Sunday Bulletin 19 January 2025

THIS EVENING: 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.

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

THE BEST CONFESSIONAL IN TOWN…

awaits us at Our Lady of Ransom.

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.

Epiphany Water: Bring empty bottles (one bottle per household suffices) and fill it from our container after daily Mass from 6^th Jan.

Bishop David Oakley confirmed to Fr de Malleray that he approves of our aspiration to acquire a permanent place of worship. The FSSP superiors are currently looking at the best way to secure that. 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.

Our Sunday Hall at All Saints:

Thank you to the volunteers preparing the hall, doing the tea & coffee, and tidying up after. All are encouraged to pop in into the hall after Sunday Mass as it is an important opportunity to socialise and build up the community. More volunteers are needed: can you offer 90mins (10:00am-11:30am) one Sunday a month? For smooth running with the CoE parish in charge of the hall, it is ESSENTIAL to go through the following check-list every Sunday:

1. The kitchen is left clean and tidy will all crockery washed and put away.
2. The kitchen external door is locked, and the emergency exit door is firmly closed.
3. The Immersion Heater in the kitchen is off.
4. The central heating is on a timer and will turn off automatically. The timer should not be overridden.
5. All lights in all rooms are off.
6. All taps are turned off.
7. The electric panel heaters in the Entrance Lobby and in the Accessible Toilet are turned off.
8. All windows are closed (including in every toilet).
9. The Urn in the kitchen is emptied and plugged out.
10. All floors are swept and mopped if necessary.
11. The bin bags in the kitchen and the toilets are removed and placed in the black bin outside. Replacement bags are in the FSSP box in the kitchen.

Reminder: all children must be constantly monitored by parents if outside, and in loos and lobby. Thank you to all.

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

Fr de Malleray will give a talk to any adults at Chesham Bois, Sat 25 Jan 7pm:

On cloistered men and women. What is their place in the Church today? Why we never see any. Why they matter still and how they help us. The three evangelical counsels. Why we should know religious persons better and pray for many more, even though our callings differ.

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 (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.

Please book now in your diaries the 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.

Several dads have booked bespoke altar serving tuitions with seminarian Luke for them and their sons. Do book now for further training. Email Luke: l.j.mazurek@pm.me .

Pray for  the sick in our congregations: Fr Patrick Hutton, Tom Holland, 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