The Sixth Week of Ordinary Time

 

Welcome to the Sixth 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 spiritual rendition it warmed my heart as I Hydroplaned through this watery Holiday season to the pulpit.  Now please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 7 page 83 where the prophets say: 

Accountant	Lady Chairman, sir, shareholders, ladies and gentlemen. I have great pleasure in announcing that owing to a cutback on surplus expenditure of twelve million Canadian dollars, plus a refund of seven and a half million Deutschmarks from the Swiss branch, and in addition adding the debenture preference stock of the three and three quarter million to the directors' reserve currency account of seven and a half million, plus an upward expenditure margin of eleven and a half thousand lira, due to a rise in capital investment of ten million pounds, this firm last year made a complete profit of a shilling.
Chairman	A shilling Wilkins?
Accountant	Er, roughly, yes sir.
Chairman	Wilkins, I am the Chairman of a multi-million pound corporation and you are a very new chartered Accountant. Isn't it possible there may have been some mistake?
Accountant	Well that's very kind of you sir, but I don't think I'm ready to be Chairman yet.

Please open your hymnal to page 40 and join us in singing “Accountant-cy Shanty”  Verse 1

Up, up, up your premium,  Up, up, up your premium (Scribble away!)
Up, up, up your premium (And balance the books),  Up, up, up your premium (Scribble away!)
Up, up, up your premium (But balance the books),  Up, up, up

It's fun to charter an accountant,  And sail the wide accountancy,
To find, explore the funds offshore,  And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy!

Now please open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 30 page 99 where the prophets say …

Boss	Come in, Mr Horton.
	The city gent enters.
City Gent	Morning, sir.
Boss	Do - do sit down. (he indicates chair, trying not to look at the city gent)
City Gent	Thank you, sir.
	The boss starts to snigger but suppresses it with feat of self-control.
Boss	Now then Horton, you've been with us for twenty years, and your work in the accounts department has been immaculate (the city gent starts to speak; the boss suppresses another burst of laughter) No no - please don't say anything. As I say, your work has been beyond reproach, but unfortunately the effect you have on your colleagues has undermined the competence (almost starts laughing) ... has undermined the competence of this firm to such a point that I'm afraid that I've got no option but to sack you.
City Gent	(in a broken voice) I'm sorry to hear that, sir. (the boss giggles, gets up hastily and turning his back on city gent leans against the mantelpiece; his desire to laugh mounts through the next speech) It couldn't have come at a worse time. There's school fees for the two boys coming up, and the wife's treatment costing more now ... I don't know where the money's coming from as it is. And now I don't see any future ... I'd been hoping I'd be able to hang on here just for the last couple of years but... now ... I just want to go out and end it all.
	The boss cannot control himself any longer. He collapses in helpless mirth, falling all over the room. Immediately we cut to stock film of terrific audience laughter.
	Cut to backdrop of a circus ring. In front of it, as if in the ring, stand the RSM and Mr Man. Mr Man is as before. The RSM is dressed the same except that over his uniform he wears baggy trousers and braces and a funny nose. He is responding to the audience applause. Mr Man has obviously just been drenched with hot water - he is soaked and steam is rising.

 

Homily  Well Parishioners, the “chickens” are certainly “coming home to roost” on the Sleepy Uncle Joe administrations lack of border control.  Things are becoming so bad that even the Dumbocans are raising the alarm and beginning to act. 

As a reminder just under a year ago as Katie Hobbs took power in Arizona as its Dumbocan governor, her first act was to dismantle the ad hoc border wall assembled by her Repudicrat predecessor (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/border-wall-dismantled-arizona-katie-hobbs-becomes-governor).  However, less than a year later she is singing a rather different tune.  Recently, MS Hobbs has demanded 512 Million dollars from the S. U. J. administration (https://mcusercontent.com/44a5186aac69c13c570fca36a/files/76efd33a-2f78-8678-ec4a-c75fb717c88d/HobbsLettertoPOTUS.12.8.2023.01.pdf) citing their “ongoing” and “massive” failure to secure the border!   That ad hoc wall would certainly be better than nothing wouldn’t it madame governortrix?   

Preceding the Arizona moment of clarity, Texas has also begun making its own efforts to get the border under a level of control.  Texan forces have clashed with and driven off cartel elements on an island in the Rio Grande (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texas-reclaims-island-mexican-cartels-fight-secure-border).  Hopefully things will go smoother than the last Texican/Mexican river issue (resulting in the Mexican/American War). 

Parishioners, if something is not done, and soon we could be following Europe down the “garden path” to the same results.  In case anyone wonders what experts see Europe headed for due to illegal immigration please read this paper by the Gatestone Institute for their predictions (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20103/europe-civil-war).  Lest you think such is not possible, please note the recent story from Detroit, thousands of miles removed from the Arizona/Mexican border (https://www.wxyz.com/news/oakland-county-sheriff-to-announce-new-regional-task-force-to-combat-break-ins).  In this story a South American gang has made more than 40 break ins in upscale metropolitan Detroit suburbs stealing millions of dollars in valuables.  This gang is using cell jammers so they can not be bothered by such things as burglar alarms and security systems.  Emagine how much “better” things will get as millions more unchecked and undocumented people pour across the border.  Remember parishioners, putting Joe Biden in the White House was supposed to be putting an “adult” back in charge.  How is this “adult” doing? 

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.