Welcome to Week Fourteen of Extra Ordinary Time

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. 

Thank you, it is good to hear you are in such high spirits, the prophets approve of your “outlook” on life.  

Please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 11 page 146 where the prophets say …

Canning	The stuff of history is indeed woven in the woof. Pearl Harbour. There are pages in history's book which are written on the grand scale. Events so momentous that they dwarf man and time alike. And such is the Battle of Pearl Harbour, re-enacted for us now by the women of Barley Townswomen's Guild.
	Cut to a muddy corner of a field. Miss Rita Fairbanks stands talking straight to camera. Behind her lurk five more pepperpots.
Canning	(voice over) Miss Rita Fairbanks - you organized this reconstruction of the Battle of Pearl Harbour - why?
Rita	Well we've always been extremely interested in modern drama ... we were of course the first Townswomen's Guild to perform 'Camp On Blood Island', and last year we did our extremely popular re-enactment of 'Nazi War Atrocities'. So this year we thought we would like to do something in a lighter vein...
Canning	So you chose the Battle of Pearl Harbour?
Rita	Yes, that's right, we did.
Canning	Well I can see you're all ready to go. So I'll just wish you good luck in your latest venture.

Open your hymnal to page 18 and join us in singing “Oliver Cromwell” Verse 4

Then he smashed Ireland, set up the Commonwealth and more
He crushed the Scots at Worcester and beat the Dutch at sea in 1653
And then he dissolved the rump Parliament
And with Lambert's consent wrote the instrument of Government
Under which Oliver was Protector at last

The end

Now please open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 30 page 91 where the prophets say …

CAPTION: 'BLOOD, DEATH, WAR, HORROR'
	Cut to an interviewer in a rather dinky little set. On the wall there is a rather prettily done sign, not too big, saying 'Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror', as if it were a show's title.
Interviewer	Hello, good evening and welcome to another edition of Blood, Devastation, Death War and Horror, and later on we'll be meeting a man who does gardening. But first on the show we've got a man who speaks entirely in anagrams.
Man	Taht si crreoct.
Interviewer	Do you enjoy it?
Man	I stom certainly od. Revy chum so.
Interviewer	And what's your name?
Man	Hamrag - Hamrag Yatlerot.

 

Homily:  Parishioners, the Laughing stock that the Biden/Harris Administration has always been was put on full display recently.  As the “adults in the room” prepared for their visit to Israel they requested that Israel not provoke trouble with Hamas/Palestinians (https://www.axios.com/2022/06/15/israel-palestinians-biden-visit-abbas ).  Israel ignored the request and bombed Syria.  Good to be respected by your closest ally in the region. 

The Biden/Harris administration also denied that “Sleepy Uncle Joe” would be meeting with the crown prince/murderer of Saudi Arabia on the next leg of the journey (https://news.yahoo.com/biden-downplays-meeting-saudi-prince-212611883.html ).  The Saudi’s immediately stated that was wrong, and when “S U J” met “MbS” they performed the ancient “Bro” act of the Fist Bump for all the world to see!

Meanwhile, When “Sleepy Uncle Joe” got home from his foreign trip he launched into a rant where he claimed that “He and so many people his age have cancer because they used windshield wipers to clear oil of their windshields” (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-approval-rating-hits-new-all-time-low-31-now-underwater-within-own-party).  Apparently this has something to do with why we all need to buy 45,000$ electric cars in S U J’s “mind”!

The reason why all this unhinged insanity matters was recently laid bare by the Brennan Center in a study of just how extensive the powers of a President are in the event of a “national emergency” (https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/new-documents-illuminate-presidents-secret-unchecked-emergency-powers).  Hopefully, the next two years will pass peacefully so that we can at least get a rational adult into the office on the next try. 

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.