Who We Are
The Blessed Trinity Missionary Institute (BTMI) is the
fourth branch of a Trinitarian community, the Missionary
Cenacle Family (MCF).
The other branches are:
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The Missionary Cenacle Apostolate (MCA)
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The Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity (MSBT)
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The Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity (ST)
All MCF branches serve with a common mission:
the preservation of the faith among the poor and abandoned.
We have a very close relationship, supporting one another and collaborating where possible. Our roots began in early 1909, before secular institutes were established in the Church. There were several women, members of the Missionary Cenacle Family, who professed private vows with Father Thomas Augustine Judge CM, founder of the Missionary Cenacle Family. Among them was a young woman, Dr. Margaret Healy, a member of Missionary Cenacle Apostolate, founder, later of the BTMI.
Our Mission
Our Vision
The members of the Institute participate in the work of evangelization of the Church,
"in the world and from the world." Their presence and testimony of life, work in the manner of yeast in bread.
Their mission is to be a permanent testimony in daily family and social life to ensure that, with their activities, God's grace reaches those who need it most.
Cordero Vera, Sister J. M. (2000) Margaret Healy, P.h.D., Perfil de una Misionera Moderna
Members dedicate their lives to the
Holy Trinity through their private profession of the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and work to preserve the faith in areas and individuals who are spiritually forgotten and abandoned.
Its main effort is to develop a missionary spirit among the laity, in every area of secular life, with the goal that every Catholic should be an apostle.
DEVOTIONS
Our devotions enable us to live out our missionary call, our mission.
We give special emphasis to these four devotions.
THE
TRINITY
THE
EUCHARIST
THE
HOLY SPIRIT
THE
INCARNATION
We see the Triune God in the glory of all creation and in the faces of the people we are called to serve. The love relationship of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is a model for the family relationship we enjoy with our sisters, as well as with the laity, priests and brothers of the four branches of the Missionary Cenacle Family.
It is the sun and center of our lives.
Every Missionary Cenacle has a chapel with the Blessed Sacrament.
The Eucharist is the food we need to nourish us for our missionary work.
We seek to attract the Holy Spirit so that our own hearts may be enkindled with God’s love and that we may spread this fire to others. We ask to be filled with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, wisdom and fortitude especially.
Together, we have been praying a perpetual novena to the Holy Spirit since 1913.
Celebrating Christmas and the Annunciation remind us that God walked with us in human flesh.
God is not distant, but knows and loves us completely.
In response, we share that love.