Traditional Latin Mass in Enfield Ct

                              Wednesday at 7:00 P.M. Low Mass May 16th
        St. Martha Catholic Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Enfield Ct
                                                             

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

 Traditional Latin Mass St. Martha Church Enfield Ct

Sunday after Ascension May 12th at 11:00 A.M.

Dearly beloved: Be prudent and watchful in prayers. But above all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves; for charity covers a multitude of sins.

Introit for Sunday after Ascension

Hear, O Lord, my voice with which I have cried to Thee, alleluia; my heart hath said to Thee: I have sought Thy face, O Lord, I will seek: turn not away Thy face from me alleluia alleluia. (Psalm) The Lord is my light and my salvation: whom shall I fear? Glory be to the Father, Hear, O Lord

Offertory for Sunday after Ascension

God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

 Traditional Latin Mass St. Martha Church Enfield Ct

                   Weds. May 8th at 7:00 P.M.

Ascension of Of Our Lord. Thurs. May 9th 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 Masses this weekend.      St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd.

1st Friday May 3rd at 7:00 P.M. Low Mass

1st Saturday May 4th at 9:00 A.M. Low Mass

Sunday May 5th at 11:00 A.M. High Mass

Followed by Blessing of Sacramentals.

Collect for 5th Sunday after Easter.

O God, from Whom all good things do come, grant to us Thy suppliants, that by Thine inspiration we may think what is right, and under Thy guidance perform it. Through our Lord.