As the crowds were appalled on seeing him – so disfigured did he look that he seemed no longer human – so will the crowds be astonished at him, and kings stand speechless before him; for they shall see something never told and witness something never heard before: ‘Who could believe what we have heard, and to whom has the power of the Lord been revealed?’...
Without beauty, without majesty (we saw him), no looks to attract our eyes; a thing despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering, a man to make people screen their faces; he was despised and we took no account of him.
And yet ours were the sufferings he bore, ours the sorrows he carried. But we, we thought of him as someone punished, struck by God, and brought low. Yet he was pierced through for our faults, crushed for our sins. On him lies a punishment that brings us peace, and through his wounds we are healed...
By his sufferings shall my servant justify many, taking their faults on himself. Hence I will grant whole hordes for his tribute, he shall divide the spoil with the mighty, for surrendering himself to death and letting himself be taken for a sinner, while he was bearing the faults of many and praying all the time for sinners.
Isaiah 52 & 53
Priestly Vocation
Priests of the Confraternity are formed in the spirit of Jesus the Eternal High Priest. By an Intensive Apostolate within a new or rundown parish, they seek to lead the people they serve to a fuller union with Jesus and to the worship of His Heavenly Father in the Sacred Liturgy, especially the Mass, and finally, to eternal life with God in Heaven.
Gradually, through their contact with the churchless millions, the spiritually poor, the sick and lonely, the unloved and with those who do not know Jesus or his Gospel, God's grace will touch and pervade these people and God will bring them to closer union with Himself.
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