Sunday Bulletin 17 November 2024
FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 17 Nov 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
Seminarian: Luke Mazurek, FSSP: L.J.Mazurek@pm.me
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
Soundproofing work is nearing completion in the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom.
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.
Holy Masses:
We plan to change the Friday Mass time from 11:30am to 8:30am from the first Friday in Advent, 6th Dec, onward. Let us know if this change would allow you to attend more easily.
A core group of Chaplaincy parishioners met at St Alban House a few days ago to coordinate the search for a suitable property to buy as a church and – since we have very little funds available – to raise money. Please email us if you become aware of a redundant church building, a school, a warehouse, a garage, or other with parking for sale… – and of potential benefactors. And pray.
Picture below, construction of FSSP church in Nigeria: http://www.fsspnigeria.org/pages/photos/construction-album.php.
They did it. Why not us?
CHRISTMAS DINNERS with quiz designed by chaplaincy clergy: last chance to book for Chesham Bois Sat 7th December, 7:00pm;
and for Bedford on 10th December at 7:00pm: please hand £5.00 per person to Rita Carroll this Sunday to secure your booking at the Knife and Cleaver, Houghton Conquest, for around £25 per head for 2 courses or £30 for 3.
Reminder: if you intend to receive Holy Communion on Sundays at All Saints in Kempston, as you walk into the church before Mass you must take one host from the plastic box and put it in the bowl (not the other way round). Failing to do so deprives fellow-parishioners from their own Holy Communion as not enough hosts are consecrated.
Beautifying the church ahead of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady: cleaning of All Saints Church on Saturday 7th December at 2pm. All volunteers welcome.
Our beautiful FSSP wall calendars are being printed (including lovely pictures of the various FSSP apostolates) and will reach you in early December.
Baronius missals are available for £45. These and other books such as Vermeer’s Angel, Ego Eimi etc make good Christmas presents. Ask Rita if you would like to buy any of them (please bring cash.)
Our Chaplaincy’s got talents! Catholic artist Lucy Norfolk attends our Bedford Mass: she specialises in devotional statue restoration and also takes on private commissions in painting and sculpture. Discover her great work on www.lucycrabtree.com.
Meanwhile Chesham Bois parishioners offer superb family art, devotions, and stationery on www.faithfullabours.co.uk.
SACRAMENTS PREPARATION TO BEGIN: Dates for classes for Holy Communion preparation are being finalised: we will hold classes two Saturdays per month from January onward. Email us as soon as possible the names of candidates for First Holy Communion to take place on Corpus Christi Sunday, 22 June 2025. The same frequency is planned for Confirmation classes starting in January until June, ahead of Saturday 4th October 2025 when Bishop Oakley will confer the sacrament.
ALTAR SERVING: thankfully our FSSP seminarian Luke is skilled in teaching how to serve Low Mass, Sung Mass, and Solemn Mass. This will be his chief involvement in the life of our community during his stay with us. Therefore, please do book for a practice (l.j.mazurek@pm.me) for a one-to-one, or one-to-a-group, either at St Alban House, or at Our Lady of Ransom, or in Chesham Bois, or at your house if transport for Luke can be arranged.
There is scope and skills for such practices to take place every week tailored to your circumstances. (The usual safeguarding rules apply if minors take part in the practice.)
Contact Luke now: l.j.mazurek@pm.me.
Thank you to all who attend the “First” Masses of newly ordained Fr Miklos Homolya, FSSP this weekend, and provide refreshments on Sunday 17 Nov, 8:30am, at All Saints Church, Kempston, followed by First Blessings and refreshments.
And the day before – Sat 16th Nov – at Our Lady’s Church in Chesham Bois at 11:00am followed by First Blessings and refreshments.
Please tell your friends and attend these two Masses to give thanks to God for another priest now serving in England (Warrington). With so few priests left in the dioceses, and so many aging or dying, we need to realise the grace of having priests come to us to give us the sacraments. By so doing we also foster a culture of vocations and we call upon us God’s mercy for more men to answer the call. Find out more on: fssp.org.uk/about-the-confraternity/.
Can you help your clergy with ongoing small sewing jobs mending vestments for holy Mass and clergy cassocks? The problem is that the longer we wait to mend those, the worse it gets and the bigger the work. We warmly welcome the offering of your time and skills. Thank you!
Juventutem gathering in London on Friday 15th Nov at St Mary Magdalene’s Church, Wandsworth: 6pm Confessions, 7pm Sung Mass, 8pm Social – with newly ordained Fr Miklos Homolya, FSSP. Any 18+ young adult welcome!
FSSP statistic annual update: find out more about the largest Catholic traditional priestly community, numbering 583 members spread across 4 continents in 151 dioceses, serving 255 Mass centres and training 197 seminarians in 2 international seminaries (USA & Germany) and a Propaedeutic House (Australia), including 5 from the UK & Ireland. Visit https://www.fssp.org/en/statistics-update/.
Monthly meetings of adult groups at Our Lady of Ransom in Kempston this week:
Last Wednesday evening 13th Nov: 8:00pm:MONTHLY MEN’S GROUP on the topic: Can killing be legal and yet immoral? Scope and discernment in disposing of the lives of others and of one’s own.
MONTHLY LADIES GROUP on:
Saturday 16th Nov at 1pm: shared lunch & talk on
Spiritual growth with the virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity.
Arrive earlier for:
10:00am: Eucharistic adoration & confessions for all
11:30am: Holy Mass for all
Young adults’ first excursion (for unmarried men and women 18+) on Saturday 30th November. Meet by 11:00amat Woburn public car park on Park Street (X9QM+H8 Milton Keynes or https://maps.app.goo.gl/NVHEd8GR7idH3RbaA). Walk across Woburn Abbey deer park, followed by lunch at nearby pub (e.g. the Woburn Arms) with informal chat, with clergy in attendance. If you live near Chesham Bois or Bedford please email attendance and lift need and lift offer (malleray@fssp.org). Your friends from outside Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire are most welcome!
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.
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