Busy week. Lots of news. Including coverage of religious events two days in a row. First the respectful and dignified coverage of the funeral of Pope John Paul II, and then a play-by-play commentary on the blessing of Prince Charles' civil marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles, now to be known as Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cornwall. Prince Rainer of Monaco died after a long illness, the man who made his tiny Mediterranean nation of Monaco famous for something other than being a sunny place for shady characters when he married Grace Kelly and swept her out of Hollywood 40 years ago. Johnny Cochran, of O.J. Simpson trial fame, succumbed to cancer. Lots of news.
Lots of news leading up to our scripture lesson two millennia ago. We are familiar with the story. It was Easter afternoon and …