Sunday Bulletin 28 July 2024
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FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 28 July 2024
Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Diocese of Northampton
Residence: St Alban House, 18 Brett Drive, Bromham, Bedford MK43 8RF
Landline: 01234 954 316
Worship across three churches:
Sunday 8:30am: All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH
Sunday 12noon: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE
Weekdays: Our Lady of Ransom, 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB: Mon 9:30am ; Tue 6:30am ; Wed 7:15pm ; Thu 9:30am ; Fri 11:30am ; Sat 11:30am (following Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions from 10:00am & Eucharistic Benediction ending by 11:20am)
fssp.org.uk/bedford or fssp.org.uk/chesham
facebook.com/bedfordlatinmass
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Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP:
malleray@fssp.org
Visiting Priest: Fr Miguel Coelho:
pe.miguelcoelho@protonmail.com
Secretary: Mrs Rita Carroll: bedford@fssp.org
Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the FSSP Northampton Safeguarding officer William Currie: Tel: 07825 089 336. Email: safeguardingfssp@pm.me. Reminder: NO child must be left unsupervised at any time.
Watch daily Mass by the FSSP on www.livemass.net/locations/warrington.html
Daily Holy Mass readings: www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Carl Roberts. Please email to sick list.
DAILY HOLY MASSES
NEW CONFESSIONS TIMES
Our Lady of Ransom: Sat 10:00am-11:15am, and 20mins before every weekday Mass.
At All Saints: during the 8:30am Sunday Mass in the room behind the organ.
Chesham Bois: after the Sunday 12noon Mass if not before.
CONFIRMATIONS: We are grateful to Bishop David Oakley of Northampton for conferring the sacrament to our candidates on Sat 27 July.
Full report and pictures next week.
COUNT HOSTS at All Saints: The building at our new Sunday location is a pre-Reformation church dating back to the 11th century. Because the Blessed Sacrament cannot be reserved in a tabernacle after Holy Mass, the priest must consecrate just the right number of hosts. Therefore, BEFORE MASS please put one host per communicant in the container by the church entrance door as you walk into the church. Thank you.
Weekday Mass Times at Our Lady of Ransom
Mon 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Tue 6:30am (Confessions 6:10am-6:25am)
Wed 7:15pm (Confessions 6:55pm-7:10pm)
Thu 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Fri 11:30am (Confessions 11:10am-11:25am)
Sat 11:30am (following 10am Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions & Eucharistic Benediction all ended by 11:20am; if 2nd confessor present, Confessions carry on during Mass, e.g. First Saturday)
CHILDREN BEWARE: Safeguarding/Health & Safety awareness at All Saints Kempston.
A word from our safeguarding officer William Currie:
- All Saints churchyard: The church is surrounded on all sides by a churchyard bordered by trees and bushes. At the far end of the churchyard there is a gap in the greenery leading directly to the River Ouse. The river is wide, deep and cloudy. All Children whilst in the churchyard must be accompanied by an adult and supervised at all times.
- All Saints toilets: there are no toilets in the church. The church hall toilets will be available during Mass. Children must be accompanied by an adult to the toilet at all times.
- Church hall: at the rear of the church hall there is an open area of grass bordered by trees and bushes. There are three gaps in the greenery that lead directly to the River Ouse, which as stated above, is wide, deep and cloudy. All children playing in this area must at all times be supervised by a parent or an adult authorised by the parent. Parents must take personal responsibility for their children.
Please accept this advice in the spirit in which it is meant. It is not designed to lecture parents about their responsibilities. It is given out of love and concern for the most vulnerable in our community and we all have a responsibility to safeguard our children and those at risk. Please direct all questions about this to the Safeguarding Representative William Currie telephone: 07825089336 or safeguardingfssp@pm.me
The site made available to us every Sunday at 8:30am at All Saints in Kempston Rural consists of the church, a church car park for about 40 cars, the parish hall, and the hall car park for about 20 vehicles (priority to family vans).
We thank Bishop Oakley of Northampton for granting us canonical “permission to celebrate the sacraments” at All Saints by letter dated 5th July 2024. We are also grateful to Canon Seamus Keenan from Our Lady of Ransom, and to the Parochial Church Council of All Saints for the use of their respective churches.
Thank you to Martin Kay, a former parishioner skilled in joinery, who prepared a wider altar top for our Masses at Our Lady of Ransom; to Rita Carroll who is putting together frontals, and to the family who lends a pair of altar servers’ simple black cassocks & cottas (any hidden ones left anywhere else, or any sowing projects?).
Sponsoring offered for Regina Caeli Academy by benefactors willing to assist parents in our congregations of Bedford and Chesham Bois who would like to send their child(dren) to RCA. Please contact Fr de Malleray.
Congratulations to Very Rev John Berg, FSSP, who was elected Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter last week for six years. Fr Berg has already served twice in that capacity between 2006 and 2012.
Dowry Mag online: read articles on varied topics such as Chaste Sleuths Win, Vocations, Challenges in Marriage, Vermeer, Tolkien and more. Visit https://fssp.org.uk/dowry-mag-summer-issue-now-online/
Save the date: March for Life in London on Sat 7 September. We hope to have a large delegation from our FSSP chaplaincy to this family-friendly event.
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday 28th September 10am-5pm community gathering at Buckden Towers, High St, Buckden, Saint Neots PE19 5TA. We look forward to spending a splendid day together with families, children and single adults. There will be activities for every age, including workshops for children, Holy Mass, conference by chaplain on Fidelity, Joy, and Merit in Marriage (the mansion is the last-but-one place of internment of Queen Catherine of Aragon), and picnic.
Our Lady of Walsingham’s statue is staying at the home of Karen Kelly this week.
MORE BOOKS at Sunday repository:
Just arrived: Know Your Mass comic book: £10.00/copy. FSSP colouring books on the Gospels at the heavily discounted price of £5.00/copy.
FINANCES: online donations and standing orders are still gratefully received, being also much quicker and easier to process than cash. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Sort code: 30-80-27 Account number: 44025960 Thank you in advance.
GIFT AID: Increase your donation to the FSSP Chaplaincy by 25% at no further expense to you. Ask Rita for a Gift Aid form, fill it in and hand it back to her. That will help us a lot.
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