I was not there. A bell ringer I know said she thinks it happened. While the choir, bell ringers, and pianist did their thing, 3 ladies from the congregation were to reenact the discovery of the rolled away stone. But it happened behind and not in front of the singers and musicians. But the bell ringer, along with others, was confident in what was supposed to have happened, did indeed happen.

A canonized account of the rolled-away stone was authored by John Mark or Anonymous, experts say. He wrote in Greek with Gentiles being the primary targeted audience. The goal was to strengthen the Faith. Also, some claim Mark was the founder of the Coptic Church in Egypt, believed to have been martyred, dragged by a horse at the hands of pagans on Easter, 68 A.D. in Alexandria.

A right-reverend-retired friend writes of the Easter resurrection, “We may call it a myth, but ancient peoples did not distinguish between logos (logic) and mythos (myth) as we do. Logos and mythos were nearly the same.”

I wasn’t there. I score mythos the winner by a stone’s throw.

“Roll away the stone

Don’t leave me here alone

Resurrect me and protect me

Don’t leave me laying here

What will they do in two thousand years?”

Leon Russell “Roll Away the Stone” 

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