Missionary Cenacle Family
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The family was founded by Thomas Augustine Judge, who was concerned about Baptized Catholics who were being lost to the faith. After several years on the Vincentian mission band preaching in many parishes, he came to the conviction that every Catholic is called to be a missionary. He labored from then on to develop a missionary minded, zealous, Catholic laity.
A lay group was organized in Brooklyn, New York around 1910. Others groups were later formed and took the name “Missionary Cenacle” after the Upper Room where the disciples of Jesus were filled with the Holy Spirit.
Fr. Judge was sent by his community to Opelika, Alabama in 1915 where there was much prejudice against Catholics. The mission covered 8 counties and there were few Catholics. He requested that some of the Cenacle volunteers from the North join him and 6 arrived in 1916.
The ministry grew and others joined them. Later in 1919 a group of the women formed a religious community that became known as the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity.
By 1924 some of the men also formed a religious community that became known as the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity.
In 1962 a Secular Institute was formed known as the Blessed Trinity Missionary Institute.
Today men and women continue to share their time and talent as Missionary Cenacle volunteers.
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