Today is Friday the 17th of October, the Feast of St Ignatius of Antioch, in the 28th week of ordinary time.

These are the days of the devil in the wilderness

These are the taste that have turned into bitterness

It's not that we doubt that a stone can turn into bread

It's just we doubt that we're hungry at all

The serial temptations of the age are getting harder

Countries getting meaner, computers getting smarter,

the pains we try to numb

are only getting sharper,

we're going on like nothing's the matter at all.

Every valley will be lifted,

every mountain brought low.

When the reckoning comes reckoning,

every secret will be known.

Truly, truly, I tell you truly,

there's an axe laid at the root.

Before the reckoning comes reckoning, repentably the truth. John Gera sings Reckoner. John Gera sings Reckoner.

How does this song speak to you today?

Notice if a particular line or phrase stays with you.

The phone in my pocket is sold like a gain to me.

I've lost so much time and attention to technology that sells me the lie,

that it knows what I really need, and God knows it only makes me feel more alone.

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