A little lower than the angels

We were walking this evening.  Ahead of us I heard someone with a hacking smoker's cough.  As I approached, I could see the woman, her face somewhat haggard, standing outside her apartment block, her back against the wall of the building.  She clutched her cigarette between two fingers held close to her lips. I greeted her quietly with a "hi". In reply she said "Happy Easter". So who is the messenger of the Resurrection here?

                                                                                  Greetings to all of you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Conqueror of Death and bringer of Life. Welcome! I call your attention to the way our Easter Gospel ends. I'm going to give you a rather literal rendering of it in the original, and it sounds like this: “So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them. To no one anything they said; afraid they were for…” Strange, isn’t it? Scholarly consensus is that this is the way the original author of Mark’s Gospel ended the Gospel According to Mark. Later scribes will add the material which tries to give a more pleasing end to the story the Gospel is telling. Tom Long tells a true story about a guy...