Traditional Latin Masses this weekend at St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd.

Friday in 2nd week of Lent March 6th at 7:00 P.M. Low Mass

Saturday in 2nd week of Lent March 7th at 9:00 A.M. Low Mass

3rd Sunday in Lent March 8th at 11:00 A.M. High Mass

Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus

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

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

 

 Traditional Latin Mass for the 2nd Sunday of Lent March 1st at 11:00 A.M. St. Martha Church 214 Brainard rd. Enfield Ct

Collect

We beseech Thee, O Lord, give a healing effect to our fasts: that the chastisement of the flesh which we have taken upon us, may bring new life into our souls. Through our Lord.

Gradual

It is good to give praise to the Lord, and to sing Thy name, O Most High. To show forth Thy mercy in the morning and Thy truth in the night.

Offertory

Enlighten mine eyes that I never sleep in death: lest at any time mine enemy say: I have prevailed against him.

Prayer over the people

Let us pray,--Bow down your heads before God.

In Thine unceasing goodness, O Lord, we beseech Thee, keep safe Thy household: and, since their only hope is to lean on Thy heavenly grace, may the protection of Heaven be their steady defence. Through our Lord.

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

 Traditional Latin Mass for Ash Wednesday February 18th  High Mass

7:00 P.M. St Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd   Enfield Ct.

Bishop Challoner`s Meditation on Ash Wednesday 1691 - 1781
                   

                                                  ASH WEDNESDAY

Consider first, how God calls upon us, by his Prophet, in the lesson of this day: 'Be converted to me,’ saith he, 'with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning - and rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God,’ Joel ii. 12,13. Christians, hearken to this summons from heaven. O let it sink deep into your souls; and if this day you hear the voice of God sweetly inviting you, turn to him in good earnest; now at this holy season harden not your hearts, lest provoked by your impenitence he turn away from you, and you die in your sins. O let us repeat and amend, as we are admonished by the Church on this day, whilst we have time, lest being overtaken by death, which is ever following at our heels, we should seek for time of penance, and not be able to find it.
Consider 2ndly, the meaning of the ashes which are put on our heads this day with these words: 'Remember that thou art dust; and into the dust thou shalt return.’ Sackcloth and ashes were the ancient habit of penitents. The Ninevites by fasting in sack-cloth and ashes found mercy. Let these ashes then, which we receive on our heads at the beginning of this penitential fast, be a lesson to us to enter upon it with the like penitential spirit. They are an emblem of contrition and humility; let us receive them with a contrite and humble heart. They are also a remembrance of our mortality, of our frail composition, and of our hasty return to our mother earth. O let us think well on this, and renounce henceforward our unhappy pride and presumption; O let us make good use of this our time, and prepare for that moment which shall ere long send away our souls into another region, and turn our bodies into dirt and dust.
Consider 3rdly, Christian soul, those words, as if, they were addressed to thee: ‘Yet  forty days and Nineve shall be destroyed,’ Jonas iii. 4. Alas have not thy sins, like those of Nineve, called to heaven this long time for vengeance? And hast thou not too much reason to fear, lest the mercy which thou hast so long abused should now quickly give place to justice, and should suffer thee to die in thy sins? Perhaps this is the last reprieve that God will grant thee. In all appearance the good use, or the abuse of these forty days, may determine thy lot for an eternity.
Conclude then to spare no pains to avert the judgment that hangs over thy head, and so spend these forty days of reprieve in suing for mercy, after the manner God has appointed, that is, by fasting, weeping, and mourning, that thou mayest effectually find it.

 

 Quinquagesima Sunday Feb. 15th Traditional Latin Mass 11:00 A.M. High Mass Ash Weds Traditional Latin Mass Feb 18th at 7:00 P.M. St. Martha Church 214 Brainard rd. Enfield Ct.

Collect 

We beseech Thee, O Lord, graciously hear our prayers and release us from the bonds of our sins, guard us from all adversity. Though our Lord.

Gradual 

Thou art the God that alone dost wonders: Thou hast made Thy power known among the nations. With thine arm Thou hast delivered Thy people, the children of Israel and of Joseph.

Postcommunion 

We beseech Thee, almighty God, that we, who have received this heavenly Food, may be safeguarded by it against all adversity. Through our Lord.

  Traditional Latin Mass Sat. Feb. 14th

      St. Martha Church Enfield Ct at 9:00 A.M. (low Mass)

St. Martha Church Enfield Ct

                                214 Brainard Rd

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

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct