The Tenth/Eleventh Week(s) of Ordinary Time

 

Welcome to the Tenth/Eleventh 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 Warm rendition of the processional, with these temperatures any form of warmth is appreciated.  Due to my mistake our liturgical calendar has been thrown askew.  I am in the process of correcting the calendar.  Now please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 20 page 264 where the prophets say …

Stock film of fast moving Huns thundering around on horseback.
First Voice Over	In the fifth century, as the once-mighty Roman Empire (America) crumbled, the soft underbelly of Western Europe (Hemisphere) lay invitingly exposed to the barbarian hordes to the East (and West). Alaric the Visigoth (Bill Clinton), Galseric the Vandal (George W. Bush) and Theodoric the Ostrogoth (Barack Obama) in turn swept westward in a reign of (economic) terror. But none surpassed in power and cruelty the mighty Attila the Hun (Sleepy Uncle Joe).
Second Voice Over	Ladies and gentlemen, it's the 'Attila the Hun (Sleepy Uncle Joe) Show '.
	Cut to film. Music plays: 'The Debbie Reynolds Show' theme - 'With a little love, just a little love'. We see Attila the Hun running towards Mrs Attila the Hun in slow motion, laughing and smiling. CAPTION: 'THE ATTILA THE HUN SHOW'

Open your hymnal to page 16 and join us in singing “Oliver Cromwell”  Verse 4

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (Ole)
Born in 1599, died in 1658 (September)
Then he smashed (Ireland), set up the Commonwealth (and more!).
He crushed the Scots at Worcester, and beat the Dutch at sea in 1653, and then

He dissolved the Rump Parliament,
And with Lambert's consent wrote the instrument of Government
Under which Oliver was Protector at last, The End!

Now please open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 43 page 307 where the prophets say …

Voice Over

Well they're under starter's orders for this very valuable Queen Victoria Handicap. And they're off, (the starting stall doors fly open; out come eight identically dressed Queen Victorias who go bustling off up the field) and Queen Victoria got a clean jump off, followed by Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria and Queen Victoria. It's Queen Victoria from Queen Victoria and Queen Victoria. It's Queen Victoria making the early running on the inside. And at the back Queen Victoria already a couple of lengths behind the leaders. Queen Victoria has now moved up to challenge Queen Victoria with Queen Victoria losing ground. Queen Victoria tucked in neatly on the stand side with a clear view. Queen Victoria still the back marker as they approach the halfway mark, but making ground now, suddenly past Queen Victoria with Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria and Queen Victoria still well placed as they approach the first fence. (a low angle shot as the Queen Victorias appear over the fence and thunder towards the camera) And at the first fence it's Queen Victoria just ahead of Queen Victoria and Queen Victoria falling away in third place. And Queen Victoria in the lead as they ...

Homily Hello Parishioners, I thought this week an appropriate time to bring up the ongoing horrors of uncontrolled illegal migration around the world once again.  I know that we get tired of the topic, but the problem just does not stop expanding so here we are again.  I will start with an old story in a new country.  Britain has finally admitted that its “migrants” are responsible for a staggering 80 percent of train thefts as well as similar numbers for rapes and other violent crimes on trains (https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrants-crisis-foreign-nationals-responsible-80-per-cent-train-theft-arrests).  Germany, France, Spain Italy and Portugal have all admitted to this in past articles, but now Lord Starmer’s Britain has admitted that they are also suffering the same result.  Where ever the “migrants” are allowed in, the “migrants” turn to crime. 

Next Holland, where their government continues to blithely attempt to “woke” their way through the horror they have created.  The government decided that what they needed was to house “migrants” with a “willing population” to assist with integrating the “migrants” into Dutch society.  So they rounded up 125 “migrants” and 125 college students and put them all in one complex (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15469725/Students-raped-forced-live-complex-alongside-125-refugees-aid-integration-Terrified-Dutch-youngsters-subjected-years-sex-assaults-violence.html).  The results were exactly what we have seen everywhere else.  The Dutch college students were physically assaulted and the women raped repeatedly by the “migrants”.  In the end, the “wokerati” sent in lawyers to defend the “migrants” and when the government gave up the project they had to move the college students out and surrender the building to the Migrants. 

In an alarming for a very different reason story from Poland we see a nation sick and tired of “migrants”, their criminal antics and supporters.  Poland has been having trouble with its border with Belorus as Muslim “migrants” daily attempt to invade Poland illegally and the Poles have long since stationed their army on the border to keep the “migrants” out.  However, Poland’s frustration seems to have reached a boiling point as they recently announced something staggering (https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/poland-start-producing-anti-personnel-mines-lay-along-eastern-border-2025-12-17/).   Poland is restarting antipersonnel land mine production and plans to emplace the mines along their border with Belorus to keep the “migrants” out once and for all!  Truly a drastic step, but one that is likely to ease the problem, but not in what the “wokerati” will consider a “humane” way. 

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.