The Tenth Week of Extra Ordinary Time

 

Welcome to the Tenth week of Extra 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 all for that cool Islands breezes rendition, obviously inspired by the refreshing breezes we have been experiencing locally, the mental “cool” is appreciated to match the meteorological.   

Please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 20 page 272 where the prophets say …

Voice Over	Arthur Figgis is an idiot. A village idiot. Tonight we look at the idiot in society.
	Cut to close-up of Figgis talking to camera. Very big close-up losing the top and bottom of his head.
Figgis	(educated voice) Well I feel very keenly that the idiot is a part of the old village system, and as such has a vital role to play in a modern rural society, because you see ... (suddenly switches to rural accent) ooh ar ooh ar before the crops go gey are in the medley crun and the birds slides nightly on the oor ar ... (vicar passes and gives him sixpence) Ooh ar thankee, Vicar ... (educated voice) There is this very real need in society for someone whom almost anyone can look down on and ridicule. And this is the role that ... ooh ar naggy gamly rangle tandie oogly noogle Goblie oog ... (passing lady gives him sixpence) Thank you, Mrs Thompson... this is the role that I and members of my family have fulfilled in this village for the past four hundred years... Good morning, Mr Jenkins, ICI have increased their half-yearly dividend, I see.
	We see Mr Jenkins pass, he is also an idiot, identically dressed.
Mr Jenkins	Yes, splendid.
Figgis	That's Mr Jenkins - he's another idiot. And so you see the idiot does provide a vital psycho-social service for this community. Oh, excuse me, a coach party has just arrived. I shall have to fall off the wall, I'm afraid.

Open your hymnal to page 32 and join us in singing “A Medical love song” verse 3

My heart is very tender,  Though my parts are awful raw
You might have been infected,  But you never were a bore
I'm dying of your love, my love,  I'm your spirochaetal clown
I've left my body to science,  But I'm afraid they've turned it down

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: Parishioners, The Euro trash continued attacks upon their own religious institutions continues.  This week I thought I would highlight a few of the more egregious activities going on (mostly) across the pond.  First off, in the ongoing cataclysm of the Russia/Ukraine war the EU recently decided to begin levying sanctions of the head of the Orthodox Church (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/eu-targets-head-russian-orthodox-church-sanctions).  Having already destroyed their own religions these modern day Pagans begin targeting those religions that they have not razed to the ground yet.  In this case ostensibly because the Russian element of the church supports their side in the fight (as does the Ukrainian branch support their own country) but in this case since the head of the over all church will not denounce and cast out the Russians, he needs sanctions from Brussel’s perspective. 

Meanwhile, a horrific report was released recently which outlined the “church burning” activities against western religions around the world (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/yet-more-churches-torched-sustained-attack-christianity-gathers-pace).  In this report literally hundreds of churches burned down across France, the U.K. and CANADA in the last year!  However, the governments of these countries instead of trying to root out the perpetrators of these foul deeds instead stand around and shake their heads as the churches burn. Of course what will immediately launch an investigation involving all available assets of the local constabulary would be someone doodling on the wall of a mosque!  Because in these governments minds doodling on a mosque is a more serious crime than burning down a church! 

Here in America we are several decades behind the Euro Trash in this cultural self degradation, but some elements of our society are desperate to catch up to the Euros.  Recently it was announced in Massachussetts that a 25 year old tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence on the 4^th of July would be cancelled because of the “Whiteness” of the document AND holiday (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/massachusetts-church-cancels-traditional-fourth-july-celebration-better-understand-our)!  So these “Unitarians” feel that trying to unite people is now a bad idea, if it is in celebration of our nation.  Fortunately, other houses of worship in the area have stepped into the breech and are offering to conduct the reading since the Unitarians are “uncomfortable” with national pride.  Hopefully any thinking congregant of the Unitarian Church will begin the introspection on the religious affiliation.  In addition to the “big box” churches, please remember this humble house of worship.  People who celebrate this country are always welcome here! 

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.