Sunday 17 August 2025
Please note: this bulletin is until Saturday 13th September.
FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 17th August – 13th September 2025
Est. 19th July 2011
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
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
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.
Come and join the growing Bedford groups of Scouts and Guides of Europe: traditional Catholic scouting. For more information please contact simon_lubbock@hotmail.com.
Dowry Mag No66, Summer issue is now online, and soon displayed in print for you to take home and share: https://fssp.org.uk/category/dowry/. Read our great articles on St Michael, youth weekend, Gregorian chant, psychology, femininity, and art.
Click on picture below or here to open the sixteen-page long PDF:
In this issue:
Editorial: The Popes and The Archangel
Fr de Malleray reflects on several popes’ invoking Saint Michael the Archangel, whose feast coincided with the election of Pope Leo XIV.
Catholic Faith & Fellowship with Juventutem
Young adult and free-lance journalist Angeline Tan reports on the successful Juventutem Summer Weekend at Ampleforth Abbey last July, gathering over fifty young men and women.
Clarion Call for Gregorian Chant
Professional singer Christian Jenkins alerts the wider public on the urgent need for lay people to step forward if the Gregorian chant is to survive as part of the liturgy.
Cardinal Mercier’s Thomistic Psychology
Belgian FSSP priest Father Gerald Duroisin, FSSP (with a doctorate on the Philosophy of Saint John-Henry Newman), explains the relevance for today of Cardinal Mercier’s work in psychology.
The Privilege of Being a Woman
A talk given as part of a workshop on femininity at the Juventutem Summer Weekend in July 2025 at Ampleforth Abbey, by Sarah Haire, a young woman co-leader of Juventutem London.
Painting Salvation or Art For Souls
Introducing a new book of commentaries on a dozen classical paintings, by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, including works by Michelangelo, Titian, Caravaggio, La Tour, Claude, and Raphael.
Support our Apostolate
We rely entirely on the generosity of benefactors for our apostolates. Find out what we do and how to connect with us.
Also, an abridged version of Dowry No65 on religious life is available here.
See great pictures of our two summer camps on our fsspengland Flickr page.
Sunday 10th August homily here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjkGq-6Rp3E.
Pray for success of trip to Normandy withfamilies of our congregations and Fr de Malleray on the first week of September.
Please come along to March for Life UK in London on Saturday 6th September 2025.
With Fr de Malleray, families and individuals from all over the country. A crucial witness once a year! On purpose, we will have our usual Saturday Mass EARLIER at 10:00am that day to allow people who want the First Sat Fatima devotion to travel to London after Mass to the March for Life and be by 1:30pm at the Emmanuel Centre (9-23 Marsham St, London SW1P 3DW). The March ends by 4pm at Parliament Square. If you cannot come to London please do come to our 10:40AM Rosary and holy Hour of Adoration following, prayed for the protection of unborn children and vulnerable adults. Check for group travel options here: https://www.marchforlife.co.uk/groups-travelling-to-march-for-life/. See you there soon!
Volunteer for Kempston All Saints River Watch (bedford@fssp.org) as a designated adults on a rota. The Chaplain or the lay coordinator will indicate when the field can safely be accessed by children. Until then, we thank you for your cooperation and diligence in keeping children within the hall, or in any case out of the field. God bless.
Congratulations to Declan and Harriet Carroll on the birth of their first child and pending Baptism; and to Chris and Sarah Dale on the Baptism of their soon-to-be-born child in early September.
SUPPORT FSSP Bedford/Chesham Bois:
Lloyds Bank; Sort Code: 30-80-27 ; Account number: 44025960; Account name: FSSP Bedford
Tank you on behalf of all to the parishioners who generously prepare, bring, and set beautiful flowers arrangements behind the altar on Sundays at All Saints. It gives glory to God and helps us pray better.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Barbara Kay, Maria Chidell, Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Prima Nevard, Carl Roberts. Please email additions to this list.
Double room available from September to rent on separate top floor with bathroom in Catholic family home in Turvey. Shared kitchen. On convenient bus route into Bedford and surrounding towns. Parking also available. All bills and Wi-Fi included. Feel free to get in touch for more details if interested: sarahannedale8@gmail.com.
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