Is 52:13—53:12; Ps 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn 18:1—19:42 One thing that strikes me every year when I read the Passion is that, as the Gospel is read, Jesus becomes more and more speechless, mute, His lines gradually fade out in the text… The Eternal Word of God becomes a Silent Word; He says nothing more, He simply is a silent life that is offered, a silent Lamb that is slain. These paradoxes of the Gospel are always impressive to me: where there is less, there is more. It’s puzzling, and at the same time so beautiful, to realize how ‘silence’ can be pregnant with a ‘word’ of good news. A silent word that ...