 The passion begins when the word becomes flesh, and it's fully manifest in his last wordless cry on the cross. And the silence after he's breathed his last, the Father has spoken to us everything we need to know for our salvation. We need to listen to the silence of God who suffered death for us. And if we receive that mystery, ponder the mystery of Jesus' humanity, we also see the mystery of the Father's love. A love not vanquished by death, so powerful that it can raise up humanity. And so our contemplation of Jesus' humanity also takes us into the resurrection. But when we contemplate even the resurrection, it's the resurrection of the crucified Christ.