Print As she worked on her sermon for last night’s Easter vigil, the Very Rev. Penny Bridges kept thinking about the Gospel reading for the service. It was from the last chapter of Mark, about the women who made their way to Jesus’ tomb, only to find it empty. They ran off, too frightened to tell anyone what they had seen. The dean of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral smiles as she recounts the passage. There is no proper ending, she is saying. They simply fled and said nothing. “It is up to us to finish the story,” Bridges suggests. “It’s up to us to proclaim resurrection, to live resurrected lives, to live the difference that event made.”