Traditional Latin Mass every Sunday 11:00 A.M. High Mass St. Martha Catholic Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct.

Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus

Ave Maria

 Traditional Latin Mass this Sat. 9:00 A.M. April 18th

Leonine Prayers Said at end of every Low Mass

St. Martha Catholic Church 214 Brainard rd. Enfield Ct.

St. Louis IX Pray for us       

            Priest and the Soldier

           ( The Priest Hernandez speaks)
            WELL mayst thou say that these are fearful times,
                        Therefore be firm, be patient! There is strength,
                        And a fierce instinct, e'en in common souls
                        To bear up manhood with a stormy joy,
                        When red swords meet in lightning! But our task
                        Is more and nobler! We have to endure,
                       And to keep watch, and to arouse a land,
                       And to defend an altar. Think on this,
                       And gird your hearts with silent fortitude,
                       Suffering, yet hoping all things.

                                                                 Mrs. Hermans, The Siege of Valencia

 Traditional Latin Mass this Weds. 7:00 P.M. April 15th low Mass

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

 Traditional Latin Mass Low Sunday April 12th. St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct. 11:00 A.M. High Mass 

                                     
                             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

Amid the kneeling multitude.

 Traditional Latin Mass Sat. April 11th

      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. April 8th low Mass

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

  

Traditional Latin Mass for Easter Sunday     St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct.

Easter Sunday April 5th 11:30 A.M. High Mass

Easter Sunday April 5th 11:30 A.M. High Mass