Saturday, March 16, 2024

  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

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

 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

Saturday, March 2, 2024

 


 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.

Thursday, February 29, 2024

 

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.



Friday, February 23, 2024

 


 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

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

 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

Saturday, February 17, 2024

         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