Christ is risen! He is risen indeed, Alleluia! Such an amazing declaration grounded in the simple Truth that our Lord Jesus Christ conquered sin, death, and the devil. Our faith hinges on that central truth, which is a fact of history. Yet St. Peter, the other disciple, and Mary Magdalene, did not completely understand what actually happened. Their Lord whom they followed, and with whom they broke bread, died on the cross, and Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus bound his body and laid it in a tomb. The women simply returned to apply spices to the body, as was the custom of the day, to cover the odor of decomposition out of respect. No doubt they were still in a fog of grief, fear, doubt, and defeat. This fog clouded their vision of what happened when they saw the empty tomb.