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 6th 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:
The kitchen is left clean and tidy will all crockery washed and put away.
The kitchen external door is locked, and the emergency exit door is firmly closed.
The Immersion Heater in the kitchen is off.
The central heating is on a timer and will turn off automatically. The timer should not be overridden.
All lights in all rooms are off.
All taps are turned off.
The electric panel heaters in the Entrance Lobby and in the Accessible Toilet are turned off.
All windows are closed (including in every toilet).
The Urn in the kitchen is emptied and plugged out.
All floors are swept and mopped if necessary.
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.
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 openfor our annual
Vocation discernmentweekend
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.
Activities 1st semester 2025
January
Feb
March
April
May
June
Men’s Group
15
19
19
9
14
25
Ladies’ Group
18
22
22
12
17
28
Youth Group
11
22
22
26
10
28
1st Holy Communion & Confirmation classes
11, 25
8
1, 15, 29
5
10, 31
14
Juventutem London youth Mass & Social
17
14
14
4
10
13
Talk for any adults, Chesham Bois
25
?
?
?
?
?
Vocation Weekend Men 18+ Buckden Towers
28
1, 2
Paris-Chartres Pilgrimage
7-9
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 4th 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.
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
Soundproofing work is nearing completion in the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom.
For the sake of confidentiality please whisper rather than speak. 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.
Thank you for your help to Gaza Catholics this past Advent, raising £750!
THIS WEEK:
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.
Fr de Malleray will discuss this topic at the THREE groups this month.
Men’s group Wed 8pm, after 7:15pm Mass:
15 Jan, 19 Feb, 19 Mar, 9 Apr, 14 May, 25 Jun
Ladies’ group Sat 1:30pm, after 11:30am Mass:
18 Jan, 22 Feb, 22 Mar, 12 Apr, 17 May, 28 Jun
For All group, Chesham Bois, Sat 25 Jan 7pm
Next 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.
15 young adults attended our monthly Young Adults’ trek on Sat 11 Jan at Ivinghoe Beacon, with Fr de Malleray and First Year FSSP seminarian James from Hemel Hempstead. Contact us to be added to the WhatsApp group.
Epiphany Water: Bring empty bottles (one bottle per household suffices) and fill it from our container after daily Mass from 6th Jan.
Bring chalk on Sunday 5th January if you wish it blessed by the priest then, for the head of your household later to mark the lintel of your front door as follows: 20 + C + M + B + 25 (i.e. the number of the year and the initials of the three wise men.) Read more on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalking_the_door.
Congratulations for our children doing their Scout Promise this Sunday. Fr de Malleray will attend and bless them in their important commitment.
The monthly ministry of the FSSP at Regina Caeli Academy will take place this Monday, including Holy Mass, Confessions, catechism, and altar servers’ training.
COST: £95.00 per person in total (bed + 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.
Baronius missals are available for £45. These and other books such as Vermeer’s Angel, Ego Eimi etc make good Christmas presents. Ask Rita if you would like to buy any of them (please bring cash.)
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.
SACRAMENTS PREPARATION DATES: Your clergy look forward to seeing you at Our Lady of Ransom Church in Kempston from 1:00pm to 2:00pm on the following Saturdays: 11th & 25th January; 8th February; 1st, 15th & 29th March; 5th April; 10th & 31st May; 14th June. Please note that all ten sessions are compulsory for admission to the sacraments.
Please book now in your diaries those 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 4th 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 starting on from 12th Jan onward.
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.
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
In total 326 people attended our three Christmas Masses: Night, Dawn and Day.
Midnight Mass at Sts Philip & James.
Daily Holy Mass readings: www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl
CONFESSIONS TIMES
Soundproofing work is nearing completion in the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom.
For the sake of confidentiality please whisper rather than speak. 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.
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Epiphany: Attending holy Mass on Monday 6th January for the solemnity of the Epiphany is not an obligation this year. But we invite all to our holy Mass that will take place on the traditional date (Twelfth Night after the Nativity) on Mon 6th Jan in Bedford at 9:30am.
Epiphany Water will be provided by the clergy for you this year. (The 45min-long blessing must take place the day before, but it clashes with Sunday when the only priest available will need to go the Chesham Bois.) Bring empty bottles (one bottle per household suffices) and fill it from our container after daily Mass from 6th Jan.
Bring chalk on Sunday 5th January if you wish it blessed by the priest then, for the head of your household later to mark the lintel of your front door as follows: 20 + C + M + B + 25 (i.e. the number of the year and the initials of the three wise men.) Read more on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalking_the_door.
Thank you
for your help to Gaza Catholics this past Advent,
raising £750!
Kindly book in your diaries the following dates, and tell your friends:
Men’s group Wed 8pm, after 7:15pm Mass:
15 Jan, 19 Feb, 19 Mar, 9 Apr, 14 May, 25 Jun
Ladies’ group Sat 1:30pm, after 11:30am Mass:
18 Jan, 22 Feb, 22 Mar, 12 Apr, 17 May, 28 Jun
And monthly talk for all at Chesham Bois on Saturday 25 January, 7pm.
Next Bucks & Beds Young Adults’ Trek (for any non-married adult 18-35): Saturday 11 January 2025. Meet at 10:45am at Ivinghoe Beacon Circular Walk Car Park (National Trust Car Park, Dunstable, LU6 2EG. No road name for this, it’s just a turning off the B489.) Join our WhatsApp group to get all updates and request/offer lifts. Includes 2hr walk + lunch at nearby pub with friendly chats. Back at car park before 4pm.
Next 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.
Welcome to FSSP Seminarian James from Hemel Hempstead,
COST: £95.00 per person in total (bed + 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.
Baronius missals are available for £45. These and other books such as Vermeer’s Angel, Ego Eimi etc make good Christmas presents. Ask Rita if you would like to buy any of them (please bring cash.)
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.
SACRAMENTS PREPARATION DATES: Your clergy look forward to seeing you at Our Lady of Ransom Church in Kempston from 1:00pm to 2:00pm on the following Saturdays: 11th & 25th January; 8th February; 1st, 15th & 29th March; 5th April; 10th & 31st May; 14th June. Please note that all ten sessions are compulsory for admission to the sacraments.
Please book now in your diaries those 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 4th 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 starting on from 12th Jan onward.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: 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.
Martyrdom of St Thomas Becket, painted in the 1330s in the parish church of St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington, Oxfordshire (copyright Motacilla for Wikipedia). His feast takes precedence over the Sunday after Christmas, 29 Dec.
FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 29th Dec 2024
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
Soundproofing work is nearing completion in the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom.
For the sake of confidentiality please whisper rather than speak. 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.
Thank you for your help to Gaza Catholics this past Advent. We will soon know the amount of your gift. Last chance this Sunday to put your offering in the Offertory collection basket in an envelope bearing the purpose “Holy Land FSSP Appeal”).
Frs de Malleray and Coelho, and seminarian Luke wish you and your families a grace-filled Christmastide and thank you wholeheartedly for your cards, gifts and generous support.
Next Bucks & Beds Young Adults’ Trek (for any non-married adult 18-35): Saturday 11 January 2025. Meet at 10:45am at Ivinghoe Beacon Circular Walk Car Park (National Trust Car Park, Dunstable, LU6 2EG. No road name for this, it’s just a turning off the B489.) Join our WhatsApp group to get all updates and request/offer lifts. Includes 2hr walk + lunch at nearby pub with friendly chats. Back at car park before 4pm.
COST: £95.00 per person in total (bed + full board). FREE for unwaged and students – give whatever amount you can.
Gain a plenary indulgence on 31st December through the public recitation of the Te Deum after our 6:30am Holy Mass.
Gain a plenary indulgence on 1st January through the public recitation of the Veni Creator before our 7:15pm Holy Mass.
Epiphany: Attending holy Mass on Monday 6th January for the solemnity of the Epiphany is not an obligation this year. But we invite all to our holy Mass that will take place on the traditional date (Twelfth Night after the Nativity) on Mon 6th Jan in Bedford at 9:30am.
Epiphany Water will be provided by the clergy for you this year. (The 45min-long blessing must take place the day before, but it clashes with Sunday when the only priest available will need to go the Chesham Bois.) Bring empty bottles (one bottle per household suffices) and fill it from our container after daily Mass from 6th Jan.
Bring chalk on Sunday 5th January if you wish it blessed by the priest then, for the head of your household later to mark the lintel of your front door as follows: 20 + C + M + B + 25 (i.e. the number of the year and the initials of the three wise men.) Read more on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalking_the_door.
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.
Baronius missals are available for £45. These and other books such as Vermeer’s Angel, Ego Eimi etc make good Christmas presents. Ask Rita if you would like to buy any of them (please bring cash.)
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.
SACRAMENTS PREPARATION DATES: Your clergy look forward to seeing you at Our Lady of Ransom Church in Kempston from 1:00pm to 2:00pm on the following Saturdays: 11th & 25th January; 8th February; 1st, 15th & 29th March; 5th April; 10th & 31st May; 14th June. Please note that all ten sessions are compulsory for admission to the sacraments.
Please book now in your diaries those 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 4th 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.
Check our new website https://dowry.org.uk/ for articles on faith, culture, and spirituality.
Several dads have booked bespoke altar serving tuitions with seminarian Luke for them and their sons. Do book now for further training starting on from 12th Jan onward.
Email Luke:l.j.mazurek@pm.me .
Pray for the sick in our congregations: 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.
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 11:30am ; 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.
Soundproofing work is nearing completion in the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom. For the sake of confidentiality please whisper rather than speak. 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 TIMES
HELP GAZA CATHOLICS this Advent:
Shared Advent almsgiving by our Chaplaincy (put your offering in the Offertory collection basket in an envelope bearing the purpose “Holy Land FSSP Appeal”). Our priest in Jerusalem Fr Gwilym Evans, FSSP will ensure all money collected reaches the humanitarian office of the Patriarchate to be used in support of Catholic individuals and families.
25th Dec 12:00am Sts Philip and James Church, 2 Severn Way, Bedford MK41 7BX, following Christmas carols (and confessions) at 11:30pm
25th Dec 8:30am, All Saints, Kempston
25th Dec 11:40am, Our Lady’s, Chesham Bois
Frs de Malleray and Coelho, and seminarian Luke wish you and your families a blessed feast of the Nativity of the Lord. They thank you for your cards, gifts and generous support.
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Please note that, unlike in some other churches, in FSSP apostolates the Christmas Offertory collections go to support the ministry rather than being retained by clergy for personal use. Should you wish to donate money to clergy personally, please make sure to clearly label your envelope with the name of the cleric, mentioning “Personal gift”. Thank you.
Next Bucks & Beds Young Adults’ Trek (for any non-married adult 18-35):
Saturday 11 January 2025.
Meet at 10:45am at Ivinghoe Beacon Circular Walk Car Park (National Trust Car Park, Dunstable, LU6 2EG. No road name for this, it’s just a turning off the B489.)
Join our WhatsApp group to get all updates and request/offer lifts.
Includes 2hr walk + lunch at nearby pub with friendly chats.
Back at car park before 4pm.
Thank you all for two lovely Christmas dinners this past week in Chesham Bois and in Bedford. Your clergy also thank you for the kind invitations, and hope you enjoyed the quiz.
The Nativity play took place last Thursday at Regina Caeli Academy. Well done children, and staff, and may you enjoy your Christmas break.
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.
Ask Rita if you would like to buy any of them (please bring cash.)
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.
SACRAMENTS PREPARATION DATES: Your clergy look forward to seeing you at Our Lady of Ransom Church in Kempston from 1:00pm to 2:00pm on the
following Saturdays: 11th & 25th January; 8th February; 1st, 15th & 29th March; 5th April; 10th & 31st May; 14th June. Please note that all ten sessions are compulsory for admission to the sacraments.
Please book now in your diaries those 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 4th 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.
ALTAR SERVING, ASK LUKE: thankfully our FSSP seminarian Luke is skilled in teaching how to serve Low Mass, Sung Mass, and Solemn Mass. This will be his chief involvement in the life of our community during his stay with us. Please do book for a practice (l.j.mazurek@pm.me).
Pray for the sick in our congregations: 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.
[Click on the picture above or here to open the magazine]
In this issue:FSSP Wall Calendars 2024-2025We include a complimentary copy in every printed copy of this issue of Dowry. Discover beautiful pictures of our apostolates across England, Scotland and Ireland, with the liturgical year and traditional feasts. Needless to say, all this comes at a cost and we are grateful for donations in excess of £5.00 to FSSP England.
Editorial: Three Saintly AnniversariesThree forthcoming anniversaries of great significance for Catholics are spiritual opportunities to seize. They commemorate God’s Incarnation, the Lord’s revelation of his Sacred Heart, and Our Lady’s mediation, Fr de Malleray observes.
Hope Does Not DisappointExtracts from Pope Francis’ bull of indiction for the 2025 Jubilee of the Incarnation of the Lord. Further to Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical on the virtue of Hope, Pope Francis reminds all the importance of that virtue, especially in times of trial or gloom.
He Smuggled The Sacred Heart Into EnglandDominica Roberts tells how French priest Father Claude la Colombière S.J. providentially brought the devotion from Paray-le-Monial into the heart of London at the cost of his life, thus securing a direct connection between the Sacred Heart and England.
Statistics, Intercession, And SanctificationThe annual statistics of the FSSP were updated to close to 600 members and over 10,000 sodality members: an occasion to give thanks to God, but also to request more prayers for us to grow and bear lasting fruit by God’s grace.
Garments of Sanctity: Opus AnglicanumThe glorious English tradition of sowing and embroidering liturgical vestments is valued anew, Ola Smalley finds, with immediate use within the traditional movement as generously provided by the busy sewing needles of the Guild of St Clare.
Interior of the Carpenter’s Shop at Forty HillUsing a non-religious painting by John Hill (c.1780–1841) from the Tate Britain Gallery in London, Fr Armand de Malleray walks a few easy steps with beginners in the art of interpretation that can further apply to religious art.
Craft Resources For Catholic HomesCatherine Witkowski and John Grimer introduce the online shop run by them and their siblings to equip families with home-made visual illustrations of the Catholic faith through the depictions of saints, calendars, and books.
Support our ApostolateMore than ever we need your help to keep our ministry going in Bedford, Chesham Bois, Reading, Warrington, Edinburgh, Waterford and Wexford. Please tell your friendsabout us, sharing links from our articles, pictures, publications, and activities, praying God that bequests be made to help us secure or acquire the buildings we need.
Click HERE to subscribe to Dowry for free. We welcome proof-readers with a good command of English, as well as electronic submissions of articles consistent with the scope of this magazine.
This week our monthly meetings of adult groups took place at Our Lady of Ransom in Kempston:
Men’s Group on Wed 11 Dec 8pm: Fr de Malleray spoke about: “Procreation being essential to marriage, what does the Church teach about IVF, NFP, sterilisation, and contraception?”
Ladies’ Group on Sat 14 Dec, 1pm. Fr de Malleray spoke about “How the Immaculate Conception applies in our lives and inspires them.”
Thank you for supporting these important events!
Have you shared this already with young adult men or their parents? Vocation discernment weekend on 28 February – 2 March 2025 for single Catholic men 18-30. At Buckden Towers, High Street, Buckden, St. Neots, Cambs PE19 5TAStarts Fri 5:00pm; ends Sun 2:00pm
COME & SEE If you are a single Catholic man between 18 and 30 years of age, come and discern with us near Bedford. Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP will lead the weekend. There will be talks, prayers, Holy Mass and informal chatting with fellow-guests. Possibility of private meetings with a priest, and of confession. Feel welcome confidentially to call, email or write for any questions. Holy Mass each of the three days.
COST: £95.00 per person in total (bed + full board). FREE for unwaged and students – give whatever amount you can.
BOOKINGS & CONTACT: [not via Facebook] malleray@fssp.org (read by Fr de Malleray only).
ACCESS: Direct train from London St Pancras to St Neots, every half hour, duration 56 minutes. The nearest towns are Huntingdon (5 miles NNE of Buckden) and St Neots (5 miles South of Buckden). Both Huntingdon and St Neots are served by the West Anglian Great Northern Railway line from King’s Cross London to Peterborough. Let us know if you would need a lift from the railway station. There also are bus and coach links to both Huntingdon and St Neots from many parts of the country.
We have currently five young men from the UK & Ireland in formation at our two international seminaries. Three of our deacons from England were ordained priests at St Mary’s Warrington by Archbishop McMahon, OP of Liverpool. Those were the first EF priestly ordinations by a diocesan bishop in England in fifty years. Please pray for them (www.fssp.org/en/help-us/confraternity-of-saint-peter/) and for many more to enter the lists! We give thanks for 14 priests ordained from or to the UK over the past 23 years: Fr Armand de Malleray in 2001; Fr Konrad Loewenstein in 2002; Fr Brendan Gerard in 2006; Frs Matthew Goddard and William Barker in 2009; Fr Simon Harkins in 2010; Fr Matthew McCarthy in 2011; Fr Ian Verrier in 2015; Fr James Mawdsley in 2016; Frs Alex Stewart and Krzysztof Sanetra in 2017; Fr Seth Phipps in 2018; Fr Gwilym Evans in 2022; Fr Miklos Homolya in 2024 – plus Fr Patrick O’Donohue from Ireland (incardinated in 2023). On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, 11 February 2022, Pope Francis signed a decree confirming the liturgical charism of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter. Please pray for us. We assure you of our prayer. O Lord, grant us many holy priests!
——————————— 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.
FSSP wall calendars are available after Mass (including lovely pictures of the various FSSP apostolates) with the latest edition of Dowry. Suggested donation £5.00 (payable to FSSP England bank account as “Calendar”) or handed in cash to Rita.
Baronius missals are available for £45. These and other books such as Vermeer’s Angel, Ego Eimi etc make good Christmas presents. Ask Rita if you would like to buy any of them (please bring cash.)
Pray for the sick in our congregations: 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.
FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 8th Dec 2024 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 11:30am ; 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 TIMESSoundproofing work is nearing completion in the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom. For the sake of confidentiality please whisper rather than speak. 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. ———————————
CHRISTMAS MASS TIMES: Tuesday 24 Dec 6:30am Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston Wednesday 25 Dec, MIDNIGHT Mass (00:00am) in Bedford (location soon confirmed) Wednesday 25 Dec, 8:30am at All Saints Church, Kempston Rural, Bedford Wednesday 25 Dec, 11:40am at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois (we were requested to start earlier exceptionally for our families to prepare their Christmas roast!, but please do not arrive before 11:30am as the congregation of the previous Mass will be having refreshments.) Thursday 26 Dec: 9:30am Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston
PLEASE NOTE: with a record attendance of over 50 adults and children last week for our two weekday Rorate Masses, again TWO “Rorate Masses” by candlelight this week, an Advent custom symbolising our expectation of the Messiah at Christmas: Christ, the Light to enlighten the nations!
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HELP GAZA CATHOLICS this Advent: Shared Advent almsgiving by our Chaplaincy (put your offering in the Offertory collection basket in an envelope bearing the purpose “Holy Land FSSP Appeal”).
(credit Malleray) Our British priest in Jerusalem Fr Gwilym Evans, FSSP met with Catholic Patriarch who said his parishes have enormous financial struggles at the moment; not only because of the war-torn areas in which most of them are, but also because of the lack of pilgrims to the Holy Sites (first because of Covid, then because of the war), which used to be one of the main sources of income for the Patriarchate. We will ensure all money collected reaches the humanitarian office of the Patriarchate to be used in support of Catholic individuals and families. ———————————
After the successful launch of our Chaplaincy Young Adults’ group with 15 taking part in the trek and pub lunch at Woburn last 30th Nov. the date for the next trek in January will be confirmed shortly: either 11 or 25 January!
In this issue:FSSP Wall Calendars 2024-2025We include a complimentary copy in every printed copy of this issue of Dowry. Discover beautiful pictures of our apostolates across England, Scotland and Ireland, with the liturgical year and traditional feasts. Needless to say, all this comes at a cost and we are grateful for donations in excess of £5.00 to FSSP England.
Editorial: Three Saintly AnniversariesThree forthcoming anniversaries of great significance for Catholics are spiritual opportunities to seize. They commemorate God’s Incarnation, the Lord’s revelation of his Sacred Heart, and Our Lady’s mediation, Fr de Malleray observes.
Hope Does Not DisappointExtracts from Pope Francis’ bull of indiction for the 2025 Jubilee of the Incarnation of the Lord. Further to Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical on the virtue of Hope, Pope Francis reminds all the importance of that virtue, especially in times of trial or gloom.
He Smuggled The Sacred Heart Into EnglandDominica Roberts tells how French priest Father Claude la Colombière S.J. providentially brought the devotion from Paray-le-Monial into the heart of London at the cost of his life, thus securing a direct connection between the Sacred Heart and England.
Statistics, Intercession, And SanctificationThe annual statistics of the FSSP were updated to close to 600 members and over 10,000 sodality members: an occasion to give thanks to God, but also to request more prayers for us to grow and bear lasting fruit by God’s grace.
Garments of Sanctity: Opus AnglicanumThe glorious English tradition of sowing and embroidering liturgical vestments is valued anew, Ola Smalley finds, with immediate use within the traditional movement as generously provided by the busy sewing needles of the Guild of St Clare.
Interior of the Carpenter’s Shop at Forty HillUsing a non-religious painting by John Hill (c.1780–1841) from the Tate Britain Gallery in London, Fr Armand de Malleray walks a few easy steps with beginners in the art of interpretation that can further apply to religious art.
Craft Resources For Catholic HomesCatherine Witkowski and John Grimer introduce the online shop run by them and their siblings to equip families with home-made visual illustrations of the Catholic faith through the depictions of saints, calendars, and books.
Support our ApostolateMore than ever we need your help to keep our ministry going in Bedford, Chesham Bois, Reading, Warrington, Edinburgh, Waterford and Wexford. Please tell your friendsabout us, sharing links from our articles, pictures, publications, and activities, praying God that bequests be made to help us secure or acquire the buildings we need.
Click HERE to subscribe to Dowry for free. We welcome proof-readers with a good command of English, as well as electronic submissions of articles consistent with the scope of this magazine. CHRISTMAS DINNERS: with quiz designed by chaplaincy clergy. Kindly pay Rita what is owed for your booking at the Knife and Cleaver, Houghton Conquest, for around £25 per head for 2 courses or £30 for 3. ——————————— Three little girls baptised on Sat 7th Dec in Bedford and Chesham Bois: congratulations to the Tubilewicz, Chidell and Grimer families on the happy births and baptisms of their daughters Antonina, Ana Maria, and Elizabeth. Let us keep in our prayers the families expecting a child or who recently had one. ———————————
THIS WEEK: Monthly meetings of adult groups at Our Lady of Ransom in Kempston:Men’s Group on Wed 11 Dec 8pm: Fr de Malleray will speak about: “Procreation being essential to marriage, what does the Church teach about IVF, NFP, sterilisation, and contraception?”
Ladies’ Group on Sat 14 Dec, 1pm. Fr de Malleray will speak about “How the Immaculate Conception applies in our lives and inspires them.” Thank you for supporting these important events! ———————————
Have you shared this already with young adult men or their parents? Vocation discernment weekend on 28 February – 2 March 2025 for single Catholic men 18-30. At Buckden Towers, High Street, Buckden, St. Neots, Cambs PE19 5TAStarts Fri 5:00pm; ends Sun 2:00pm Is God calling ME?
COME & SEE If you are a single Catholic man between 18 and 30 years of age, come and discern with us near Bedford. Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP will lead the weekend. There will be talks, prayers, Holy Mass and informal chatting with fellow-guests. Possibility of private meetings with a priest, and of confession. Feel welcome confidentially to call, email or write for any questions. Holy Mass each of the three days.
COST: £95.00 per person in total (bed + full board). FREE for unwaged and students – give whatever amount you can.
BOOKINGS & CONTACT: [not via Facebook] malleray@fssp.org (read by Fr de Malleray only).
ACCESS: Direct train from London St Pancras to St Neots, every half hour, duration 56 minutes. The nearest towns are Huntingdon (5 miles NNE of Buckden) and St Neots (5 miles South of Buckden). Both Huntingdon and St Neots are served by the West Anglian Great Northern Railway line from King’s Cross London to Peterborough. Let us know if you would need a lift from the railway station. There also are bus and coach links to both Huntingdon and St Neots from many parts of the country.
We have currently five young men from the UK & Ireland in formation at our two international seminaries. Three of our deacons from England were ordained priests at St Mary’s Warrington by Archbishop McMahon, OP of Liverpool. Those were the first EF priestly ordinations by a diocesan bishop in England in fifty years. Please pray for them (www.fssp.org/en/help-us/confraternity-of-saint-peter/) and for many more to enter the lists! We give thanks for 14 priests ordained from or to the UK over the past 23 years: Fr Armand de Malleray in 2001; Fr Konrad Loewenstein in 2002; Fr Brendan Gerard in 2006; Frs Matthew Goddard and William Barker in 2009; Fr Simon Harkins in 2010; Fr Matthew McCarthy in 2011; Fr Ian Verrier in 2015; Fr James Mawdsley in 2016; Frs Alex Stewart and Krzysztof Sanetra in 2017; Fr Seth Phipps in 2018; Fr Gwilym Evans in 2022; Fr Miklos Homolya in 2024 – plus Fr Patrick O’Donohue from Ireland (incardinated in 2023). On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, 11 February 2022, Pope Francis signed a decree confirming the liturgical charism of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter. Please pray for us. We assure you of our prayer. O Lord, grant us many holy priests! Contact malleray@fssp.org. Facebook page for this event.
——————————— 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. Homily on “euthanasia” by Fr de Malleray here: https://fb.watch/w1vNdeIBEo/ Our beautiful FSSP wall calendars are available after Mass (including lovely pictures of the various FSSP apostolates) with the latest edition of Dowry. Suggested donation £5.00 (payable to FSSP England bank account as “Calendar”) or handed in cash to Rita. Baronius missals are available for £45. These and other books such as Vermeer’s Angel, Ego Eimi etc make good Christmas presents. Ask Rita if you would like to buy any of them (please bring cash.) ——————————— The visit of St Nicholas took place on Sunday 1st December. Children were delighted! Thank you to the organisers.
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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.
——————————— SACRAMENTS PREPARATION DATES: Your clergy look forward to seeing you at Our Lady of Ransom Church in Kempston from 1:00pm to 2:00pm on the following Saturdays: 11th & 25th January; 8th February; 1st, 15th & 29th March; 5th April; 10th & 31st May; 14th June. Please note that all ten sessions are compulsory for admission to the sacraments.
Please book now in your diaries those 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 4th 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.
——————————— ALTAR SERVING, ASK LUKE: thankfully our FSSP seminarian Luke is skilled in teaching how to serve Low Mass, Sung Mass, and Solemn Mass. This will be his chief involvement in the life of our community during his stay with us. Therefore, please do book for a practice (l.j.mazurek@pm.me) for a one-to-one, or one-to-a-group, either at St Alban House, or at Our Lady of Ransom, or in Chesham Bois, or at your house if transport for Luke can be arranged. There is scope and skills for such practices to take place every week tailored to your circumstances. (The usual safeguarding rules apply if minors take part in the practice.) Contact Luke now. ——————————— Can you help your clergy with ongoing small sewing jobs mending vestments for holy Mass and clergy cassocks? The problem is that the longer we wait to mend those, the worse it gets and the bigger the work. We warmly welcome the offering of your time and skills. Thank you! ——————————— Pray for the sick in our congregations: 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.
THIS SATURDAY: Young adults’ first excursion (for unmarried men and women 18+) on 30th November. Meet by 11:00amat Woburn public car park on Park Street (X9QM+H8 Milton Keynes or https://maps.app.goo.gl/NVHEd8GR7idH3RbaA). Walk across Woburn Abbey deer park, followed by lunch at nearby pub (e.g. the Woburn Arms) with informal chat, with clergy in attendance. If you live near Chesham Bois or Bedford please email attendance and lift need and lift offer (malleray@fssp.org).
Your friends from outside Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire are most welcome!
O COME, O COME EMMANUEL!
ADVENT BEGINS THIS SATURDAY EVENING.
HAPPY NEW (liturgical) YEAR TO ALL.
FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 1st Dec 2024
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 11:30am ; 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
Soundproofing work is nearing completion in the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom.
For the sake of confidentiality please whisper rather than speak. 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.
PLEASE NOTE: TWO “Rorate Masses” by candlelight this week, an Advent custom symbolising our expectation of the Messiah at Christmas: Christ, the Light to enlighten the nations!
HELP GAZA CATHOLICS this Advent: Shared Advent almsgiving by our Chaplaincy
(put your offering in the Offertory collection basket in an envelope bearing the purpose “Holy Land FSSP Appeal”).
(credit Malleray)
Our British priest in Jerusalem Fr Gwilym Evans, FSSP met with Catholic Patriarch who said his parishes have enormous financial struggles at the moment; not only because of the war-torn areas in which most of them are, but also because of the lack of pilgrims to the Holy Sites (first because of Covid, then because of the war), which used to be one of the main sources of income for the Patriarchate. We will ensure all money collected reaches the humanitarian office of the Patriarchate to be used in support of Catholic individuals and families.
Chesham Bois: Update your Gift Aid: it appears that outdated forms might have been used over the past 13 months, not providing the “new” FSSP Bedford-Chesham Bois bank account details, but the old FSSP England one. Ask Jean-Francois, or Rita, if you are not sure to which account your Gift Aid should go. Thank you. Here are the correct details:
[Click on the picture above or here to open the magazine]
In this issue:
FSSP Wall Calendars 2024-2025
We include a complimentary copy in every printed copy of this issue of Dowry. Discover beautiful pictures of our apostolates across England, Scotland and Ireland, with the liturgical year and traditional feasts. Needless to say, all this comes at a cost and we are grateful for donations in excess of £5.00 to FSSP England.
Editorial: Three Saintly Anniversaries
Three forthcoming anniversaries of great significance for Catholics are spiritual opportunities to seize. They commemorate God’s Incarnation, the Lord’s revelation of his Sacred Heart, and Our Lady’s mediation, Fr de Malleray observes.
Hope Does Not Disappoint
Extracts from Pope Francis’ bull of indiction for the 2025 Jubilee of the Incarnation of the Lord. Further to Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical on the virtue of Hope, Pope Francis reminds all the importance of that virtue, especially in times of trial or gloom.
He Smuggled The Sacred Heart Into England
Dominica Roberts tells how French priest Father Claude la Colombière S.J. providentially brought the devotion from Paray-le-Monial into the heart of London at the cost of his life, thus securing a direct connection between the Sacred Heart and England.
Statistics, Intercession, And Sanctification
The annual statistics of the FSSP were updated to close to 600 members and over 10,000 sodality members: an occasion to give thanks to God, but also to request more prayers for us to grow and bear lasting fruit by God’s grace.
Garments of Sanctity: Opus Anglicanum
The glorious English tradition of sowing and embroidering liturgical vestments is valued anew, Ola Smalley finds, with immediate use within the traditional movement as generously provided by the busy sewing needles of the Guild of St Clare.
Interior of the Carpenter’s Shop at Forty Hill
Using a non-religious painting by John Hill (c.1780–1841) from the Tate Britain Gallery in London, Fr Armand de Malleray walks a few easy steps with beginners in the art of interpretation that can further apply to religious art.
Craft Resources For Catholic Homes
Catherine Witkowski and John Grimer introduce the online shop run by them and their siblings to equip families with home-made visual illustrations of the Catholic faith through the depictions of saints, calendars, and books.
Support our Apostolate
More than ever we need your help to keep our ministry going in Bedford, Chesham Bois, Reading, Warrington, Edinburgh, Waterford and Wexford. Please tell your friendsabout us, sharing links from our articles, pictures, publications, and activities, praying God that bequests be made to help us secure or acquire the buildings we need.
We welcome proof-readers with a good command of English, as well as electronic submissions of articles consistent with the scope of this magazine.
CHRISTMAS DINNERS: with quiz designed by chaplaincy clergy.
Last chance to book for Chesham Bois Sat 7th December, 7:00pm;
and for Bedford on 10th December at 7:00pm:
please send Rita Carroll your selected MENU
and kindly hand £5.00 per person to Rita this Sunday to secure your booking at the Knife and Cleaver, Houghton Conquest, for around £25 per head for 2 courses or £30 for 3.
Two holy Baptisms on Sat 7th Dec:
Congratulations to Tim and Chiara Tubilewicz on the happy birth of their daughter Antonina and on her holy Baptism planned in Kempston at 1:00pm by Fr de Malleray.
At 3pm that same afternoon in Chesham Bois, Fr Coelho will baptise Elizabeth Grimer.
Let us keep in our prayers the families expecting a child or who recently had one.
Monthly meetings of adult groups at Our Lady of Ransom in Kempston:
Men’s Group on Wed 11 Dec 8pm: Fr de Malleray will speak about:
“Procreation being essential to marriage, what does the Church teach about IVF, NFP, sterilisation, and contraception?”
Ladies’ Group on Sat 14 Dec, 1pm. Fr de Malleray will speak about
“How the Immaculate Conception applies in our lives and inspires them.”
Have you shared this already with young adult men or their parents?
Vocation discernment weekend
on 28 February – 2 March 2025
for single Catholic men 18-30.
At Buckden Towers, High Street, Buckden, St. Neots, Cambs PE19 5TA
Starts Fri 5:00pm; ends Sun 2:00pm
Is God calling ME? Matrimony, celibacy, monastery, seminary, Fraternity?
COME & SEE If you are a single Catholic man between 18 and 30 years of age, come and discern with us near Bedford. Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP will lead the weekend. There will be talks, prayers, Holy Mass and informal chatting with fellow-guests. Possibility of private meetings with a priest, and of confession. Feel welcome confidentially to call, email or write for any questions. Holy Mass each of the three days.
COST: £95.00 per person in total (bed + full board). FREE for unwaged and students – give whatever amount you can.
BOOKINGS & CONTACT: [not via Facebook] malleray@fssp.org (read by Fr de Malleray only).
ACCESS: Direct train from London St Pancras to St Neots, every half hour, duration 56 minutes.
The nearest towns are Huntingdon (5 miles NNE of Buckden) and St Neots (5 miles South of Buckden). Both Huntingdon and St Neots are served by the West Anglian Great Northern Railway line from King’s Cross London to Peterborough. Let us know if you would need a lift from the railway station. There also are bus and coach links to both Huntingdon and St Neots from many parts of the country.
We have currently five young men from the UK & Ireland in formation at our two international seminaries. Three of our deacons from England were ordained priests at St Mary’s Warrington by Archbishop McMahon, OP of Liverpool. Those were the first EF priestly ordinations by a diocesan bishop in England in fifty years. Please pray for them (www.fssp.org/en/help-us/confraternity-of-saint-peter/) and for many more to enter the lists!
We give thanks for 14 priests ordained from or to the UK over the past 23 years: Fr Armand de Malleray in 2001; Fr Konrad Loewenstein in 2002; Fr Brendan Gerard in 2006; Frs Matthew Goddard and William Barker in 2009; Fr Simon Harkins in 2010; Fr Matthew McCarthy in 2011; Fr Ian Verrier in 2015; Fr James Mawdsley in 2016; Frs Alex Stewart and Krzysztof Sanetra in 2017; Fr Seth Phipps in 2018; Fr Gwilym Evans in 2022; Fr Miklos Homolya in 2024 – plus Fr Patrick O’Donohue from Ireland (incardinated in 2023).
On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, 11 February 2022, Pope Francis signed a decree confirming the liturgical charism of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter.
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.
Beautifying the church ahead of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady: cleaning of All Saints Church on Saturday 7th December at 2pm. All volunteers welcome.
Our beautiful FSSP wall calendars are being printed (including lovely pictures of the various FSSP apostolates) and will reach you in early December.
Baronius missals are available for £45. These and other books such as Vermeer’s Angel, Ego Eimi etc make good Christmas presents. Ask Rita if you would like to buy any of them (please bring cash.)
The visit of St Nicholas will now take place on Sunday 1st December, not the 8th, to avoid clashing with the scouts.
Juventutem gathering in London on Friday 6th Dec at St Mary Magdalene’s Church, Wandsworth: 6pm Confessions, 7pm Sung Mass, 8pm Social. Any 18+ young adult welcome!
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.
SACRAMENTS PREPARATION DATES: Your clergy look forward to seeing you at Our Lady of Ransom Church in Kempston from 1:00pm to 2:00pm on the following Saturdays: 11th & 25th January; 8th February; 1st, 15th & 29th March; 5th April; 10th & 31st May; 14th June. Please note that all ten sessions are compulsory for admission to the sacraments.
Please book now in your diaries those 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 4th 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.
ALTAR SERVING, ASK LUKE: thankfully our FSSP seminarian Luke is skilled in teaching how to serve Low Mass, Sung Mass, and Solemn Mass. This will be his chief involvement in the life of our community during his stay with us. Therefore, please do book for a practice (l.j.mazurek@pm.me) for a one-to-one, or one-to-a-group, either at St Alban House, or at Our Lady of Ransom, or in Chesham Bois, or at your house if transport for Luke can be arranged. There is scope and skills for such practices to take place every week tailored to your circumstances. (The usual safeguarding rules apply if minors take part in the practice.) Contact Luke now.
Can you help your clergy with ongoing small sewing jobs mending vestments for holy Mass and clergy cassocks? The problem is that the longer we wait to mend those, the worse it gets and the bigger the work. We warmly welcome the offering of your time and skills. Thank you!
Pray for the sick in our congregations: 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.
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In this issue:
FSSP Wall Calendars 2024-2025
We include a complimentary copy in every printed copy of this issue of Dowry. Discover beautiful pictures of our apostolates across England, Scotland and Ireland, with the liturgical year and traditional feasts. Needless to say, all this comes at a cost and we are grateful for donations in excess of £5.00 to FSSP England.
Editorial: Three Saintly Anniversaries
Three forthcoming anniversaries of great significance for Catholics are spiritual opportunities to seize. They commemorate God’s Incarnation, the Lord’s revelation of his Sacred Heart, and Our Lady’s mediation, Fr de Malleray observes.
Hope Does Not Disappoint
Extracts from Pope Francis’ bull of indiction for the 2025 Jubilee of the Incarnation of the Lord. Further to Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical on the virtue of Hope, Pope Francis reminds all the importance of that virtue, especially in times of trial or gloom.
He Smuggled The Sacred Heart Into England
Dominica Roberts tells how French priest Father Claude la Colombière S.J. providentially brought the devotion from Paray-le-Monial into the heart of London at the cost of his life, thus securing a direct connection between the Sacred Heart and England.
Statistics, Intercession, And Sanctification
The annual statistics of the FSSP were updated to close to 600 members and over 10,000 sodality members: an occasion to give thanks to God, but also to request more prayers for us to grow and bear lasting fruit by God’s grace.
Garments of Sanctity: Opus Anglicanum
The glorious English tradition of sowing and embroidering liturgical vestments is valued anew, Ola Smalley finds, with immediate use within the traditional movement as generously provided by the busy sewing needles of the Guild of St Clare.
Interior of the Carpenter’s Shop at Forty Hill
Using a non-religious painting by John Hill (c.1780–1841) from the Tate Britain Gallery in London, Fr Armand de Malleray walks a few easy steps with beginners in the art of interpretation that can further apply to religious art.
Craft Resources For Catholic Homes
Catherine Witkowski and John Grimer introduce the online shop run by them and their siblings to equip families with home-made visual illustrations of the Catholic faith through the depictions of saints, calendars, and books.
Support our Apostolate
More than ever we need your help to keep our ministry going in Bedford, Chesham Bois, Reading, Warrington, Edinburgh, Waterford and Wexford. Please tell your friendsabout us, sharing links from our articles, pictures, publications, and activities, praying God that bequests be made to help us secure or acquire the buildings we need.
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 11:30am ; 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
HOLY MASS TIMES:
CONFESSIONS TIMES
Soundproofing work is nearing completion in the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom.
For the sake of confidentiality please whisper rather than speak. 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.
THIS SATURDAY: Young adults’ first excursion (for unmarried men and women 18+) on 30th November. Meet by 11:00am at Woburn public car park on Park Street (X9QM+H8 Milton Keynes or https://maps.app.goo.gl/NVHEd8GR7idH3RbaA). Walk across Woburn Abbey deer park, followed by lunch at nearby pub (e.g. the Woburn Arms) with informal chat, with clergy in attendance. If you live near Chesham Bois or Bedford please email attendance and lift need and lift offer (malleray@fssp.org).
Your friends from outside Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire are most welcome!
CHRISTMAS DINNERS with quiz designed by chaplaincy clergy: last chance to book
for Chesham Bois Sat 7th December, 7:00pm;
and for Bedford on 10th December at 7:00pm: please hand £5.00 per person to Rita Carroll this Sunday to secure your booking at the Knife and Cleaver, Houghton Conquest, for around £25 per head for 2 courses or £30 for 3.
Congratulations to Louis and Francesca Grimer on the happy birth of their daughter Elizabeth last 8th October, and on her holy Baptism planned in Chesham Bois on Sat 7th Dec at 3pm. Let us keep in our prayers the families expecting a child or who recently had one.
Monthly meetings of adult groups at Our Lady of Ransom in Kempston next month: Men’s 11 Dec 8pm; Ladies’ 14 Dec 1pm.
Vocation discernment weekend
on 28 February – 2 March 2025
for single Catholic men 18-30.
At Buckden Towers, High Street, Buckden, St. Neots, Cambs PE19 5TA
Starts Fri 5:00pm; ends Sun 2:00pm
Is God calling ME? Matrimony, celibacy, monastery, seminary, Fraternity?
COME & SEE If you are a single Catholic man between 18 and 30 years of age, come and discern with us near Bedford. Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP will lead the weekend. There will be talks, prayers, Holy Mass and informal chatting with fellow-guests. Possibility of private meetings with a priest, and of confession. Feel welcome confidentially to call, email or write for any questions. Holy Mass each of the three days.
COST: £95.00 per person in total (bed + full board). FREE for unwaged and students – give whatever amount you can.
BOOKINGS & CONTACT: [not via Facebook] malleray@fssp.org (read by Fr de Malleray only).
ACCESS: Direct train from London St Pancras to St Neots, every half hour, duration 56 minutes.
The nearest towns are Huntingdon (5 miles NNE of Buckden) and St Neots (5 miles South of Buckden). Both Huntingdon and St Neots are served by the West Anglian Great Northern Railway line from King’s Cross London to Peterborough. Let us know if you would need a lift from the railway station. There also are bus and coach links to both Huntingdon and St Neots from many parts of the country.
We have currently five young men from the UK & Ireland in formation at our two international seminaries. Three of our deacons from England were ordained priests at St Mary’s Warrington by Archbishop McMahon, OP of Liverpool. Those were the first EF priestly ordinations by a diocesan bishop in England in fifty years. Please pray for them (www.fssp.org/en/help-us/confraternity-of-saint-peter/) and for many more to enter the lists!
We give thanks for 14 priests ordained from or to the UK over the past 23 years: Fr Armand de Malleray in 2001; Fr Konrad Loewenstein in 2002; Fr Brendan Gerard in 2006; Frs Matthew Goddard and William Barker in 2009; Fr Simon Harkins in 2010; Fr Matthew McCarthy in 2011; Fr Ian Verrier in 2015; Fr James Mawdsley in 2016; Frs Alex Stewart and Krzysztof Sanetra in 2017; Fr Seth Phipps in 2018; Fr Gwilym Evans in 2022; Fr Miklos Homolya in 2024 – plus Fr Patrick O’Donohue from Ireland (incardinated in 2023).
On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, 11 February 2022, Pope Francis signed a decree confirming the liturgical charism of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter.
Please pray for us. We assure you of our prayer.
O Lord, grant us many holy priests!
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.
Beautifying the church ahead of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady: cleaning of All Saints Church on Saturday 7th December at 2pm. All volunteers welcome.
Homily on “euthanasia” by Fr de Malleray here: https://fb.watch/w1vNdeIBEo/
Our beautiful FSSP wall calendars are being printed (including lovely pictures of the various FSSP apostolates) and will reach you in early December.
The Muoghalu family will take the statue of Our Lady this Sunday, praying daily the litany of Loreto to the intentions of our congregations.
Baronius missals are available for £45. These and other books such as Vermeer’s Angel, Ego Eimi etc make good Christmas presents. Ask Rita if you would like to buy any of them (please bring cash.)
The visit of St Nicholas will now take place on Sunday 1st December, not the 8th, to avoid clashing with the scouts.
Juventutem gathering in London on Friday 6th Dec at St Mary Magdalene’s Church, Wandsworth: 6pm Confessions, 7pm Sung Mass, 8pm Social. Any 18+ young adult welcome!
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.
SACRAMENTS PREPARATION TO BEGIN: Dates for classes for Holy Communion preparation are being finalised: we will hold classes two Saturdays per month from January onward. Email us as soon as possible the names of candidates for First Holy Communion to take place on Corpus Christi Sunday, 22 June 2025. The same frequency is planned for Confirmation classes starting in January until June, ahead of Saturday 4th October 2025 when Bishop Oakley will confer the sacrament.
ALTAR SERVING: thankfully our FSSP seminarian Luke is skilled in teaching how to serve Low Mass, Sung Mass, and Solemn Mass. This will be his chief involvement in the life of our community during his stay with us. Therefore, please do book for a practice (l.j.mazurek@pm.me) for a one-to-one, or one-to-a-group, either at St Alban House, or at Our Lady of Ransom, or in Chesham Bois, or at your house if transport for Luke can be arranged. There is scope and skills for such practices to take place every week tailored to your circumstances. (The usual safeguarding rules apply if minors take part in the practice.) Contact Luke now.
Thank you to all who attended the “First” Masses of newly ordained Fr Miklos Homolya, FSSP last weekend and provided refreshments, shared pictures, sang, and served. Pray for more priests! See pics on https://www.flickr.com/photos/138056205@N08/albums.
Can you help your clergy with ongoing small sewing jobs mending vestments for holy Mass and clergy cassocks? The problem is that the longer we wait to mend those, the worse it gets and the bigger the work. We warmly welcome the offering of your time and skills. Thank you!
Pray for the sick in our congregations: 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.
and pray the saints for intercession, especially those associated with the care of the dying: St Joseph, St Camillus of Lellis, St John of God, St Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
