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The second passage foretells with such singular precision the principal circumstances of the Passion that the Fathers called Isaiah, the fifth Evangelist. The Messiah is the man of sorrows who was “led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth”. “he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins”. “he is cut off out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him. And he shall give the ungodly for his burial, and the rich for his death” “and by his bruises we are healed.”. Confirming His name of Saviour, “He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross” (Introitus), as He is presented by the Passio according to St. Luke. Like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all, he has a multitude of disciples for his inheritance (Lectio II). In fact, in the feast of Easter, the sacraments of Baptism and of Penance reconcile the souls with God. “Renewing in Mass the mysteries of the Passion of Jesus”, let’s kneel before the admirable mystery of a God who dies for mortals! We ask "for his merits" “to drive far from us the power of the enemy, that we mayest obtain the grace of the resurrection.” (I and II Oratio – Secreta).