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August 20, 2022

What’s on this week: Bus Driver, Bioethics, Business Directory, Food Bank

Mass:es Sunday 21st August 8.30 am Tim O’Connor RIP12.30 pm Private intention Confessions: no confessions today but usually 3-5pm every Saturday.  Minibus Driver Needed! Maria is hoping to organise a group from this parish for March for Life on Saturday 3rd September – she has the parish minibus but is in need of a driver! Please contact her on mariabookerltd AT hotmail.co.uk if you would like to be a passenger or a driver; no experience is necessary, just a clean license and being comfortable […]

August 12, 2022

What’s on this week – Assumption, Fr. Evans and March for Life

MASS INTENTIONSSunday 14th August  8.30 am Catherine Baker RIP and for her family12.30 pm Private intentionMonday 15th August – Holyday of Obligation  7.30 pm Lucy Healy CONFESSIONS 3 pm—5 pm Saturdays, but no confessions on 20th August. GOODBYE AND THANK YOU!Today marks the last visit of the Warrington priests, who have been ministering in Bedford since December2020. Thank you so much, Frs de Malleray, Verrier, Stewart and Quirke! FIRST BLESSINGSNewly ordained Fr Gwilym Evans will be in Bedford on Sunday 21st […]

August 4, 2022

The Sacred Liturgy as a Secret Garden

New short book by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP The well-known children’s story The Secret Garden lends itself to a religious and modern interpretation. Like orphaned children in desperate need of spiritual comfort, many Catholics discovered the traditional Latin Mass thanks to the Covid pandemic. Thirsting for Confession, for Eucharistic adoration, or for Holy Communion administered with reverence, they rejoiced when finding all this and more in traditional worship. This book offers an analogy between Frances Hodgson Burnett’s pre-WWI tale for children, […]

July 29, 2022

What’s On This Week: Rosary Bouquet, Summer Camps, M4L, YCA weekend

31st July 2022 – 8th Sunday after Pentecost MASS INTENTIONSSunday 31st July 8.30 am Marek Oledzki12.30 pm Private intention CONFESSIONS 3 pm—5 pm Saturdays FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTIONMonday 15th August, Holyday of Obligation, Mass 7.30  pm.h ROSARY BOUQUET When Fr Gwilym Evans joins Fr Goddard and Fr Phipps at Reading on 14 August, this will mark the last day the Warrington priests will be saying Mass at Bedford; they have been coming since December 2020.  In thanksgiving for their ministry […]

July 22, 2022

What’s on this week – Fr. Evans, Chesterton Pilgrimage and much more!

CONFESSIONS: Saturday 3-5pm NEXT HOLYDAY OF OBLIGATIONMass for the Feast of the Assumption, Monday 15th August, 7.30 pm. FR GWILYM EVANSFr Evans was ordained to the sacred priesthood in Bavaria on 18th June. We are delighted to announce that he has been assigned to St John Fisher Parish in Reading, to assist in our apostolates in the Portsmouth and Northampton Dioceses. Fr Evans begins his mission in this country as chaplain to our boys’ camp in August. Hecommences his assignment in […]

July 11, 2022

Last spaces on Stonyhurst Youth Weekend !

With Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP and Fr Gerard Quirke, and up to 40 young adults 18-35. Sign up for our weekend away at Stonyhurst this July by emailing us at juventutemldn@gmail.com. Hurry up: booking deadline Thur 14th July! Spend the weekend with us in a beautiful setting, take the opportunity to get away from London and enjoy the stunning grounds, time with friends and Mass and devotions in the beautiful chapel. Spaces are limited so email now to apply […]

June 29, 2022

Happy Feast of Ss Peter and Paul!

A reminder that today members of the Confraternity of St Peter can gain a plenary indulgence (under the usual conditions). If you would like to join the Confraternity, please contact Fr Phipps. Let us pray for our sovereign pontiff. Here is a sermon Fr Phipps gave in 2018 for this feast: