Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Diocese of Northampton
Residence: St Alban House, 18 Brett Drive, Bromham, Bedford MK43 8RF
Landline: 01234 954 316
Worship across three churches:
Sunday 8:30am: All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH
Sunday 12noon: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE
Weekdays: Our Lady of Ransom, 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB: Mon 9:30am ; Tue 6:30am ; Wed 7:15pm ; Thu 9:30am ; Fri 8:30am ; Sat 11:30am (following Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions from 10:00am & Eucharistic Benediction ending by 11:20am)
fssp.org.uk/bedford or fssp.org.uk/chesham
facebook.com/bedfordlatinmass
facebook.com/fssp.england
Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org
Assistant: Fr Miguel Coelho, FSSP-Associate : pe.miguelcoelho@protonmail.com
Secretary: Mrs Rita Carroll: bedford@fssp.org
Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the FSSP Northampton Safeguarding officer William Currie: Tel: 07825 089 336. Email: safeguardingfssp@pm.me. Reminder: NO child must be left unsupervised at any time.
Watch daily Mass by the FSSP on www.livemass.net/locations/warrington.html
Daily Holy Mass readings: www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl
CONFESSIONS TIMES
Our Lady of Ransom (for anyone): Sat 10:00am-11:15am, and 20mins before every weekday Mass. At All Saints: during Sunday Mass in the room behind the organ. Chesham Bois: after the Sunday 12noon Mass if not before.
HABEMUS PAPAM!
“Pax Vobis”: Deeply heartened by these first words of Leo XIV in echoing the Good Shepherd in these days after the Resurrection, we ardently join the Holy Father in his intentions for peace within the world and within the Church.
We assure him of our fervent prayers by invoking in particular the very Patron of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles: Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram ædificabo ecclesiam meam.
Congratulations to Mr Grant and Dr Silvia Grant on the Holy Baptism of their fourth child Beatrix in Kemp-ston on Sat 3rd May.
Greenlight to fundraise for a place of worship. We will keep you informed.
The collection for the Holy Places on Good Friday was £293.85. Thank you for your generosity towards our fellow Catholics in the Holy Land.
Annual Chaplaincy pilgrimage to Walsingham on Sat 12th July. Save the date and register interest with Rita. We will give thanks for 14 years (minus a week) since the establishment of the Gregorian Chaplaincy (19 July 2011) by Bishop Doyle.
Marian processions after Sunday Masses in Chesham Bois after the 12noon Mass on 11 May; in Bedford after the 8:30am Mass on 18 May.
Please pray for Tremaine Newman-Brown and Lottie Harvey-Craig who will be united in holy Matrimony at All Saints, Kempston, on 31st May.
Three French FSSP priests met in Bedford during Easter Week: Fr Brice Meissonnier, parish priest of our personal parish in Rome, and Fr Alban Cras, Head of Propaedeutic at our seminary in Bavaria, spent five days on vacation at St Alban House hosted by Fr de Malleray.
Men’s Group, Wed 14 May, 8pm,
and Ladies Group on Sat 17 May 1:30pm:
talks by Fr Coelho on: Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Ascension of the Lord, Thursday 29th May, a holiday of obligation: every able Catholic from First Communion onward must attend holy Mass that day.
Holy Masses at 6:30am and 5:30pm at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston.
And at 6:30pm at Our Lady’s in Chesham Bois, followed by talk for all about the Ascension of the Lord and the afterlife, at 7:30pm, also in Chesham Bois.
At All Saints Church: kindly remember to put all the hassocks, chairs and pews away safely after holy Mass.
Improving safety together at All Saints: although there will be volunteers on the field to monitor the riverbank, parents still have responsibility for looking after their children.
What is required:
Volunteers to be DBS checked
Volunteers to undergo one hour safeguarding training online
Volunteers to sign a code of conduct
Volunteers to wear a high visibility vest in order to identify their role and be a point of reference
Juventutem annual Summer Weekend in Ampleforth, 18-20 July 2025, for 18-35 singles. Visit Juventutem on X, Instagram & Facebook. Click to open the booking form: https://lms.org.uk/juventutem2025.
Price includes: 3 days / 2 nights full Bed and Board + transport to and from York Station.
Booking before 11 May 2025: £135
Booking after 11 May 2025: £170 Event Fee(s)
Well done 40 young adults from Juventutem London and Beds & Bucks trekkers who attended a Marian day of recollection led by Fr de Malleray on 10th May.
Our parishioner Daniel uploads some homilies and talks given within the Gregorian chaplaincy:
Booking forms for this year’s summer camps in the Peak District (for children 10-17) will be available shortly. The boys’ camp will be 4-9 August, and the girls’ camp, 11-16 August.
Jonathan Moxham is a Mortgage Adviser and also provides advice on Life, Mortgage, and Family Protection Insurance. Jonathan does not charge a fee, and will donate 10% of his earnings from any parishioner or introduced client from this newsletter to the FSSP. Please contact Jonathan on 07769 665525 or email jon@denyerhill.com.
Our parishioner Sebastien offers his services for DYI, gardening, patio installation, tree felling, etc: 07814164308 ; sebpetitfrere@protonmail.com.
French language tuition based around Catholicism and French culture: frenchforcatholics@gmail.com
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Maria Chidell, Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Fr Patrick Hutton, four-year-old Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Prima Nevard, Carl Roberts. Please email to sick list.
Over 200 adults and children took part in the FSSP Bedford Solemn Easter Triduum 2025. People travelled from far and wide, some from Oxfordshire, Greater London, and Lincolnshire.
It was possibly the only place across the UK where permission had been given for those beautiful and complex ceremonies to take place in a pre-Reformation church, built a mere 33 years after the Norman Conquest, in 1099 (on the site of an older Catholic church.) What joy to hear these hallowed walls echo the traditional Roman liturgy after about five centuries. We thank all those who helped in so many ways to make this Triduum 2025 such a rewarding time of prayer. These liturgies took place under the auspices of the FSSP Gregorian Chaplaincy, established by the Bishop of Northampton in 2011 to serve the needs of those attached to the traditional liturgy.
For single Catholics 18-35, in just a fortnight: spread the word!
FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 27 April-10 May 2025
Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Diocese of Northampton
Gregorian Chaplaincy, est. 19th July 2011
Residence: St Alban House, 18 Brett Drive, Bromham, Bedford MK43 8RF
Landline: 01234 954 316
Worship across three churches:
Sunday 8:30am: All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH
Sunday 12noon: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE
Weekdays: Our Lady of Ransom, 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB: Mon 9:30am ; Tue 6:30am ; Wed 7:15pm ; Thu 9:30am ; Fri 8:30am ; Sat 11:30am (following Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions from 10:00am & Eucharistic Benediction ending by 11:20am)
fssp.org.uk/bedford or fssp.org.uk/chesham
facebook.com/bedfordlatinmass
facebook.com/fssp.england
Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org
Assistant: Fr Miguel Coelho, FSSP-Associate : pe.miguelcoelho@protonmail.com
Secretary: Mrs Rita Carroll: bedford@fssp.org
Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the FSSP Northampton Safeguarding officer William Currie: Tel: 07825 089 336. Email: safeguardingfssp@pm.me. Reminder: NO child must be left unsupervised at any time.
Watch daily Mass by the FSSP on www.livemass.net/locations/warrington.html
Daily Holy Mass readings: www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl
CONFESSIONS TIMES
Our Lady of Ransom (for anyone): Sat 10:00am-11:15am, and 20mins before every weekday Mass. At All Saints: during Sunday Mass in the room behind the organ. Chesham Bois: after the Sunday 12noon Mass if not before.
Thank you to all who helped make our Easter Triduum prayerful and beautiful: singers, organist & trumpetist, altar servers, cleaners, flower arrangers, fire lighters, safeguarding officers, refreshments preparers, and visiting clergy.
Over 200 adults and children took part in the FSSP Bedford Solemn Easter Triduum 2025. People travelled from far and wide, some from Oxfordshire, Greater London, and Lincolnshire. It was possibly the only place across the UK where permission had been given for those beautiful and complex ceremonies to take place in a pre-Reformation church, built a mere 33 years after the Norman Conquest, in 1099 (on the site of an older Catholic church.) What joy to hear these hallowed walls echo the traditional Roman liturgy after about five centuries. We thank all those who helped in so many ways to make this Triduum 2025 such a rewarding time of prayer. These liturgies took place under the auspices of the FSSP Gregorian Chaplaincy, established by the Bishop of Northampton in 2011 so serve the needs of those attached to the traditional liturgy.
Let us pray for the repose of his soul. He often asked to be remembered in the prayers of those who met him. We are indebted to him for his decree of February 11, 2022, clearly reaffirming the practice and charism that the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter has had from its foundation.
We will offer a Requiem Mass on Tuesday 6th May to “pray to God that through the Sacrifice offered for the soul of his servant, he may be admitted into the celestial kingdom in the company of all the saints.”
All are invited to recite daily the following prayer for the choice of the new pope:
O Lord, with suppliant humility, we entreat you,
that in your boundless mercy,
you would grant the most holy Roman Church a pontiff, who,
by his zeal for us, may be pleasing to you,
and by his good government may ever be honoured by your people
for the glory of your name. Through our Lord…
We will offer another Mass to pray for the election of the new pope on Thursday 8th May.
Congratulations to Pedro and Alina Ivorra Perez on the Holy Baptism of their firstborn son Santiago on Friday 25 April; and Mr Andy and Dr Silvia Grant on the Holy Baptism of their fourth child Beatrix scheduled in Kempston on Sat 3rd May, 12:30pm.
Greenlight to fundraise for a place of worship. We will keep you informed.
Annual Chaplaincy pilgrimage to Walsingham on Sat 12th July. Save the date and register interest with Rita. We will give thanks for 14 years (minus a week) since the establishment of the Gregorian Chaplaincy (19 July 2011) by Bishop Doyle.
Please pray for Tremaine Newman-Brown and Lottie Harvey-Craig who will be united in holy Matrimony at All Saints, Kempston, on 31st May.
All Saints: kindly remember to put all the hassocks, chairs and pews away safely after holy Mass.
Improving safety together at All Saints: although there will be volunteers on the field to monitor the riverbank, parents still have responsibility for looking after their children.
What is required:
Volunteers to be DBS checked
Volunteers to undergo one hour safeguarding training online
Volunteers to sign a code of conduct
Volunteers to wear a high visibility vest in order to identify their role and be a point of reference
Juventutem annual Summer Weekend in Ampleforth, 18-20 July 2025, for 18-35 singles.
Visit Juventutem on X, Instagram & Facebook.
Price includes: 3 days / 2 nights full Bed and Board + transport to and from York Station.
With Fr de Malleray, FSSP, Fr Miklos Homolya, FSSP, Deacon Conan Mc Gonagle, FSSP, and lay speakers and organisers.
Booking before 11 May 2025: £135
Booking after 11 May 2025: £170 Event Fee(s)
PLEASE BOOK NOW: WE NEED ENOUGH BOOKINGS TAKEN THIS MONTH TO PAY THE DEPOSIT REQUIRED BY THE ABBEY.
PLEASE SHARE THIS EVENT WITH YOUR FRIENDS IF 18-35,
AND WITH YOUR FRIENDS PARENTS OF CHILDREN AGED 18-35. THANK YOU!
Booking forms for this year’s summer camps in the Peak District (for children 10-17) will be available shortly. The boys’ camp will be 4-9 August, and the girls’ camp, 11-16 August.
Jonathan Moxham is a Mortgage Adviser and also provides advice on Life, Mortgage, and Family Protection Insurance. Jonathan does not charge a fee, and will donate 10% of his earnings from any parishioner or introduced client from this newsletter to the FSSP. Please contact Jonathan on 07769 665525 or email jon@denyerhill.com.
Our parishioner Sebastien offers his services for DYI, gardening, patio installation, tree felling, etc: 07814164308 ; sebpetitfrere@protonmail.com.
French language tuition based around Catholicism and French culture: frenchforcatholics@gmail.com
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Stephen Moxham, Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Fr Patrick Hutton, four-year-old Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Prima Nevard, Carl Roberts. Please email to sick list.
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TOMORROW SATURDAY 12 APRIL: Monthly Ladies’ Group: Sat 12th, 1:30pm: Seminarian Luke will speak on Our Lady of Sorrows and the redemptive power of suffering. Arrive earlier if you can for 10am-11:30am Eucharistic adoration and confessions, 11:30am holy Mass, and 12:30pm shared picnic lunch for ladies.
FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 13-26 April 2025 (fortnightly edition)
Gregorian Chaplaincy, est. 19th July 2011
Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Diocese of Northampton
Residence: St Alban House, 18 Brett Drive, Bromham, Bedford MK43 8RF
Landline: 01234 954 316
Worship across three churches:
Sunday 8:30am: All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH
Sunday 12noon: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE
Weekdays: Our Lady of Ransom, 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB: Mon 9:30am ; Tue 6:30am ; Wed 7:15pm ; Thu 9:30am ; Fri 8:30am ; Sat 11:30am (following Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions from 10:00am & Eucharistic Benediction ending by 11:20am)
fssp.org.uk/bedford or fssp.org.uk/chesham
facebook.com/bedfordlatinmass
facebook.com/fssp.england
Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP:
malleray@fssp.org
Assistant: Fr Miguel Coelho, FSSP-Associate : pe.miguelcoelho@protonmail.com
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
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.
Full Solemn Easter Triduum in Bedford
ALL at ALL SAINTS, KEMPSTON MK43 8RH
Maundy Thursday 17 April: 8:00pm Holy Mass, followed by adoration at Altar of Repose until midnight (with confessions heard).
Good Friday 18 April: 4:00pm Solemn Liturgy (ends by 6pm). Compulsory fast & abstinence.
Holy Saturday 19 April: 8:00pm Easter Vigil [please note this later start time of 8:00pm, updated from the earlier time of 7:00pm originally advertised. This is to coincide with sunset now that summertime has started, unlike last year’s Easter Vigil] Holy Saturday 10:00am-12noon: Confessions at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston
Easter Sunday 20 April: 8:30am Holy Mass
And usual 12noon Sunday Mass in Chesham Bois
Farewell to Seminarian Luke Mazurek, FSSP last Sunday: thank you for those who helped organise the lovely event! Ahead of Luke’s departure on Easter Monday after six months in pastoral placement with us. Luke has settled well in our community, helping with altar servers’ training, catechism classes, talks, Mass scheduling, liturgical singing, youth apostolate, stations of the Cross, and more. We assure him of our ongoing prayer as he returns to Wigratzbad after the Easter break to complete his sixth year at seminary.
Greenlight to fundraise for a place of worship. We hope to be able to advertise a dedicated bank account by the Ascension. We will keep you informed.
Our heartfelt condolences to Tony Nevard, his children, and their families, on the death of Mrs Prima Nevard in hospital on Sat 5 April. Thankfully she had received the Last Rites, less than 24hrs previous. May she rest in peace. Details of her funeral will be communicated soon.
Colwich Abbey trip on Bank holiday Monday 26th May 2025. Booking completed. Timetable to be communicated later on.
Annual Chaplaincy pilgrimage to Walsingham on Sat 12th July. Save the date and register interest with Rita. We will give thanks for 14 years (minus a week) since the establishment of the Gregorian Chaplaincy (19 July 2011) by Bishop Doyle.
Youth Trek now CONFIRMED: Saturday 26th April, 11am, Silsoe, Beds. Meet HERE outside entrance pavilion to the Wrest Park estate, just before the bridge across the A6. Park Avenue, Silsoe (52°00’30.5″N 0°25’20.4″W). Free parking along adjacent streets. Lunch at nearby pub after. Please note that we will not need fee-paying access to Wrest Park but will walk a loop around it, for free. For single young adults 18-35. Email Dominic for any further information: difalcodom@gmail.com .
Booking forms for this year’s summer camps in the Peak District (for children 10-17) will be available shortly. The boys’ camp will be 4-9 August, and the girls’ camp, 11-16 August.
All Saints: kindly remember to put all the hassocks, chairs and pews away safely after holy Mass.
Improving safety together at All Saints: although there will be volunteers on the field to monitor the riverbank, parents still have responsibility for looking after their children.
What is required:
Volunteers to be DBS checked
Volunteers to undergo one hour safeguarding training online
Volunteers to sign a code of conduct
Volunteers to wear a high visibility vest in order to identify their role and be a point of reference
Congratulations to Stephen Moxham (father of our parishioner Jonathan) who became a Catholic while in hospital last Sunday. Pray for his safe convalescing after his life-threatening but successful operation.
Congratulations to Peter Saulnier, one of our young adults in Chesham Bois, who has been attending our Mass and other activities for about a year and will receive Holy Baptism on Saturday 12 April at 12:30pm, at Our Lady of Ransom in Kempston. Peter will receive First Holy Communion at Chesham Bois on Sunday 13 April, 12noon.
Printed copies of Dowrymagazine No65 Spring have been displayed for you to take home and share. It is a special issue on religious vocations.
Fr de Malleray, Fr Coelho, and Seminarian Luke went on a monthly excursion to London last week and were given a tour of Allen Hall Seminary (picture) before visiting the Brompton Oratory and admiring some of the ecclesiastical artefacts at the nearby V&A.
Professional advertising by our parishioners:
Our parishioner Sebastien offers his services for:
Gardening Services (lawn mowing, weeding, bush and hedge trimming, medium tree pruning, planting trees, etc.
Build/Set up Garden Structures eg sheds, raised beds.
Professional Fencing
Felling trees up to 15m
Interior and exterior decorating and restoration (wallpaper removal, plastering, painting, tiling)
General Car Mechanical Maintenance (fuel management, fluid/filter changes, brakes, exhaust etc)
DIY and Handyman – various jobs around the house.
French for Catholics: French language tuition based around Catholicism and French culture. Online lessons in small groups. All ages catered for. Please contact Isabelle and Simon Lubbock at frenchforcatholics@gmail.com for more info.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Fr Patrick Hutton, four-year-old Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Mrs Prima Nevard, 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
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.
Clergy-led stations of the Cross every Friday in Lent at 9:10am, following the 8:30am holy Mass (at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston).
Most beneficial Lenten penance: attend a holy Mass once on a weekday. Circle your chosen date:
My Week 5: 7―8―9―10―11―12 April
My (Holy) Week 6: 14―15―16―17―18―19 Apr
Full Solemn Easter Triduum in Bedford
ALL at ALL SAINTS, KEMPSTON MK43 8RH
Maundy Thursday 17 April: 8:00pm Holy Mass, followed by adoration at Altar of Repose until midnight (with confessions heard).
Good Friday 18 April: 4:00pm Solemn Liturgy (ends by 6pm). Compulsory fast & abstinence.
Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Tang on the announcement of their son Emmanuel’s marriage with Miss Anja Hoffmann in Austria on 20 Sept 2025. Also, please keep in your prayer Tremaine Newman-Brown and Lottie Harvey-Craig who will be united in holy Matrimony at All Saints, Kempston, on 31st May 2025. We assure the two betrothed couples of our prayers.
Mothers’ Day celebration last Sunday: thank you for those who helped organise the lovely event!
Greenlight to fundraise for a place of worship. We will keep you informed.
Our heartfelt condolences to Tony Nevard, his children, and their families, on the death of Mrs Prima Nevard in hospital on Sat 5 April. Thankfully she had received the Last Rites, less than 24hrs previous. May she rest in peace. Details of her funeral will be communicated soon.
Colwich Abbey trip date confirmed: Bank holiday Monday 26th May 2025. Due to a limited space in the nuns’ chapel and refectory, can we please give priority to young ladies and their mums?
Please email Rita Carroll to register interest.
Annual Chaplaincy pilgrimage to Walsingham on Sat 12th July. Save the date and register interest with Rita. We will give thanks for 14 years (minus a week) since the establishment of the Gregorian Chaplaincy (19 July 2011) by Bishop Doyle.
Learning our faith while having fun together,
Men’s group: Wed 9th, 8pm: Fr de Malleray will speak on Our Lady of Sorrows and the redemptive power of suffering
Ladies’: Sat 12th, 1:30pm: Seminarian Luke will speak on the same topic.
Youth Trek: TBC Sat 26th April, 11am, Silsoe, Beds: register interest ASAP for us to gauge numbers and confirm date and location.
Booking forms for this year’s summer camps in the Peak District (for children 10-17) will be available shortly. The boys’ camp will be 4-9 August, and the girls’ camp, 11-16 August.
All Saints: kindly remember to put all the hassocks, chairs and pews away safely after holy Mass.
Improving safety together at All Saints: although there will be volunteers on the field to monitor the riverbank, parents still have responsibility for looking after their children.
What is required:
Volunteers to be DBS checked
Volunteers to undergo one hour safeguarding training online
Volunteers to sign a code of conduct
Volunteers to wear a high visibility vest in order to identify their role and be a point of reference
Congratulations to Matthew and Ester Blisset on the baptism of their newborn son Joseph on Sunday 6th April at Our Lady of Ransom, 1pm.
Dowry magazine No65 Spring out: special issue on religious vocations.
Farewell to Seminarian Luke Mazurek, FSSP: meet in hall after Sunday Mass on 6th April, ahead of Luke’s departure on Easter Monday after six months in pastoral placement with us. Luke has settled well in our community, helping with altar servers’ training, catechism classes, talks, Mass scheduling, liturgical singing, youth apostolate, stations of the Cross, and more. We assure him of our ongoing prayer as he returns to Wigratzbad after the Easter break to complete his sixth year at seminary.
French for Catholics: French language tuition based around Catholicism and French culture. Online lessons in small groups. All ages catered for. Please contact Isabelle and Simon Lubbock at frenchforcatholics@gmail.com for more info.
Monthly holy Mass will be offered at Regina Caeli Academy for the pupils and staff by Chaplain Fr de Malleray on Monday, 31st March.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Fr Patrick Hutton, 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
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.
Clergy-led stations of the Cross every Friday in Lent at 9:10am, following the 8:30am holy Mass (at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston).
Most beneficial Lenten penance: attend a holy Mass once on a weekday. Circle your chosen date:
My Week 4: 31 March―1―2―3―4―5 April
My Week 5: 7―8―9―10―11―12 April
My (Holy) Week 6: 14―15―16―17―18―19 Apr
A confessor awaits you in our state-of-the-art soundproof confessional 20 minutes before every weekday Mass at Our Lady’s in Kempston.
Full Solemn Easter Triduum in Bedford
ALL at ALL SAINTS, KEMPSTON MK43 8RH
Maundy Thursday 17 April: 8:00pm Holy Mass, followed by adoration at Altar of Repose until midnight (with confessions heard).
Good Friday 18 April: 4:00pm Solemn Liturgy (ends by 6pm). Compulsory fast & abstinence.
A beautiful large wall crucifix salvaged from a church skip was kindly donated to the Chaplaincy. Building a bespoke base to make it free-standing, plus professional restoration work (a finger and a toe on the Corpus were missing) and repainting cost £550.00.
The crucifix will be used for the adoration of the Cross this Good Friday.
We welcome donations to help us cover the cost. Thank you in advance!
Mothers’ Day celebration at the church hall after Mass on Laetare Sunday 30th March. Bring cakes, sandwiches and scones.
Mothers (and grandmothers!) are welcome to come and stand along the altar rail before the recessional to receive from the celebrant a flower as a token of gratitude for their motherhood.
Picture courtesy of M4LUK
Greenlight to fundraise for a place of worship:
The superiors of the FSSP have approved the project in principle. A legal framework is being drafted. Once validated we will be able to open a bank account and to receive donations (not until then). We will keep you informed.
Listen to talk on How we can imitate Saint Joseph, given by Fr de Malleray in Chesham Bois last week: https://youtu.be/9dpBA9yflCo .
Colwich Abbey trip date confirmed: Bank holiday Monday 26th May 2025. Due to a limited space in the nuns’ chapel and refectory, can we please give priority to young ladies and their mums?
Please email Rita Carroll to register interest.
Annual Chaplaincy pilgrimage to Walsingham on Sat 12th July. Save the date and register interest with Rita. We will give thanks for 14 years (minus a week) since the establishment of the Gregorian Chaplaincy (19 July 2011) by Bishop Doyle.
Learning our faith while having fun together, well done the…
12 young adults who walked the trek last week
17 gentlemen who attended the Men’s talk, Bedford
17 ladies who attended the Ladies’ group, Bedford
43 adults who attended the Chesham Bois evening
65 young adults who attended Juventutem London
Youth Trek last week
APRIL GROUPS:
Juventutem London: Friday 4th 7pm;
Men’s group: Wed 9th, 8pm;
Ladies’: Sat 12th, 1:30pm;
Youth Trek: TBC Sat 26th, 11am.
Booking forms for this year’s summer camps (for children 10-17) will be available shortly. The boys’ camp will be 4-9 August, and the girls’ camp, 11-16 August. They will once again take place at Savio House, Bollington, in the Peak District.
All Saints: kindly remember to put all the hassocks, chairs and pews away safely after holy Mass.
Improving safety together at All Saints: although there will be volunteers on the field to monitor the riverbank, parents still have responsibility for looking after their children.
Play area: parents/responsible adults needed
Despite the temporary green fence experimented with two weeks ago, following legal consultation by our charity it is with regret that the use of the field behind the hall at All Saints Church has been suspended at this time due to serious concerns about the safety of children and vulnerable adults with regards to the river that flows past it. We will be able to use the field again once some health and safety measures have been put in place. We are looking for responsible adults to join a rolling rota of designated volunteers who will supervise activities at the field and in the Reactive8 play area.
What is required:
Volunteers to be DBS checked
Volunteers to undergo one hour safeguarding training online
Volunteers to sign a code of conduct
Volunteers to wear a high visibility vest in order to identify their role and be a point of reference
If we have enough volunteers the task will not be too onerous or time consuming but it will be an important one for the safety and well-being of the children in our care. If you would like to volunteer then please see Rita Carroll or William Currie or email wpcurrie@btinternet.com.
Congratulations to Matthew and Ester Blissett on the birth of their baby boy last week.
Farewell Seminarian Luke Mazurek, FSSP: meet in hall after Sunday Mass on 6th April, ahead of Luke’s departure on Easter Monday after six months in pastoral placement with us.
Local Catholic Business of the Week: as a follow up on the earlier St Joseph Directory, members of our two congregations are welcome to advertise their professional skills in our newsletter and website.
Juventutem annual Summer Weekend in Ampleforth, 18-20 July 2025, for 18-35 singles. Visit Juventutem on X, Instagram & Facebook.
Monthly holy Mass will be offered at Regina Caeli Academy for the pupils and staff by Chaplain Fr de Malleray on Monday, 31st March.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Monika Oledzka, Prima Nevard, Dominic Bozzino, Mrs Henn, Fr Patrick Hutton, four-year-old Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Carl Roberts.
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
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.
Clergy-led stations of the Cross every Friday in Lent at 9:10am, following the 8:30am holy Mass (at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston).
Most beneficial Lenten penance: attend a holy Mass once on a weekday. Circle your chosen date:
My Week 3: 24―25―26―27―28―29 March
My Week 4: 31 March―1―2―3―4―5 April
My Week 5: 7―8―9―10―11―12 April
My (Holy) Week 6: 14―15―16―17―18―19 Apr
A confessor awaits you in our state-of-the-art soundproof confessional 20 minutes before every weekday Mass at Our Lady’s in Kempston.
The superiors of the FSSP have approved the project in principle. A legal framework is being drafted. Once validated we will be able to open a bank account and to receive donations (not until then). We will keep you informed.
Three monthly groups on Saturday 22 March:
Ladies’ Group, Sat 22 March, 1:30pm. Talk by Fr de Malleray on Saint Joseph in relation to the Holy Eucharist, Our Lady, children, and Holy Church. (after 11:30am Mass and picnic)
Young Adults’ Trek on Sat 22 March: (for singles 18-35) meet by 10:45am at Sundon Hill’s Country Park 53 Harlington Road, Sundon, Luton LU3 3PE. Book with us for lunch at pub on the way. With Fr Coelho and seminarian Luke.
Chesham Bois talk for all by Fr de Malleray on Sat 22 March, 7pm: Saint Joseph in relation to the Holy Eucharist, Our Lady, children, and Holy Church.
Pray for four of our young ladies who will make their Promise as Wolvets on Sunday 23 March.
Booking forms for this year’s summer camps (for children 10-17) will be available shortly. The boys’ camp will be 4-9 August, and the girls’ camp, 11-16 August. They will once again take place at Savio House, Bollington, in the Peak District.
Annual Chaplaincy pilgrimage to Walsingham on
Saturday 12th July 2025.
Save the date!
Colwich Abbey trip, tentative date on Bank holiday Monday 26th May 2025.
Please email Rita Carroll to register interest.
Improving children safety together at All Saints:
Thankfully no children were found unsupervised last Sunday: thank you to the parents! Please continue to watch over your little ones.
(Statue of St Vincent de Paul, Paris)
Play area: parents/responsible adults needed
Despite the temporary green fence experimented with two weeks ago, following legal consultation by our charity it is with regret that the use of the field behind the hall at All Saints Church has been suspended at this time due to serious concerns about the safety of children and vulnerable adults with regards to the river that flows past it. We will be able to use the field again once some health and safety measures have been put in place. We are looking for responsible adults to join a rolling rota of designated volunteers who will supervise activities at the field and in the Reactive8 play area. What is required;
Volunteers to be DBS checked
Volunteers to undergo one hour safeguarding training online
Volunteers to sign a code of conduct
Volunteers to wear a high visibility vest in order to identify their role and be a point of reference
If we have enough volunteers the task will not be too onerous or time consuming but it will be an important one for the safety and well being of the children in our care. If you would like to volunteer then please see Rita Carroll or William Currie or email wpcurrie@btinternet.com
Congratulations to Joe & Eleanor Preston on the baptism of their third child Gabriel scheduled next 29 March in Kempston.
32-year-old Catholic man seeks room for relocation in Bedford: Paul Capon 07564777630 (WhatsApp); paulcapon11@gmail.com.
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
on Tuesday 25 March, holy Masses at
6:30am & 6:30pm
at Our Lady of Ransom in Kempston.
(Sculpture of the Annunciation, Chartres Cathedral)
Well done, 21 young adults from Juventutem who prayed with Fr de Malleray, FSSP for the protection of unborn children, close to the Brixton abortuary last Saturday in London.
Lenten reading: discover the hidden riches of the medieval Marian hymn Stabat Mater presented by Fr de Malleray in his booklet available at CTS: ctsbooks.org/product/meditations-on-the-stabat-mater/ for £4.50. Join our Blessed Mother at the foot of the Cross of her Son and walk with her on the road from life to death to eternal life, by meditating upon the Stabat Mater line by line.
Spring dance, Saturday 26th April 2025 sold out!
Juventutem annual Summer Weekend in Ampleforth, 18-20 July 2025,
for 18-35 singles. Visit Juventutem on X, Instagram & Facebook.
Frs de Malleray and Coelho, and Seminarian Luke, went on a monthly clergy excursion to Woburn Safari Park last week and admired the diversity and beauty of God’s animal creation.
(Three meditative black-and-white-cladded individuals spotted at Woburn Safari Park, though presumably not FSSP clerics.)
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Dominic Bozzino, Mrs Henn, 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
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.
Clergy-led stations of the Cross every Friday in Lent at 9:10am, following the 8:30am holy Mass (at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston).
Most beneficial Lenten penance: attend a holy Mass once on a weekday. Circle your chosen date:
My Week 2: 17―18―19―20―21―22 March
My Week 3: 24―25―26―27―28―29 March
My Week 4: 31 March―1―2―3―4―5 April
My Week 5: 7―8―9―10―11―12 April
My (Holy) Week 6: 14―15―16―17―18―19 Apr
A confessor awaits you in our state-of-the-art soundproof confessional 20 minutes before every weekday Mass at Our Lady’s in Kempston.
Full Solemn Easter Triduum in Bedford
ALL at ALL SAINTS, KEMPSTON MK43 8RH
Maundy Thursday 17 April: 8:00pm Holy Mass, followed by adoration at Altar of Repose until midnight (with confessions heard).
Good Friday 18 April: 4:00pm Solemn Liturgy (ends by 6pm). Compulsory fast & abstinence.
Holy Saturday 19 April: 7:00pm Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday 20 April: 8:30am Holy Mass
And usual 12noon Sunday Mass in Chesham Bois
Greenlight to fundraising for a place of worship:
The superiors of the FSSP have approved the project in principle. A legal framework is being drafted. Once validated we will be able to open a bank account and to receive donations (not until then). We will keep you informed.
Four monthly groups this week:
Men’s Group Wed 19 March, 8pm, after 7:15pm Mass of St Joseph. Talk on: St Joseph, a model of saintly manliness.
Ladies’ Group, Sat 22 March, 1:30pm. Talk onSaint Joseph in relation to the Holy Eucharist, Our Lady, children, and Holy Church. (after 11:30am Mass and picnic)
Young Adults’ Trek on Sat 22 March: (for singles 18-35) meet by 10:45am at Sundon Hill’s Country Park 53 Harlington Road, Sundon, Luton LU3 3PE. Book with us for lunch at pub on the way. With Fr Coelho and seminarian Luke.
Chesham Bois talk for all on Sat 22 March, 7pm: Saint Joseph in relation to the Holy Eucharist, Our Lady, children, and Holy Church.
Pray for four of our young ladies who will make their Promise as Wolvets on Sunday 23 March.
Booking forms for this year’s summer camps (for children 10-17) will be available shortly. The boys’ camp will be 4-9 August, and the girls’ camp, 11-16 August. They will once again take place at Savio House, Bollington, in the Peak District.
Annual Chaplaincy pilgrimage to Walsingham on Sat 5th or 12th July?
Colwich Abbey trip on a weekday between Easter and Pentecost? The nuns said yes and await us!
Please email Rita Carroll your preferred dates.
Improving safety together at All Saints:
Where is your Daddy? This is the question asked many a child found unsupervised outdoors after our Mass. People who live nearby, or CoE worshippers, may be unaware of children in the perimeter when they drive in and out. Please don’t let an accident happen! The CoE representative notified us to take action. Parents are earnestly asked to keep all their children in sight at all times, but especially during coffee after Mass.
Operation Green Fence successful! Thank you to the valiant dads who now set up the temporary green fence along the riverbank, and roll it back after. Constant adult supervision is STILL NECESSARY, lest disobedient children manage to reach the bank.
Reactiv8 compound: located behind the side car park, it is securely fenced off, providing a play area safely separated from the hazard of the river. If we find two responsible adults, then we will be allowed to use it.
Congratulations to Joe & Eleanor Preston on the happy birth of their third child Gabriel last week.
32-year-old Catholic man seeks room for relocation in Bedford: Paul Capon 07564777630 (WhatsApp); paulcapon11@gmail.com.
4 holy Masses at Our Lady of Ransom in Kempston on two big feasts:
St Joseph Wed 19 March 11:00am & 7:15pm
Annunciation Tue 25 March 6:30am & 6:30pm
Lenten reading: discover the hidden riches of the medieval Marian hymn Stabat Mater presented by Fr de Malleray in his booklet available at CTS: ctsbooks.org/product/meditations-on-the-stabat-mater/ for £4.50. Join our Blessed Mother at the foot of the Cross of her Son and walk with her on the road from life to death to eternal life, by meditating upon the Stabat Mater line by line.
Bookings open for Catholic community spring dance, Saturday 26thApril 2025, St Leonards Parish Hall HP23 6NW. This year proceeds will go to the FSSP Gregorian Chaplaincy.
Email: georgetyldesley@hotmail.co.uk.
Juventutem annual Summer Weekend in Ampleforth, 18-20 July 2025, for 18-35 singles.
Frs de Malleray and Coelho, and Seminarian Luke, attended the Deanery meeting in Flitwick last Wednesday.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Mrs Henn, 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.
