Father Judge began organizing, in 1909, groups of dedicated lay missionaries in thenortheastern United States. Their gatherings became known as Missionary Cenacles after the Upper Room where the Holy Spirit came upon the first Apostles. Sent as pastor, in 1915, to the Vincentian mission in Opelika, Alabama, he quickly saw that he alone could never effect any change in an area rife with anti-Catholic hatred. He sought the help of the Missionary Cenacle members from the north. The first six volunteers arrived in January 1916. They stayed, and many other apostolicminded men and women began to follow.

By 1919, some of the early women volunteers, banded together under Father Judges direction, to form a religious community dedicated to the work of the Missionary Cenacle. They took the title Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity. In 1924 some of the men volunteers became the first Missionary Servant priests and brothers. This community took the title of Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity. .

These two groups, along with lay missionaries now known as the Missionary Cenacle Apostolate and members of the Blessed Trinity Missionary Institute (a secular institute founded in 1964), are known as the Missionary Cenacle Family.Father Judge continued to guide the growing movement. He traveled continuously, writing, preaching, visiting the different missionary works and initiating new ones throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. He died on November 23, 1933, worn out by a life of intense missionary labor.

Father Judge began organizing, in 1909, groups of dedicated lay missionaries in thenortheastern United States. Their gatherings became known as Missionary Cenacles after the Upper Room where the Holy Spirit came upon the first Apostles. Sent as pastor, in 1915, to the Vincentian mission in Opelika, Alabama, he quickly saw that he alone could never effect any change in an area rife with anti-Catholic hatred. He sought the help of the Missionary Cenacle members from the north. The first six volunteers arrived in January 1916. They stayed, and many other apostolicminded men and women began to follow.

By 1919, some of the early women volunteers, banded together under Father Judges direction, to form a religious community dedicated to the work of the Missionary Cenacle. They took the title Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity. In 1924 some of the men volunteers became the first Missionary Servant priests and brothers. This community took the title of Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity. .

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