Sunday Bulletin 8 February 2026

 FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin

8-22 Feb 2026

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: see below.

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

Secretary: Mrs Theresa Madden: 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

With presently only one priest, occasional changes in Mass times and other activities may take place.

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 Mass Intentions:

Recent Sunday homily:

Conference to 60 young adults at St James’s Church in London last 21 January:

Ongoing novena for the FSSP until 11^th Feb: one decade of the Rosary and MEMORARE: Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known / that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession, was left unaided. / Inspired by this confidence I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. / To thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. / O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.

This coming Wednesday, 11^th February, Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Fraternity of St Peter will be renewing our consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We invite you to recite it with us after Mass (or at home if you are unable to attend holy Mass). This consecration was originally made on this date in 2022, in the light of Traditionis Custodes and the pressures put on traditional communities around the world. The very day that the act of consecration was performed, following a special novena of preparation, Pope Francis issued a decree confirming that the restrictions of Traditionis Custodes do not apply to our Fraternity. For us, this was a providential sign of Our Lady’s maternal care for our Fraternity – about which we have always been convinced, having devotion to her as a central tenet of our constitutions. But we also took it as a confirmation of our founding charism of fidelity both to traditional liturgy and doctrine, and to Church hierarchy.

Catholic recycling (actually a rubric from the missal): Bring your blessed palms from last year’s Palm Sunday to be burned into ashes ahead of Ash Wednesday. Hand your palms to the clergy in a bag by Sunday 15^th February the latest.

ASH WEDNESDAY (18 February)  

Day of fast and abstinence. All Catholics aged 18-59 inclusive are obliged to fast (one meal & two small snacks permitted); and all Catholics aged 14+ must abstain from meat. (Reminder that all days of Lent, excluding Sundays, are days of penance too.)

Not a Holy Day of Obligation, but the faithful are encouraged to mark the beginning of Lent by assisting at Mass at:

• 11:00AM Sung Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois
• 5:30PM Low Mass at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston

Imposition of ashes at the beginning of every Mass

FULL SOLEMN TRADITIONAL LATIN EASTER TRIDUUM

With Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, Chaplain; Fr Thomas Crean, OP; Deacon Conan McGonagle, FSSP

ALL liturgies to take place at All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH

• Maundy Thursday (2 April): 8:00pm Holy Mass, followed by adoration until midnight.
• Good Friday (3 April): 3:30pm Solemn Liturgy (ends by 5:30pm).
• Holy Saturday (4 April): 9:00pm Easter Vigil (service ends by midnight).
• Easter Sunday (5 April): 8:30am Sung Mass

ALSO: Easter Sunday Sung Mass at 12noon, on 5th April 2026

at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE

Dowry Mag No68 Now Online

In this issue:

Editorial: Stubbornly Loving Every Unborn

Commenting on the latest figures of abortion in the UK, the highest ever in British history, Fr de Malleray observes that we have surpassed the so-called “Dark Ages”: a fact that calls all people of good will to action.

Moral Issues About In Vitro Fertilisation

After reading Biomedical Sciences at University College London, Marta Berbel Gallego obtained a PGCE in Biology from King’s College London, and completed an MA in Theology at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. In this article she summarises the reasons why IVF falls short of the bar set by Catholic anthropology.

United in Blood and Love

The holy bishop St Francis de Sales has a lot to offer spouses and those contemplating holy Matrimony, says Canon Amaury Montjean, ICKSP, who authored a book on that topic.  

Newman and Péguy as Poets and Philosophers

Fr Gerald Duroisin, FSSP who did his doctorate in Rome on the philosophy of John Henry Newman discusses the new English Doctor of the Church in relation with French convert Charles Péguy.

A Young Artist Shares Her Faith Online

Young Englishwoman Raya Cotton, who trained in fine arts in Plymouth University and learnt Gregorian chant and polyphony in England and America, presents her creative work in sacred painting and singing.

Dead Rising in Saint Matthew’s Passion

Having earned his Licentiate in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, Fr Brendan Gerard, FSSP teaches Scripture at Saint Peter’s International Seminary in Bavaria (Wigratzbad) while residing in Edinburgh as the superior of our Scottish apostolate.

Love Within the Enclosed Garden

Drs. Leslie Anne Hamel, who studied history of art at the Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, explains a fifteenth-century painting about the Blessed Virgin Mary

Fr Owen Dudley’s Novel The Masterful Monk

Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP presents an engaging novel by once well-known convert author Fr Owen Francis Dudley

Support & Events

Summer Camps; Vocation Weekend; and Juventutem Summer Weekend

On Saturday 14 February: please pray for our 12 candidates who will receive subdiaconal ordinations in Wigratzbad from His Grace Wolfgang Haas, Archbishop Emeritus of Vaduz.
Please pray for the twelve ordinands: Francisco, Diego, Paul, Eloi, André, Ramón, Germain, David [OUR OWN ENGLISH SEMINARIAN!], Francisco, Julien, Gerulf, Julian.

Thank you to the parishioners who have sent us their story about discovering the Traditional Latin Mass. Find out more about this opportunity on: https://fssp.org.uk/why-we-come-to-the-traditional-latin-mass/.

You may still email us your story!

Next TREK on Saturday 28 Feb with Deacon Ó hAimheirgin, FSSP: meet by 11:00AM on Ivinghoe Circular Walk Car Park, R9MW+HP, Dunstable LU7 9EJ. For unmarried men and women 18-35.Email Dominic attendance, lift need, and lift offer (difalcodom@gmail.com). Lunch at nearby pub after walk.

Juventutem London: for young men and women 18+; one Friday evening every month, 6pm Confessions,7pm Sung Mass with homily by Chaplain Fr de Malleray, 8pm social with Q&As. Next dates: 20 Feb, 20 Mar, 17 Apr, 15 May, 19 Jun, 10 Jul.

Congratulations to these two little girls and their families:

• Baptism scheduled for Clare Colquhoun on 14 Feb
• Baptism received by Philomena Baron last 31 Jan

Please keep in your prayer the mothers in our congregations expecting a child.

First 16 men already booked in

for our annual Men’s Vocation Weekend 13-15 March 2026, at Buckden Towers PE19 5TA. £99.00 per person in total (bed + full board). FREE for unwaged. For 18+ single Catholic men. Contact malleray@fssp.org. More spaces! Visit: fssp.org.uk/mens-discernment-weekend-13-15-march-2026/ .

The Good Counsel Black Tie Ball will take place at 6pm on St Valentine’s Day, Saturday 14^th February 2026 in Kensington, London. Live Band. Silent Auction. London’s Catholic Pro-Life Ball raising money to help save lives and change lives.

Tickets £135 each. Or a table of ten for £1,300.

For bookings and enquiries email GCNBall@gmail.com, or telephone 07795205117.

VIRTUS: the FSSP “EXODUS 90” has landed!

Our Septuagesima-Lent programme Virtus begins in English this year. Please do spread the word! Starts Feb 1, 2026, ends Apr 12, 2026.

Visit hozana.org/en/community/12820-virtus-journey-great-lent-2026

After his well-attended (by 40 adults) January talk,  Deacon Niall Ó hAimheirgin, FSSP, who formerly trained with the SSPX, will give the monthly Chesham Bois talk for all on Saturday 28^th Feb, 7:00PM on:

Episcopal Consecration without Papal Mandate.

In light of the SSPX announcement to consecrate bishops again, the talk will discuss the traditional criteria for a state of necessity, and the unity of government within Holy Church.

Adult Catechism in Chesham Bois, on some Wednesday evenings. Thank you to our lay catechists who generously give of their time at the Chaplain’s request to help train several adult converts. Catholic adults are welcome to attend as well. Contact the Chaplain for details : malleray@fssp.org.

Please donate to the Holy Family Project:

Bank Details: Account Name: Holy Family Ltd; Sort Code: 23-05-80 ; Account Number: 5629 3213

First Holy Communion Classes have started, given by the Chaplain at OLOR, 1pm-2pm. Next dates: 14, 21, 28 Feb; 21 March; 18, 25 April; 9, 16 May; 6 June (Confessions and recollection). Thank you to the parents supporting their little ones in this essential leg of their faith journey. Pray for our candidates.

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

Pray for  the sick in our congregations: Maureen Readings, Daniel Jahansouz, Jean-Francois Moore, Lottie Newman-Craig, Maria Chidell, Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Patsy Crocker, Prima Nevard, Carl Roberts. Please email additions to this list.

by Fr AM