Week Four of Ordinary Time

 

Welcome to the Fourth week of 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 for that EDM rendition, it inspired my "worm" as I street danced to the pulpit.  Now please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 5 page 62 where the prophets say: 

Newsreader	(as if it's the fourth item)) ... and several butchers aprons. In Fulham this morning a jeweller's shop was broken into and jewellery to the value of £2,000 stolen. Police have issued this picture of a man they wish to interview. (on the screen behind, him, there appears an identical picture of him, sitting at his newsreader desk) The man is in his late twenties wearing a grey suit, a white shirt and a floral tie. (on the screen behind, police come in and remove the newsreader) Will anyone who sees this man or can give any information about his whereabouts contact their nearest policestation. (he is handed a piece of paper) Ah! Oh. We've just heard that police have detained the man they wished to interview in connection with the jewel robbery. Ah, but after questioning police have ruled him out of their enquiries and released him. (the other newsreader appears back on the screen and sits down) Sport. (he is handed another piece of paper) Ah, they say, however, that acting on his information they now wish to interview a newsreader in the central London area. Ah, police are concentrating their enquiries on the British Broadcasting Corp ... (a policeman comes in, and removes newsreader in the foreground) Excuse me a minute...
	The newsreader on the screen behind continues.
Other Newsreader	We understand a man is now helping police with their enquiries. And that is the end of the news. (he clips a piece of jewellery on to his ear) And now, 'Match of the Day'.

Please open your hymnal to the blue insert and join us in singing “When does a Dream begin”  Verse 3

But I'm not imagining seeing you
For who could have dreamed of this?
When does a dream begin?
When reality is dismissed?
Or does it commence when we lose all pretence
When does a dream begin?

 

Now please open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 43 page 292 where the prophets say …

Peter Woods	We interrupt show jumping to bring you a news flash. The Second World War has now entered a sentimental stage. The morning on the Ardennes Front, the Germans started spooning at dawn, but the British Fifth Army responded by gazing deep in their eyes, and the Germans are reported to have gone 'all coy'.
	Music comes in underneath: 'When Does a Dream Begin'. Mix to a young airman on an airfield gazing into a WAAF's eyes. Black and white, soft focus and scratched film to look like a not very good print of a 40's film. Airman sings.

 

Homily  Parishioners, I thought this week would be a good time to catch up on some COVID-19 news that the legacy media have of course chosen to ignore.  Apparently, people are dying, and in MUCH greater numbers than are being pointed out in the COVID counts the “Mediots” share each week.  But this death increase is not related to COVID!  Death is simply booming.  Here in America the death rate is 15% higher than at the worst of COVID AND The Insurance Industry is shelling out 163% more in policy payouts than Pre Covid (https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/funeral-business-booming-and-not-because-covid).  The Prophets call of “Bring out yer Dead” has never been more clarion!

Naturally, this is not just an American situation.  In Australia the government health statistics reveal a staggering 17% increase in deaths AFTER Covid deaths have been removed (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/latest-release)!  So in Australia that death toll increase of 17% would have to have the Covid numbers added on to reach the total for their skyrocketing death rate. 

Lest these facts not pique your interest enough allow me to add one more Amazing death fact as the icing on our “doom cake”.  Here in the United states, the majority of people dying from COVID during the last three months have been people who were fully vaccinated, with two boosters (https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/why-do-vaccinated-people-represent-most-covid-19-deaths-right-now/).  That is right, those “right wing conspiracy theory nutters at the Kaiser Family Foundation discovered by analyzing the death reports out of the CDC that about 2/3 of the Covid Dead for the last three month reported were fully vaccinated and boosted.  It would appear that the Deaths are only beginning! 

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.