This book is a meditation on the dimensions and consequences of the shocking fact that Christ shows us what it means to be God through the way he dies as a man. And in this way he shows us what it means to be human. By connecting the end - "being" - with the beginning - "let us become a man" - Fr. Ioannis Ber motivates us to think again about who we are, what it means to be men and women, what we are called to become, and what is the relationship between life and death on this course.

The reader, through the poetic and contemplative style of the text, interspersed with hagiographic and paternal passages, is invited to a contemplative reading, giving weight to the essential content of each word and not to their superficial passing.