Sunday Bulletin 5 January 2025
FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 5th January 2025
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
In total 326 people attended our three Christmas Masses: Night, Dawn and Day.
Midnight Mass at Sts Philip & James.
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.
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Epiphany: Attending holy Mass on Monday 6th 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 6th 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 6th Jan.
Bring chalk on Sunday 5th 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.
Thank you
for your help to Gaza Catholics this past Advent,
raising £750!
Kindly book in your diaries the following dates, and tell your friends:
Men’s group Wed 8pm, after 7:15pm Mass:
15 Jan, 19 Feb, 19 Mar, 9 Apr, 14 May, 25 Jun
Ladies’ group Sat 1:30pm, after 11:30am Mass:
18 Jan, 22 Feb, 22 Mar, 12 Apr, 17 May, 28 Jun
And monthly talk for all at Chesham Bois on Saturday 25 January, 7pm.
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.
Next London Juventutem Mass & Social: Fri 17 Jan, 7pm (after 6pm Confessions & before 8pm social) for anyone 18-35, at St Mary Magdalene Catholic Church, Wandsworth, 96 North Side, London SW18 2QU.
Welcome to FSSP Seminarian James from Hemel Hempstead,
and to Seminarian Francis, ICKSP from St Albans,
both on holiday.
SUPPORT FSSP Bedford/Chesham Bois:
Lloyds Bank; Sort Code: 30-80-27 ; Account number: 44025960; Account name: FSSP Bedford
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.
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: 11th & 25th January; 8th February; 1st, 15th & 29th March; 5th April; 10th & 31st May; 14th 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 4th 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.
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 12th 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.
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