Monday, June 29, 2020

No Traditional Latin Mass for Weds. July 1st
No Traditional Latin Mass 1st Sat. July 4th


Saturday, June 27, 2020

Traditional Latin Mass Enfield Ct June 28th
St. Martha TLM Live stream at 8:00 A.M.
Link to view Mass live and then recorded here.
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             From The 1960 Breviary Monday at Lauds II
             Psalm 5                  
                                     Hearken to my words O Lord,
                                         attend to my sighing.
                                     Heed my call for help
                                         my king and my God!
                                     To you I pray, O Lord;
                                         at dawn you hear my voice;
                                         at dawn I bring my plea expectantly before you.
                                     For you, O God, delight not in wickedness;
                                         no evil man remains with you;
                                         the arrogant may not stand in your sight.
                                    You hate all evildoers;
                                         you destroy all who speak falsehood;
                                     The bloodthirsty and the deceitful
                                         the Lord abhors.
                                     But I, because of your abundant kindness,
                                         will enter your house;
                                     I will worship at your holy temple
                                         in fear of you, O Lord;
                                     Because of my enemies, guide me in your justice;
                                         make straight your way before me.
                                     For in their mouth there is no sincerity;
                                         their heart teems with treacheries.
                                     Their throat is an open grave;
                                         they flatter with their tongue.
                                      Punish them, O God;
                                         let them fall by their own devices;
                                      For their many sins, cast them out
                                         because they rebelled against you.
                                      But let all who take refuge in you
                                         be glad and exult forever.
                                      Protect them, that you may be the joy
                                         of those who love your name.
                                      For you, O Lord, bless the just man;
                                         you surround him with the shield of your good will.
                               
St Joseph Ora Pro Nobis

Monday, June 22, 2020

Traditional Latin Mass this Wednesday 7 PM
     June 24th  St. Martha Parish Enfield Ct


Saturday, June 20, 2020

Traditional Latin Mass Enfield Ct June 21st
St. Martha TLM Live stream at 8:00 A.M.
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                 St. Michael Archangel Chaplet 
                               Pray it often
                         HOW TO PRAY THIS CHAPLET
If you don't have the Chaplet Rosary just use your fingers. Link at bottom on where to purchase one.

The chaplet begins with the invocation on the medal. Then say one Our Father and three Hail Marys after each of the nine salutations in honor of the nine Choir of Angels as follows
Invocation on the Medal
O God, come to my assistance! O Lord, make haste to help me! Glory be to the Father……..etc.
First Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of Seraphim, may it please God to make us worthy to receive into our hearts the fire of his perfect charity. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)
Second Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of Cherubim, may God in his good pleasure, grant us grace to abandon the ways of sin, and follow the path of Christian perfection. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)
Third Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the sacred Choir of Thrones, may it please God to infuse into our hearts the spirit of true and sincere humility. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)
Fourth Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of the Dominations, may it please God to grant us grace to have dominion over our senses, and to correct our depraved passions. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)
Fifth Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of the Powers, may God vouchsafe to keep our souls from the wiles and temptations of the devil. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)
Sixth Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the admirable heavenly Choir of the Virtues, may it please God to keep us from falling into temptation, and may He deliver us from evil. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)
Seventh Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of Principalities, may it please God to fill our souls with the spirit of true and sincere obedience. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)
Eighth Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of Archangels, may it please God to grant us the gift of perseverance in the faith, and in all good works, that we may be thereby enabled to attain the glory of paradise. Amen.
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)
Ninth Salutation
By the intercession of St. Michael and the heavenly Choir of all the Angels, may God vouchsafe to grant us their guardianship through this mortal life, and after death a happy entrance into the everlasting glory of heaven. Amen
(1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys)
Say an Our Father on each of the four large concluding beads:
The first one to St. Michael,
The second one to St. Gabriel,
The third one to St. Raphael,
The fourth one to our Guardian Angel.
End this Chaplet with the following Anthem and prayer.
Anthem
Michael, glorious prince, chief and champion of the heavenly Host, guardian of the souls of men, conqueror of the rebel angels, steward of the palace of God under Jesus Christ, our worthy leader, endowed with superhuman excellence and virtues: vouchsafe to free us all from every ill, who with full confidence have recourse to thee; and by thy incomparable protection enable us to make progress every day in the faithful service of our God. V. Pray for us, most blessed Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ. R. That we may be made worthy of his promises.
Prayer
Almighty and Eternal God, who in thine own marvelous goodness and pity didst, for the common salvation of man, choose the glorious Archangel Michael to be the prince of the Church: make us worthy, we pray Thee, to be delivered by his beneficent protection from all our enemies, that, at the hour of our death, none of them may approach to harm us; rather do Thou vouchsafe unto us that by the same Archangel Michael, we may be introduced into the presence of thy most high and divine majesty. Through the merits of the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Chaplet Rosary can be purchased here. https://www.romancatholicman.com/st-michael-combat-chaplet/

Friday, June 19, 2020

From Archdiocese of Hartford Facebook Pg.
         Message Regarding Church openings for Sunday Masses


                             

Churches in the Archdiocese of Hartford will be able to reinstitute the celebration of public Sunday Masses beginning the weekend of July 4 & 5, 2020.

Continuing to follow the required Archdiocesan procedures and respecting the current limits set by Governor Ned Lamont, Sunday Masses can take place beginning that weekend either indoors with a maximum of 25% of the church capacity or 100 total persons, whichever is less, socially distanced, or outdoors with a maximum of 150 persons, socially distanced.

While Sunday Masses will resume during the weekend of July 4 & 5, the dispensation from the Sunday obligation previously granted to all Catholics of the Archdiocese by the Archbishop will continue to extend through Sunday, September 6, 2020. The elderly, the sick, and those who care for anyone who is vulnerable remain encouraged not to attend at this time.

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Traditional Latin Mass Enfield Ct
St. Martha Parish Live Stream Sunday 9 AM
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The Last Gospel: Read at the end of every Traditional Latin Mass



In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him: and without Him was made nothing that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the Light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the Light, that all men might believe through Him. He was not the Light, but was to give testimony of the Light. That was the true Light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.

He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, He gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in His name. Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 
(here all kneel) AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US, and we saw His glory, the glory as it were of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."
Thanks be to God.

Latin Version here




"In principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat Verbum. Hoc erat in principio apud Deum. Omnia per Ipsum facta sunt, et sine Ipso factum est nihil quod factum est. In Ipso vita erat, et vita erat Lux hominum. Et Lux in tenebris lucet et tenebrae eam non comprehenderuntFuit homo missus a Deo cui nomen erat Iohannes. Hic venit in testimonium ut testimonium perhiberet de lumine ut omnes crederent per Illum. Non erat ille lux, sed ut testimonium perhiberet de lumine. Erat lux vera quae illuminat omnem hominem venientem in mundum. In mundo erat, et mundus per ipsum factus est, et mundus eum non cognovit.

In propria venit et sui eum non receperunt. Quotquot autem receperunt eum dedit eis potestatem filios Dei, fieri his qui credunt in nomine Eius. Qui non ex sanguinibus, neque ex voluntate carnis, neque ex voluntate viri, sed ex Deo nati sunt. 
(All kneel at the following) ET VERBUM CARO FACTUM EST, et habitavit in nobis, et vidimus gloriam eius, gloriam quasi unigeniti a Patre, plenum gratiae et veritatis.
Deo gratias.


Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Traditional Latin Mass this Wednesday 7 PM
     June 10th  St. Martha Parish Enfield Ct

I Love you Jesus 
In The Most Blessed Sacrament of The Altar
Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus

Monday, June 8, 2020

         Happy Anniversary Fr. Villa

                                
                               THE PRIESTLY ROBE

Touch it lightly, or not at all.
Let it not fall !
Let not a fabric so august
Trail in the dust!
`Tis a costly thing,
Woven by love in suffering.
`Twas Jesus` parting gift to men.
When the Lord rose to Heaven again,
His latest breathing fell on it.
A mystery hides within its folds.
Quickened by sacramental breath,
It holds
The power of life and death.
Would you sully it ? Would you rend it?
Is there a Christian would not defend it-
A robe so costly and so rare,
So wonderfully fair ?
Woe to the hand profane
Woe to the heart ungracious,
Woe to the tongue unheeding,
Would dare to cast a stain
On a vestment made so precious
By such costly bleeding!

II

I know this robe and its history,
And what strange virtue goeth forth
From its hem to bless the earth;
And I adore the mystery
That gives it grace,
In Jesus` name, to soothe and heal.
With more than human tenderness
I prize the priestly order;
And, while the reverent knee I kneel,
I do not see beneath the border
Frail feet of clay,
But seek to find, if so I may,
By feeling,
Some gracious thread which will convey
To my sore spirit healing.
Vicars of Christ ! deem me not rude,
If nearer than is wont I press me;
But turn and bless me
Amid the kneeling multitude.

The priestly robe  Rev. Clarence Walworth  anno 1888

Friday, June 5, 2020

           Traditional Latin Mass Enfield Ct
         St. Martha Parish Latin Mass June 7th
 Live Stream Sunday at 9:00 AM Links Below
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                                       Epistle Of St. Peter (1)
                                                       Chapter 1
1) Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect, 2) According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. 3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4) Unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that can not fade, reserved in heaven for you, 5) Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.
6) Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations: 7) That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8) Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now, though you see him not, you believe: and believing shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified; 9) Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 10) Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you.
11) Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did signify: when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ, and the glories that should follow: 12) To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you they ministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you, the Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven, on whom the angels desire to look. 13) Wherefore having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ, 14) As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance: 15) But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy:
16) Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy. 17) And if you invoke as Father him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to every one's work: converse in fear during the time of your sojourning here. 18) Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: 19) But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled, 20) Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you,
21) Who through him are faithful in God, who raised him up from the dead, and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God. 22) Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly: 23) Being born again not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever. 24) For all flesh is as grass; and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered, and the flower thereof is fallen away. 25) But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel hath been preached unto you.
St. Peter Ora Pro Nobis