Sacramental Brotherhood of Penitents of the Sacred Encounter of Our Father Jesus of Goodness, Mary Most Holy of Divine Consolation, Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Philip Neri

The brotherhood originated in May 1992, when a group of young people led by Antonio Medina Orellana drove its foundation with the aim of spiritual formation and the enhancement of the Palm Sunday procession. They initially adopted as titular images those of Jesus and Mary from the old Confraternity of the Passion, which depicted the scene of the Farewell and were kept in the private oratory of Juan del Pino, with plans to later incorporate the effigies of Saint John and Mary Magdalene.

After the formation of a governing board chaired by Antonio José Muñoz Beato, the Agrupación de Cofradías officially accepted the new brotherhood on 25 September 1992 under the name of Sacred Encounter of Our Father Jesus of Goodness with Mary Most Holy of Divine Consolation, Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Dominic de Guzmán, committing to hold internal acts of worship and to carry out a penitential procession on Palm Sunday from 1996 onwards. The restored images and their symbols were presented on 23 January 1993 in the parish church of Santo Domingo, in a solemn ceremony with the participation of the Coral Lucentina, a Eucharistic celebration and the placing of a sash on the Virgin of Divine Consolation.

The governing board agreed to replace the original Farewell mystery with that of the Encounter of Jesus with His Mother and Saint John on the Way to Calvary. In 1993 the first issue of the magazine Encuentro was published, and Antonio Medina Orellana took over as head of the confraternity. At the same time, plans were made to recover the church of Our Lady of Sorrows, with the Parish of Santiago ultimately adopted as its canonical seat.

In 1995 the carving of Our Father Jesus of Goodness was commissioned from the sculptor Francisco Romero Zafra. The image was blessed on 2 March 1996 and later carried in a processional Way of the Cross, making its first procession that same year on Palm Sunday. It is a dressed image, carved in cedar wood, with an anatomised, polychrome body and articulated arms. It depicts Jesus embracing his cross — the work of Juan Carlos Rubio — on the way to Calvary, at the moment of the encounter on the Way of Sorrows with His Mother and Saint John the Evangelist.

In 1997 the images of Mary Most Holy of Divine Consolation and Saint John the Evangelist were blessed; they would go on to form part of a new canopy float made by Bronces Gradit, unveiled in the Holy Monday 1998 penitential procession. The Virgin, a dressed image with head and hands carved in cedar wood, is a candlestick-frame figure with articulated arms. Saint John, also a dressed image, with a roughed-out body and head, feet and hands in cedar wood, polychrome and with articulated arms, both came from the chisels of the aforementioned Romero Zafra in 1997. It depicts the two of them in sacred conversation after the encounter with Jesus.

During the following years there was a notable enrichment of its heritage, both in processional regalia and in textile trousseau. At the same time, the brotherhood undertook the complex recovery of the church of Our Lady of Sorrows, built by the Piarist Order in the late 19th century and handed over to the brotherhood in 1995, carrying out major consolidation and improvement works that were completed in 2001.

On 13 June 2002 the brotherhood obtained legal status following the approval of its statutes. In later stages, further restorations of the church were carried out, beginning after Holy Week 2009, which led to the reopening and blessing of the church on 17 September 2011, restoring regular worship. In 2017 the 25th anniversary of its foundation was celebrated with various commemorative events, extraordinary transfers and liturgical celebrations.

Since 2015 the confraternity has had a Brotherhood House on calle Santiago, dedicated to its internal life and the preservation of its heritage, maintaining ongoing activity in worship, heritage conservation and training alike.