"The Passion is a poem of charity, humiliation, and power. No compromise, no timidity, no backing down. Threats do not move him, flattery does not flatter him: the cross is already grasped in his will, fused with the will of the Father. He who, by his name alone, terrifies the mob led by the traitor, rejects the heavenly legions and the comfort of the apostles and walks alone toward Calvary. The Lamb teaches us fortitude, the humiliated give us lessons in dignity, the condemned exalt justice, the dying confirm life, the crucified prepare glory. Our Easter witness cannot be any different. If each of us who believes in the Resurrection of Jesus were to keep faith with him before the world, which has lost the true meaning of strength and glory, with a firm and bold face, no one would dare to speak of the Gospel as a “servile” religion."