Sunday Bulletin 29 December 2024

FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 29^th Dec 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 8:30am ; 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.

Thank you for your help to Gaza Catholics this past Advent. We will soon know the amount of your gift. Last chance this Sunday to put your offering in the Offertory collection basket in an envelope bearing the purpose “Holy Land FSSP Appeal”).

Frs de Malleray and Coelho, and seminarian Luke wish you and your families a grace-filled Christmastide and thank you wholeheartedly for your cards, gifts and generous support.

Next Bucks & Beds Young Adults’ Trek (for any non-married adult 18-35): Saturday 11 January 2025. Meet at 10:45am at Ivinghoe Beacon Circular Walk Car Park (National Trust Car Park, Dunstable, LU6 2EG. No road name for this, it’s just a turning off the B489.) Join our WhatsApp group to get all updates and request/offer lifts. Includes 2hr walk + lunch at nearby pub with friendly chats. Back at car park before 4pm.

Bookings open for our annual

Vocation discernment weekend

at Buckden Towers, PE19 5TA,

on  28 February – 2 March 2025

for single Catholic men 18-30.

Contact malleray@fssp.org.

COST: £95.00 per person in total (bed + full board). FREE for unwaged and students – give whatever amount you can.

Gain a plenary indulgence on 31^st December through the public recitation of the Te Deum after our 6:30am Holy Mass.

Gain a plenary indulgence on 1^st January through the public recitation of the Veni Creator before our 7:15pm Holy Mass.

Epiphany: Attending holy Mass on Monday 6^th January for the solemnity of the Epiphany is not an obligation this year. But we invite all to our holy Mass that will take place on the traditional date (Twelfth Night after the Nativity) on Mon 6^th Jan in Bedford at 9:30am.

Epiphany Water will be provided by the clergy for you this year. (The 45min-long blessing must take place the day before, but it clashes with Sunday when the only priest available will need to go the Chesham Bois.) Bring empty bottles (one bottle per household suffices) and fill it from our container after daily Mass from 6^th Jan.

Bring chalk on Sunday 5^th January if you wish it blessed by the priest then, for the head of your household later to mark the lintel of your front door as follows: 20 + C + M + B + 25 (i.e. the number of the year and the initials of the three wise men.) Read more on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalking_the_door.

SUPPORT FSSP Bedford/Chesham Bois:
Lloyds Bank; Sort Code: 30-80-27 ; Account number: 44025960; Account name: FSSP Bedford

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.

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.)

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.

SACRAMENTS PREPARATION DATES: Your clergy look forward to seeing you at Our Lady of Ransom Church in Kempston from 1:00pm to 2:00pm on the  following Saturdays: 11^th & 25^th January; 8^th February; 1^st, 15^th & 29^th March; 5^th April; 10^th & 31^st May; 14^th June. Please note that all ten sessions are compulsory for admission to the sacraments.

Please book now in your diaries those ten dates for candidates for First Holy Communion (to take place on Corpus Christi Sunday, 22 June 2025) and/or for Confirmation classes ahead of Saturday 4^th October 2025 when Bishop Oakley will confer the sacrament.

You are more than welcome to avail yourselves of the 10am-11:30am Adoration and confessions, and the 11:30am Mass every Saturday. You can have your lunch in the parish hall between 12:15pm and 1:00pm.

Check our new website https://dowry.org.uk/ for articles on faith, culture, and spirituality.

Several dads have booked bespoke altar serving tuitions with seminarian Luke for them and their sons. Do book now for further training starting on from 12^th Jan onward.

Email Luke:l.j.mazurek@pm.me .

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