Welcome to Week Seven of Extra Ordinary Time

This week we got a look “behind the curtain” of then economic leaders of our world.  We are told that we should “ignore the people behind the curtain” and all that they are doing, but I think we should ignore that direction instead. 

Please open your Hymnal to page 3 and join in our processional  “O Lord Please Don’t Burn Us” Verse 1

O LORD, please don’t burn us,   Don’t grill or toast your flock,

Don’t put us on the barbecue,  Or simmer us in stock,

Don’t braise or bake or boil us,  Or stir fry us in a wok. 

 

Please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 14 page 183 where the prophets say …

Minister	That's it, is it?
Man	Yes, that's it, yes.
Minister	It's not particularly silly, is it? I mean, the right leg isn't silly at all and the left leg merely does a forward aerial half turn every alternate step.
Man	Yes, but I think that with Government backing I could make it very silly.
Minister	(rising) Mr Pudey, (he walks about behind the desk in a very silly fashion) the very real problem is one of money. I'm afraid that the Ministry of Silly Walks is no longer getting the kind of support it needs. You see there's Defense, Social Security, Health, Housing, Education, Silly Walks ... they're all supposed to get the same. But last year, the Government spent less on the Ministry of Silly Walks than it did on National Defence. Now we get £348,000,000 a year, which is supposed to be spent on all our available products. (he sits down) Coffee?
Man	Yes please.
Minister	(pressing intercorn) Now Mrs Two-Lumps, would you bring us in two coffees please?
Intercom Voice	Yes, Mr Teabag.
Minister	... Out of her mind. Now the Japanese have a man who can bend his leg back over his head and back again with every single step. While the Israelis... ah, here's the coffee.

Open your hymnal to page 1 and join us in singing “Do What John?”

Do what John? Come again do what?;  Do what John?,  Do what John?

D what?,  Do what?;  Do where John?,  Do where John?

Why, what, wiv whom and when?,  Triffic, really triffic!;  Pardon?,  Come again?

Now please open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 32 page 126 where the prophets say …

Newsreader	The Minister for not listening to people toured Batley today to investigate allegations of victimization in home-loan improvement grants, made last week (photo behind changes to close up of another faceless minister) by the Shadow Minister for judging people at first sight to be marginally worse than they actually are. (photo changes to exterior of the Home Office) At the Home Office, the Minister for inserting himself in between chairs and walls in men's clubs, was at his desk after a short illness. He spent the morning dealing with the Irish situation and later in the day had long discussions with the Minister for running upstairs two at a time, flinging the door open and saying 'Ha, ha! Caught you, Mildred'. (photo of the Houses of Parliament) In the Commons there was another day of heated debate on the third reading of the Trade Practices Bill. Mr Roland Penrose, the Under-Secretary for making deep growling noises grrr, launched a bitter personal attack on the ex-Minister for delving deep into a black satin bag and producing a tube of Euthymol toothpaste. Later in the debate the Junior Minister for being frightened by any kind of farm machinery, challenged the Under-Secretary of State for hiding from Terence Rattigan to produce the current year's trading figures, as supplied by the Department of stealing packets of bandages from the self-service counter at Timothy Whites and selling them again at a considerable profit. Parliament rose at 11:30, and, crawling along a dark passageway into the old rectory (the camera starts to track slowly into the newsreader's face so that it is eventually filling the screen) broke down the door to the serving hatch, painted the spare room and next weekend I think they'll be able to make a start on the boy's bedroom, while Amy and Roger, up in London for a few days, go to see the mysterious Mr Grenville.
	SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'TODAY IN PARLIAMENT HAS NOW BECOME THE CLASSIC SERIAL'
Newsreader	He in turn has been revealed by D'Arcy as something less than an honest man. Sybil feels once again a resurgence of her old affection and she and Balreau return to her little house in Clermont-Ferrand, the kind of two-up, two-down house that most French workers throughout the European Community are living in today.
	SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'THE CLASSIC SERIAL HAS NOW BECOME THE TUESDAY DOCUMENTARY'

 

Homily:  Parishioners, in some countries we have come to expect economic chaos and collapse to just “happen” from time to time, these things happen due to poor ideas (usually communism) poor planning (the dictator has no pants), and just plain corruption.  Thus it should come as no surprise that recently in places like Peru ( https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peruvians-protest-surging-gas-fertilizer-prices-amid-ukraine-invasion-2022-04-05/ )  and Sri Lanka ( https://www.opindia.com/2022/05/sri-lanka-crisis-pm-wickremesinghe-series-tweets-petrol-electricity/ ) Biden/Harris Administration Inflation has caused the prices of cook fuels to skyrocket leading to massive riots in the street as people face starvation. 

However, this round of stupidity appears to be larger than any ever seen before as stable countries are starting to be slammed by the same problems.  Recently in Germany for example grocery prices jumped as much as 30% (https://www.thelocal.de/20220401/german-consumers-to-be-hit-by-further-price-hikes-in-supermarkets/ ) with only a three day warning of the impending “lift off”.  Meanwhile in Britain, the inflation rate has eclipsed the 40 (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/18/uk-inflation-soars-to-highest-level-in-more-than-40-years?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other ) year old highs from back in the worst of the oil embargo days.  That “outlandish Right wing scandal rag” Reuters has started using terms like “Buckle” to describe the effects of Inflation in Britain as the impacts start to devastate the economy ( https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/inflation-hits-30-year-high-uk-households-start-buckle-2022-02-22/ ). 

The British government’s comment on this situation is to warn Brits to expect “the largest fall in their standard of living since such measurements began”.  Of course this fall takes place while the same government is paying 4-7 million pounds per day to house immigrants in hotels across Britain! (https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/1489208574962249738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1489208574962249738%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fbrits-told-reduce-living-standards-govt-spends-millions-day-housing-refugees-hotels ) 

With these twits planning for our future, I think it is time to look to our own salvation in the coming times of troubles. 

Amen  

Please join us in our recessional on page 3 of your hymnal “O Lord Please Don’t Burn Us” second verse. 

Oh Please don’t lightly poach us,  Or Baste us with hot fat,

Don’t fricassee or roast us,    Or boil us in a vat,

And please don’t stick thy servants, Lord,  In a Rotissomat.