The Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time Year Six

 

Welcome to the Fifteenth week of Ordinary Time.  Year Six

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 energy, this has been a draining week, many ... MANY, family commitments.  Now please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 12 page 155 where the prophets say …

Good afternoon and welcome to Hurlingham Park. You join us just as the competitors are running out onto the field on this lovely winter's afternoon here, with the going firm underfoot and very little sign of rain. Well it certainly looks as though we're in for a splendid afternoon's sport in this the 127th Upperclass Twit of the Year Show. Well the competitors will be off in a moment so let me just identify for you. (close-up of the competitors) Vivian Smith-Smythe-Smith has an O-level in chemo-hygiene. Simon-Zinc-Trumpet-Harris, married to a very attractive table lamp. Nigel Incubator-Jones, his best friend is a tree, and in his spare time he's a stockbroker. Gervaise Brook-Hampster is in the Guards, and his father uses him as a wastepaper basket. And finally Oliver St John-Mollusc, Harrow and the Guards, thought by many to be this year's outstanding twit. Now they're moving up to the starting line, there's a jolly good crowd here today. Now they're under starter's orders ... and they're off! 

Open your hymnal to page 22 and join us in singing “The Background to History” 

Oh it's written in the village rolls,  That if one plough-team wants an oxen
And that oxen is lent,  Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the loooord's consent
Yeah, yeah, 
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent (repeat 4 times)

Now please open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 25 page 21 where the prophets say … communist quiz

Good evening. Tonight is indeed a unique occasion in the history of television. We are very privileged, and deeply honoured to have with us in the studio, Karl Marx, founder of modern socialism, and author of the 'Communist Manifesto'. (Karl Marx is sitting at a desk; he nods) Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, better known to the world as Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution, writer, statesman, and father of modern communism. (shot of Lenin also at desk; he nods) Che Guevara, the Cuban guerrilla leader. (shot of Guevara) And Mao Tse-tung, leader of the Chinese Communist Party since 1949. (shot of Mao; the presenter picks up a card) And the first question is for you, Karl Marx. The Hammers - The Hammers is the nickname of what English football team? 'The Hammers? (shot of Karl Marx furrowing his brow- obviously he hasn't a clue) No? Well bad luck there, Karl. So we'll go onto you Che. Che Guevara - Coventry City last won the FA Cup in what year? (cut to Che looking equally dumbfounded) No? I'll throw it open. Coventry City last won the FA Cup in what year? (they all look blank) No? Well, I'm not surprised you didn't get that. It was in fact a trick question. Coventry City have never won the FA Cup. So with the scores all equal now we go onto our second round, and Lenin it's your starter for ten. Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1959. What was the name of the song? ... Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr's song in the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest? Anybody? (buzzer goes as in 'University Challenge'.' zoom in on Mao Tse-tung) Yes, Mao Tse-tung?

Homily Parishioners, with apparently all of the Epstein files released (Wink, Wink.  Nudge, nudge.  Say NO MORE!)  I thought it a good time to start looking at some of the early results.  To begin with here is the list of everyone mentioned in the files (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/what-do-monica-lewinsky-maggie-thatcher-elvis-cher-bill-cosby-pope-have-common).  We all of course need to remember that being mentioned is no indication, let alone proof of guilt in Epstein’s evil.  Probably the BEST tidbit in the early tranche is that Bill the Gates asked Epstein how to secretly dose his then wife Melinda to counter the STD’s that Bill got from a “Russian Girl” Epstein hooked him up with and then transmitted to Melinda (https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/latest-epstein-emails-reveal-bill-gates-slipped-wife-antibiotics-std-he-got-russian-hookers).  It is pretty clear now why she took him for half of everything he had.  Embarrassing, but not really significant.

Meanwhile, Trump’s current Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick was caught going to Pedo Island for a luncheon several years AFTER he said he had cut all ties with Epstein (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lutnick-too-new-epstein-files-reveal-trip-pedo-island).  The trip included his wife and kids so unless their family has some serious further skeletons in the closet this particular revelation is probably also not significant. 

Finally, Larry Summers: President of Harvard, former FED governor and Secretary of Treasury; had an affair with a “mentee” from Harvard who was also working for the Chinese Communist Party.  All set up by Epstein of course (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/17/summers-epstein-wing-man-woman-described-as-mentee/).   Probably enough here to keep him from ever getting a serious job again, or lose a divorce “BIGLY”, but otherwise once again nothing with any traction going forward. 

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.