Why doesn't the FSSP allow members to grow facial hair?

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I was looking at the FSSP vocation web site and I saw something really interesting on the FAQ page. The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) doesn’t allow their members to grow any facial hair. Do you know why they do this?
 
No, and I should note that the page in question states only that seminarians may not have facial hair. It makes no mention of FSSP priests. I can only speculate that the rule is intended as a discipline to assure that the seminarians present a uniform appearance. Like the shaving of heads of new recruits in the military, perhaps such disciplines are intended to form the seminarians to think of themselves as a unit, or a brotherhood, rather than as individuals.
 
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