Traditional Latin Mass this Sat. 9:00 A.M. August 9th low Mass

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

 Traditional Latin Mass Friday August 1st  1st  Friday  in honor of  SACRED HEART of Jesus. Our Lady of the Valley Parish Traditional Latin Mass  33 Adams St, Easthampton, MA 01027 High Mass at 6:00 P.M 

No 1st Friday TLM at St. Martha this month.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.

Video about devotion to The Sacred Heart of Jesus

May Their Sacred Hearts be praised.

1st Saturday TLM at 9:00 A. M. August 2nd St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct.

 Traditional Latin Mass Weds. July 30th

      St. Martha Church Enfield Ct at 7:00 P.M. (low Mass)

St. Martha Church Enfield Ct

                                214 Brainard Rd

  Traditional Latin Mass this Sat. 9:00 A.M. July 26th low Mass

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

 

 Traditional Latin Mass for The 6th Sunday after Pentecost, July 20th at 11:00 A.M. St. Martha Church 214 Brainard rd. Enfield Ct.

COLLECT

O God of hosts, to Whom all that is best doth belong, graft in our hearts the love of Thy name, and grant us an increase of religion: that Thou mayest foster what is good, and with tender zeal guard what Thou hast fostered. Through our Lord

SECRET

Be Appeased, O Lord by our humble prayers, and favorably receive the offerings of Thy people: and that the prayers of none be in vain, no one petition void, grant, that what we hopefully ask, we may effectually obtain. Through our Lord.

O' Holy Mary ever Virgin and conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. Amen

 Traditional Latin Mass this Sat. 9:00 A.M. July 19th low Mass

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

 Traditional Latin Mass Weds. July 16th

      St. Martha Church Enfield Ct at 7:00 P.M. (low Mass)

St. Martha Church Enfield Ct

                                214 Brainard Rd

 Traditional Latin Mass this Weds. 7:00 P.M. July 9th

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

 Traditional Latin Mass at St. Martha Church           214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct.

1st Saturday July 5th at 9:00 A.M. Low Mass

Sunday July 6th at 11:00 A.M. High Mass

Followed by Blessing of Sacramentals.

 No 1st Friday Mass this week July 4th

St. Martha Church

 Traditional Latin Mass Weds. July 2nd

      St. Martha Church Enfield Ct at 7:00 P.M. (low Mass)

St. Martha Church Enfield Ct

                                214 Brainard Rd

 Traditional Latin Mass Sunday at 11:00 A.M.

St. Martha Church Enfield Ct Sunday June 29th 

Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus

June 29th Monthly Pot Luck Social right after TLM. Join Us

June 29th Monthly Pot Luck Social right after TLM. Join Us

The Angelus Prayer

V. The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary.
R. And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.

Hail Mary, full of grace,
The Lord is with Thee;
Blessed art thou among women,
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
Now and at the hour of our death. Amen

V. Behold the handmaid of the Lord.
R. Be it done to me according to thy word.

Hail Mary. . .

V. And the Word was made flesh.
R. And dwelt among us.

Hail Mary. . .

V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray: Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts, that we to whom the Incarnation of Christ Thy Son was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.

Our Lady of Good Success Pray for us. Amen

 Traditional Latin Mass Friday June 27th at 7:00 P.M. Feast of The   SACRED HEART of Jesus. St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct. High Mass

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.

Video about devotion to The Sacred Heart of Jesus

May Their Sacred Hearts be praised.

Arise O Lord and let your enemies be scattered and let those that hate thee fly before thy face

 Traditional Latin Mass this Weds. 7:00 P.M. June 25th

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

Traditional Latin Mass Sunday June 22nd-11:00 A.M. St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct.

                          Catholic Forefather 
                           Cardinal Saint John Fisher
                                   

                                          Martyr for The Catholic Faith

                             Some of his recorded words before his death

"Christian people, I am come hither to die for the faith of Christ's Catholic Church. And I thank God, hitherto my stomach hash served me well thereto, so that yet hitherto I have not feared death. Wherefore I desire you help me, and assist me with your prayers, that at the very point and instant of my death's stroke, and in the very moment of my death, I faint not in any point of The Catholic Faith for any fear. etc.

Martyr for The Catholic Faith June 22nd 1535

                  Feast of Corpus Christi

         Traditional Latin Mass with Procession
          Thursday June 19th at 7:00 P.M. 
                                  St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct.

         Traditional Latin Mass every Sunday at 11:00 A.M.

 No TLM FOR WEDS. 6/18/25 OR SAT. 6/21/25 THIS WEEK

 Traditional Latin Mass this Sat. 9:00 A.M. June 14th low Mass

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

 Traditional Latin Mass this Weds. 7:00 P.M. June 11th

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

 Traditional Latin Mass schedule for this weekend. St. Martha Church 214 Brainard rd. Enfield Ct. 

1st Friday June 6th at 7:00PM for Sacred Heart of Jesus.

1st Saturday at 9:00 AM June 7th in honor of Our Lady of Fatima.

Traditional Latin Mass for Sunday Pentecost High Mass 

                Sunday at 11:00 A.M. June 8th

                  Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus

  Traditional Latin Mass this Weds. 7:00 P.M. June 4th

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

 Traditional Latin Mass Sunday June 1st at 11:00 A.M. 

Followed immediately after Mass by Blessing of Sacramentals

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct.

  Traditional Latin Mass this Sat. 9:00 A.M. May 31st

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

 

Ascension of Of Our Lord. Thurs. May 29th at 7 P.M.

                                       Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus

         Ascension of Of Our Lord. High Mass at 7:00 P.M.

The Holy Communion of The Blessed Virgin

St. Paul speaks of the institution of the Holy Eucharist

with more detail than any of the four Evangelists

see 1st Corinthians chapter XI 23-29

These words "Take ye, and eat; this is my body"

and

"This chalice is the new testament in my blood"

Understood in their true meaning, literally and without metaphor, are to human understanding an impenetrable mystery. That which Christ gave to His disciples was no longer bread, but His Body which was about to be sacrificed; the chalice contained His very Blood which was about to be shed. The Apostles did not ask:

"How can this be done?" 

In the fullness of their faith, realizing that Christ was Omnipotent , they believed His words and partook of His Body and His Blood under the appearances of bread and wine. In saying to His Apostles 

" this do for the commemoration of me," 

Christ gave to the Priesthood the power of reproducing and carrying on through-out all time, the holy sacrifice of the Mass. 

Mary, the Mother of Jesus, must have received holy Communion daily from hands of one of the Apostles, especially from St. John, the beloved disciple, with whom she abode after the Ascension of Christ into heaven.

                                                 from The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary in                      pictures. 1919 artist Lafon

 Traditional Latin Mass Weds. May 28th

      St. Martha Church Enfield Ct at 7:00 P.M. (low Mass)

St. Martha Church Enfield Ct

                                214 Brainard Rd

 Traditional Latin Mass schedule at St. Martha this Memorial day weekend. Saturday May 24th at 9:00 A.M. High Mass in honor of Pope Leo XIV and Sunday May 25th at 11:00 A.M. High Mass

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct.

 Traditional Latin Mass this Sat. 9:00 A.M. May 17th

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

This Sunday May 18th Traditional Latin Mass at 11:00 A.M. High Mass

Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus

 Traditional Latin Mass this Weds. 7:00 P.M. April 23rd

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

 

                    April 20th  at 10:30 A.M. Traditional Latin Mass
                                            St. Martha Catholic Church Enfield Ct 214 Brainard Rd. 
                                                         
                                 Easter Sunday

EASTER SUNDAY

[Easter is the Anglo- Saxon word for April, and was derived, as Venerable Bede tells us, (in his book De temporum ratione c. 13,) from Easter, a goddess of our pagan ancestors. Others derive Easter from Oest, Oost the Saxon for rising, or the east: and hence, Osteren, the Resurrection. Tr. from Butler’s Moveable Feasts.]

HAEC DIES QUAM FECIT DOMINUS; EXSULTEMUS ET LAETEMUR IN EA!

THIS IS THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HATH MADE; LET US BE GLAD AND REJOICE THEREIN!

 

MORNING

The night between Saturday and Sunday has well nigh run its course, and the day-dawn is appearing. The Mother of sorrows is waiting, in courageous hope and patience, for the blissful moment of her Jesus’ return. Magdalene and the other holy women have spent the night in watching, and are preparing to start for the sepulchre. In limbo, the Soul of our crucified Lord is about to give the glad word of departure to the myriads of the long-imprisoned holy souls, who cluster round Him in adoring love. Death is still holding his silent sway over the sepulchre, where rests the Body of Jesus. Since the day when he gained his first victim, Abel, he has swept off Countless generations; but never has he held in his grasp a prey so noble as this that now lies in the tomb near Calvary. Never has the terrible sentence of God, pronounced against our first parents, received such a fulfilment as this; but, never has death received such a defeat as the one that is now preparing. It is true, the power of God has, at times, brought back the dead to life: the son of the widow of Naim, and Lazarus, were reclaimed from the bondage of this tyrant death; but he regained his sway over them all. But his Victim of Calvary is to conquer him for ever, for this is He of whom it is written in the prophecy: ‘O death! I will be thy death!’ [Osee, xiii, 14]. Yet a few brief moments and the battle will be begun, and life shall vanquish death.
As divine justice could not allow the Body that was united to the Word to see corruption, and there wait, like ours must, for the Archangel’s word to ‘rise and come to judgement,’ so neither could it permit the dominion of death to be long over such a Victim. Jesus had said to the Jews: ‘A wicked generation seeketh a sign; and a sign shall not be given it, but that of Jonas the prophet.’ [St. Matth. xii, 39]. Three days in the tomb, - the afternoon and night of Friday, the whole of Saturday, and a few hours of the Sunday, - yes, these are enough: enough to satisfy divine justice; enough to certify the death of the Crucified, and make His triumph glorious; enough to complete the martyrdom of that most loving of mothers, the Queen of sorrows.
‘No man taketh away my life from Me: I lay it down of Myself: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again.’ [St. John, x, 18].  Thus spoke our Redeemer to the Jews before His Passion: now is the hour for the fulfilment of His words, and death shall feel their whole force. The day of light, Sunday, has begun, and its early dawn is struggling with the gloom. The Soul of Jesus immediately darts from the prison of limbo, followed by the whole multitude of the holy souls that are around Him. In the twinkling of an eye, it reaches and enters the sepulchre, and reunites itself with that Body, which, three days before, it had quitted amidst an agony of suffering. The sacred Body returns to life, raises itself up, and throws aside the winding-sheet, the spices, and the bands. The bruises have disappeared, the Blood has been brought back to the veins; and from these limbs that bad been torn by the scourging, from this head that had been mangled by the thorns, from these hands and feet that had been pierced with nails, there darts forth a dazzling light that fills the cave. The holy Angels had clustered round the stable and adored the Babe of Bethlehem; they are now around the sepulchre, adoring the conqueror of death. They take the shrouds, and reverently folding them up, place them on the slab, whereon the Body bad been laid by Joseph and Nicodemus.
But Jesus is not to tarry in the gloomy sepulchre. Quicker than a ray of light through a crystal, He passes through the stone that closes the entrance of the cave. Pilate had ordered his seal to be put upon this stone, and a guard of soldiers is there to see that no one touches it. Untouched it is, and unmoved; and yet Jesus is free! Thus, as the holy Fathers unanimously teach us, was it at His birth: He appeared to the gaze of Mary, without having offered the slightest violence to her maternal womb. The birth and the resurrection, the commencement and the end of Jesus’ mission, these two mysteries bear On them the seal of resemblance: in the first, it is a Virgin Mother; in the last, it is a sealed tomb giving forth its captive God.
And while this Jesus, this Man-God, thus breaks the sceptre of death, the stillness of the night is un disturbed. His and our victory has cost Him no effort. 0 death! where is now thy kingdom? Sin had made us thy slaves; thy victory was complete; and now, lo! thou thyself art defeated! Jesus, whom thou didst exultingly hold under thy law, has set
1 Apec. 1, 5. 2 I. Cor. xv, 26.
‘Ibid. 56.
Himself free; and we, after thou hast domineered over us for a time, we too shall be free from thy grasp. The tomb thou makest for us, will become to us the source of a new life, for He that now conquers thee is ‘the First-born among the dead ; ~1 and to-day is the Pasch, the Passover, the deliverance, for Jesus and for us, His brethren. He has led the way; we shall follow; and the day will come, when thou, the enemy, that destroyest all things, shalt thyself be destroyed by immortality.2 Thy defeat dates from this moment of Jesus’ resurrection, and, with the great Apostle, we say to thee: ‘O death! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting ? ‘3
From The Liturgical Year Volume 7    Abbot Dom Prosper Gueranger