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.
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.
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.
Very Rev. John Berg, Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, was very pleased with his visit to the Gregorian Chaplaincy. He offered holy Mass on Ash Wednesday at Chesham Bois, and on the FSSP feast of St Thomas Aquinas in Bedford.
On both occasions he stayed to greet parishioners. He also met with Bishop David Oakley in Northampton, who approves of our raising funds to acquire a stable place of worship in or near Bedford.
Fr Berg prayed with the Bedford FSSP clergy in the house chapel,
whose four “choir” stalls were full for the first time since Holy Week last year.
Fr Berg also went on a clergy excursion to Wrest Park, south of Bedford,
where special training in bowling took place.
Clergy-led stations of the Cross for all 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 weekday. Circle your chosen date:
My Week 1: 10―11―12―13―14―15 March
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.
Thank you to the benefactors who covered the significant cost of £1,500.00 for the soundproofing of the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom. The main benefactress does not live in England but she follows the FSSP Gregorian Chaplaincy with interest. She said:
“All the recent legal threats to the seal of Confession around the world as well as attempts by four States in the USA in the past few years alone, have the potential to slowly and stealthily erode the confidence in the Sacrament itself. A concrete undertaking such as yours can prove to be a much more productive counter-argument in the long run than all of the “blather” currently fuelling the public square.”
Let us now make frequent use of our improved confessional, especially this Lent.
Lenten reading: discover the hidden riches of the medieval Marian hymn Stabat Mater presented by Fr de Malleray in his booklet available at CTS: www.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.
Juventutem London monthly holy Mass (7pm) and social, Friday 14th March, at the Oratory of St Mary Magdalen, SW18 2QU, Wandsworth Confessions 6pm-6.55pm;
AND, Juventutem annual pro-life prayerful witness outside Brixton abortuary on Sat 15 March, 12noon-1pm. Anyone 18-35 welcome!
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.
Well done older RCA pupils who attended their first day of silent recollection at Buckden Towers last 7 March, with the three FSSP clerics preaching and offering Mass.
Interest was expressed for a couple of excursions, one to Colwich Abbey where the traditional Benedictine nuns have settled, and another to Walsingham as a pilgrimage like last year.
With weekends being already booked for many of us until after Easter, it may be that those events will take place in the late spring or early summer. Feel welcome to email Rita Carroll your preferred dates.
Our Sunday Hall at All Saints:
Dads are requested to put in place the temporary fence along the river if children are to play nearby.
Thank you to the volunteers preparing the hall, doing the tea & coffee, and tidying up after. All are encouraged to pop in into the hall after Sunday Mass as it is an important opportunity to socialise and build up the community. More volunteers are needed: can you offer 90mins (10:00am-11:30am) one Sunday a month?
Activities 1st semester 2025
March
April
May
June
Men’s Group
19
9
14
25
Ladies’ Group
22
12
17
28
Youth Group
22
26
10
28
1st Holy Communion & Confirmation classes
1, 15, 29
5
10, 31
14
Juventutem London youth Mass & Social
14
4
10
13
Talk for any adults, Chesham Bois
22
–
29
14
Vocation Weekend Men 18+ Buckden Towers
1, 2
Paris-Chartres Pilgrimage
7-9
Our Lady of Walsingham statue now visits Chesham Bois households. Please book to host Our Lady for a week.
Thank you for your prayers before and during the weekend of vocational discernment a week ago, which was attended by 24 young men. Unwaged participants give whatever they can out of the £95.00 cost per person. Should you wish to help us cover the unpaid expenses, please donate to us clearly indicating “Vocation Weekend.”
Find out how you can make your prayer for priestly vocations more efficacious through our international prayer network, the Confraternity of Saint Peter: www.fssp.org.uk/about-the-confraternity.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Mrs Hamel, 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.
Please pray in particular for Father José María Salgado, FSSP in America, who died of old age on March 8th, 2025. He was 92 years old. He had joined the FSSP years after his priestly ordination and had served in various North American apostolates. RIP.
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.
Very Rev. John Berg, Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, will informally visit Chesham Bois and Bedford on 5-8 March, after his earlier visits in our other English apostolates of Warrington and Reading.
Anyone who wishes to greet Fr Berg can do so after the two holy Masses at which Fr Berg will be the celebrant: in Chesham Bois on Ash Wednesday after the 11:00am Sung Mass; in Bedford after the 8:30am Mass on Friday 7th March, Feast of St Thomas Aquinas (2nd class in FSSP). Tea & coffee will be available in the parish halls on both occasions.
Congratulations to Jonathan and Jacinta Moxham on the happy birth of their ninth child Sebastian who will be baptised on Shrove Tuesday 4th March at 7:30am in Kempston.
Catholic recycling (actually a rubric from the missal): Bring your blessed palms from last year’s Palm Sunday to be burned into ashes ahead of Ash Wednesday. Hand your palms to the clergy in a bag this Sunday 2nd March the latest.
ASH WEDNESDAY (5 March)
Day of fast and abstinence. All Catholics aged 18-59 inclusive are obliged to fast (one meal & two small snacks permitted); and all Catholics aged 14+ must abstain from meat. (Reminder that all days of Lent, excluding Sundays, are days of penance too.)
Not a Holy Day of Obligation, but the faithful are encouraged to mark the beginning of Lent by assisting at Mass at:
6:30AM at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston (starts with blessing of ashes, hence Mass ending by 7:20am)
11:00AM Sung Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois (celebrant: Very Rev Fr John Berg, Superior General FSSP).
5:45PM at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston
Imposition of ashes at the beginning of every Mass
Most beneficial Lenten penance: attend a holy Mass once on weekday. Circle your chosen date(s):
My Week 1: 10―11―12―13―14―15 March
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.
Thank you to the benefactress who vouched to help us cover the significant cost of £1,500.00 for the soundproofing of the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom.
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.
Juventutem London monthly holy Mass (7pm) and social, Friday 14th March, at the Oratory of St Mary Magdalen, SW18 2QU, Wandsworth;
AND, Juventutem annual pro-life prayerful witness outside Brixton abortuary on Sat 15 March, 12noon-1pm. Anyone 18-35 welcome!
Thank you to Fr Gerald Duroisin, FSSP for his visit last Wednesday and fascinating talk on St John-Henry Newman and why convert to Catholicism.
Twenty-one people attended, followed by refreshments. Fr Duroisin holds a doctorate from the Angelicum University in Rome on the philosophy of St John-Henry Newman.
Our Sunday Hall at All Saints:
Thank you to the volunteers preparing the hall, doing the tea & coffee, and tidying up after. All are encouraged to pop in into the hall after Sunday Mass as it is an important opportunity to socialise and build up the community. More volunteers areneeded: can you offer 90mins (10:00am-11:30am) one Sunday a month?
Bookings open for Catholic community spring dance, Saturday 26thApril 2025, St Leonards Parish Hall HP23 6NW. Email: georgetyldesley@hotmail.co.uk.
Our Lady of Walsingham statue now visits Chesham Bois households. Please book to host Our Lady for a week.
Please pray for 25 Catholic young men discerning the will of God this weekend at Buckden Towers, with Fr de Malleray and Seminarian Luke. Thank you for having shared the event details over the past months.
Unwaged participants give whatever they can out of the £95.00 cost per person. Should you wish to help us cover the unpaid expenses, please donate to us clearly indicating “Vocation Weekend.”
Find out how you can make your prayer for priestly vocations more efficacious through our international prayer network, the Confraternity of Saint Peter: www.fssp.org.uk/about-the-confraternity.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Mrs Hamel, 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.
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.
Very Rev. John Berg, Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, will informally visit Chesham Bois and Bedford on 5-8 March, after his earlier visits in our other English apostolates of Warrington and Reading.
Well done all of you who attended the important monthly Chaplaincy talks (three of them in total) this past week in Bedford and Chesham Bois. Investing your time in these events (once a month) is the best way to build up our community and attract people with whom to share the riches of Catholic tradition. Listen to latest talk here https://youtu.be/FpaAaApW66Q?si=ZO5a0LfEo_gvXD_K .
Talk FOR ALL, at Our Lady’s Kempston, Wednesday 26 Feb 8:00PM (after usual 6:55PM confessions & 7:15PM holy Mass), by Fr Gerald Duroisin, FSSP on: St John-Henry Newman and why convert to Catholicism,
followed by refreshments. Tell your friends.
Catholic recycling (actually a rubric from the missal): Bring your blessed palms from last year’s Palm Sunday to be burned into ashes ahead of Ash Wednesday.
Hand your palms to the clergy in a bag this Sunday, or by Sunday 2nd March the latest.
ASH WEDNESDAY Mass times: (not a holiday of obligation) Imposition of ashes before every Mass.
6:30AM at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston
11:00AM at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois (celebrant: Very Rev Fr John Berg, Superior General FSSP).
5:45PM at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston
WONDERING what penance will please Our Lord best and benefit you and your family most fruitfully this Lent? Some took the initiative of a longer penitential season with cold showers; others look at shortening their Internet time. This eventually is to prepare us to partake better in the fruit of the redemption earned for us by the Lord Jesus on the Cross. What about going straight to the Cross then, this Lent? What about attending the unbloody re-enactment of the sacrifice of the Cross once on a weekday?
What about having “Good Friday each week” during this Lent 2025? Ask yourselves what Lenten commitment will truly call for a change of habits, hence merit more for your soul before God, and at the same time which will bring you to Jesus through the shortest and safest route. Break free from your Mass-free weekly routine this Lent. Sit down today and write in your diary on which weekday you will attend holy Mass (at which authorised venue, at what time) on each of the 6 weeks of Lent:
My Week 1: 10-15 March: ……………………….. My Week 2: 17-22 March: ……………………….. My Week 3: 24-29 March: ………………………… My Week 4: 31 Mar-3 Apr: ………………………. My Week 5: 7-12 Apr: …………………………… My (Holy) Week 6: 14-19 Apr: ……………………
No online method, no Exodus programme, no revelation or book will ever suggest a Lenten “penance” more meritorious and altogether fruitful than coming to Calvary at Mass once a week (or more) on a weekday this Lent. If you are afraid of that “penance,” ask Our Lady, ask St Joseph, ask the martyrs, ask the angels for advice and support.
And please remember: a confessor awaits you in our state-of-the-art soundproof confessional 20 minutes before every weekday Mass at Our Lady’s in Kempston. God bless you!
Thank you to the benefactress who vouched to help us cover the significant cost of £1,500.00 for the soundproofing of the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom.
Our Sunday Hall at All Saints: Thank you to the volunteers preparing the hall, doing the tea & coffee, and tidying up after. All are encouraged to pop in into the hall after Sunday Mass as it is an important opportunity to socialise and build up the community. More volunteers are needed: can you offer 90mins (10:00am-11:30am) one Sunday a month?
Our Lady of Walsingham statue now visits Chesham Bois households. Please book to host Our Lady for a week.
Please pray for these men next weekend 21men booked in: let us make it 30!
Bookings still taken until Wed 26 February, 4:00pm
Now until 35 years of age. Spread the word. MORE SPACES for our annual Vocation discernmentweekend at Buckden Towers, PE19 5TA, on 28 February, 5pm – 2 March, 2pm 2025 for single Catholic men 18-35. Contact malleray@fssp.org. COST: £95.00 per person in total (full board). FREE for unwaged and students – give whatever amount you can.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Mrs Hamel, 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.
Catholic community spring dance, Saturday 26thApril 2025, St Leonards Parish Hall HP23 6NW.
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.
The General Council of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter and other members representing the Fraternity throughout the world gathered in Lourdes to renew the solemn consecration of the community to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In preparation for this act, they took part in the torchlight procession on the evening of Monday, February 10, and spent the night in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament in the chapel of the Hospitalet. On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, February 11, following a day of pilgrimage and prayer at the holy sites, a solemn Mass of thanksgiving was celebrated that evening by Father John Berg in the upper basilica. In his sermon, Father Vincent Ribeton evoked “the memory of the graces received on February 11, 2022, which are forever engraved in our souls.” The priests and local faithful then processed to the grotto, to renew the act of Consecration.
Very Rev. John Berg, Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, will informally visit Chesham Bois and Bedford on 5-8 March, after his earlier visits in our other English apostolates of Warrington and Reading.
Feast of the Chair of St Peter, Sat. 22 February
Patronal feast of the FSSP – celebrated in the rank of ‘first class’. That day members of the Confraternity of St Peter may gain a plenary indulgence for assisting at Mass under the usual conditions.
Please pray for 25 Subdeacons ordained: 13 in Wigratzbad last 8 Feb; 12 in Denton on 22nd Feb.
Congratulations to Luke and Lauren Carrivick, and to Luke and Laura Scullion whose respective children baby Alexander and newborn Anna Maria were baptised at Chesham Bois on Sat 15th Feb.
We look forward to seeing you this week:
For two talks on The Four Marks of the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, by Seminarian Luke Mazurek, FSSP (who holds a University degree in Theology from Rome) both on Wed 19th Feb 8:00PM, Kempston for the Men’s Group; and also on Sat 22 Feb 1:30PM Kempston for the Ladies’ Group.
CHESHAM BOIS SPECIAL with Fr de Malleray:
Friday 21st Feb 6:30PM Mass
Friday 21st Feb 7:30PM Talk in Parish Hall, on The Four Marks of the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic.
Saturday 22nd Feb, Chair of St Peter, 1st Class FSSP: 9:00AM Mass
Sunday 23rd Feb: usual 12noon Mass
The February Young Adults’ Trek announced for Sat 2nd Feb is cancelled due to a clash with a pro-life event. The next trek is on 22nd March.
Talk FOR ALL, at Our Lady’s Kempston, Wed 26 Feb 8:00PM, by Fr Gerald Duroisin, FSSP on:
St John-Henry Newman and why convert to Catholicism, followed by refreshments.
Chartres Pilgrimage at Pentecost: come along this year on 7-9 June. Contact Chaplaincy parishioner Dominic: difalcodom@gmail.com.
ASH WEDNESDAY Mass times: (not a holiday of obligation) Imposition of ashes at every Mass.
6:30AM & 5:45PM at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston.
11:00AM at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois: Celebrant, Very Rev Fr John Berg, FSSP.
Our Sunday Hall at All Saints:
Thank you to the volunteers preparing the hall, doing the tea & coffee, and tidying up after. All are encouraged to pop in into the hall after Sunday Mass as it is an important opportunity to socialise and build up the community. More volunteers are needed: can you offer 90mins (10:00am-11:30am) one Sunday a month?
Our Lady of Walsingham statue now visits Chesham Bois households. Please book to host Our Lady for a week.
The significant cost of £1,500.00 for the soundproofing of the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom seemed justified to us, as we really wished to facilitate access to Confession, the great sacrament of God’s mercy (especially with no built- in confessional at All Saints on Sundays.) Come and try it! Should you wish to help us cover that cost, please put your offering in our collection basket, preferably with the mention “Confessional”. Thank you.
18men booked in: let us make it 30! Now until 35 years of age. Spread the word.
MORE SPACES for our annual
Vocation discernmentweekend
at Buckden Towers, PE19 5TA,
on 28 February, 5pm – 2 March, 2pm 2025
for single Catholic men 18-35.
Contact malleray@fssp.org.
COST: £95.00 per person in total (full board). FREE for unwaged and students – give whatever amount you can.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Mrs Hamel, 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.
Have you tried the best confessional in town?
After months of work (because our carpenter lives away from Bedford) the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom is now completed. You may recall that it afforded insufficient confidentiality, especially in a small church like Our Lady’s, Kempston. Using the parish room was not suitable either. So, with permission from the Parish Priest, we undertook extensive work on the existing confessional, consisting of building up a full door on the confessor’s side (instead of a curtain), filling holes in the ceilings of the compartments (we can still breathe!), installing seals along the frames of the two doors, and applying acoustic sheets on every wall and ceiling of the two compartments. Thankfully it worked: unlike before, words spoken in low voice inside the confessional cannot be understood outside. (Out of discretion however, please refrain from sitting in the pews near the confessional when in use.)
The significant cost of £1,500.00 for the soundproofing of the confessional seemed justified to us, as we really wished to facilitate access to Confession, the great sacrament of God’s mercy (especially with no built-in confessional at All Saints on Sundays.) Come and try it!
Should you wish to help us cover that cost, please put your offering in our collection basket, preferably with the mention “Confessional”. Thank you.
Novena and solemn renewal of the Consecration of the FSSP on February 2-11, 2025
We ask all the faithful who are close to us to join in this novena of preparation February 2-10, 2025 and to renew the consecration on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, February 11, 2025.
From Sunday 2 Feb to Saturday 10 Feb: Novena of Preparation FOLLOWING A DECADE OF THE ROSARY:
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.
This Tuesday, 11th February, please unite with us, saying at church or at home the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart. [Text below.]
Juventutem monthly gathering (18-35) on Friday 14th Feb at Oratory of St Mary Magdalene, 96 North Side Wandsworth Common SW18 2QU. After 6pm confessions, Fr de Malleray will preach on dating and courtship at the 7pm Mass of St Valentine, Priest and Martyr, followed by 8pm social.
Congratulations to Luke and Lauren Carrivick whose baby boy Alexander will be baptised at Chesham Bois on Sat 15th Feb, 3pm.
Our Lady of Walsingham statue now visits Chesham Bois households. Please book to host Our Lady for a week.
Book for 5 monthly activities:
Men’s Group Wed 19 Feb 8:00PM, Kempston;
Talk for all Chesham Bois in parish room 7:30PM after 6:30PM Mass on Friday 21 Feb;
Ladies’ Group Sat 22 Feb 1:30PM Kempston;
Youth Trek Sat 22 Feb at Sundon Hills Country Park. Meet at 10:45AM at car park 53 Harlington Rd, Sundon, Luton LU3 3PE. Book with us for lunch at pub on the way.
Talk for all, Kempston, Wed 26 Feb 8:00PM, by Fr Gerald Duroisin, FSSP, on St John-Henry Newman and why convert to Catholicism
Activities 1st semester 2025
Feb
March
April
May
June
Men’s Group
19
19
9
14
25
Ladies’ Group
22
22
12
17
28
Youth Group
22
22
26
10
28
1st Holy Communion & Confirmation classes
8
1, 15, 29
5
10, 31
14
Juventutem London youth Mass & Social
14
14
4
10
13
Talk for any adults, Chesham Bois
21
22
–
29
14
Vocation Weekend Men 18+ Buckden Towers
28
1, 2
Paris-Chartres Pilgrimage
7-9
Chartres Pilgrimage last Pentecost: come along this year on 7-9 June. Contact Chaplaincy parishioner Dominic: difalcodom@gmail.com. Fr Coelho will attend, probably with Fr de Malleray, FSSP, and other FSSP priests and seminarians.
ASH WEDNESDAY Mass times: (not a holiday of obligation) Imposition of sacred ashes at all three Masses.
6:30AM & 5:45PM at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston.
11:00AM at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois.
Give us your blessed palms from last Palm Sunday to be burnt into ashes ahead of Ash Wednesday.
Our Sunday Hall at All Saints:
Thank you to the volunteers preparing the hall, doing the tea & coffee, and tidying up after. All are encouraged to pop in into the hall after Sunday Mass as it is an important opportunity to socialise and build up the community. More volunteers are needed: can you offer 90mins (10:00am-11:30am) one Sunday a month?
COST: £95.00 per person in total (full board). FREE for unwaged and students – give whatever amount you can.
Reminder: if you intend to receive Holy Communion on Sundays at All Saints in Kempston, as you walk into the church before Mass you must take one host from the plastic box and put it in the bowl (not the other way round). Failing to do so deprives fellow-parishioners from their own Holy Communion as not enough hosts are consecrated.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Mrs Hamel, 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.
Gregorian Chaplaincy, 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
Activities 1st semester 2025
Feb
March
April
May
June
Men’s Group
19
19
9
14
25
Ladies’ Group
22
22
12
17
28
Youth Group
22
22
26
10
28
1st Holy Communion & Confirmation classes
8
1, 15, 29
5
10, 31
14
Juventutem London youth Mass & Social
14
14
4
10
13
Talk for any adults, Chesham Bois
21
22
–
29
14
Vocation Weekend Men 18+ Buckden Towers
28
1, 2
Paris-Chartres Pilgrimage
7-9
CONFESSIONS TIMES
Soundproofing COMPLETEDin the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom.
Our Lady of Ransom (for anyone): Sat 10:00am-11:15am, and 20mins before every weekday Mass. At All Saints: during Sunday Mass in the room behind the organ. Chesham Bois: after the Sunday 12noon Mass if not before.
Thank you on behalf of SPUC for your generous donation of £490.78 to the White Flower Appeal in support of unborn children last Sunday
Novena and solemn renewal of the Consecration of the FSSP to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on February 2-11, 2025
To render thanks once again and implore the continual help of Our Lady, all the members of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter will solemnly renew their consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. To represent them all, the members of the Plenary Council and the Superior General will recite the act of consecration at the Grotto of Lourdes on her feast day, Tuesday 11th February.
We ask all the faithful who are close to us to join in this novena of preparation February 2-10, 2025 and to renew the consecration on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, February 11, 2025.
From Sunday 2 Feb to Saturday 10 Feb: Novena of Preparation FOLLOWING A DECADE OF THE ROSARY:
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother;
to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful.
O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions,
Procession with candles at the beginning of both Masses (which will therefore start and end about 15 minutes later on that Sunday). If displayed by the sanctuary well ahead of the start of Mass, you may bring candles to be blessed and take home.
Congratulations to Daniel Corner baptised and confirmed on Sat 1st Feb at Chesham Bois. Let us pray for him, for our recent converts, and for forthcoming catechumens.
Several dads have booked bespoke altar serving tuitions with seminarian Luke for them and their sons. Do book now for further training.
Please email us if you become aware of a redundant church building, a school, a warehouse, a garage, or other with parking for sale… – and of potential benefactors. And pray.
Our Lady of Walsingham statue coming to visit Chesham Bois households. Please book to host Our Lady for a week. The priest will hand the statue to you at the Communion rail right after Mass on Sunday and you bring it back before the next Sunday Mass for the next family to receive it from the priest.
Please pray the Litany of Loreto in front of the statue, daily, for your own intentions, and for those of the Gregorian Chaplaincy. As a reminder, that statue was blessed by the chaplain on the very spot of the apparitions at Walsingham during our Chaplaincy pilgrimage last year (see January picture on our wall calendar.)
Discover articles about faith and culture on our dedicated Dowry website: www.dowry.org.uk.
Moving official video (images and music) of the Chartres Pilgrimage last Pentecost:
Catholic community spring dance, Saturday 26thApril 2025, St Leonards Parish Hall HP23 6NW.
On Saturday 8th February, OPEN DAY of Regina Caeli Academy. Book at info@rcahybrid.org.uk.
Next monthly holy Mass, confessions, and catechism at RCA on Monday 3rd February.
Our Sunday Hall at All Saints:
Thank you to the volunteers preparing the hall, doing the tea & coffee, and tidying up after. All are encouraged to pop in into the hall after Sunday Mass as it is an important opportunity to socialise and build up the community. More volunteers are needed: can you offer 90mins (10:00am-11:30am) one Sunday a month?
Reminder: all children must be constantly monitored by parents if outside, and in loos and lobby. Thank you to all.
Is God calling ME? Matrimony, celibacy, monastery, seminary, Fraternity? Vocation Weekend near Bedford 28 Feb – 2 Mar 2025, at Buckden Towers, High Street, Buckden, St. Neots, Cambs PE19 5TA.
COME & SEE If you are a single Catholic man between 18 and 35 years of age, come and discern with us near Bedford. Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP will lead the weekend, assisted by Seminarian Luke, FSSP. There will be talks, prayers, Holy Mass and informal chatting with fellow-guests. Possibility of private meetings with a priest, and of confession. Feel welcome confidentially to call, email or write for any questions. Holy Mass each of the three days.
COST: £95.00 per person in total (bed + full board). FREE for unwaged and students – give whatever amount you can.
BOOKINGS & CONTACT: [not via Facebook] malleray@fssp.org (read by Fr de Malleray only).
ACCESS: Direct train from London St Pancras to St Neots, every half hour, duration 56 minutes.
The nearest towns are Huntingdon (5 miles NNE of Buckden) and St Neots (5 miles South of Buckden). Both Huntingdon and St Neots are served by the West Anglian Great Northern Railway line from King’s Cross London to Peterborough. Let us know if you would need a lift from the railway station. There also are bus and coach links to both Huntingdon and St Neots from many parts of the country.
We have currently six young men from the UK & Ireland in formation at our two international seminaries. Three of our deacons from England were ordained priests at St Mary’s Warrington by Archbishop McMahon, OP of Liverpool. Those were the first EF priestly ordinations by a diocesan bishop in England in fifty years. Please pray for them (//www.fssp.org/en/help-us/confraternity-of-saint-peter/) and for many more to enter the lists!
We give thanks for 14 priests ordained from or to the UK over the past 23 years: Fr Armand de Malleray in 2001; Fr Konrad Loewenstein in 2002; Fr Brendan Gerard in 2006; Frs Matthew Goddard and William Barker in 2009; Fr Simon Harkins in 2010; Fr Matthew McCarthy in 2011; Fr Ian Verrier in 2015; Fr James Mawdsley in 2016; Frs Alex Stewart and Krzysztof Sanetra in 2017; Fr Seth Phipps in 2018; Fr Gwilym Evans in 2022; Deacon Miklos Homolya in 2024 – plus Fr Patrick O’Donohue (incardinated in 2023).
On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, 11 February 2022, Pope Francis signed a decree confirming the liturgical charism of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter: https://www.fssp.org/…/decree-of-pope-francis…/.
Please pray for us. We assure you of our prayer.
O Lord, grant us many holy priests!
Reminder: if you intend to receive Holy Communion on Sundays at All Saints in Kempston, as you walk into the church before Mass you must take one host from the plastic box and put it in the bowl (not the other way round). Failing to do so deprives fellow-parishioners from their own Holy Communion as not enough hosts are consecrated.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Fr Patrick Hutton, Tom Holland, four-year-old Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Carl Roberts. Please email to sick list.
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