I mentioned a few entries ago “truths both mundane and extraordinary,” and here is something else about that. Sometimes a mundane truth can be just as important as an extraordinary truth, insofar as, when they appear in the same context, it is often the inclusion of the former that helps to convince us of the reality of the latter. For example, look at John’s account of the morning of the Resurrection. “Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb, and found the stone moved away from the tomb door. So she came running to Simon Peter, and that other disciple, whom Jesus loved; They have carried the Lord away from the tomb, she said to them, and we cannot tell where they have taken him. Upon this, Peter and the other disciple both set out, and made their way to the tomb; they began running side by side, but the other disciple outran Peter, and reached the tomb first. He looked in and saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Simon Peter, coming up after him, went into the tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there, and also the veil which had been put over Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen cloths, but still wrapped round and round in a place by itself.”