The Ninth Week Of Ordinary Time

Welcome to the Ninth 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. 

While I appreciate the Rocking style of this week’s entrance hymn, perhaps a beachball being bounced about the sanctuary was a bit much for the January aesthetic.  Now please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 12 page 151 where the prophets say …

Himmler

How do you do there squire, also I am not Minehead lad but I in Peterborough, Lincolnshire was given birth to, but stay in Peterborough Lincolnshire house all during war, owing to nasty running sores, and was unable to go in the streets play football or go to Nürnberg. I am retired vindow cleaner and pacifist, without doing war crimes (hurriedly corrects himself) tch tch tch, and am glad England win World Cup - Bobby Charlton, Martin Peters - and eating lots of chips and fish and hole in the toads, and Dundee cakes on Piccadilly line. Don't you know old chap I was head of Gestapo for ten years. Five years! No, no, nein, I was not head of Gestapo at all...I make joke.

Landlady

Oooh, Mr Bimmler, you do have us on. (A telephone rings) Oh excuse me I must go and answer that. (leaves the room)

Open your hymnal to page 4 and join us in singing “Holzfaller Song”  Verse 1

Ich wollte... ein Holzfäller sein! Ja, ein Holzfäller! Der von Baum zu Baum hüpft, die auf den mächtigen Wassern von Südtirol hinabschwimmen.

 Die gigantische Rotbuche! Die Lärche! Die Tanne! Die kräftige Kiefer! Der Duft von frisch gefälltem Holz!

 Das Geräusch der stürzenden mächtigen Bäume! An meiner Seite, mein liebes Mädel... Und wir würden singen, singen, singen...

Now please open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 34 page 155 where the prophets say …

Gulliver

I have seen an agent in the town. My life is in danger.

Pither

Danger, Clodagh?

Gulliver

Stalin has always hated me.

Pither

No one hates you, Clodagh.

Gulliver

I will not let myself fall into the hands of these scum.

Pither

I think you should go and have a little lie down, my dear. There is a busy day tomorrow of concerts and promotional tours.

Gulliver

I. One of the founders of the greatest nation on earth. I! Whom Lenin has called his greatest friend.

Homily  Parishioners, this week I thought I would bring a different sort of concern to your attention – a very different sort of government overreach.  As it turns out far too many law enforcement agencies are literally policing for profits (https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit-3/).  These agencies are literally working out ways to scam a profit off law abiding citizens.  Taking from the criminals is no longer enough, since there are so many non criminals it only makes sense to them to expand the operation. 

The Federal Government has joined the scam now and is focused on the HUGE FedEx facility in Indiana (https://abc7.com/post/california-man-had-42k-seized-indiana-fedex-facility-gets-money-back-after-legal-fight/15574783/).  While the previous story shows the efforts required for a victim of the scam to recover their loss.  It is both a travesty and a sick commentary on our society that our once respected and trusted law enforcement agencies have degenerated down to simply a money confiscating scam. 

The scope of the scam in Indiana is truly staggering as this second article demonstrates (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/legal-plunder-indiana-police-prey-packages-transiting-huge-fedex-hub).  The millions being lost through the complicity of the courts and “law enforcement officers” is truly a sickening demonstration of what our country has descended to.  Somehow I do not think that Trump will be fixing this problem. 

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. 


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