Traditional Latin Mass Saturday at 9:00 A.M. April 27th St. Martha's 214 Brainard rd. Enfield Ct.

O Holy Mary Ever Virgin and Conceived without sin

 Pray for us the have recourse to thee. 

                                                     

   Traditional Latin Mass Weds. April 24th 7:00 P.M.

My Lord and my God.

  Traditional Latin Mass Sunday's at 11:00 A.M. St. Martha Church Enfield Ct. 214 Brainard rd.

                          Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus

      Our Lady of Good Success Pray for us. Amen

Traditional Latin Mass Saturday The Annunciation of The Blessed Virgin Mary  Monday April 8th at 7:00 P.M.St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

This is the great Festival of the Incarnation, commemorating the announcement by the Archangel Gabriel to our Lady that the Divine Son of God, the Word, would take human nature upon Him in her virginal womb. Its date is determined by that of Christmas Day, and as the day that which marked the beginning of the Christian dispensation it was for many centuries regarded as the first day of the civil year

The Angelus

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

V/. Behold the handmaid of the Lord,
R/. Be it done unto me according to your 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 you, O Lord, your grace into our hearts: that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ your 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.

Gradual

Grace is poured in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever. Because of truth and meekness, and justice; and thy right hand shall conduct thee wonderfully.

Behold The Lamb of God, behold Him Who taketh away the sins of the world.

Traditional Latin Mass for Palm Sunday March 24th at 11:00 A.M. With Procession                                               St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

PALM SUNDAY

Hodie si vocem Domini audieritis, nolite obdurare corda vestra.

To-day, if ye shall hear the voice of the Lord, harden not your hearts.

Early in the morning of this day, Jesus sets out for Jerusalem, leaving Mary His Mother, and the two sisters Martha and Mary Magdalene, and Lazarus, at Bethania. The Mother of sorrows trembles at seeing her Son thus expose Himself to danger, for His enemies are bent upon His destruction; but it is not death, it is triumph, that Jesus is to receive to-day in Jerusalem. The Messias, before being nailed to the cross, is to be proclaimed King by the people of the great city; the little children are to make her streets echo with their Hosannas to the Son of David; and this in presence of the soldiers of Rome’s emperor, and of the high priests and Pharisees: the first standing under the banner of their eagles; the second, dumb with rage.
The prophet Zachary had foretold this triumph which the Son of Man was to receive a few days before His Passion, and which had been prepared for Him from all eternity. ‘Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion! Shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold thy King will come to thee; the Just and the Saviour. He is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.’ [Zach. ix. 9]. Jesus, knowing that the hour has come for the fulfilment of this prophecy, singles out two from the rest of His disciples, and bids them lead to Him an ass and her colt, which they would find not far off. He has reached Beth phage, on Mount Olivet. The two disciples lose no time in executing the order given them by their divine Master; and the ass and the colt are soon brought to the place where He stands.
The holy fathers have explained to us the mystery of these two animals. The ass represents the Jewish people, which had been long under the yoke of the Law; the colt, upon which, as the evangelist says, no man yet hath sat [St. Mark xi. 2], is a figure of the Gentile world, which no one had ever yet brought into subjection. The future of these two peoples is to be decided a few days hence: the Jews will be rejected, for having refused to acknowledge Jesus as the Messias; the Gentiles will take their place, to be adopted as God’s people, and become docile and faithful.
From The Liturgical Year Volume 6    Abbot Dom Prosper Gueranger

  Traditional Latin Mass for PASSION SUNDAY March 17th at 11:00 A.M. St Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

                                         

PASSION SUNDAY

Hodie, si vocem Domini audieritis, nolite obdurare corda vestra.

To-day if you shall hear the voice of the Lord, harden not  your hearts.

The holy Church begins her night Office of this Sunday with these impressive words of the royal prophet. Formerly, the faithful considered it their duty to assist at the night Office, at least on Sundays and feasts; they would have grieved to lose the grand teachings given by the liturgy. Such fervour has long since died out; the assiduity at the Offices of the Church, which was the joy of our Catholic forefathers, has now become a thing of the past; and even in countries which have not apostatized from the faith, the clergy have ceased to celebrate publicly Offices at which no one assisted. Excepting in cathedral churches and in monasteries, the grand harmonious system of the divine praise has been abandoned, and the marvellous power of the liturgy has no longer its full influence upon the faithful.
This is our reason for drawing the attention of our readers to certain beauties of the Divine Office, which would otherwise be totally ignored. Thus, what can be more impressive than this solemn Invitatory of to-day’s Matins, which the Church takes from one of the psalms, and which she repeats on every feria between this and Maundy Thursday? She says; To-day, if ye will hear the voice of the Lord, harden not your hearts! The sweet voice of your suffering Jesus now speaks to you, poor sinners! be not your own enemies by indifference and hardness of heart. The Son of God is about to give you the last and greatest proof of the love that brought Him down from heaven; His death is nigh at hand: men are preparing the wood for the immolation of the new Isaac: enter into yourselves, and let not your hearts, after being touched with grace, return to their former obduracy; for nothing could be more dangerous. The great anniversaries we are to celebrate have a renovating power for those souls that faithfully correspond with the grace which is offered them; but they increase insensibility in those who let them pass without working their conversion. To-day, therefore, if you hear the voice of the Lord, harden not your hearts!
From The Liturgical Year Volume 6    Abbot Dom Prosper Gueranger

 Traditional Latin Mass in Enfield Ct

                              Wednesday at 7:00 P.M. Low Mass March 6th
        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 3rd Sunday in Lent March 3rd at 11:00 A.M. (High Mass) St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct. Followed by Blessing of Sacramentals.

Communion

The sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest, where she may lay her young ones: Thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God: blessed are they that dwell in Thy house, they shall praise Thee for ever and ever.

Postcommunion

In Thy mercy, we beseech Thee, O Lord, do Thou from all guilt and peril absolve us, whom Thou grantest to be sharers in so great a mystery. Through our Lord.

 

Stations of The Cross at 6:00 P.M. Friday March 1st Followed by Traditional Latin Mass at St Martha Church 

Traditional Latin Mass Friday March 1st at 7:00 P.M. First Friday  in honor of  SACRED HEART of Jesus. St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.

Video about devotion to The Sacred Heart of Jesus

May Their Sacred Hearts be praised.

 

 Traditional Latin Mass Sat. Feb. 24th at 9:00 A.M. & Sunday Feb. 25th at 11 AM St. Martha Church 214 Brainard rd Enfield Ct High Mass

Potluck Social same day. This Sunday Feb. 25th

                                             Bring a dish and join us

                 Our Lady of Good Success pray for us. Amen

 Traditional Latin Mass Every Weds. 7:00 P.M.

                   

             St Louis IX  Most Christian King
                                                  Model of Purity
                                             Lover of The Cross
                      Saint of The Holy Catholic Church

                        St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

         Traditional Latin Mass Sunday Feb. 18th at 11:00 A.M. High Mass                    1st Sunday in Lent St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

St. Martha 214 Brainard rd Enfield Ct.

Intriot

He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I will deliver him, and I will glorify him: I will fill him with length of days (Psalm) He that dwelleth in the aid of the Most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Heaven. Glory be to the Father. He shall...

                        Hail Mary Full of Grace The Lord is with thee.

                 Our Lady of Good Success pray for us. Amen

https://www.ourladyofgoodsuccess.com/pages/9-day-novena-to-our-lady-of-good-success 

 Traditional Latin Mass this Weds. 9:00 A.M. Feb. 17th

Leonine Prayers Said at end of every Low Mass

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

 Traditional Latin Mass for Ash Wednesday Feb. 14th  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. 11th Traditional Latin Mass 11:00 A.M. High Mass Ash Weds Traditional Latin Mass Feb 14th 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.

 

 St. Martha Catholic Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

Sexagesima Sunday Traditional Latin Mass 11:00 A.M. High Mass February 4th

 Introit : Arise, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end. Why turnest Thou Thy Face away, and forgettest our trouble? our belly hath cleaved to the earth: arise, O Lord, help us and deliver us. (psalm) We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us.

Collect: O God, Who seest that we put not our trust in anything we do: mercifully grant, that by the protection of the Doctor of the Gentiles we may be defended against all adversities. Through our Lord.

Communion : I Will go in to the altar of God, to God Who giveth joy to my youth.

St. Martha Church 214 Brainard Rd. Enfield Ct

 Traditional Latin Mass for Candlemas 

        Procession & blessing of candles.
                           High Mass
        Friday at 7:00 P.M. Feb 2nd 2024
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

                                   Hail Holy Queen