MASS INTENTIONS Sunday 1st May : 8.30 am Johanna O’Brien RIP, 12.30 pm Private intention
CONFESSIONS Saturdays 3 pm—5 pm
PRO-LIFE COFFEE MORNING There will be a Pro-Life Coffee Morning on Sunday 8th May following the 8.30 am Mass. Cake donations welcome! Come and enjoy a morning of tea, coffee and cakes with the opportunity to find out more about the life changing work of March for Life UK.
COFFEE ROTA We now have a good number of people who are willing to make the tea and coffee on a regular basis—thank you! It is currently working out about one turn per month. There’s always room for more. It would also be helpful to have a list of those who would prefer not to commit each month, but who could stand in occasionally, perhaps at short notice (there’s a vacancy next Sunday!) Please contact Barbara on mbky3 AT outlook.com.
TRADFEST IN KENT! Social weekend 9th—10th July in the beautiful Kent countryside for young Catholics aged 18—26 organised by Greg Grimer. Inexpensive and fun! Includes Sunday Latin Mass. Please see Instagram link https://www.instagram.com/greggrimer/.
Next Sunday, 1st May, we celebrate the Feast of St Joseph the Worker, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the 8.30 am Mass will be sung. There will be a choir practice in church on Saturday afternoon from 3 pm—5pm. New singers always welcome!
SUMMER CAMPS St Peter Summer Camp for Boys runs 1st—6th August, St Petronilla Summer Camp for Girls runs 8th—13th August, both at Bollington in the Peak District. Age range 10—17. Please contact Fr Phipps (sphipps AT fssp.org) if you are interested—places are going fast!
ST. ANTHONY’S COMMUNICATIONS
There will be brochures for this Catholic Apostolate after the 8:30am Mass for people to take a look at. They have had a rough time over the last two years so please consider supporting them, they have a fantastic offering.
STANDING ORDERS The FSSP is reliant on regular supplementary financial giving in order to maintain their apostolate in Bedford. Please consider setting up a standing order to them. These need to be set up by you through your own bank using the following details: account name: FSSP England (Reading); sort code 30-93-04; account number 02027330. Gift Aid forms are also available by request. Thank you!
On this Maundy Thursday when we celebrate the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, we are delighted to announce that this book is now available again in a brand new edition by Sophia Institute Press.
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Belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist has declined drastically over the past fifty years. For the love of the Lord and the good of souls, how can we help reverse this trend?
Whether you are a believer or struggling, this book will help you develop a personal relationship with Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament. In these pages, Fr. Armand de Malleray looks afresh at traditional Church teaching on the Holy Eucharist. He demonstrates that it is implemented with precision, strength, and beauty in the time-tested Traditional Latin Mass missal.
In his engaging and accessible style, Fr. de Malleray explains the significance of each precious detail of the traditional Eucharistic liturgy, from the opening words of the Preparatory Prayers, “Judge me, O God,” to the importance of punctuating the words of Consecration, to the meaning of the celebrant’s genuflections before and after the elevation.
Fr. de Malleray explains essential doctrines such as transubstantiation, the concomitant presence of Christ’s Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, and the nature of the Eucharistic fragments. He also describes in moving detail Our Lady’s role in drawing us closer to her Eucharistic Son.
Replete with real-life stories, modern-day references, and cultural and historical reflections, Ego Eimi will inspire you to worship the Real Presence as an ardent believer, orient you to the invisible realities occurring, and foster a greater love for our Eucharistic Lord in your heart. You will learn to treasure the Holy Eucharist more deeply through Scripture, Church teachings, and philosophical reasoning. Experience the Eucharistic Fire: embrace the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and adore God’s gratuitous love.
Guided by the Church in which our Eucharistic Savior dwells, you will also learn how belief in the Real Presence:
Surpasses other forms of God’s presence
Is the central mystery and core tenet of our Faith
Manifests God’s divine mercy as reflected in the prayers of the traditional Mass
Trains us in contrition and prepares us for a favorable eternal judgment
Deepens our love so that each time we worship will feel like our first, last, and only Mass
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MASS INTENTIONS Sunday 3rd April 8.30 am Katarzyna Onisk RIP 12.30 pm Private intention Sunday 10th April 8.30 am Sheila Yowell RIP 12.30 pm Private intention
CONFESSIONS Saturdays 3 pm—5 pm. There will be two FSSP priests hearing Confessions on 9th April, but no Confessions on Holy Saturday.
EASTER COLLECTIONS By Fr Nicholas’s kind agreement, the collection money from the Latin Masses at 8.30 am and 12.30 pm on Easter Sunday will go to support the work of the FSSP Bedford Apostolate. If you want to make a personal gift to the FSSP priests, then please do so outside of the collections, making it clear that it is for their personal use. Thank you!
STANDING ORDERS The FSSP is reliant on regular supplementary financial giving in order to maintain their apostolate in Bedford. Please consider setting up a standing order to them. These need to be set up by you through your own bank using the following details: account name: FSSP England (Reading); sort code 30-93- 04; account number 02027330. Gift Aid forms are also available by request. Thank you.
ST ANTHONY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE Saturday 4th June 9.45 am—5 pm, St Mary’s Church, West Croydon. Speakers include Rev Marcus Holden. More information and required advance booking on www.saintant.com.
ACCESS TO THE SACRAMENTS If there is the need for sacraments — baptism, confirmation, sick calls etc — please contact Fr Goddard on 0118 966 5284 or goddard AT fssp.org.
Looking back at three crises in Church history can help us overcome the current one: 1) The Arian crisis, when many bishops said Christ is not God; 2) The Clergy immorality crisis, when St Peter Damian had to tell the pope about widespread homosexuality; 3) The Rival Popes crisis, when good Catholics were made to choose between two or even three popes at a time.
Talk given by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP for Juventutem London at St Mary Magdalene, Wandsworth, on 12th February 2022.
SUNG MASS Sunday 6th March at 8.30 am is a sung Mass, with a practice tomorrow from 3 pm—5 pm. Please contact Katherine if interested: 07985 214854 / katie DOT peddie AT gmail.com.
FSSP SUMMER CAMPS
After two years of absence, these will take place at Savio House, in Bollington (near Macclesfield, Cheshire). St Peter’s Summer Camp for Boys runs 1-6 August; St Petronilla Summer Camp for Girls runs 8-13 August. Booking forms will be made available very soon. Please contact Fr Phipps for more information.
UKRAINE
There’s an event on 19th/20th March at which people will be collecting various items to send in a lorry down to Ukraine. If anyone would like to donate clothes / toiletries / baby products etc and hasn’t had a chance to drop something off at a local pickup point, do please feel free to bring them to Mass and someone can take them
His Holiness Pope Francis has confirmed the liturgical identity of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (see below). Deo gratias for such a response from heaven to your prayers! We note that:
The meeting of the FSSP superiors with the Holy Father took place during our Novena of Preparation of Worldwide Solemn Consecration of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Further, the Decree confirming our liturgical identity is dated 11th February, the Feast of the Apparitions of Our Lady in Lourdes, and the day of the Worldwide Solemn Consecration of the FSSP. Therefore, after God almighty our gratitude goes to the Immaculate Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The news was released on 21st February when First Vespers of the Feast of the Chair of Peter occur, it being a First Class Feast in our Fraternity. Thus we also must express our gratitude to our Patron St Peter the Apostle, and must pray further for his successor Pope Francis.
In thanksgiving therefore, we invite you to attend Holy Mass tomorrow, especially if you live near an FSSP Mass centre. At St Mary’s Warrington Holy Mass will be sung tomorrow on Tuesday 22nd February at 12:10pm, followed by a sung Te Deum. We invite all who live at a distance to pray with us via LiveMass.net. Reminder for members of the Confraternity of Saint Peter: plenary indulgence tomorrow at the usual conditions. Although we all must pray further for any clergy and laity to benefit from the riches of the Roman traditions of the Church, the communiqué below must strengthen the hopes of all loyal Catholics.
Official communiqué of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
Published
Fribourg, February 21, 2022
On Friday, February 4, 2022, two members of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, Fr. Benoît Paul-Joseph, Superior of the District of France, and Fr. Vincent Ribeton, Rector of St. Peter’s Seminary in Wigratzbad, were received in private audience by the Holy Father, Pope Francis, for nearly an hour.
During the very cordial meeting, they recalled the origins of the Fraternity in 1988, the Pope expressed that he was very impressed by the approach taken by its founders, their desire to remain faithful to the Roman Pontiff and their trust in the Church. He said that this gesture should be “preserved, protected and encouraged”.
In the course of the audience, the Pope made it clear that institutes such as the Fraternity of St. Peter are not affected by the general provisions of the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes, since the use of the ancient liturgical books was at the origin of their existence and is provided for in their constitutions.
The Holy Father subsequently sent a decree signed by him and dated February 11, the day the Fraternity was solemnly consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, confirming for the members of the Fraternity the right to use the liturgical books in force in 1962, namely: the Missal, the Ritual, the Pontifical and the Roman Breviary.
Grateful to the Holy Father, the members of the Fraternity of St. Peter are in thanksgiving for this confirmation of their mission. They invite all the faithful who feel close to them as a spiritual family to attend or join them in prayer at the Mass tomorrow, on the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, and to pray for the Supreme Pontiff.
Decree of Pope Francis confirming the use of the 1962 liturgical books
The Holy Father Francis, grants to each and every member of the Society of Apostolic Life “Fraternity of Saint Peter”, founded on July 18, 1988 and declared of “Pontifical Right” by the Holy See, the faculty to celebrate the sacrifice of the Mass, and to carry out the sacraments and other sacred rites, as well as to fulfill the Divine Office, according to the typical editions of the liturgical books, namely the Missal, the Ritual, the Pontifical and the Roman Breviary, in force in the year 1962.
They may use this faculty in their own churches or oratories; otherwise it may only be used with the consent of the Ordinary of the place, except for the celebration of private Masses. Without prejudice to what has been said above, the Holy Father suggests that, as far as possible, the provisions of the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes be taken into account as well. Given in Rome, near St. Peter’s, on February 11, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, in the year 2022, the ninth year of my Pontificate.
