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The Missionary Cenacle Family is a Roman Catholic organization comprised of four branches:  the Blessed Trinity Missionary Institute, the Missionary Cenacle Apostolate, the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity, and the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity.  A leadership council, composed of the general custodians and others from the four branches, leads theContinue reading “Missionary Cenacle Family”

Espiritualidad del Cenáculo Misionero Our founder, Father Thomas Judge, seeing the loss of faith among traditional Catholics, especially of the immigrant community, saw a spiritualized laity as the direct response. He designed a spirituality based on the Word of God and frequent recourse to the Eucharist to sustain his followers so that they never growContinue reading “Missionary Cenacle Spirituality”

Five Elements of the Missionary Cenacle Spiritual Exercises I. PRAYERFUL SILENCE               “Silence is the handmaiden of prayer and recollection. Let us think of the silence of the Son of God, and. observe silence for the sake of Him who was silent for them under trials and circumstances that could have provoked Him to speak. […]Continue reading “What I need to know! — Missionary Cenacle Spirituality”

As Jesus leaves the desert solitude to fulfill his messianic mission, he immediately begins to form community around him.  Among his first acts is to call the first disciples by name.  He invites them to share intimately in his mission, to follow him, to learn his way, his truth, to share in his life. SentContinue reading “Eighth Day: Called and Consecrated for Mission in Family”

Impelled from the desert by the Spirit, Jesus undertakes the mission confided to him in his baptism.  Confident in his Father’s love, keenly aware of the Spirit’s presence and the Evil One’s guile, he begins the holy work of announcing and making present the kingdom of God.   It was to be a kingdom of peace:Continue reading “Seventh Day: Called to Follow Jesus”

Jesus entered the solitude of the desert conscious of his particular mission, his vocation.  There he encountered ever more deeply an awareness of the Father’s love, how he truly was the “Beloved Son.”  There the Spirit continued to instruct and guide him in his humanity in how to be God’s Anointed, the Suffering Servant onContinue reading “Sixth Day: The Spirit of Mercy and Compassion”

It is the Spirit who descends upon Jesus at his baptism, who leads Jesus into the desert to be tested and purified.  It is the Spirit who moves in Jesus as he carries out his messianic mission of bringing the good news to the poor, healing the sick, freeing the prisoners, restoring sight to theContinue reading “Fifth Day: The Transforming Power of the Spirit”

Today we take the time to be truly alone with Jesus, to contemplate him, to see how he acts, how he feels, what he loves, what pains and hurts him.  Jesus is our Friend and wishes us to be his friend, and so he desires – more than anything – to reveal to us hisContinue reading “Fourth Day: The Saving and Loving Presence of Jesus with us”

Alone with Jesus in the desert, we begin to experience just how beloved we are of God.  The Father manifests to us the divine heart of love, of tenderness, of compassion and mercy.  The Son reveals to us the profundity and depth of this love, complete, total, unconditional, self-giving and self-sacrificing.  The Holy Spirit movesContinue reading “Third Day: The Love of the Trinity for us”

At his baptism in the Jordan, Jesus became ever more profoundly aware of his mission: to be the Beloved Son, the Suffering Servant who would bring knowledge of salvation to all.  With this deepened consciousness of his personal vocation and call, Jesus enters into the solitude of the desert.  There he encounters his Father; andContinue reading “Second Day: The Missionary Cenacle Charism”