Filipino Families of Skokie

The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit

What are the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit? The Catechism names them: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. It is customary to associate each day of the Octave of Pentecost with one of the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit:

Pentecost Sunday: Wisdom
Monday: Understanding
Tuesday: Counsel
Wednesday: Fortitude
Thursday: Knowledge
Friday: Piety
Saturday: Fear of the Lord

The seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit are rooted in the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity. The three theological virtues come directly from God and are ordered directly to union with God; they give us the capacity to live as children of the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit, that is, in a state of grace. The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit allow us to express the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity in daily life; they make us docile in following divine inspirations. The Gifts of the Holy Spirit flower in the faithful soul and mature into the Holy Spirit’s Twelve Fruits: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, forbearance, gentleness, faith, courtesy, temperateness, and purity.

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Celebrating the Pentecost Sunday.

Pentecost Sunday is May 19,2013

Veni Creator Spiritus (“Come creator Spirit”) is a hymn normally sung in Gregorian Chant. It is believed to have been written by Rabanus Maurus in the 9th century. The “most famous of hymns” (Frere), is assigned in the Roman Breviary to Vespers (I and II) and Terce of Pentecost and throughout the octave. The Church also sings it at such solemn functions as the election of popes, the consecration of bishops, the ordination of priests, the dedication of churches, the celebration of synods or councils, the coronation of kings, etc. It is also sung in the more private devotions attending the opening and closing of that scholastic year in institutions of learning.

Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest,
Vouchsafe within our souls to rest;
Come with Thy grace and heavenly aid
And fill the hearts which Thou hast made.

To Thee, the Comforter, we cry,
To Thee, the Gift of God Most High,
The Fount of life, the Fire of love,
The soul’s Anointing from above.

The sevenfold gifts of grace are Thine,
O Finger of the Hand Divine;
True promise of the Father Thou,
Who dost the tongue with speech endow.

Thy light to every thought impart
And shed Thy love in every heart;
The weakness of our mortal state
With deathless might invigorate.

Our mortal foe afar repel,
Grant us henceforth in peace to dwell;
If Thou be our preventing guide,
No evil can our steps betide.

Make Thou to us the Father known,
Teach us the eternal Son to won
And Thee, whose name we ever bless,
Of both the Spirit, to confess.

All glory while the ages run
Be to the Fother and the Son,
Who rose from death; the same the Thee,
O Holy Ghost, eternally. Amen.

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Article source: en.wikipedia.org, newadvent.org (Catholic Encyclopedia)

Pentecost Sunday (Whitsunday)

A feast of the universal Church which commemorates the Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles, fifty days after the Resurrection of Christ, on the ancient Jewish festival called the “feast of weeks” or Pentecost (Exodus 34:22; Deuteronomy 16:10). Whitsunday is so called from the white garments which were worn by those who were baptised during the vigil; Pentecost (“Pfingsten” in German), is the Greek for “the fiftieth” (day after Easter).

Whitsunday, as a Christian feast, dates back to the first century, although there is no evidence that it was observed, as there is in the case of Easter; the passage in 1 Corinthians 16:8 probably refers to the Jewish feast. This is not surprising, for the feast, originally of only one day’s duration, fell on a Sunday; besides it was so closely bound up with Easter that it appears to be not much more than the termination of Paschal tide. Read more

Meet your St. Lambert Family!

Coffee, donuts and a nice conversation.

Spend a few minutes with your parish family over a cup coffee. Join us for Coffee Hour every Sunday after the 10:00 am Mass at Roberts’ Hall, St. Lambert Catholic Church in Skokie. You can also join our Holy Bible study at the adjacent room while enjoying your coffee. Donations for the Coffee Hour are appreciated.

May 19, 2013 group:

• de Guzman
• Ducanes
• Folkers
• Gualberto
• Harder
• Mayuga
• Miranda
• Verceles
• Vijitchnaton

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The Filipino Families of Skokie (FFOS) members’ next Novena prayer is scheduled on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 6:00pm.

The Filipino Families of Skokie was organized primarily as a spiritual group. The main purpose of our organization is to unite, promote, support, and engage in activities fostering and enriching the spiritual and cultural heritage of the members. In order to achieve these goals, member families are encouraged to attend and participate in parish functions and fund raising and other activities designed in promoting the spirituality, camaraderie, and well being of member families to include:

The Bi-weekly novena devotions to the Santo Niño, Our Lady of Fatima, San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila and San Pedro Calungsod.

Please join us at  John and Lucy’s place this Saturday at 6:00 in the evening.

Hi everyone, here is your official invite for Family Day this Sunday, May 19, 2013, 3-5pm, followed by Youth Mass at 5pm!

To celebrate the end of a great year of Youthchurch, we are inviting a special guest to share some music with us. Gina Roxas will be hosting an arts and crafts table for the children, and we will be displaying some of this years artwork from Youthchurch.

We are opening up the stage for the return of the open mic challenge! If you have a song or something to share, let us know. We will try to get everyone together and play a song if there are instruments available.

Potluck supper, bring a dish and we’ll see you there at 3pm!

The musical guest is Maron Gaffron, below is video of one of her songs, enjoy!

Source: St. Lambert e mail announcements. To get St. Lambert schedule of activities by e mail, send you request to SaintLambert@aol.com , Attn: Rev. Fr. Richard Simon.