Week Four of Ordinary Time

 

Welcome to the Fourth 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 clear and Persistent rendition of the Processional, it warmed my heart as I flounced to the pulpit.  Please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 23 page 317 where the prophets say …

Praline	Excuse me, I would like to buy a fish license, please. (the man behind the counter points to next grille; to camera) The man's sign must be wrong. I have in the past noticed a marked discrepancy between these post office signs and the activities carried on beneath. But soft, let us see how Dame Fortune smiles upon my next postal adventure! (he goes to next grille) Hello, I would like to buy a fish licence, please.
Man	A what?
Praline	A license for my pet fish, Eric.
Man	How did you know my name was Eric?
Praline	No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. 'E's an 'alibut.
Man	A what?
Praline	He is an halibut.
Man	You've got a pet halibut?
Praline	Yes. I chose him out of thousands. I didn't like the others, they were all too flat.
Man	You must be a loony.
Praline	I am not a looney! Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabardo has a pet prawn called Simon and you wouldn't call him a looney; furthermore, Dawn Pailthorpe, the lady show-jumper, had a clam, called Stafford, after the late Chancellor, Allan Bullock has two pikes, both called Chris, and Marcel Proust had an haddock! So, if you're calling the author of 'A la recherche du temps perdu' a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside!

Please open your hymnal to page 18 and join us in singing “Yangtse Song”  First Verse

We love the Yangtse,  Yangtse Kiang
Flowing from Yushu,  Down to Ching Kiang
Passing though Chung King,  Wuhan and Hoo Kow
3000 miles,,  But it gets there somehow
Oh! Szechuan's the province,  And Shanghai is the port
And Yangtse is the river,  That we all support

Now please open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 43 page 292 where the prophets say …

Peter Woods	We interrupt show jumping to bring you a news flash. The Second World War has now entered a sentimental stage. The morning on the Ardennes Front, the Germans started spooning at dawn, but the British Fifth Army responded by gazing deep in their eyes, and the Germans are reported to have gone 'all coy'.
	Music comes in underneath: 'When Does a Dream Begin'. Mix to a young airman on an airfield gazing into a WAAF's eyes. Black and white, soft focus and scratched film to look like a not very good print of a 40's film. Airman sings.

Homily Parishioners, this week I thought it important to remind all of the chaos and insanity that the Democan party is sewing across our country, they seem to be determined to start a second Civil War and anything that foments insanity seems to be their policy.  Child Predators seem to be a pretty straight forward thing that all right thinking individuals should be able to oppose, but not so the Democans.  Washington state, that bastion of all things child predator friendly has decided to soften penalties for would be child predators (https://seattlered.com/seattle-red/opinion/sex-offenders-wa/4115155).   I mean afterall they were only caught trying to have sex with underage minors they met online.  The “entrapment” by law enforcement of catching them before they could actually harm a child means that they did not actually harm a child (and get caught) so why should they face severe punishments like going on a sex offender registry? 

Meanwhile on the other coast as New York City has been “catch and releasing” illegal aliens for years now but finally the Trump DHS has complied and released statistics on the result (https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12/01/sanctuary-new-york-released-nearly-7000-criminal-illegal-aliens-including-murderers).  In 2025 7,000 illegals returned to society committed more than 1700 felony offenses, just New York, in just one year.  Imagine what is going on state and nation wide! 

This week the insanity that Minnesota has become bubbled to the surface of the national consciousness.  On the overt side “Ill’in Omar” and her kin were exposed for stealing billions of tax payer dollars in a welfare fraud scheme, and using some of the money to fund a terrorist organization back in their origin point – Somalia (https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab).  Naturally, Ill’in and the Democans whine that it is racist to point out that they are breaking the law and stealing tax payer money.  In what I see as an even more staggering abuse of the same state “Tampon Tim” Walz signed into law a bill that will give everyone in Minnesota 20 weeks of paid time off from work each year, naturally paid for by the tax payers and corporations (https://www.mnchamber.com/are-you-ready-paid-family-and-medical-leave-pfml-minnesota).  This may or may not be a good thing overall.  But whatever good it may do has been damaged by the fact that illegals will also be given these twenty weeks off as well.  So once again the actual tax payers get to fund the illegals.  That certainly will not cause division in our country, or their state. 

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.