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 shuffled 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  Parishioners, I know that only a fortnight past I loosed a homily on the dangers of illegal immigration, but the Libated Liberal Legions that push the agenda work around the clock and already a bevy of stories have emerged showing the fallacies and dangers of this line of activity.  So, here we are again. 

A Germany study showed the “migrants” are visiting a staggering amount of crime upon the native population (https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/kurzmeldungen/DE/2024/04/vorstellung-pks.html).  It turns out that the German people were stunned to learn that 41% of all criminals in Germany are “migrants”.  Meanwhile, 75% of the victims were native born!  This is the pattern all over the Western world as the hordes run rampant.  Truly it reminds one of the descriptions of the fall of Rome. But now mass protests have broken out across Germany as people seem to have finally crossed some sort of "Rubicon" with the recent Christmas Market attack by a Saudi "migrant" (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/strange-narrative-emerging-horrific-christmas-market-attack).  The government is trying to say that the Saudi was a supporter of AfD, the anti immigrant political party that the establishment German parties are trying to ban.   

Meanwhile in France, the other ringleader of Europe’s death spiral, the situation is actually worse (https://www.20minutes.fr/societe/4007423-20221029-pourquoi-faut-rester-prudent-chiffres-delinquance-paris)!  It turns out that recent statistics show that a staggering 70% of violent robberies and 75% of all thefts are committed by “migrants”.  France is literally staggering under a rain of blows delivered by those the French allowed in out of “kindness”. 

Even in Sweden which has long deluded itself that the “migrants” would be acclimated to the Norse way of life and “adjust”, has realized too late that the result will be VERY different (https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swedish-pm-says-integration-immigrants-has-failed-fueled-gang-crime-2022-04-28/).  When the Prime Minister of Sweden admits that the integration of the “migrants” has failed you know the true statistics of horrific.  The further admission that the arrival has “fueled gang crime” must be demoralizing to the entire mind set.  That Reuters is running such a story indicates the true magnitude of the failure. 

Finally, in Britain we see the true and final picture come into view (https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/politics/commons-marry-cousin-iqbal-mohamed-b2662014.html).  When a member of parliament calls for an end to the “stigmatization” of those who practice incest and marry their own cousin it is obvious on both levels that the inmates are truly running the asylum now.  It is now only a matter of time before Shari’ah Law is enacted in “old blighty”.  The question remains on this side of the pond, do we have time left to change? 

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.