The Tenth Week Of Extra Ordinary Time
Welcome to the
Tenth 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.
I particularly
enjoyed this week’s Yacht Rock rendition of the Processional, as it mitigated
the torrid temperature somewhat. Please
open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 22 page 302 where the prophets
say …
|
Voice Over |
And what are
your ladies going to do for us this year? |
|
Rita |
Well, this
year we decided to re-enact something with a more modern flavour. We had
considered a version of Michael Stewart's speech on Nigeria and there were
several votes on the Committee for a staging of Herr Willi Brandt's visit to
East Germany, but we've settled instead for a dramatization of the first
heart transplant. Incidentally my sister Madge will be playing the plucky
little springbok pioneer Christian Barnard. |
|
Voice Over |
Well off we
go, then with the Barley Townswomen's Guild re-enactment of the first heart
transplant. |
|
Rita
Fairbanks blows her whistle. The two groups of ladies rush at each other.
They end up in the sea, rolling about splashing, and thumping each other with
handbags. |
Proust, in his first book
wrote about... fa la la...
Proust in his first book
wrote about...
Tenors only: He wrote
about...
(They continue
contrapuntally, in madrigal, never getting beyond these words until they
rallentando to say...)
All: Proust in his first
book wrote about the... (gong sounds)
Now please open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 27 page 52
where the prophets say …
|
Mrs Conclusion |
We're going to have our budgie put down. |
|
Mrs Premise |
Really? Is it very old? |
|
Mrs Conclusion |
No. We just don't like it. We're going to take it to the
vet tomorrow. |
|
Mrs Premise |
Tell me, how do they put budgies down then? |
|
Mrs Conclusion |
Well it's funny you should ask that, but I've just been
reading a great big book about how to put your budgie down, and apparently
you can either hit them with the book, or, you can shoot them just there,
just above the beak. |
|
Mrs Premise |
Just there! |
|
Mrs Conclusion |
Yes. |
|
Mrs Premise |
Well well well. 'Course, Mrs Essence flushed hers down the
loo. |
|
Mrs Conclusion |
Ooh! No! You shouldn't do that - no that's dangerous. Yes,
they breed in the sewers, and eventually you get evil-smelling flocks of huge
soiled budgies flying out of people's lavatories infringing their personal
freedom. (life-size cut-out of woman at end of last animation goes
by) Good morning Mrs Cut-out. |
|
Mrs Premise |
It's a funny thing freedom. I mean how can any of us be
really free when we still have personal possessions. |
|
Mrs Conclusion |
You can't. You can't. I mean, how can I go off and join
Frelimo when I've got nine more installments to pay on the fridge. |
|
Mrs Premise |
No, you can't. You can't. Well this is the whole crux of
Jean-Paul Sartre's 'Roads to Freedom'. |
Homily Well Parishioners, wonders never cease. Ursula von der Leyen, “most high Chancellor”
of the European Union admitted this week the Donald Trump was right, China is
the problem (https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-china-ursula-von-der-leyen/).
This as China dumps Electric vehicles into the world market in a blatant
effort to try and revive their own economy while strangling everyone else’s. If Morticia Adams can admit when she is
obviously wrong, maybe there is still some hope for the west to come to its
senses. This got me thinking and became
the basis of this week’s Homily.
Now please
understand that not everything is getting back to logic and order in
Europe. In Germany for example senior
citizens are being thrown out of their homes to provide housing for “asylum
seekers” (https://www.abendblatt.de/schleswig-holstein/stormarn/article409254710/nelkenweg-wohnungen-diese-entscheidung-hat-geschmaeckle.html).
But with how far Europe’s logic has degraded in recent years we will
have to accept whatever small steps toward sanity we can achieve.
In looking around
her in America for I discovered an odd story.
It seems that I.C.E. made a major raid on a Nebraska Food plant and
arrested dozens of illegals who were working there (https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-federal-partners-assaulted-during-largest-worksite-enforcement-operation-nebraska). Now
at first glance I know that you might be inclined to think so what I.C.E. raids
all manor of places rounding up illegals what is so important about this
raid. You are right, nothing is
important about the raid itself, it is what happened AFTER the raid that is
important.
As soon as word of
the raid made the news, the next day saw hundreds of legal residents applying
for the now vacant jobs (https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/ice-raid-omaha-food-plant-results-dozens-arrests-new-applicants-open-jobs)! So
now I.C.E. raids sweeping up large amounts of illegals are suddenly making job
opening for legal American residents who are looking for work. When Americans who want work, find work, I
call that a “Job Well Done! Here is to
MANY more successful I.C.E. operations.
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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