Sunday Bulletin 1st November 2026

  FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin

1-14 November 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 [‘OLOR’], 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB

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 Priest: Fr Conán McGonagle, FSSP : conanmcgonagle@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 latest Chaplaincy homilies and more on the dedicated FSSP YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@FSSPLiveMass.

Daily Holy Mass readings: www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl

CONFESSIONS TIMES

Check online before travelling from afar: 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.

A new website to help us acquire our own church!

Visit holyfamilyproject.co.uk and share the link with your friends and acquaintances.

Even though they may not be able to attend our Masses, still they may be inspired by the unique configuration of our Bedford Chaplaincy apostolate, benefitting from full-time clergy, as well as traditional scout groups and education with RCA.  

Contact our team of dedicated parishioners via holyfamilyprojectemail@gmail.com.

Congratulations to Alix Grimer, baptised and confirmed on 1^st Nov in Bedford.

Please help EIGHT holy souls out of Purgatory into heaven this week:

On all the days from Nov 1^st through Nov 8^th inclusive, a plenary indulgence, applicable only to the Poor Souls in Purgatory, is granted to those who visit a cemetery and pray even if only mentally for the departed, and for the traditional intentions of the Holy Father. There must be one visit for each day one seeks to gain the indulgence; one visit will not apply for several days.

The usual conditions for a plenary indulgence apply: being in state of grace, receiving Holy Communion and going to Confession the day the indulgence is sought (or within 20 days before or after that day).

One sacramental Confession suffices for several plenary indulgences, but a separate Holy Communion and a separate prayer for the Holy Father’s intentions are required for each plenary indulgence (cf. Vatican website: The Gift of the Indulgence #5, AD 2000).

On All Souls’ Day (Monday 2^nd Nov) a plenary indulgence, applicable only to the Poor Souls in Purgatory, is granted to those who visit a Catholic church and there recite one Our Father and one Creed.

How to have a holy Mass offered to any of your intentions? Write your intention on our small, printed envelopes, inserting your stipend in cash inside, and hand it to the priest or drop it in the collection basket. The merits of Christ being infinite in value, your stipend does not “pay for the Mass,” but it goes to support the priest celebrant who retains it for personal use (one stipend / day maximum). Your intentions will appear on the Chaplaincy bulletin, unless you don’t mind for that Mass to be offered privately. There is no obligation to attend personally the Mass you ask to be offered.

Book for our Bedford post–Christmas dinner on Tuesday 5^th January, 6:30pm at the King William Pub, 56 High St, Kempston MK42 7AL. Email bedford@fssp.org.

Or for our pre–Christmas dinner in Chesham Bois on Sat 12^th Dec (email Agostino DF).

Support Fr McGonagle, FSSP who will run a half Marathon in Leighton Buzzard on 7 Nov for the great charity Mary’s Meal: https://www.marysmeals.org.uk/fundraising#/detail/701Sp00000eTv79IAC.

Well done: our pilgrims to the Annual Rosary Crusade of Reparation from Westminster Cathedral to the London Oratorylast Sat 17^th October, including our scouts, guides, cubs and wolvets; our teenagers for the monthly gathering last 24^th Oct; 17 young adults on the trek in Marlow with holy Mass by Fr McGonagle, FSSP and veneration of the hand of St James the Apostle last 31^st October (join their WhatsApp group.); adults attending the Talk for All by Fr McGonagle in Chesham Bois last 31^st Oct.

Fr de Malleray attended two weeks ago the annual FSSP clergy gathering in Sées, Normandy, with 100 priests from the French FSSP Province.

Save the date: Annual weekend of vocational discernment on 5-7 March 2027,

led by FSSP clergy at Buckden Towers, PE19 5TA. For unmarried men 18-35.

Contact & inquiries:malleray@fssp.org.

Three Solemn High Masses:

• Fri 13 Nov Juventutem London Solemn Requiem 7:00pm, St Mary Magdalene Oratory, Wandsworth;
• Sun 15 Nov 8:30am, All Saints Church, Kempston, with Very Rev Fr John Berg, Superior General FSSP (who will also preach at our 12noon Mass that day in Chesham Bois);
• Sat 28 Nov 12noon, St Joseph’s Church, Bedford, annual Mass of Our Lady of Guadalupe in reparation for abortion, organised by LMS with Chaplaincy clergy.

We are grateful to Archbishop Robert Le Gall, OSB, former Archbishop of Toulouse in retirement at Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight, for having accepted to confer the sacrament of Confirmation in Bedford on Sat 8^th May 2027.

We thank Archbishop Richard Moth of Westminster, Administrator of the Northampton Diocese, for allowing Archbishop Le Gall to step in in the absence of our diocesan bishop, Bishop David Oakley. Candidates from 12 onward are invited to contact the Chaplaincy.

Thank you to all who registered interest in our First Holy Communion classes. We will be in touch shortly to book with you dates for classes, normally taking place two Saturdays a month at 1:00pm at OLOR, Kempston, from January to June 2027. The ceremony will take place like every year on Corpus Christi Sunday, 30^th May 2027.

Chaplaincy parishioners propose: Languages for Catholics. Learn French, Italian or Spanish with practising Catholic tutors. A curriculum centred around the faith. Courses available for ages 4 to adult, from first steps to fluency. Starting at just £5 per week.

Visit languagesforcatholics.org, or

email info@languagesforcatholics.org

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: Fr John Emerson, FSSP, John Smith, Stephen Moxham, Malgorzata Anna Pietrak, Maureen Readings, Daniel Jahansouz, Emma Pickford, Maria Chidell, Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Gealfio and Liberata Dadulla Zabat, Wailim Fook, Roger Johnson, Patsy Crocker, Prima Nevard, Carl Roberts. Please email additions to this list.

Holy Mass Intentions:

by Fr AM