Sunday Bulletin 22 September 2024

FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 22 Sept 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, 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

facebook.com/fssp.england

Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP:

malleray@fssp.org

Assistant: Fr Miguel Coelho, FSSP-Associate :

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

CONFESSIONS TIMES

For the sake of confidentiality please whisper rather than speak. Our Lady of Ransom (for anyone): Sat 10:00am-11:15am, and 20mins before every weekday Mass. At All Saints: during Sunday Mass in the room behind the organ. Chesham Bois: after the Sunday 12noon Mass if not before.

Congratulations to Fr Miguel Coelho who begins as FSSP-Associate. After his time as a guest priest Fr Coelho received permissions to minister in Bedford and Chesham Bois in an official capacity with the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter.

Well done to the 25 ladies and gentlemen who attended our two monthly group events. Further dates will be announced shortly, including for Chesham Bois talks.

Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Alex Windo married at Christ the King Church by Fr de Malleray on Sat 21^st September. We assure them of our prayer and look forward to welcoming them on their return from honeymoon.

Schedule for FSSP Chaplaincy Family Day

Saturday 28^th September 2024, 10am-5pm Buckden Towers, High Street, Buckden, Saint Neots PE19 5TA

For: the Catholic congregations served by FSSP Bedford & Chesham Bois, friends, and visitors

• 10:00am Arrival: make your way to the Great Tower, First Floor “King’s Room”
• 10:15am Holy Mass (Offertory collection to cover our costs for the day)
• 11:15am Coffee, and discussion: Ideas, wishes, and offers to increase our community
• 11:15am All children out for games (volunteers to assist lead adult)
• 12noon Angelus in church
• 12noon Adults workshop : The traditional way of visiting a Catholic church building
• 12:15pm Family Quiz (without smartphone assistance 😊)
• 1pm Shared lunch & Farm Shop: discounted Quiches, Sausage rolls, Pork pies, Pies, Eggs (cash only)
• 2pm Colouring and singing workshops for children / Eucharistic servers’ practice
• 2pm Conference by FSSP Chaplain on Fidelity, Joy, and Merit in Marriage
• 3pm Eucharistic adoration with public recitation of the Rosary, and Confessions
• 3:45pm Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
• 4pm Coffee/tea & biscuits
• 4pm At car park: blessing of all vehicles (and of dogs)
• 4pm Children workshop : The traditional way of visiting a Catholic church
• 4:15pm In “King’s Room”: Blessing of any items sorted (better tag your name on them): rosaries, holy statues, holy pictures, crucifixes, medals, scapulars, holy water
• 5pm Departure

Contact: bedford@fssp.org ; fssp.org.uk/bedford  ; fssp.org.uk/chesham

Finance Update: £1,401.00/week (based on £5,604.00/month).

Such is the ongoing cost to be met by the Bedford & Chesham Bois FSSP Chaplaincy. It includes the rents for four buildings (St Alban House and the three churches where we serve weekly); the salaries, travel allowances, and retirement fund contributions for the two priests; the admin fees (secretariat, accountancy); the utilities, local borough tax, church consumables (hosts, wine, candles), food. It does not include occasional expenses such as liturgical items and vestments, nor the furniture and utensils purchased when we had to start from scratch in our rented house last October.

A big thank you to YOU for allowing us to meet this substantial weekly cost through your Offertory gifts and bank transfers. A bit less than 300 of you attend our Masses each week, but most are unwaged (scores of pious and energetic children, plus incredibly hard-working but unpaid housewives), which narrows significantly the number of contributors to spread the weekly £1,401.00 cost across.

The good news is that since Sunday 28^th July 2024 when we started in the new Bedford location at All Saints, absolutely every penny you put in the Offertory collection basket goes to us, the FSSP Chaplaincy. Yes, 100% comes to us now. Please make sure you realise this important change: up to then in Bedford, the entire Offertory collection went to the diocesan parish, not to us the FSSP Chaplaincy. Now, as per the Chaplaincy agreement signed with Bishop Oakley, all that you give reaches us. This is only fair, considering that, unlike all diocesan or religious priests serving diocesan churches, we FSSP priests receive no salary, no housing, no allowances or stipends of any kind from the Northampton diocese. From A to Z, money is to be raised from the generosity of our benefactors in Bedford and Chesham Bois. Your ongoing financial support is a strong sign of your commitment to the FSSP Chaplaincy.

Thank you to the Offertory collectors and counters for their discreet but vital role. In addition, please consider setting up standing orders if you have not done so yet, as it is quicker and simpler to process than cash. Also, do contact today Rita Carroll to obtain a Gift Aid number to increase your donation to the FSSP Chaplaincy by 25% at no further expense to you. That will help us a lot.

Remember us in your will. Contact us for guidance to bequest some of your estate to our FSSP England Registered Charity (No.1129964), stating whether you wish it used for the Bedford and/or Chesham Bois apostolates, rather than for England in general. Finally, tell your friends about us, our work and our needs (send them the online newsletter, share posts from our Facebook pages). In the past, some donations have come to other FSSP apostolates from people who did not attend Mass there but wished to support the work and community. Needless to say, if you become aware of ways for you to give more, your generosity will not be wasted, since we need proactively to make plans for the future – about which more at Buckden Towers on 28^th Sept. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Sort code: 30-80-27   Account number: 44025960.

Pray for our children who have now started school or Regina Caeli Academy again, and for our cubs, wolvets, scouts and guides resuming their activities.

Young English Catholic man seeks room in Bedford, moving back from FSSP Vancouver 1^st  December-1^st January. Best with local Catholic family or fellow Catholic men in a faith-filled environment, including attending daily Mass: Paul Capon ; paulcapon11@gmail.com ;+1 416 645 8018 (WhatsApp/Telegram).

Sunday Bedford REMINDERS:

Use every space in all pews along the central aisle to allow best sight of the sanctuary during Sunday Mass at All Saints Church. You will see even better on weekday Masses at Our Lady’s Church.

Host count at All Saints: BEFORE MASS please could each communicant put one host in the container by the church entrance door when walking into the church. Thank you.

Thank you to volunteers for setting up chairs in church by 8:15am before Sunday Mass, and for setting up and cleaning the hall after Mass.

Children safety: Because of no fence along the steep riverbank, children are strictly forbidden from being in the churchyard or hall yard unsupervised. The same applies of course for access during holy Mass to the lavatories situated in the parish hall.

Come to London on Sat 12^th Oct for the great Rosary Crusade (starts 1:45pm, outside Westminster Cathedral.)

The feast of Our Lady of Walsingham falls on Tuesday. It is the Mass of Our Lady of Ransom, which is also the title of the church where we offer daily Mass. Cf Baronius missal p. 1498. Let us pray ardently our heavenly Mother for the welfare of our families and community, for the diocese, and for England and the Church universal.

Pray for  the sick in our congregations: four-year-old Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Carl Roberts. Please email to sick list.

by Fr AM