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
Visiting Priest: Fr Miguel Coelho:
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
DAILY MASS:
CONFESSIONS TIMES
Our Lady of Ransom (adults only): 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. For the sake of confidentiality please whisper rather than speak.
Our Fresh Start!
[Copyright Malleray]
On this Nativity of Our Lady, welcome back to all our families and individuals after a well-earned summer break. Please God we are all refreshed and eager to start anew with work, school, academy, scouts, family and chaplaincy. However, some of us may be less confident, or even apprehensive about the state of the world, and perhaps confronted with personal trials. Take courage, for you are not alone! The great thing about being part of a Catholic community is that we journey together. Yes, our relationship is first between our individual soul and God. But God created us as social beings, and He favours our mutual attention, our brotherly support, and fraternal charity.
This starts with putting the good of our fellow-worshippers to the forefront of our thoughts and intercession. This Sunday at All Saints Church in Bedford, and at Our Lady’s Church in Chesham Bois, each of us can pray for the needs he or she becomes aware of: Sweet Jesus, please help this family, this sick baby, this unemployed dad. Holy Ghost, cleanse our hearts from whatever may have hindered our relationships before the summer, and make us docile, humble, joyful in your service as we pray and meet together on Sunday and on weekdays. Our Lady, on this your birthday, help us grow as a forgiving, trusting, and loving community.
But Our Lord warns us to take steps, after we have prayed. Thus, each of us could make a practical resolution such as: I confirm attendance at the Men’s or Ladies’ group next week. Or: I email the chaplaincy to suggest a workshop or activity for the family day at Buckden Towers next 28th Sept. Or: I attend a weekday Mass this week in loving intercession for our young couple getting married next 21st Sept. Or: I put this non-Catholic in touch with my priests for possible instruction.
God bless you all! Fr de Malleray, FSSP – Chaplain
Sunday Bedford REMINDERS:
Use every space in all pews along the central aisle to allow best sight of the sanctuary during Sunday Mass at All Saints Church. You will see even better on weekday Masses at Our Lady’s Church.
Host count at All Saints: BEFORE MASS please could each communicant put one host in the container by the church entrance door when walking into the church. Thank you.
Thank you to volunteers for setting up chairs in church by 8:15am before Sunday Mass, and for setting up and cleaning the hall after Mass.
Children safety: Because of no fence along the steep riverbank, children are strictly forbidden from being in the churchyard or hall yard unsupervised. The same applies of course for access during holy Mass to the lavatories situated in the parish hall.
Well done children and staff at our two summer camps in the Peak District last month. See the great pictures here:
Well done all of us who travelled to London on Sat 7th September for the March for Life, in support of unborn children and vulnerable human life.
Come to London again on Fri 13th Sept for the Juventutem 7pm Mass and 8pm social (18-35) at St Mary Magdalen’s Wandsworth, SW18 2QU (confessions from 6pm);
or on Sat 12th Oct for the great Rosary Crusade (starts 1:45pm, outside Westminster Cathedral.)
Mary Wooldridge will host the community statue of Our Lady of Walsingham this week.
Congratulations to Francis and Celia Ibabu on the baptism of their baby boy Maximiliano last 24th August.
Pray for expecting mums in our congregations.
Sponsoring offered for Regina Caeli Academy by benefactors willing to assist parents in our congregations of Bedford and Chesham Bois who would like to send their child(dren) to RCA. Please contact Fr de Malleray: malleray@fssp.org.
SEPTEMBER DATES:
Sat 14th :Ladies’ Group at Our Lady of Ransom after 11:30am Mass. Bring shared lunch 12:30pm, with Talk following by Fr de Malleray on:
Balancing meal and sacrifice as aspects of Holy Mass.
Open to any ladies.
[Copyright Juventutem London]
Wed 18th: 8pm Men’s Group at Our Lady of Ransom after 7:15pm Mass. Talk following by Fr de Malleray on: Balancing meal and sacrifice as aspects of Holy Mass.
Sat 21st : Wedding of Alex Windo, and Miss Alejandra Lopez at Christ the King Church, 11:00am (Celebrant: Fr A. de Malleray)
Sat 28th: 10am-5pm community gathering at Buckden Towers, High St, Buckden, Saint Neots PE19 5TA.
FINANCES: online donations and standing orders are still gratefully received, being also much quicker and easier to process than cash. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Sort code: 30-80-27 Account number: 44025960 Thank you in advance.
GIFT AID: Increase your donation to the FSSP Chaplaincy by 25% at no further expense to you. Ask Rita for a Gift Aid form, fill it in and hand it back to her. That will help us a lot.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: 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
Visiting Priest: Fr Miguel Coelho:
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
DAILY HOLY MASSES
CONFESSIONS TIMES
Our Lady of Ransom (adults only): 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 that the current configuration at Our Lady of Ransom does not meet safeguarding criteria for minors. For the time being, children’s confessions are to be heard only on Sundays at All Saints.
If at Our Lady’s, then in the confessional at the back of the chapel, but for the sake of confidentiality one would need to whisper. If trying that option in the coming weeks, would parishioners please not sit in the 6 pews closer to the confessional?
Pictures of the Confirmation of our 36 candidates last 27 July on our Flickr page.
HOST COUNT at All Saints: BEFORE MASS please could each communicant put one host in the container by the church entrance door when walking into the church. Thank you.
Congratulations to Chaplaincy Secretary Mrs Rita Carroll whose son Declan will marry Hattie Allen on 22nd August in the Clifton Diocese.
CHILDREN BEWARE: Safeguarding/Health & Safety awareness at All Saints Kempston. As stressed by our safeguarding officer William Currie last week: Because of no fence along the steep riverbank, children are strictly forbidden from being in the churchyard or hall yard unsupervised. The same applies of course for access during holy Mass to the lavatories situated in the parish hall.
Please direct all questions about this to the Safeguarding Representative William Currie telephone: 07825089336 or safeguardingfssp@pm.me
Watch this new short video by English Catholics in response to the bad Olympics official launch show: https://youtu.be/-g-TB8-K7LM?feature=shared.
Congratulations to Francis and Celia Ibabu on the birth of their baby boy Maximiliano last 10th August.
Marriage Banns:
Marriage is scheduled on Saturday 21st September 2024 between two members of the FSSP Chaplaincy congregation in Bedford, Mr Alex Windo, and Miss Alejandra Lopez. If anyone knows of a grave reason why these persons should not be joined together in Holy Matrimony, let they contact the chaplain. Let us pray for the young couple in these last six weeks until they become husband and wife.
Sponsoring offered for Regina Caeli Academy by benefactors willing to assist parents in our congregations of Bedford and Chesham Bois who would like to send their child(dren) to RCA. Please contact Fr de Malleray: malleray@fssp.org.
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR VARIOUS SUMMER APOSTOLATES:
St Peter’s Summer Camp for Boys 5-10 August.
St Petronilla’s Summer Camp for Girls 12-17 August.
SEPTEMBER DATES:
Sat 7th: March for Life, London: www.marchforlife.co.uk/2024-event-page/. Meet Fr de Malleray and Chaplaincy parishioners at Emmanuel Centre, Marsham St, SW1P 3NT by 1:00pm, to walk together in procession to Parliament Square.
Sat 14th :Ladies’ Group at Our Lady of Ransom after 11:30am Mass. Bring shared lunch 12:30pm, with Talk following. Open to any ladies.
Wed 18th: 8pm Men’s Group at Our Lady of Ransom after 7:15pm Mass.
Sat 21st : Wedding of Alex Windo, and Miss Alejandra Lopez at Christ the King Church, 11:00am (Celebrant: Fr A. de Malleray)
Sat 28th: 10am-5pm community gathering at Buckden Towers, High St, Buckden, Saint Neots PE19 5TA.
MARCH FOR LIFE:
FINANCES: online donations and standing orders are still gratefully received, being also much quicker and easier to process than cash. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Sort code: 30-80-27 Account number: 44025960 Thank you in advance.
GIFT AID: Increase your donation to the FSSP Chaplaincy by 25% at no further expense to you. Ask Rita for a Gift Aid form, fill it in and hand it back to her. That will help us a lot.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: 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
Visiting Priest: Fr Miguel Coelho:
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: 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.
DAILY HOLY MASSES
Pictures of the Confirmation of our 36 candidates last 27 July on our Flickr page.
Holy Masses on the ASSUMPTION of OUR LADY. Thursday 15thAugust is a holy day of obligation, meaning that every able Catholic (from First Communion onward) must attend Holy Mass that day under penalty of grave sin. Please ask your priest in advance if you foresee an impediment and are not sure whether it dispenses you from the obligation.
Holy Mass will be offered
at Our Lady of Ransom at 7:30am,
and at Chesham Bois at 11:00am.
(Those times are selected as the ones more accessible for all, the “prime time” evening weekday slots being booked for English parish Masses in Bedford and Chesham.)
[Picture Malleray]
HOST COUNT at All Saints: BEFORE MASS please could each communicant put one host in the container by the church entrance door when walking into the church. Thank you.
Sunday All Saints: men wanted by 8:15am to set up benches and chairs, and after Mass to put them back where they were. Adults wanted to serve tea and coffee from 9:30am, and tidy up hall at 11:30am. Thank you!
CHILDREN BEWARE: Safeguarding/Health & Safety awareness at All Saints Kempston. As stressed by our safeguarding officer William Currie last week: Because of no fence along the steep riverbank, children are strictly forbidden from being in the churchyard or hall yard unsupervised. The same applies of course for access during holy Mass to the lavatories situated in the parish hall.
Please direct all questions about this to the Safeguarding Representative William Currie telephone: 07825089336 or safeguardingfssp@pm.me
Weekday Mass Times at Our Lady of Ransom
Mon 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Tue 6:30am (Confessions 6:10am-6:25am)
Wed 7:15pm (Confessions 6:55pm-7:10pm)
Thu 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Fri 11:30am (Confessions 11:10am-11:25am)
Sat 11:30am (following 10am Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions & Eucharistic Benediction all ended by 11:20am.
Congratulations to Daniel and Silvia Renwick on the happy birth of their first child Theodore last 19th July, and on his holy Baptism scheduled on Sunday 11th August at 1pm in Chesham Bois.
Congratulations to Eamon and Beata Long, whose newborn child Simon was baptised by Fr Coelho on Sat 3 August at Our Lady of Ransom.
Marriage Banns:
Marriage is scheduled on Saturday 21st September 2024 between two members of the FSSP Chaplaincy congregation in Bedford, Mr Alex Windo, and Miss Alejandra Lopez. If anyone knows of a grave reason why these persons should not be joined together in Holy Matrimony, let they contact the chaplain. Let us pray for the young couple in these last six weeks until they become husband and wife.
Sponsoring offered for Regina Caeli Academy by benefactors willing to assist parents in our congregations of Bedford and Chesham Bois who would like to send their child(dren) to RCA. Please contact Fr de Malleray: malleray@fssp.org.
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR VARIOUS SUMMER APOSTOLATES:
St Peter’s Summer Camp for Boys 5-10 August. See pics here.
St Petronilla’s Summer Camp for Girls 12-17 August.
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday 28th September 10am-5pm community gathering at Buckden Towers, High St, Buckden, Saint Neots PE19 5TA.
The chaplaincy pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Walsingham is staying at the home of the Kelliher family this week.
FINANCES: online donations and standing orders are still gratefully received, being also much quicker and easier to process than cash. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Sort code: 30-80-27 Account number: 44025960 Thank you in advance.
GIFT AID: Increase your donation to the FSSP Chaplaincy by 25% at no further expense to you. Ask Rita for a Gift Aid form, fill it in and hand it back to her. That will help us a lot.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Carl Roberts. Please email to sick list.
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: 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.
DAILY HOLY MASSES
Holy Masses on the ASSUMPTION of OUR LADY. Thursday 15thAugust is a holy day of obligation, meaning that every able Catholic (from First Communion onward) must attend Holy Mass that day under penalty of grave sin. Please ask your priest in advance if you foresee an impediment and are not sure whether it dispenses you from the obligation.
Holy Mass will be offered at Our Lady of Ransom at 7:30am, and at Chesham Bois at 11:00am.
(Those times are selected as the ones more accessible for all, the “prime time” evening weekday slots being booked for English parish Masses in Bedford and Chesham.)
36 CONFIRMED! Thank you from our hearts to His Excellency Bishop David Oakley of Northampton who confirmed our 36 candidates on Sat 27 July. The Bishop wrote: “It was a joy for me to be able to confer the Sacrament of Confirmation to your young people.” Thank you to the Chaplaincy Secretary Mrs Rita Carroll who worked very hard behind the scenes to get all the paperwork ready and also attended the Confirmation classes. Thank you to the sponsors, families, clergy, singers, servers, photographer, and buffet arrangers (link to picture album soon.)
Thank God for a joyful first Sunday Mass at our new place of worship in Bedford West, All Saints on 28 July. The church was full and everyone was pleased with the beauty of the medieval architecture, with the spacious car park and the light-filled parish hall by the river.
Note below the rare example of a rood screen (a life-size depiction of Our Lord on the Cross, or “rood”, flanked by Our Lady and Saint John, as a powerful visual reminder that Holy Mass is the very sacrifice of the Cross re-enacted.)
HOST COUNT at All Saints: Because the Blessed Sacrament cannot be reserved in a tabernacle after Holy Mass, the priest must consecrate just the right number of hosts. Therefore, BEFORE MASS please could each communicant put one host in the container by the church entrance door when walking into the church. Thank you.
All Saints: men wanted by 8:15am to set up benches and chairs, and after Mass to put them back where they were. Adults wanted to serve tea and coffee from 9:30am, and tidy up hall at 11:30am.
CHILDREN BEWARE: Safeguarding/Health & Safety awareness at All Saints Kempston. As stressed by our safeguarding officer William Currie last week:
Because of no fence along the steep riverbank, children are strictly forbidden from being in the churchyard or hall yard unsupervised. The same applies of course for access during holy Mass to the lavatories situated in the parish hall. Please direct all questions about this to the Safeguarding Representative William Currie telephone: 07825089336 or safeguardingfssp@pm.me
Weekday Mass Times at Our Lady of Ransom
Mon 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Tue 6:30am (Confessions 6:10am-6:25am)
Wed 7:15pm (Confessions 6:55pm-7:10pm)
Thu 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Fri 11:30am (Confessions 11:10am-11:25am)
Sat 11:30am (following 10am Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions & Eucharistic Benediction all ended by 11:20am.
The site made available to us every Sunday consists of the church, a church car park for about 40 cars, the parish hall, and the hall car park for about 20 vehicles (priority to family vans).
We thank Bishop Oakley of Northampton for granting us canonical “permission to celebrate the sacraments” at All Saints by letter dated 5th July 2024. We are also grateful to Canon Seamus Keenan from Our Lady of Ransom, and to the Parochial Church Council of All Saints for the use of their respective churches.
Congratulations to Eamon and Beata Long, whose newborn child Simon will be baptised by Fr Coelho on Sat 3 August at Our Lady of Ransom, 12:30pm.
Sponsoring offered for Regina Caeli Academy by benefactors willing to assist parents in our congregations of Bedford and Chesham Bois who would like to send their child(dren) to RCA. Please contact Fr de Malleray: malleray@fssp.org.
MARRIAGE BANNS:
Marriage is scheduled on Saturday 21st September 2024 between two members of this FSSP Chaplaincy congregation, Mr Alex Windo, and Miss Alejandra Lopez. If any one knows of a grave reason why these persons should not be joined together in Holy Matrimony, let they contact the chaplain. Let us pray for the young couple in these last two months until they become husband and wife.
Save the date: March for Life in London on Sat 7 September. We hope to have a large delegation from our FSSP chaplaincy to this family-friendly event.
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR VARIOUS SUMMER APOSTOLATES:
Juventutem annual Summer Weekend in Ampleforth 2-4 August.
St Peter’s Summer Camp for Boys 5-10 August.
St Petronilla’s Summer Camp for Girls 12-17 August.
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday 28th September 10am-5pm community gathering at Buckden Towers, High St, Buckden, Saint Neots PE19 5TA.
The chaplaincy pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Walsingham is staying at the home of the Baderko family this week.
FINANCES: online donations and standing orders are still gratefully received, being also much quicker and easier to process than cash. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Sort code: 30-80-27 Account number: 44025960 Thank you in advance.
GIFT AID: Increase your donation to the FSSP Chaplaincy by 25% at no further expense to you. Ask Rita for a Gift Aid form, fill it in and hand it back to her. That will help us a lot.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Carl Roberts. Please email to sick list.
BOOKINGS STILL OPEN: HURRY UP! Juventutem Summer Weekend on 2-4 August at Ampleforth Abbey for 18-35s: £165/person including all accommodation, food, and a space on the coach to/from York Station if required. Simply complete the form at bit.ly/juventutem2024 or email juventutemldn@gmail.com if you have any queries!
FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 28 July 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 Church, 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)
Subscribe to this newsletter scanning the QR code below:
Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP:
malleray@fssp.org
Visiting Priest: Fr Miguel Coelho:
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
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Carl Roberts. Please email to sick list.
DAILY HOLY MASSES
NEW CONFESSIONS TIMES
Our Lady of Ransom: Sat 10:00am-11:15am, and 20mins before every weekday Mass.
At All Saints: during the 8:30am Sunday Mass in the room behind the organ.
Chesham Bois: after the Sunday 12noon Mass if not before.
CONFIRMATIONS: We are grateful to Bishop David Oakley of Northampton for conferring the sacrament to our candidates on Sat 27 July.
Full report and pictures next week.
COUNT HOSTS at All Saints: The building at our new Sunday location is a pre-Reformation church dating back to the 11th century. Because the Blessed Sacrament cannot be reserved in a tabernacle after Holy Mass, the priest must consecrate just the right number of hosts. Therefore, BEFORE MASS please put one host per communicant in the container by the church entrance door as you walk into the church. Thank you.
Weekday Mass Times at Our Lady of Ransom
Mon 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Tue 6:30am (Confessions 6:10am-6:25am)
Wed 7:15pm (Confessions 6:55pm-7:10pm)
Thu 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Fri 11:30am (Confessions 11:10am-11:25am)
Sat 11:30am (following 10am Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions & Eucharistic Benediction all ended by 11:20am; if 2nd confessor present, Confessions carry on during Mass, e.g. First Saturday)
CHILDREN BEWARE: Safeguarding/Health & Safety awareness at All Saints Kempston.
A word from our safeguarding officer William Currie:
All Saints churchyard: The church is surrounded on all sides by a churchyard bordered by trees and bushes. At the far end of the churchyard there is a gap in the greenery leading directly to the River Ouse. The river is wide, deep and cloudy. All Children whilst in the churchyard must be accompanied by an adult and supervised at all times.
All Saints toilets: there are no toilets in the church. The church hall toilets will be available during Mass. Children must be accompanied by an adult to the toilet at all times.
Church hall: at the rear of the church hall there is an open area of grass bordered by trees and bushes. There are three gaps in the greenery that lead directly to the River Ouse, which as stated above, is wide, deep and cloudy. All children playing in this area must at all times be supervised by a parent or an adult authorised by the parent. Parents must take personal responsibility for their children.
Please accept this advice in the spirit in which it is meant. It is not designed to lecture parents about their responsibilities. It is given out of love and concern for the most vulnerable in our community and we all have a responsibility to safeguard our children and those at risk. Please direct all questions about this to the Safeguarding Representative William Currie telephone: 07825089336 or safeguardingfssp@pm.me
The site made available to us every Sunday at 8:30am at All Saints in Kempston Rural consists of the church, a church car park for about 40 cars, the parish hall, and the hall car park for about 20 vehicles (priority to family vans).
[Thank you to the fine artist for this modern-style illustrated map!]
We thank Bishop Oakley of Northampton for granting us canonical “permission to celebrate the sacraments” at All Saints by letter dated 5th July 2024. We are also grateful to Canon Seamus Keenan from Our Lady of Ransom, and to the Parochial Church Council of All Saints for the use of their respective churches.
Thank you to Martin Kay, a former parishioner skilled in joinery, who prepared a wider altar top for our Masses at Our Lady of Ransom; to Rita Carroll who is putting together frontals, and to the family who lends a pair of altar servers’ simple black cassocks & cottas (any hidden ones left anywhere else, or any sowing projects?).
Sponsoring offered for Regina Caeli Academy by benefactors willing to assist parents in our congregations of Bedford and Chesham Bois who would like to send their child(dren) to RCA. Please contact Fr de Malleray.
Congratulations to Very Rev John Berg, FSSP, who was elected Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter last week for six years. Fr Berg has already served twice in that capacity between 2006 and 2012.
Dowry Mag online: read articles on varied topics such as Chaste Sleuths Win, Vocations, Challenges in Marriage, Vermeer, Tolkien and more. Visit https://fssp.org.uk/dowry-mag-summer-issue-now-online/
Save the date: March for Life in London on Sat 7 September. We hope to have a large delegation from our FSSP chaplaincy to this family-friendly event.
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday 28th September 10am-5pm community gathering at Buckden Towers, High St, Buckden, Saint Neots PE19 5TA. We look forward to spending a splendid day together with families, children and single adults. There will be activities for every age, including workshops for children, Holy Mass, conference by chaplain on Fidelity, Joy, and Merit in Marriage (the mansion is the last-but-one place of internment of Queen Catherine of Aragon), and picnic.
Our Lady of Walsingham’s statue is staying at the home of Karen Kelly this week.
MORE BOOKS at Sunday repository: Just arrived: Know Your Mass comic book: £10.00/copy. FSSP colouring books on the Gospels at the heavily discounted price of £5.00/copy.
FINANCES: online donations and standing orders are still gratefully received, being also much quicker and easier to process than cash. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Sort code: 30-80-27 Account number: 44025960 Thank you in advance.
GIFT AID: Increase your donation to the FSSP Chaplaincy by 25% at no further expense to you. Ask Rita for a Gift Aid form, fill it in and hand it back to her. That will help us a lot.
New Weekday Mass Times by FSSP Chaplaincy at Our Lady of Ransom (across the street from Sainsbury’s). Free church car park, WC, parish room
Mon 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Tue 6:30am (Confessions 6:10am-6:25am)
Wed 7:15pm (Confessions 6:55pm-7:10pm)
Thu 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Fri 11:30am (Confessions 11:10am-11:25am)
Sat 11:30am (following 10am Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions & Eucharistic Benediction all ended by 11:20am; if 2nd confessor present, Confessions carry on during Mass, e.g. First Saturday)
Our Lady of Ransom Catholic Church is currently open daily from about 9.30am until 5pm.
Daily confessions for 15 minutes, starting 20 minutes before every Mass (from 10:05am every Sat).
Our new weekday church can accommodate only half of our Sunday congregation, hence the need for a second and larger church on Sundays, with large enough hall and car park.
The building at our new Sunday location is a pre-Reformation church dating back to the 11th century. We thank the CoE parish council for allowing us to use their building, and Bishop Oakley of Northampton for granting us canonical “permission to celebrate the sacraments” by letter dated 5th July 2024. The site made available to us every Sunday consists of the church, a church car park for about 40 cars, the parish hall, and the hall car park for about 20 vehicles (priority to family vans).
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: Christ the King Church, Harrowden Road, Bedford MK42 0SP; and on Sundays and major feasts at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE
Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org
Visiting Priest: Fr Miguel Coelho: 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: Children must be accompanied to the loo by a parent.
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
NEW WEEKDAY HOLY MASS TIMES
BEDFORD: See further down. Sunday 8:30am
CHESHAM BOIS: Sunday: 12noon
Holy Days: (check website before travelling)
NEW CONFESSIONS TIMES
From 22 July onward at Our Lady of Ransom: Sat 10:00am-11:15am, and 20mins before every weekday Mass.
At All Saints from 28 July: during Sunday Mass.
Chesham Bois: after the Sunday 12noon Mass.
CHESHAM BOIS: Sunday: 12noon
Holy Days: (check website before travelling)
Keep abreast of news and offers liturgical, spiritual, doctrinal, educational, and recreational at our vibrant twin communities of Bedford and Chesham Bois numbering nearly 300, mostly young couples and families with children.
Just scan the QR code with the camera on your phone to be directed straight to our newsletter form. You will receive it weekly. (Your name and email address will not show.) Our digital newsletter provides much more information than our paper one, with links, pictures and further news. Please share it with friends! God bless you.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Michael Baron, Mrs Courtney, Claire Barret, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Carl Roberts. Please email to sick list.
DAILY HOLY MASSES
WELCOME BACK to Fr Coelho after over two months spent at the FSSP apostolate in Ireland with Fr O’Donohue, FSSP. Fr Coelho has now been granted his visa, allowing him to minister permanently in Bedford.
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday 28th September 10am-5pm community gathering at Buckden Towers, High St, Buckden, Saint Neots PE19 5TA. We look forward to spending a splendid day together with families, children and single adults. There will be activities for every age, including workshops for children, Holy Mass, conference by chaplain on Fidelity, Joy, and Merit in Marriage (the mansion is the last-but-one place of internment of Queen Catherine of Aragon), and picnic.
Chaplaincy Masses moving to Bedford West, in Kempston Village & Rural:
New Weekday Mass Times by FSSP Chaplaincy at Our Lady of Ransom (across the street from Sainsbury’s). Free church car park, WC, parish room
Mon 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Tue 6:30am (Confessions 6:10am-6:25am)
Wed 7:15pm (Confessions 6:55pm-7:10pm)
Thu 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Fri 11:30am (Confessions 11:10am-11:25am)
Sat 11:30am (following 10am Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions & Eucharistic Benediction all ended by 11:20am; if 2nd confessor present, Confessions carry on during Mass, e.g. First Saturday)
And starting Sunday 28th July at 8:30am and every Sunday following, at All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH.
The building at our new Sunday location is a pre-Reformation church dating back to the 11th century (now CoE). Because the Blessed Sacrament cannot be reserved in a tabernacle after Holy Mass,
the priest must consecrate just the right number of hosts. Therefore, BEFORE MASS please put ONE host per communicant in the container by the church entrance door as you walk into the church.
The site made available to us every Sunday consists of the church, a church car park for about 40 cars, the parish hall, and the hall car park for about 20 vehicles (priority to family vans). We thank Bishop Oakley of Northampton for granting us canonical “permission to celebrate the sacraments” at All Saints by letter dated 5th July 2024.
We are also grateful to Canon Seamus Keenan from Our Lady of Ransom, and to the Parochial Church Council of All Saints for the use of their respective churches.
Thank you to Martin Kay, a former parishioner skilled in joinery, who prepared a wider altar top for our Masses at Our Lady of Ransom; to Rita Carroll who is putting together frontals, and to the family who lends a pair of altar servers’ simple black cassocks & cottas (any hidden ones left anywhere else, or any sowing projects?).
CONFIRMATIONS
on Saturday 27th July, 3:00pm
at Christ the King Church,
followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and refreshments in parish hall. We are grateful to Bishop David Oakley of Northampton for conferring the sacrament to our candidates.
Please pray for them,
who will receive the Holy Ghost in only 6 days.
Sponsoring offered for Regina Caeli Academy by benefactors willing to assist parents in our congregations of Bedford and Chesham Bois who would like to send their child(dren) to RCA. Please contact Fr de Malleray: malleray@fssp.org.
REGINA CAELI ACADEMY’s SUMMER RECESS: Fr de Malleray offered holy Mass at the Academy on Thursday 13 July and imposed the scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel to about twenty children and staff (ahead of Our Lady’s feast on 16 July).
RCA welcomes job inquiries for this September:
Congratulations to Very Rev John Berg, FSSP, who was elected Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter last week for six years. Fr Berg has already served twice in that capacity between 2006 and 2012. Please pray for the FSSP delegates gathered until 18 July at American seminary for the general chapter of our Fraternity. As every six years, they discuss the ministry of our priests and the formation of our seminarians.
Despite bleak times, small signs of revival give hope, especially among young people undertaking pilgrimages, founding families, and entering consecrated life, comments Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP.
Traffic Island Becomes Treasure Island
A participant reflects on her day of vocational discernment spent in London last Aprilamong twenty-three young ladies, based at Tyburn Convent where the relics of many English martyrs are displayed.
Chaste Sleuths Win By Popular Acclaim
Seldom promiscuous, some popular fiction detectives are often single, when not in sacred vows: an unwitting homage paid by secular culture to the Christian religion, Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP observes.
Challenges to Married Life in Secular Society
In this spontaneous contribution, a Catholic married septuagenarian looks back at the challenges inherent to married life in our time of faith demise, and forward to eternity as the goal of matrimony.
How Abbot Suger Invented the Gothic Style
Art historian Leslie Anne Hamel tells about the royal Basilica of St-Denis in Paris where, long before A.W.N. Pugin revived it, the Gothic style was invented as an architectural manifesto of transcendent faith.
Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance
Painted c. 1664, Johannes Vermeer’s picture displays Catholic hints about Judgement, the Blessed Virgin Mary and clandestine holy Masses, finds the author of the novel Vermeer’s Angel Fr Armand de Malleray
Tolkien and the Green Knight
Tolkien scholar Prof. Robert Lazu Kmita explains how the Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight honouring chastity influenced the author of Lord of the Rings.
Save the date: March for Life in London on Sat 7 September. We hope to have a large delegation from our FSSP chaplaincy to this family-friendly event.
Scouts & Guides Summer weekend on 19-21 July.
Fr de Malleray will attend on Saturday for confessions (in priority for Confirmation candidates)
and Fr Coelho on Sunday for 12noon outdoor Mass.
A new chant choir is starting in Oakham, Rutland for children age 7-18. Info: Jenny Urquhart on: 01572 770 580, or email rcchurchoakham@dioceseofnottingham.uk
Our Lady of Walsingham’s statue will stay at the home of Karen Kelly this week.
MORE BOOKS at Sunday repository: Just arrived: Know Your Mass comic book: £10.00/copy.
FSSP colouring books on the Gospels at the heavily discounted price of £5.00/copy.
MORE SPACES : Juventutem Summer Weekend on 2-4 August at Ampleforth Abbey for 18-35s: £165/person including all accommodation, food, and a space on the coach to/from York Station if required. Liturgies and talks by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, Fr Thomas Crean, OP, LMS Chairman Dr Joseph Shaw, Benedictine Nuns of Gower on vocation, William Currie of SPUC Scotland on pro-life, Mother-of-ten and convert Alison Cotton on Catholic upbringing. Simply complete the form at bit.ly/juventutem2024 or email juventutemldn@gmail.com if you have any queries!
FINANCES: online donations and standing orders are still gratefully received, being also much quicker and easier to process than cash. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Sort code: 30-80-27 Account number: 44025960 Thank you in advance.
GIFT AID: Increase your donation to the FSSP Chaplaincy by 25% at no further expense to you. Ask Rita for a Gift Aid form, fill it in and hand it back to her. That will help us a lot.
The Vatican has granted permission for Our Lady of Walsingham to be celebrated as a new Feast in the dioceses of England, starting this year on 24 September.
Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, wrote to Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, president of the Bishops’ Conference, in response to his request last year that the Obligatory Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Walsingham be raised to the rank of Feast.
He explained that normally it wouldn’t be moved but an exception would be made.
He said: “Given the historic importance of this shrine for the Church in England and Wales, dating back just over one thousand years, and given the growing devotion to Our Lady of Walsingham to which you attest, the Dicastery has decided that, by way of exception, your request may be granted.”
The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham was established in 1061, according to the text of the Pynson Ballad, when devout noblewoman Richeldis de Faverches asked in prayer for inspiration so that she could carry out a special work in honour of Our Lady.
The Pynson Ballad says that Our Lady appeared to Richeldis and showed her in spirit the House of the Annunciation where the Angel greeted Mary in Nazareth, and asked her to build a replica in Walsingham as a perpetual memorial of the Annunciation.
Cardinal Roche said he hoped that the new Feast day would strengthen the faithful.
He said: “May this yearly celebration be a source of renewed grace and evangelical endeavour for the Church in England and Wales, as, imitating Mary, the faithful may ever more become disciples of her Son, receive the message of the Gospel, treasure it in their hearts and reflect on it in their minds”.
The feast will be in the National Calendar for England along with the National Marian Shrine in Wales, Our Lady of Taper.
Texts for Mass, the Lectionary and the Liturgy of the Hours may be found on the Liturgy Office website.
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: Christ the King Church, Harrowden Road, Bedford MK42 0SP; and on Sundays and major feasts at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE
Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org
Visiting Priest: Fr Miguel Coelho: 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: Children must be accompanied to the loo by a parent.
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
Sat 9:00am-9:55am in Bedford, and on Sunday in CheshamBois after the 12noon Mass for as long as needed.
Keep abreast of news and offers liturgical, spiritual, doctrinal, educational, and recreational at our vibrant twin communities of Bedford and Chesham Bois numbering nearly 300, mostly young couples and families with children.
Just scan the QR code with the camera on your phone to be directed straight to our newsletter form. You will receive it weekly. (Your name and email address will not show.) Our digital newsletter provides much more information than our paper one, with links, pictures and further news. Please share it with friends! God bless you.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Michael Baron, Mrs Courtney, Claire Barret, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Carl Roberts. Please email to sick list.
DAILY HOLY MASSES
WELCOME BACK to Fr Coelho after over two months spent at the FSSP apostolate in Ireland with Fr O’Donohue, FSSP. Fr Coelho has now been granted his visa, allowing him to minister permanently in Bedford.
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday 28th September 10am-5pm community gathering at Buckden Towers, High St, Buckden, Saint Neots PE19 5TA. We look forward to spending a splendid day together with families, children and single adults. There will be activities for every age, including workshops for children, Holy Mass, conference by chaplain on Fidelity, Joy, and Merit in Marriage (the mansion is the last-but-one place of internment of Queen Catherine of Aragon), and picnic.
Chaplaincy Masses moving to Bedford West, in Kempston Village & Rural:
New Weekday Mass Times by FSSP Chaplaincy at Our Lady of Ransom (across the street from Sainsbury’s). Free church car park, WC, parish room
Mon 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Tue 6:30am (Confessions 6:10am-6:25am)
Wed 7:15pm (Confessions 6:55pm-7:10pm)
Thu 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Fri 11:30am (Confessions 11:10am-11:25am)
Sat 11:30am (following 10am Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions & Eucharistic Benediction all ended by 11:20am; if 2nd confessor present, Confessions carry on during Mass, e.g. First Saturday)
Our Lady of Ransom Catholic Church is currently open daily from about 9.30am until 5pm.
Daily confessions for 15 minutes, starting 20 minutes before every Mass (from 10:05am every Sat).
Our new weekday church can accommodate only half of our Sunday congregation, hence the need for a second and larger church on Sundays, with large enough hall and car park.
The building at our new Sunday location is a pre-Reformation church dating back to the 11th century. We thank the CoE parish council for allowing us to use their building, and Bishop Oakley of Northampton for granting us canonical “permission to celebrate the sacraments” by letter dated 5th July 2024. The site made available to us every Sunday consists of the church, a church car park for about 40 cars, the parish hall, and the hall car park for about 20 vehicles (priority to family vans).
Thank you to Martin Kay, a former parishioner skilled in joinery, who is preparing a wider altar top for our Masses at Our Lady of Ransom; to Rita Carroll who is putting together frontals, and to the family who lends a pair of altar servers’ simple black cassocks & cottas (any hidden ones left anywhere else, or any sowing projects?).
Please pray for our confirmation candidates
who will receive the Holy Ghost in only 13 days.
Sponsoring offered for Regina Caeli Academy by benefactors willing to assist parents in our congregations of Bedford and Chesham Bois who would like to send their child(dren) to RCA. Please contact Fr de Malleray: malleray@fssp.org.
REGINA CAELI ACADEMY’s SUMMER RECESS: Fr de Malleray offered holy Mass at the Academy on Thursday 13 July and imposed the scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel to about twenty children and staff (ahead of Our Lady’s feast on 16 July).
RCA welcomes job inquiries for this September:
Thirty-sixth anniversary of the foundation of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter on Thursday 18th July. Please pray for our 568 priests and seminarians.
Picture below: Session of the General Chapter of the FSSP gathered in America.
Congratulations to Very Rev John Berg, FSSP, who was elected Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter last week for six years. Fr Berg has already served twice in that capacity between 2006 and 2012. Please pray for the FSSP delegates gathered until 18 July at American seminary for the general chapter of our Fraternity. As every six years, they discuss the ministry of our priests and the formation of our seminarians.
Despite bleak times, small signs of revival give hope, especially among young people undertaking pilgrimages, founding families, and entering consecrated life, comments Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP.
Traffic Island Becomes Treasure Island
A participant reflects on her day of vocational discernment spent in London last Aprilamong twenty-three young ladies, based at Tyburn Convent where the relics of many English martyrs are displayed.
Chaste Sleuths Win By Popular Acclaim
Seldom promiscuous, some popular fiction detectives are often single, when not in sacred vows: an unwitting homage paid by secular culture to the Christian religion, Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP observes.
Challenges to Married Life in Secular Society
In this spontaneous contribution, a Catholic married septuagenarian looks back at the challenges inherent to married life in our time of faith demise, and forward to eternity as the goal of matrimony.
How Abbot Suger Invented the Gothic Style
Art historian Leslie Anne Hamel tells about the royal Basilica of St-Denis in Paris where, long before A.W.N. Pugin revived it, the Gothic style was invented as an architectural manifesto of transcendent faith.
Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance
Painted c. 1664, Johannes Vermeer’s picture displays Catholic hints about Judgement, the Blessed Virgin Mary and clandestine holy Masses, finds the author of the novel Vermeer’s Angel Fr Armand de Malleray
Tolkien and the Green Knight
Tolkien scholar Prof. Robert Lazu Kmita explains how the Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight honouring chastity influenced the author of Lord of the Rings.
Save the date: March for Life in London on Sat 7 September. We hope to have a large delegation from our FSSP chaplaincy to this family-friendly event.
Scouts & Guides Summer weekend on 19-21 July.
Fr de Malleray will attend on Saturday for confessions (in priority for Confirmation candidates)
and Fr Coelho on Sunday for 12noon outdoor Mass.
A new chant choir is starting in Oakham, Rutland for children age 7-18. Info: Jenny Urquhart on: 01572 770 580, or email rcchurchoakham@dioceseofnottingham.uk
Our Lady of Walsingham’s statue will stay at the home of Karen Kelly this week.
MORE BOOKS at Sunday repository: Just arrived: Know Your Mass comic book: £10.00/copy.
FSSP colouring books on the Gospels at the heavily discounted price of £5.00/copy.
MORE SPACES : Juventutem Summer Weekend on 2-4 August at Ampleforth Abbey for 18-35s: £165/person including all accommodation, food, and a space on the coach to/from York Station if required. Liturgies and talks by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, Fr Thomas Crean, OP, LMS Chairman Dr Joseph Shaw, Benedictine Nuns of Gower on vocation, William Currie of SPUC Scotland on pro-life, Mother-of-ten and convert Alison Cotton on Catholic upbringing. Simply complete the form at bit.ly/juventutem2024 or email juventutemldn@gmail.com if you have any queries!
FINANCES: online donations and standing orders are still gratefully received, being also much quicker and easier to process than cash. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Sort code: 30-80-27 Account number: 44025960 Thank you in advance.
GIFT AID: Increase your donation to the FSSP Chaplaincy by 25% at no further expense to you. Ask Rita for a Gift Aid form, fill it in and hand it back to her. That will help us a lot.
The Vatican has granted permission for Our Lady of Walsingham to be celebrated as a new Feast in the dioceses of England, starting this year on 24 September.
Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, wrote to Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, president of the Bishops’ Conference, in response to his request last year that the Obligatory Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Walsingham be raised to the rank of Feast.
He explained that normally it wouldn’t be moved but an exception would be made.
He said: “Given the historic importance of this shrine for the Church in England and Wales, dating back just over one thousand years, and given the growing devotion to Our Lady of Walsingham to which you attest, the Dicastery has decided that, by way of exception, your request may be granted.”
The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham was established in 1061, according to the text of the Pynson Ballad, when devout noblewoman Richeldis de Faverches asked in prayer for inspiration so that she could carry out a special work in honour of Our Lady.
The Pynson Ballad says that Our Lady appeared to Richeldis and showed her in spirit the House of the Annunciation where the Angel greeted Mary in Nazareth, and asked her to build a replica in Walsingham as a perpetual memorial of the Annunciation.
Cardinal Roche said he hoped that the new Feast day would strengthen the faithful.
He said: “May this yearly celebration be a source of renewed grace and evangelical endeavour for the Church in England and Wales, as, imitating Mary, the faithful may ever more become disciples of her Son, receive the message of the Gospel, treasure it in their hearts and reflect on it in their minds”.
The feast will be in the National Calendar for England along with the National Marian Shrine in Wales, Our Lady of Taper.
Texts for Mass, the Lectionary and the Liturgy of the Hours may be found on the Liturgy Office website.
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: Christ the King Church, Harrowden Road, Bedford MK42 0SP; and on Sundays and major feasts at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE
In addition, Fr de Malleray sits in the confessional for any penitent on Sunday morning from 8:00am to 8:25am,
and after the 12noon Chesham Mass for as long as needed.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Michael Baron, Mrs Courtney, Claire Barret, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Carl Roberts. Please email to sick list.
DAILY HOLY MASSES
GENERAL ELECTION: let us pray for the new Government to serve God and all citizens to the best of their ability.
Chaplaincy Masses moving to Bedford West
After discussion with the FSSP Chaplaincy Council, with the competent authorities in the Northampton Diocese, and the CoE Kempston Parish, we are pleased to announce that we will relocate to Kempston Village & Rural this month.
Our new weekday church can accommodate only half of our Sunday congregation, hence the need for a second and larger church on Sundays, with large enough hall and car park.
The building at our new Sunday location is a pre-Reformation church dating back to the 11th century. We thank the CoE parish council for allowing us to use their building, and Bishop Oakley of Northampton for granting us canonical “permission to celebrate the sacraments” by letter dated 5th July 2024.
[Copyright Charles Durell]
The site made available to us every Sunday consists of the church, a church car park for about 40 cars, the parish hall, and the hall car park for about 20 vehicles (priority to family vans).
Click below to take a 360o tour of All Saints Church.
Congratulations to John and Amy Grimer on the baptism of their sixth child Lydia, on 6 July at Christ the King.
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday 28th September 10am-5pm community gathering at Buckden Towers, High St, Buckden, Saint Neots PE19 5TA. We look forward to spending a splendid day together with families, children and single adults. There will be activities for every age, including workshops for children, Holy Mass, conference by chaplain on Fidelity, Joy, and Merit in Marriage (the mansion is the last-but-one place of internment of Queen Catherine of Aragon), and picnic.
Please pray for our confirmation candidates who will receive the Holy Ghost now in only three weeks.
Sponsoring offered for Regina Caeli Academy by benefactors willing to assist parents in our congregations of Bedford and Chesham Bois who would like to send their child(dren) to RCA. Please contact Fr de Malleray: malleray@fssp.org.
Last Juventutem London evening on Friday 12thJuly at 96 North Side Wandsworth Common, London SW18 2QU: 7pm Sung Mass and homily, after 6pm Confessions, before 8pm social. For 18-35s.
8:30am & 11:00am Usual Sunday Mass at the Cathedral
Veneration of the Relic of St Thomas continues in the Cathedral except during Mass.
12.30-2.30pm : Art Exhibition Workshop – Pray With Colour. St Andrews room in the St Thomas Centre.
3:00pm Becket Lecture – St Thomas Centre. Hymn of Thanksgivings – the life of the Venerable Ignatius Spencer’ – Father Gerard Skinner
4:00pm Vespers of St Thomas, and Solemn Benediction, which concludes the Veneration of the Relic.
General Chapter: July 3rd – 18th, 2018
Please pray for the FSSP delegates gathered between 3 and 18 July at our American seminary for the general chapter of our Fraternity. As every six years, they will discuss the ministry of our priests, the formation of our seminarians, and elect the Superior General.
The General Chapter of the FSSP, occurring once every six years, is an international meeting at which elected representatives make crucial decisions about the future growth of the Fraternity. Among the primary tasks of the Chapter are the elections and appointments of various leadership positions, including Superior General, District Superiors, Bursars and Seminary Rectors. The 2018 Chapter is to be held July 3rd – July 18th, 2018, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary in Denton, Nebraska.
The following is taken from the letter of a previous Superior General to the members of the Confraternity concerning the items to be discussed at the Chapter:
Between the opening recollection and the closing Mass, the Chapter will carry out the most important work for the life and government of our Fraternity. During these days the essential decisions will be made which will guide us during the next 6 years. The Capitulants will vote for the members who will govern our Fraternity until the following Chapter. Particular laws, which determine how our founding charism is lived out by its members in the day to day, will also be discussed and later promulgated. Finally, the delegates of the Chapter will outline a course to be followed for the Fraternity’s development – both spiritual and material – over the next six years.
We ask you to join us in praying for the graces and guidance of the Holy Spirit during the Chapter. From June 18th to the conclusion of the Chapter on July 18th, the Veni Sancte Spiritus is offered each day for the intentions of the Chapter.
May God reward you for your prayers and your support of the Fraternity!
Veni, Sancte Spíritus, reple tuórum corda fidélium, et tui amóris in eis ignem accénde.V. Emítte Spíritum túum et creabúntur.R. Et renovábis fáciem terræ.Orémus. Deus, qui corda fidélium Sancti Spíritus illustratióne docuísti: da nobis in eódem Spíritu recta sápere, et de eius semper consolatióne gaudére. Per Christum Dóminum nostrum. Amen.
Come, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and kindle in them the fire of Thy love.V. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created. R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.Let us pray. O God, Who taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant that, by the gift of the same Spirit, we may be always truly wise, and ever rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
♦ Total members ♦ Definitively incorporated priests ♦ Seminarians (incl. deacons)
• Priestly ordinations in the FSSP over the last 12 years
YEAR
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
AVERAGE
TOTAL
11
11
12
15
16
19
16
12
14
11
15
14
14
• Number of seminarians (excluding deacons and including postulants)
Confraternity of Saint Peter
Total members: 9546 o French speakers: 1262 o German speakers: 1231 o English speakers: 6957 o Others: 96
Locations
Dioceses served: 146
Mass centers: 249 locations
Personal parishes: 48
Dioceses served by countries
Dioceses served by districts and regions
Mass centers by districts and regions
• Number of houses: 138 • Number of erected houses: 95
• Number of houses (as of Jan. 1 each year)
♦ Nb. of houses ♦ Nb. of erected houses
Congratulations to Seminarian Francis Grimer, ICKSP who was ordained Porter and Lector at his seminary in Italy, and will attend some of our Masses during his summer holiday.
Despite bleak times, small signs of revival give hope, especially among young people undertaking pilgrimages, founding families, and entering consecrated life, comments Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP.
Traffic Island Becomes Treasure Island
A participant reflects on her day of vocational discernment spent in London last Aprilamong twenty-three young ladies, based at Tyburn Convent where the relics of many English martyrs are displayed.
Chaste Sleuths Win By Popular Acclaim
Seldom promiscuous, some popular fiction detectives are often single, when not in sacred vows: an unwitting homage paid by secular culture to the Christian religion, Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP observes.
Challenges to Married Life in Secular Society
In this spontaneous contribution, a Catholic married septuagenarian looks back at the challenges inherent to married life in our time of faith demise, and forward to eternity as the goal of matrimony.
How Abbot Suger Invented the Gothic Style
Art historian Leslie Anne Hamel tells about the royal Basilica of St-Denis in Paris where, long before A.W.N. Pugin revived it, the Gothic style was invented as an architectural manifesto of transcendent faith.
Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance
Painted c. 1664, Johannes Vermeer’s picture displays Catholic hints about Judgement, the Blessed Virgin Mary and clandestine holy Masses, finds the author of the novel Vermeer’s Angel Fr Armand de Malleray
Tolkien and the Green Knight
Tolkien scholar Prof. Robert Lazu Kmita explains how the Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight honouring chastity influenced the author of Lord of the Rings.
Save the date: March for Life in London on Sat 7 September. We hope to have a large delegation from our FSSP chaplaincy to this family-friendly event.
A new chant choir is starting in Oakham, Rutland for children age 7-18, directed by Susie Hill, an accomplished professional singer and teacher of music and recently ex-Trinity College Cambridge chorister. The primary aim is for children to learn to be excellent singers of chant, although the choir may accept invitations to sing at traditional masses on an occasional basis, and/or hold the occasional concert. We are thinking about rehearsals on Wednesdays, 5.45-6.45 in term time only, or chant afternoons once a month, 12.30-3.30. For more details or to register interest, telephone Jenny Urquhart on: 01572 770 580, or email rcchurchoakham@dioceseofnottingham.uk
Our Lady of Walsingham’s statue will stay with the Titmus family this Sunday.
Two altar servers’ simple black cassocks & cottas were offered for our move to Our Lady of Ransom.
Any hidden ones left, or any sowing projects?
Fr Coelho will be back in Bedford as of Wed 10th July.
Thank you for your contribution to the £198.16 parish collection for Peter’s Pence last Sunday.
About 90 children and adults attended an art tour at the National Portrait Gallery in London on Fri 5 July, organised by our families with two talks on the Tudor monarchs by Fr de Malleray.
MORE BOOKS at Sunday repository: Just arrived: Know Your Mass comic book: £10.00/copy.
FSSP colouring books on the Gospels at the heavily discounted price of £5.00/copy.
Juventutem Summer Weekend on 2-4 August at Ampleforth Abbey for 18-35s: £165/person including all accommodation, food, and a space on the coach to/from York Station if required. Liturgies and talks by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, Fr Thomas Crean, OP, LMS Chairman Dr Joseph Shaw, Benedictine Nuns of Gower on vocation, William Carry of SPUC Scotland on pro-life, Mother-of-ten and convert Alison Cotton on Catholic upbringing. Simply complete the form at bit.ly/juventutem2024 or email juventutemldn@gmail.com if you have any queries!
Great feast of Sts John Fisher & Thomas More this Tuesday, with 8am Holy Mass. We need their prayer for country and families!
(Stain glass of the two saints at Chesham Bois Church)
FINANCES: online donations and standing orders are still gratefully received, being also much quicker and easier to process than cash. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Sort code: 30-80-27 Account number: 44025960 Thank you in advance.
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Despite bleak times, small signs of revival give hope, especially among young people undertaking pilgrimages, founding families, and entering consecrated life, comments Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP.
Traffic Island Becomes Treasure Island
A participant reflects on her day of vocational discernment spent in London last Aprilamong twenty-three young ladies, based at Tyburn Convent where the relics of many English martyrs are displayed.
Chaste Sleuths Win By Popular Acclaim
Seldom promiscuous, some popular fiction detectives are often single, when not in sacred vows: an unwitting homage paid by secular culture to the Christian religion, Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP observes.
Challenges to Married Life in Secular Society
In this spontaneous contribution, a Catholic married septuagenarian looks back at the challenges inherent to married life in our time of faith demise, and forward to eternity as the goal of matrimony.
How Abbot Suger Invented the Gothic Style
Art historian Leslie Anne Hamel tells about the royal Basilica of St-Denis in Paris where, long before A.W.N. Pugin revived it, the Gothic style was invented as an architectural manifesto of transcendent faith.
Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance
Painted c. 1664, Johannes Vermeer’s picture displays Catholic hints about Judgement, the Blessed Virgin Mary and clandestine holy Masses, finds the author of the novel Vermeer’s Angel Fr Armand de Malleray
Tolkien and the Green Knight
Tolkien scholar Prof. Robert Lazu Kmita explains how the Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight honouring chastity influenced the author of Lord of the Rings.
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