Spirituality - Servant Priests and Brothers
The Servant Priests and Brothers form part of the family of the Home of the Mother, a humble plant of the Church which is based on the Gospel and the charism which it has received from its founder, Fr. Rafael Alonso.
Our spirituality is one of identification with Jesus Christ and transformation in Him, from the heart of Mary; a spirituality of sanctuary, that is, of making our souls an exclusive sanctuary for God; a spirituality of being the gift of the Lord for his Mother; a Carmelite spirituality with its double dimension: union with God achieved through the “nothings”, leaving creatures aside in order wholly to seek God, and the dimension of fidelity, to the Pope and to the Church and to charism we have received. We live all of this placing ourselves under the maternal protection of Our Lady of Mount Carmel with the Scapular. It is a spirituality of trust, self-abandonment and total availability to the will of God manifested through obedience to our legitimate Superiors.
The characteristics of the Servant Priests and Brothers must be true joy, unity among us, and unselfish love of the Church.
Given that the Eucharist is our first mission and given our condition as priests or aspirants to the priesthood, we also procure to bring to reality those words of John Paul II: “The Holy Mass is the absolute centre of my life and of my whole day.” In the sacramental actualization of the sacrifice of Christ, we try to offer ourselves every day with Him, Priest and Victim, to the Father for the salvation of men.
Fidelity
Fidelity to the Pope is one of the characteristics of our new-born Institute. Fidelity to the Pope and to the Magisterium of the Church in matters of dogma and morality, and fidelity to the liturgical norms. In a Church in which, sadly, so many unjust criticisms of Christ’s Vicar on earth can be heard, it is all the more necessary that we openly manifest our total allegiance to his person and to all of his Magisterium. We were born at the tomb of St. Peter and we wish to be faithful to Peter. Only in him do we have the guarantee of the truth. His Magisterium is not for us, as it were, something that restricts our freedom; it is a luminous lantern that shines in the midst of the confusion that envelopes us, a sure path that leads us to the Truth.
Mary, Our Mother
As the male branch of the H.M.Y. was born with St. John at the foot of the Cross, the Servants wish to develop this fact in their life. Manifesting the maternity of Mary belongs to the very essence of our charism. She is our Mother. The Lord gave Her to us from the Cross as a precious testament of his love. Nor is it without significance that St. John, who had the good fortune to receive Her in representation of all men and women, was a priest. We Servants wish to live out in our priestly and religious life this tender relationship with our Mother. We have our security in belonging to Mary, in being shaped and molded by Her. She is close to us, She takes care of us, She protects us, She guides us. She, Mother of the Only Priest, teaches us to be priests, to offer her Son to the Father with the same love with which She offered Him in her heart when She was at the foot of the cross. She is also present always beside the cross of all of her priest sons.
We want her maternal Heart to be the fire that gives warmth to our Community. We want her to live in us and among us.
Life of Union with God
The Servants of the Home of the Mother want to live on the Eucharist. We thus celebrate Mass every day, with the intention to live it in a vital union with Jesus Christ, sharing in His Mystery of donation and obedience to the Father.
Every day we have an hour of adoration before the Eucharist and half an hour of mental prayer in the afternoon.
On Thursday nights, we have turns of adoration with Christ in the Eucharist, contemplating the mystery of the institution of the Eucharist and the priesthood, uniting ourselves to Christ’s love and suffering in Gethsemane.
We pray the Rosary daily as a sign of our belonging to and filial union with Mary, our Mother. We try to imitate her interior dispositions before God and her collaboration in the work of human salvation.
We pray the Liturgy of the Hours to praise God in the name of the Church.
We frequently receive the Sacrament of Penance to live in a constant effort of conversion and sincere search for holiness.
Silence is of great importance for the cultivation of union with God. Every day we have silence from the moment of Vespers until after the morning adoration. Silence permits Our Lord to speak to our hearts and protects us from distraction.
During meals, we have spiritual reading. The lives of the saints or other spiritual authors are food for our soul and their examples of fidelity to Christ encourage us constantly.
Every year we have a week of Spiritual Exercises in silence and every month we have a day of retreat.
Community Life
The Servants are united by a common call from God to live the same charism, in a common ecclesial consecration and with a common response which surges forth from the participation in the experience of the Spirit lived and transmitted by the Founder and their mission within the Church.
Our community, cenacle of charity, must be built under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the maternal protection of the Virgin Mary. She wishes to live in us and among us. Her maternal protection creates our fraternity.
Community life offers the advantage of a great stability, fraternity for the service of Christ, freedom of spirit 
strengthened by obedience, and a doctrine that, as shown by experience, leads to perfection. Unity of heart and soul, of ideas and feelings is essential to community life. This unity is a symbol of Christ’s coming and is a source of strong apostolic energy.
Community life, which prefigures the heavenly city and the glory of the Resurrection, is essential to the Servants. We ourselves are not its final end or goal, but rather this end is found in the Church and all mankind. Prayer is what safeguards communion and the community.
