{"id":2153,"date":"2020-07-07T13:01:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T13:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/?page_id=2153"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:54:06","slug":"an-easter-poem-rolling-the-stone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/an-easter-poem-rolling-the-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"An Easter Poem-&#8216;Rolling the Stone&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rolling the Stone<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On a chilly April morning<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">at the very break of day,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">some women came to see a tomb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">where their master had been laid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They came to dress the corpse for death<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and say a final prayer<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">but when they reached the waiting tomb,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the body wasn&#8217;t there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And the stone was rolled away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The stone was rolled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The stone was rolled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The stone was rolled away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They ran to tell the master&#8217;s men<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">who were hiding safe away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Two of them came running back<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to test the women&#8217;s tale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They saw the shroud and linen cloths<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">lying in their place<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">but of the master&#8217;s lifeless corpse<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">they found no single trace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the stone was rolled away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The stone was rolled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The stone was rolled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The stone was rolled away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That night the master came to them<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to share their evening meal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They shook his hand and held him close<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and knew that he was real.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This living Jesus comes to us<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in word and deed and prayer<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and once again we&#8217;re friends of God<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in the love he came to share.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the stone is rolled away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The stone is rolled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The stone is rolled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The stone is rolled away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bernard Fyles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling the Stone On a chilly April morning at the very break of day, some women came to see a tomb where their master had been laid. They came to dress the corpse for death and say a final prayer but when they reached the waiting tomb, the body wasn&#8217;t there. And the stone was<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/an-easter-poem-rolling-the-stone\/\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2153","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2153\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}