $20 Please RSVP by Friday, May 31 Reservations and pre-purchased raffle tickets held at the door. Valet parking available. Tax-deductible value of each reservation is $30.

For Information To reserve your tickets, contact Adriana Kelly, Catholic Charities North Regional Director at (847) 376-2121 or akelly@catholiccharities.net

Register Online www.catholiccharities.net/diamonds

$ 15 per person and registration includes appetizers, a tea station, detox waters, appetizers and a variety of optional activities, make-your-own sugar scrubs and

refreshing spritz bottles and accent nail application from Color Street. Mini spa services and more!

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Thomas doubted the resurrection of Jesus John 20:24-29.

Thomas doubted the resurrection of Jesus. Jesus showed Thomas his hands and said to him "Stop

doubting and believe."

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