Tuesday, April 24, 2018

                      Traditional Latin Mass every Sunday 11:00 A.M.
               Latin Mass social Sunday April 29th
                         Right after 11:00 A.M. Traditional Latin Mass
                   St. Martha Parish 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct
                    Special Blessing of palms for St. Peter of Verona
                         April 29th at, or following 11:00 A.M. TLM

Blessing of Palms or Other Foliage on the Feast of St. Peter Martyr

V: Our help is in the name of the Lord. R: Who made heaven and earth. V: The Lord be with you. R: And with your spirit. Let us pray. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, we beg you to bless + these tree-branches, to pour out on them a heavenly blessing, by the power of the holy + cross and the prayers of St. Peter Martyr; for when you once went forth to triumph over the enemy of mankind, you willed that little children pay honor to you, waving palms and tree-branches before you. By the sign of the holy + cross, let these branches be so endowed with your blessing, that wherever they are kept the prince of darkness with all his followers may flee in fear and trembling from such homes and places; no damage may be done there from lightning and storm; no inclement weather consume or destroy the fruits of the earth; no happening disturb or molest those who serve you, the almighty God, who live and reign forever and ever. R: Amen. They are sprinkled with holy water.
                                                 In Latin

Benediction Olivarum in Festo S. Petri Martyris

Sacerdos stolam deferens dicat: V. Adjutórium nostrum in nómine Dómini. R. Qui fecit caelum et terram. V. Dóminus vobíscum. R. Et cum spíritu tuo. Orémus. Dómine Jesu Christe, Fili Dei vivi, bene+díc hos árborum ramos supplicatiónibus nostris et infúnde eis, Dómine, per virtútem Sanctae Cru+cis et per intercessiónem beáti Petri Mártyris, benedictiónem caeléstem, qui triumphatúrus de hoste géneris humáni per manus puerórum palmas et árborum ramos in honórem tuum ahibére voluísti, talémque benedictiónem signáculo Sanctae Cru+cis accípiant: ut, in quibuscúmque locis áliquid ex eis pósitum fúerit, discédant príncipes tenebrárum et contremíscant et fúgiant pávidi cum ómnibus minístris suis de locis vel habitatiónibus illis. Non ibi nóceant fúlmina et tempestátes, non fructus terrae consúmat aut depérdat ulla intempéries eleménti, nihílque inquiétet aut moléstet serviéntes tibi omnipoténti Deo. Qui vivis et regnas in saécula saeculórum. R. Amen. Aspergantur aqua benedicta. [The original blessings in Latin are taken from the Breviarium Juxta Ritum S. Ordinis Praedicatorum issued under the authority of Fr. Emmanuel Suarez, Master of the Order of Preachers, in 1952.  The translations, slightly modified, are taken from The Roman Ritual, translated by Philip T. Weller, S.T.D., and published in 1964 by the Bruce Publishing Co.]  

Saturday, April 21, 2018

 Traditional Latin Mass Every Sunday 11:00 A.M.
                    214 Brainard Rd Enfield Ct 
                         ( Usually High Mass)
                               St Martha Parish
                                    Una Voce Enfield

The Latin Mass: Collecting the Available Graces at Mass

Click link below for video,talk given by Catholic priest .

https://youtu.be/OYAEXk86zCQ

 

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Feast of The Annunciation of The Blessed Virgin Mary
          Traditional Latin Mass April 9th at 5:30 P.M.
                           St. Martha Parish 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct.
O` Holy Mary Every Virgin and conceived without sin; Pray for us that have recourse to thee. Amen
Christ The King

Monday, April 2, 2018

        1st Saturday Devotion in Honor of The Blessed Virgin Mary
                       (Followed by potluck breakfast, see below)                                       Traditional Latin Mass at 9:00 A.M. April 7th 2018
                                       St. Martha Parish 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct
O` Holy Mary ever Virgin and Conceived without sin: Pray for us that have recourse to thee. Amen

                              Pot Luck Breakfast
              Potluck breakfast in Goulet hall with Fr. McElheron & Fr. Villa, Pastor
                      Commemorating 10 year anniversary of TLM at St. Martha Parish
                                      April 7th immediately after 9:00 A. M. TLM






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.