The Ninth Week of Extra Ordinary Time

 

Welcome to the Ninth Week 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 for your sonorious rendition, it literally was invaluable in navigating my way to the altar.

Please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 19 page 252 where the prophets say …

Interviewer

Mr L. F. Dibley's 'Finian's Rainbow'. And now over to me. (close-up of interviewer) Exclusively on the programme today we have the Foreign Secretary, who has just returned from the bitter fighting in the Gulf of Amman. He's going to tell us about canoeing.

On the bank of a river seen from the other side. There is a canoe on the bank a man in a pinstripe suit stands beside it.

SUPERIMPOSEN CAPTION: 'THE FOREIGN SECRETARY'

He gives a little cough and gets in. Two Arabs run in from other side of frame, lift up the canoe and throw it and the Foreign Secretary into the water. Cut back to the interviewer.

Interviewer

That gives you just some idea of what's going on out there. Today saw the long-awaited publication of the Portman Committee's Report on Industrial Reorganization...

Open your hymnal to page 31 and join us in singing “Anything goes In”

 Anything goes in,  Anything goes out
Fish, bananas, old pyjamas,  Mutton, beef and trout

Now please open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 38 page 223 where the prophets say …

Presenter

And welcome to 'Spot the Loony', where once again we invite you to come with us all over the world to meet all kinds of people in all kinds of places, and ask you to . .. Spot the Loony! (crescendo of music)

SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'ALL ANSWERS VERIFIED BY ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA'

Presenter

Our panel this evening... Gurt Svensson, the Swedish mammal abuser and part-time radiator.

Cut to Svensson. He is standing on his head on the desk with his legs crossed in a yoga position. He wears a loincloth and high-heeled shoes. He talks through a megaphone which is strapped to his head.

Svensson

Good evening.

Cut back to the presenter.

Presenter

Dame Elsie Occluded, historian, wit, bon viveur, and rear half of the Johnson brothers...

Cut to another section of the panel's desk. Dame Elsie. Her bottom half is encased in the side of a block of concrete which is also on top of the desk. Dame Elsie is thus parallel to the ground. She has fairy wings on her back, a striped t-shirt, flying gloves, goggles and a green wig.

Dame Elsie

Good evening.

Cut back to the presenter.

Presenter

And Miles Yellowbird, up high in banana tree, the golfer and inventor of Catholicism.

Cut to final section of the desk. A man dressed as a rabbit, with a megaphone strapped to one eye.

Miles

Good evening.

Presenter

And we'll be inviting them to... Spot the Loony. (a phone rings on the desk; he picks it up) Yes? Quite right ... A viewer from Preston there who's pointed out correctly that the entire panel are loonies. Five points to Preston there, and on to our first piece of film. It's about mountaineering and remember you have to... Spot the Loony!

Homily  Parishioners, this week I thought we would revisit an old problem for the “Dark Ages” of the Biden Harris administration – the migrant replacement scheme in rural America.  Just in case you needed a reminder here are a couple of articles to expose the scope of the problem.  In this article beyond Ohio and Pennsylvania 18,000 migrants were dumped in Indiana (https://mercercountyoutlook.net/2024/09/19/logansport-indiana-immigration-situation/).  More were dumped in Alabama (https://www.al.com/news/2024/09/sylacauga-council-member-fears-civil-unrest-over-haitian-migrants-when-is-enough-enough.html).  Local officials were concerned that the native population might react violently once the situation was aired. 

It now turns out that beyond the vast scope of the problem these “migrants” are already bring in worse crimes.  In Springfield Ohio it turns out that the feds and state officials have discovered an “alleged” human trafficking empire (https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/375011/feds-and-state-ag-investigate-an-alleged-human-trafficking-empire-run-in-springfield-ohio/).  Suddenly illegals eating cats is not the most pressing problem afoot. 

Unions are also demanding investigations because large corporations like JBS are (ab)using “immigrant workers” instead of native born citizens (https://www.ufcw7.org/l7press/2024-09-24-ufcw-local-7-condemns-jbs-for-abusing-immigrant-workers).  When companies start trying to profit off the illegals a dangerous precedent is set as now some are trying to “normalize” and denominize the process. 

Showing how far this “profit taking” usage of illegals takes on even larger significance when we note that another company, Hello Fresh, is being investigated  for using illegals to cook their recipes (https://abcnews.go.com/US/labor-department-investigating-hellofresh-allegedly-employing-migrant-children/story?id=116530077).  In the case of Hello Fresh, it is particularly odious as the “liberal darling” was accused of using illegal children as their “workforce”. 

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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