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A prophetic voice
Feb. 11th, 2007 12:37 pmYou may remember that two weeks ago I preached a sermon on the text "Give us this day our daily bread", starting it with the old joke about the food tycoon who persuades the pope to change that phrase in the Lord's Prayer for a fee.
The tycoon I used was Bernard Matthews, who wanted to jazz up his advertising by changing that phrase to "Give us this day our daily turkey".
The news has been full of the stories about Bernard Matthews's farm in Suffolk, which has been hit in the past week and a half with bird flu from Hungary and has been forced to cull almost 150,000 turkeys. Sales of turkey and poultry are down.
I believe that I should be ennobled as a prophet. I'm sure that Bernard is getting ready to visit the pope chequebook in hand.
The tycoon I used was Bernard Matthews, who wanted to jazz up his advertising by changing that phrase to "Give us this day our daily turkey".
The news has been full of the stories about Bernard Matthews's farm in Suffolk, which has been hit in the past week and a half with bird flu from Hungary and has been forced to cull almost 150,000 turkeys. Sales of turkey and poultry are down.
I believe that I should be ennobled as a prophet. I'm sure that Bernard is getting ready to visit the pope chequebook in hand.
