FSSP
United Kingdom and Ireland

Chesham Bois

May 23, 2025

Sunday Bulletin 25 May 2025

Gregorian Chaplaincy, est. 19th July 2011

Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Diocese of Northampton

Residence: St Alban House, 18 Brett Drive, Bromham, Bedford MK43 8RF

Landline: 01234 954 316

  Worship across three churches:

Sunday 8:30am: All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH

Sunday 12noon: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE

Weekdays: Our Lady of Ransom, 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB: Mon 9:30am ; Tue 6:30am ; Wed 7:15pm ; Thu 9:30am ; Fri 8:30am ; Sat 11:30am (following Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions from 10:00am & Eucharistic Benediction ending by 11:20am)

fssp.org.uk/bedford or fssp.org.uk/chesham     

facebook.com/bedfordlatinmass facebook.com/fssp.england

Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org

Assistant: Fr Miguel Coelho, FSSP-Associate : pe.miguelcoelho@protonmail.com

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.



Well done with the two Marian processions after our Sunday Masses in Bedford & Chesham Bois last 11 May. Visit fsspengland on flickr.com to see our lovely pictures.


Please pray for Tremaine Newman-Brown (standing left) and Lottie Harvey-Craig (standing right) who will be united in holy Matrimony at All Saints, Kempston, on 31st May, 11:00am.

(Standing in the middle is Emmanuel Tang, to be married to Miss Anja Hoffmann in Austria on 20 Sept 2025. Let us pray for that other young couple as well.)


  • Juventutem London Fri 13 June 7:00pm
  • For all Sat 14th June, Chesham 7:00pm
  • Men’s Wed 18th June 8:00pm
  • Youth Trek Sat 21st June 11:00am
  • Ladies’ Sat 28th June 1:30pm

First five Saturdays’ devotions: well done about 80 people who attended it this month. Special promises and graces from Our Lady. Next time is on Whit Saturday 7th June:

  • 10:00am Eucharistic adoration & benediction
  • 11:00am public recitation of the holy rosary
  • 11:30am holy Mass
  • Confessions 10:10am-10:50am & 11:00am-11:25am

Let us pray for our valiant pilgrims gearing up for the yearly Pilgrimage of Christendom from Paris to Chartres on Pentecost weekend. They will carry the intentions of our congregations in Bedford and Chesham Bois to the oldest Marian shrine in the world, where the veil of Our Lady is venerated. We pray for the up to 20,000 pilgrims and all the organisers, volunteers, clergy, religious, who are preparing for this major Catholic event. Fr Coelho will accompany the Chaplaincy delegation.

Wish you were there, but cannot? Learn more here about how you can be formally enrolled in the non-marching chapter, praying with and for the pilgrims even though you are not able to travel to France.

See here: https://www.nd-chretiente.com/pelerinage-chartres/anges-gardiens-eng/.

The Concept

A DIFFERENT KIND OF PILGRIMAGE

A different way of pilgrimage is offered to all those who are unable to walk to Chartres for various reasons (family, school, professional or religious obligations, age, physical condition, hospitalization, expatriation, etc).

A WORLDWIDE CHAIN OF PRAYER

During the 3 days of Pentecost, in France and abroad, people of all ages and from all walks of life unite spiritually with the Chartre pilgrims in a missionary spirit.

UNITED WITH THE WALKERS

Guardian Angel pilgrims take part in a common process of penance, conversion of hearts, sacrifice and apostolate.

In the communion of saints, through the Marian prayer of the rosary, they pray for the great intentions of the Church, call for the restoration of the reign of Christ the King over the Nations, and reciprocally carry the intentions of the pilgrimage and their own, which will be deposited on Whit Monday at the feet of Our Lady of the Pillar in Chartres Cathedral.


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. The schedule will be similar to last year’s, with holy Mass, picnic & free time, talks, holy mile, and visit to the Priory ruins. Visit fsspengland on flickr.com to see the great pictures of last year’s Chaplaincy pilgrimage. Book separately with the Shrine if you want to stay the night before or after.


Five new priests on 28 May: please pray for Michael Caughey, Matthew Jagas, Steven Kalinowski, Ronald McCann, and John-Francis Sulzen who will be ordained to the sacred priesthood at our American seminary. More priests will be ordained at our European seminary on 28 June. Fr Coelho will represent our Chaplaincy there.

Twelve new deacons on 31 May: please pray for candidates Stjepan Androic, Duarte Cabral Moncada, Jacopo Maria Calloni, Jan Celmer, Henri Constant, Simon-Xavier Danielsson, Géraud de David-Beauregard, Benoît Faivre, Miguel Medeiros Cardoso, Aleksander Nozdryn-Płotnicki, Matyáš Razím, Clemens Maria Reithofer, and Péter Uhel.


Fundraising lay initiatives in support of FSSP Chaplaincy: we thank the participants in the Spring dance last 26th April who kindly donated £180 in support of our ministry – we also thank the organisers, in particular the Tyldesley family. We thank the Moxham family and other participants who made Easter items put for sale after Easter. Finally we thank the John family and other participants who raised £120.00 through a bake sale. We also thank our dedicated team at the second-hand books stall, most Sundays after Mass, whose proceeds also go to the Chaplaincy.

In addition to their financial merit, all such initiatives foster fraternal interaction among the members of our congregation, and enable people to contribute not only through prayer but though such concrete means as well. Well done and thank you!


SUPPORT FSSP Bedford/Chesham Bois:
Lloyds Bank; Sort Code: 30-80-27 ; Account number: 44025960; Account name: FSSP Bedford


Interest was expressed for all-night Eucharistic adoration as a one-off. We are now exploring feasibility. Please contact Bridget [nibridget3@gmail.com / 07442 341655] to register interest for one hour or more, on one single night. The likely schedule would be on a weekday evening, this summer, from about 9pm to 6am or 7am, probably with Mass at the start or end. To make sure the Lord does not remain without adorers, we require three adults booked in at every hour, especially during the night. Feel welcome to suggest an intention for that night of adoration, e.g. pro-life, Gregorian Chaplaincy, families, RCA, Pope Leo, etc.


Juventutem annual Summer Weekend in Ampleforth, 18-20 July 2025, for 18-35 singles. Visit Juventutem on X, Instagram & Facebook.

Price includes: 3 days / 2 nights full Bed and Board + transport to and from York Station.

Booking before 11 May 2025: £135

Booking after 11 May 2025: £170 Event Fee(s)


LAST SPACES for our August summer camps!


Pray for  the sick in our congregations: Maria Chidell, Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Fr Patrick Hutton, four-year-old Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Prima Nevard, Carl Roberts.  Please email to sick list.



May 10, 2025

Sunday Bulletin 11 May 2025

FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 11-24 May 2025

Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Diocese of Northampton

Residence: St Alban House, 18 Brett Drive, Bromham, Bedford MK43 8RF

Landline: 01234 954 316

  Worship across three churches:

Sunday 8:30am: All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH

Sunday 12noon: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE

Weekdays: Our Lady of Ransom, 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB: Mon 9:30am ; Tue 6:30am ; Wed 7:15pm ; Thu 9:30am ; Fri 8:30am ; Sat 11:30am (following Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions from 10:00am & Eucharistic Benediction ending by 11:20am)

fssp.org.uk/bedford or fssp.org.uk/chesham     

facebook.com/bedfordlatinmass

facebook.com/fssp.england

Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org

Assistant: Fr Miguel Coelho, FSSP-Associate : pe.miguelcoelho@protonmail.com

Secretary: Mrs Rita Carroll: bedford@fssp.org

Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the FSSP Northampton Safeguarding officer William Currie: Tel: 07825 089 336. Email: safeguardingfssp@pm.me. Reminder: NO child must be left unsupervised at any time.


Watch daily Mass by the FSSP on www.livemass.net/locations/warrington.html


Daily Holy Mass readings: www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl


CONFESSIONS TIMES

Our Lady of Ransom (for anyone): Sat 10:00am-11:15am, and 20mins before every weekday Mass. At All Saints: during Sunday Mass in the room behind the organ. Chesham Bois: after the Sunday 12noon Mass if not before.



Congratulations to Mr Grant and Dr Silvia Grant on the Holy Baptism of their fourth child Beatrix in Kemp-ston on Sat 3rd May.


Greenlight to fundraise for a place of worship. We will keep you informed.


The collection for the Holy Places on Good Friday was £293.85. Thank you for your generosity towards our fellow Catholics in the Holy Land.


Annual Chaplaincy pilgrimage to Walsingham on Sat 12th July. Save the date and register interest with Rita. We will give thanks for 14 years (minus a week) since the establishment of the Gregorian Chaplaincy (19 July 2011) by Bishop Doyle.


Marian processions after Sunday Masses in Chesham Bois after the 12noon Mass on 11 May; in Bedford after the 8:30am Mass on 18 May.


Please pray for Tremaine Newman-Brown and Lottie Harvey-Craig who will be united in holy Matrimony at All Saints, Kempston, on 31st May.


Three French FSSP priests met in Bedford during Easter Week: Fr Brice Meissonnier, parish priest of our personal parish in Rome, and Fr Alban Cras, Head of Propaedeutic at our seminary in Bavaria, spent five days on vacation at St Alban House hosted by Fr de Malleray.


Men’s Group, Wed 14 May, 8pm,

and Ladies Group on Sat 17 May 1:30pm:

talks by Fr Coelho on: Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.


Ascension of the Lord, Thursday 29th May, a holiday of obligation: every able Catholic from First Communion onward must attend holy Mass that day.

Holy Masses at 6:30am and 5:30pm at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston.

And at 6:30pm at Our Lady’s in Chesham Bois, followed by talk for all about the Ascension of the Lord and the afterlife, at 7:30pm, also in Chesham Bois.


At All Saints Church: kindly remember to put all the hassocks, chairs and pews away safely after holy Mass.

Improving safety together at All Saints: although there will be volunteers on the field to monitor the riverbank, parents still have responsibility for looking after their children.

What is required:

  1. Volunteers to be DBS checked
  2. Volunteers to undergo one hour safeguarding training online
  3. Volunteers to sign a code of conduct
  4. Volunteers to wear a high visibility vest in order to identify their role and be a point of reference

Juventutem annual Summer Weekend in Ampleforth, 18-20 July 2025, for 18-35 singles. Visit Juventutem on X, Instagram & Facebook. Click to open the booking form: https://lms.org.uk/juventutem2025.

Price includes: 3 days / 2 nights full Bed and Board + transport to and from York Station.

Booking before 11 May 2025: £135

Booking after 11 May 2025: £170 Event Fee(s)


Well done 40 young adults from Juventutem London and Beds & Bucks trekkers who attended a Marian day of recollection led by Fr de Malleray on 10th May.


Our parishioner Daniel uploads some homilies and talks given within the Gregorian chaplaincy:


Booking forms for this year’s summer camps in the Peak District (for children 10-17) will be available shortly. The boys’ camp will be 4-9 August, and the girls’ camp, 11-16 August.


SUPPORT FSSP Bedford/Chesham Bois:
Lloyds Bank; Sort Code: 30-80-27 ; Account number: 44025960; Account name: FSSP Bedford


Jonathan Moxham is a Mortgage Adviser and also provides advice on Life, Mortgage, and Family  Protection Insurance. Jonathan does not charge a fee, and will donate 10% of his earnings from any parishioner or introduced client from this newsletter to the FSSP. Please contact Jonathan on 07769 665525 or email jon@denyerhill.com.

Our parishioner Sebastien offers his services for DYI, gardening, patio installation, tree felling, etc: 07814164308 ; sebpetitfrere@protonmail.com.

French language tuition based around Catholicism and French culture: frenchforcatholics@gmail.com


Pray for  the sick in our congregations: Maria Chidell, Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Fr Patrick Hutton, four-year-old Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Prima Nevard, Carl Roberts.  Please email to sick list.



April 29, 2025

Traditional Triduum in 1099-built church

Over 200 adults and children took part in the FSSP Bedford Solemn Easter Triduum 2025. People travelled from far and wide, some from Oxfordshire, Greater London, and Lincolnshire.

Click here to see our many pictures.

It was possibly the only place across the UK where permission had been given for those beautiful and complex ceremonies to take place in a pre-Reformation church, built a mere 33 years after the Norman Conquest, in 1099 (on the site of an older Catholic church.) What joy to hear these hallowed walls echo the traditional Roman liturgy after about five centuries. We thank all those who helped in so many ways to make this Triduum 2025 such a rewarding time of prayer.
These liturgies took place under the auspices of the FSSP Gregorian Chaplaincy, established by the Bishop of Northampton in 2011 to serve the needs of those attached to the traditional liturgy.

Find out more on fssp.org.uk/bedford/.

April 28, 2025

Summer Camps 2025

The annual FSSP Summer Camps will take place once again this August at Savio House, in Bollington, in the beautiful Peak District.

The St Peter Summer Camp for Boys will be 4-9 August; the St Petronilla Summer Camp for Girls will be 11-16 August.

The booking form for both camps may be found here: https://form.jotform.com/251174890393362

April 26, 2025

Sunday Bulletin 27 April 2025

For single Catholics 18-35, in just a fortnight: spread the word!

FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 27 April-10 May 2025

Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Diocese of Northampton

Gregorian Chaplaincy, est. 19th July 2011

Residence: St Alban House, 18 Brett Drive, Bromham, Bedford MK43 8RF

Landline: 01234 954 316

  Worship across three churches:

Sunday 8:30am: All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH

Sunday 12noon: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE

Weekdays: Our Lady of Ransom, 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB: Mon 9:30am ; Tue 6:30am ; Wed 7:15pm ; Thu 9:30am ; Fri 8:30am ; Sat 11:30am (following Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions from 10:00am & Eucharistic Benediction ending by 11:20am)

fssp.org.uk/bedford or fssp.org.uk/chesham     

facebook.com/bedfordlatinmass

facebook.com/fssp.england

Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org

Assistant: Fr Miguel Coelho, FSSP-Associate : pe.miguelcoelho@protonmail.com

Secretary: Mrs Rita Carroll: bedford@fssp.org

Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the FSSP Northampton Safeguarding officer William Currie: Tel: 07825 089 336. Email: safeguardingfssp@pm.me. Reminder: NO child must be left unsupervised at any time.


Watch daily Mass by the FSSP on www.livemass.net/locations/warrington.html


Daily Holy Mass readings: www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl


CONFESSIONS TIMES

Our Lady of Ransom (for anyone): Sat 10:00am-11:15am, and 20mins before every weekday Mass. At All Saints: during Sunday Mass in the room behind the organ. Chesham Bois: after the Sunday 12noon Mass if not before.


Discover our amazing pictures from the Triduum here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/138056205@N08/albums/72177720325539227.


Death of His Holiness Pope Francis

Let us pray for the repose of his soul. He often asked to be remembered in the prayers of those  who met him. We are indebted to him for his decree of February 11, 2022, clearly reaffirming the practice and charism that the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter has had from its foundation.

We will offer a Requiem Mass on Tuesday 6th May to “pray to God that through the Sacrifice offered for the soul of his servant, he may be admitted into the celestial kingdom in the company of all the saints.”

All are invited to recite daily the following prayer for the choice of the new pope:

We will offer another Mass to pray for the election of the new pope on Thursday 8th May.


Congratulations to Pedro and Alina Ivorra Perez on the Holy Baptism of their firstborn son Santiago on Friday 25 April; and Mr Andy and Dr Silvia Grant on the Holy Baptism of their fourth child Beatrix scheduled in Kempston on Sat 3rd May, 12:30pm.


Greenlight to fundraise for a place of worship. We will keep you informed.


Annual Chaplaincy pilgrimage to Walsingham on Sat 12th July. Save the date and register interest with Rita. We will give thanks for 14 years (minus a week) since the establishment of the Gregorian Chaplaincy (19 July 2011) by Bishop Doyle.


Please pray for Tremaine Newman-Brown and Lottie Harvey-Craig who will be united in holy Matrimony at All Saints, Kempston, on 31st May.


All Saints: kindly remember to put all the hassocks, chairs and pews away safely after holy Mass.

Improving safety together at All Saints: although there will be volunteers on the field to monitor the riverbank, parents still have responsibility for looking after their children.

What is required:

  1. Volunteers to be DBS checked
  2. Volunteers to undergo one hour safeguarding training online
  3. Volunteers to sign a code of conduct
  4. Volunteers to wear a high visibility vest in order to identify their role and be a point of reference

With Fr de Malleray, FSSP, Fr Miklos Homolya, FSSP, Deacon Conan Mc Gonagle, FSSP, and lay speakers and organisers.

Posting | juventutem.org
Posting | juventutem.org

 Booking forms for this year’s summer camps in the Peak District (for children 10-17) will be available shortly. The boys’ camp will be 4-9 August, and the girls’ camp, 11-16 August.


SUPPORT FSSP Bedford/Chesham Bois:
Lloyds Bank; Sort Code: 30-80-27 ; Account number: 44025960; Account name: FSSP Bedford


Our parishioner Sebastien offers his services for DYI, gardening, patio installation, tree felling, etc: 07814164308 ; sebpetitfrere@protonmail.com.

French language tuition based around Catholicism and French culture: frenchforcatholics@gmail.com


Pray for  the sick in our congregations: Stephen Moxham, Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Fr Patrick Hutton, four-year-old Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Prima Nevard, Carl Roberts.  Please email to sick list.



April 11, 2025

Sunday Bulletin 13 April 2025

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TOMORROW SATURDAY 12 APRIL:
Monthly Ladies’ Group: Sat 12th, 1:30pm: Seminarian Luke will speak on
Our Lady of Sorrows and the redemptive power of suffering.
Arrive earlier if you can for
10am-11:30am Eucharistic adoration and confessions,
11:30am holy Mass, and
12:30pm shared picnic lunch for ladies.



FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 13-26 April 2025 (fortnightly edition)

Gregorian Chaplaincy, est. 19th July 2011

Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Diocese of Northampton

Residence: St Alban House, 18 Brett Drive, Bromham, Bedford MK43 8RF

Landline: 01234 954 316

  Worship across three churches:

Sunday 8:30am: All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH

Sunday 12noon: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE

Weekdays: Our Lady of Ransom, 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB: Mon 9:30am ; Tue 6:30am ; Wed 7:15pm ; Thu 9:30am ; Fri 8:30am ; Sat 11:30am (following Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions from 10:00am & Eucharistic Benediction ending by 11:20am)

fssp.org.uk/bedford or fssp.org.uk/chesham     

facebook.com/bedfordlatinmass

facebook.com/fssp.england

Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP:

malleray@fssp.org

Assistant: Fr Miguel Coelho, FSSP-Associate : pe.miguelcoelho@protonmail.com

Seminarian: Luke Mazurek, FSSP: l.j.mazurek@pm.me

Secretary: Mrs Rita Carroll: bedford@fssp.org

Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the FSSP Northampton Safeguarding officer William Currie: Tel: 07825 089 336. Email: safeguardingfssp@pm.me. Reminder: NO child must be left unsupervised at any time.


Watch daily Mass by the FSSP on www.livemass.net/locations/warrington.html


Daily Holy Mass readings: www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl



CONFESSIONS TIMES

Our Lady of Ransom (for anyone): Sat 10:00am-11:15am, and 20mins before every weekday Mass. At All Saints: during Sunday Mass in the room behind the organ. Chesham Bois: after the Sunday 12noon Mass if not before.





Our heartfelt condolences to Tony Nevard, his children, and their families,
on the death of Mrs Prima Nevard in hospital on Sat 5 April.
Thankfully she had received the Last Rites, less than 24hrs previous.
May she rest in peace. 
Details of her funeral will be communicated soon.


Colwich Abbey trip on Bank holiday Monday 26th May 2025. Booking completed. Timetable to be communicated later on.


Annual Chaplaincy pilgrimage to Walsingham on Sat 12th July. Save the date and register interest with Rita. We will give thanks for 14 years (minus a week) since the establishment of the Gregorian Chaplaincy (19 July 2011) by Bishop Doyle.



Booking forms for this year’s summer camps in the Peak District (for children 10-17) will be available shortly.
The boys’ camp will be 4-9 August, and the girls’ camp, 11-16 August.


All Saints: kindly remember to put all the hassocks, chairs and pews away safely after holy Mass.

Improving safety together at All Saints: although there will be volunteers on the field to monitor the riverbank, parents still have responsibility for looking after their children.

What is required:

  1. Volunteers to be DBS checked
  2. Volunteers to undergo one hour safeguarding training online
  3. Volunteers to sign a code of conduct
  4. Volunteers to wear a high visibility vest in order to identify their role and be a point of reference


Printed copies of Dowry magazine No65 Spring have been displayed for you to take home and share. It is a special issue on religious vocations.


Fr de Malleray, Fr Coelho, and Seminarian Luke went on a monthly excursion to London last week and were given a tour of Allen Hall Seminary (picture) before visiting the Brompton Oratory and admiring some of the ecclesiastical artefacts at the nearby V&A.


Professional advertising by our parishioners:

Our parishioner Sebastien offers his services for:

  • Gardening Services (lawn mowing, weeding, bush and hedge trimming, medium tree pruning, planting trees, etc.  
  • Driveway/Patio pressure washing 
  • Patio Installation 
  • Shed/Outdoors Restoration (eg extensive shed repairs, reroofing, fence painting)  
  • Build/Set up Garden Structures eg sheds, raised beds.   
  • Professional Fencing  
  • Felling trees up to 15m  
  • Interior and exterior decorating and restoration (wallpaper removal, plastering, painting, tiling)  
  • General Car Mechanical Maintenance (fuel management, fluid/filter changes, brakes, exhaust etc)  
  • DIY and Handyman – various jobs around the house.

French for Catholics: French language tuition based around Catholicism and French culture. Online lessons in small groups. All ages catered for. Please contact Isabelle and Simon Lubbock at frenchforcatholics@gmail.com for more info.

Young Catholic Man offering Online Tuition in STEM subjects. Currently working as a teaching assistant. Full DBS Check. Contact at: wdommersnes@disroot.org or view tutoring profile here : https://www.firsttutors.com/uk/tutor/william.maths.57/


Juventutem annual Summer Weekend in Ampleforth, 
18-20 July 2025,

for 18-35 singles.
Visit Juventutem on X, Instagram & Facebook.

Booking/info here.

18-20th July 2025, Ampleforth Abbey

Price includes: 3 days / 2 nights full Bed and Board, Transport to and from York Station.

Booking fee£135.00

SUPPORT FSSP Bedford/Chesham Bois:
Lloyds Bank; Sort Code: 30-80-27 ; Account number: 44025960; Account name: FSSP Bedford


Pray for  the sick in our congregations: Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Fr Patrick Hutton, four-year-old Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Mrs Prima Nevard, Carl Roberts.  Please email to sick list.

April 5, 2025

Sunday Bulletin 6 April 2025

Gregorian Chaplaincy, est. 19th July 2011

Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Diocese of Northampton

Residence: St Alban House, 18 Brett Drive, Bromham, Bedford MK43 8RF

Landline: 01234 954 316

  Worship across three churches:

Sunday 8:30am: All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH

Sunday 12noon: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE

Weekdays: Our Lady of Ransom, 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB: Mon 9:30am ; Tue 6:30am ; Wed 7:15pm ; Thu 9:30am ; Fri 8:30am ; Sat 11:30am (following Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions from 10:00am & Eucharistic Benediction ending by 11:20am)

fssp.org.uk/bedford or fssp.org.uk/chesham     

facebook.com/bedfordlatinmass

facebook.com/fssp.england

Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP:

malleray@fssp.org

Assistant: Fr Miguel Coelho, FSSP-Associate :

pe.miguelcoelho@protonmail.com

Seminarian: Luke Mazurek, FSSP: l.j.mazurek@pm.me

Secretary: Mrs Rita Carroll: bedford@fssp.org

Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the FSSP Northampton Safeguarding officer William Currie: Tel: 07825 089 336. Email: safeguardingfssp@pm.me. Reminder: NO child must be left unsupervised at any time.


Watch daily Mass by the FSSP on www.livemass.net/locations/warrington.html


Daily Holy Mass readings: www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl


CONFESSIONS TIMES

Our Lady of Ransom (for anyone): Sat 10:00am-11:15am, and 20mins before every weekday Mass. At All Saints: during Sunday Mass in the room behind the organ. Chesham Bois: after the Sunday 12noon Mass if not before.


Clergy-led stations of the Cross every Friday in Lent at 9:10am, following the 8:30am holy Mass (at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston).


Most beneficial Lenten penance: attend a holy Mass once on a weekday. Circle your chosen date:

My Week 5: 7―8―9―10―11―12 April

My (Holy) Week 6: 14―15―16―17―18―19 Apr



Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Tang on the announcement of their son Emmanuel’s marriage with Miss Anja Hoffmann in Austria on 20 Sept 2025. Also, please keep in your prayer Tremaine Newman-Brown and Lottie Harvey-Craig who will be united in holy Matrimony at All Saints, Kempston, on 31st May 2025. We assure the two betrothed couples of our prayers.


Mothers’ Day celebration last Sunday: thank you for those who helped organise the lovely event!


Greenlight to fundraise for a place of worship. We will keep you informed.



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.



Learning our faith while having fun together,

  • Men’s group: Wed 9th, 8pm: Fr de Malleray will speak on Our Lady of Sorrows and the redemptive power of suffering
  • Ladies’: Sat 12th, 1:30pm: Seminarian Luke will speak on the same topic.
  • Youth Trek: TBC Sat 26th April, 11am, Silsoe, Beds: register interest ASAP for us to gauge numbers and confirm date and location.

Booking forms for this year’s summer camps in the Peak District (for children 10-17) will be available shortly. The boys’ camp will be 4-9 August, and the girls’ camp, 11-16 August.


All Saints: kindly remember to put all the hassocks, chairs and pews away safely after holy Mass.

Improving safety together at All Saints: although there will be volunteers on the field to monitor the riverbank, parents still have responsibility for looking after their children.

What is required:

  1. Volunteers to be DBS checked
  2. Volunteers to undergo one hour safeguarding training online
  3. Volunteers to sign a code of conduct
  4. Volunteers to wear a high visibility vest in order to identify their role and be a point of reference

Congratulations to Matthew and Ester Blisset on the baptism of their newborn son Joseph on Sunday 6th April at Our Lady of Ransom, 1pm.


Dowry magazine No65 Spring out: special issue on religious vocations.



French for Catholics: French language tuition based around Catholicism and French culture. Online lessons in small groups. All ages catered for. Please contact Isabelle and Simon Lubbock at frenchforcatholics@gmail.com for more info.

Young Catholic Man offering Online Tuition in STEM subjects. Currently working as a teaching assistant. Full DBS Check. Contact at: wdommersnes@disroot.org or view tutoring profile here : https://www.firsttutors.com/uk/tutor/william.maths.57/


Juventutem annual Summer Weekend in Ampleforth, 18-20 July 2025, for 18-35 singles. Visit Juventutem on X, Instagram & Facebook.


SUPPORT FSSP Bedford/Chesham Bois:
Lloyds Bank; Sort Code: 30-80-27 ; Account number: 44025960; Account name: FSSP Bedford


Monthly holy Mass will be offered at Regina Caeli Academy for the pupils and staff by Chaplain Fr de Malleray on Monday, 31st March.


Pray for  the sick in our congregations: Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Fr Patrick Hutton, four-year-old Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Carl Roberts.  Please email to sick list.



March 29, 2025

Sunday Bulletin 30 March 2025

FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 30 March 2025

Gregorian Chaplaincy, est. 19th July 2011

Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Diocese of Northampton

Residence: St Alban House, 18 Brett Drive, Bromham, Bedford MK43 8RF

Landline: 01234 954 316

  Worship across three churches:

Sunday 8:30am: All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH

Sunday 12noon: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE

Weekdays: Our Lady of Ransom, 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB: Mon 9:30am ; Tue 6:30am ; Wed 7:15pm ; Thu 9:30am ; Fri 8:30am ; Sat 11:30am (following Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions from 10:00am & Eucharistic Benediction ending by 11:20am)

fssp.org.uk/bedford or fssp.org.uk/chesham     

facebook.com/bedfordlatinmass

facebook.com/fssp.england

Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP:

malleray@fssp.org

Assistant: Fr Miguel Coelho, FSSP-Associate :

pe.miguelcoelho@protonmail.com

Seminarian: Luke Mazurek, FSSP: l.j.mazurek@pm.me

Secretary: Mrs Rita Carroll: bedford@fssp.org

Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the FSSP Northampton Safeguarding officer William Currie: Tel: 07825 089 336. Email: safeguardingfssp@pm.me. Reminder: NO child must be left unsupervised at any time.


Watch daily Mass by the FSSP on www.livemass.net/locations/warrington.html


Daily Holy Mass readings: www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl


CONFESSIONS TIMES

Our Lady of Ransom (for anyone): Sat 10:00am-11:15am, and 20mins before every weekday Mass. At All Saints: during Sunday Mass in the room behind the organ. Chesham Bois: after the Sunday 12noon Mass if not before.


Clergy-led stations of the Cross every Friday in Lent at 9:10am, following the 8:30am holy Mass (at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston).


Most beneficial Lenten penance: attend a holy Mass once on a weekday. Circle your chosen date:

My Week 5: 7―8―9―10―11―12 April

My (Holy) Week 6: 14―15―16―17―18―19 Apr

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


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.

We welcome donations to help us cover the cost. Thank you in advance!


New articles on www.dowry.org.uk.


Picture courtesy of M4LUK


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.


  • 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

  • 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.


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:

  1. Volunteers to be DBS checked
  2. Volunteers to undergo one hour safeguarding training online
  3. Volunteers to sign a code of conduct
  4. 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.



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.



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.

Please email to sick list.



March 21, 2025

Sunday Bulletin 23 March 2025

Gregorian Chaplaincy (est. 19 July 2011)

Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Diocese of Northampton

Residence: St Alban House, 18 Brett Drive, Bromham, Bedford MK43 8RF

Landline: 01234 954 316

  Worship across three churches:

Sunday 8:30am: All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH

Sunday 12noon: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE

Weekdays: Our Lady of Ransom, 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB: Mon 9:30am ; Tue 6:30am ; Wed 7:15pm ; Thu 9:30am ; Fri 8:30am ; Sat 11:30am (following Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions from 10:00am & Eucharistic Benediction ending by 11:20am)

fssp.org.uk/bedford or fssp.org.uk/chesham     

facebook.com/bedfordlatinmass

facebook.com/fssp.england



Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org

Assistant: Fr Miguel Coelho, FSSP-Associate : pe.miguelcoelho@protonmail.com

Seminarian: Luke Mazurek, FSSP: l.j.mazurek@pm.me

Secretary: Mrs Rita Carroll: bedford@fssp.org

Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the FSSP Northampton Safeguarding officer William Currie: Tel: 07825 089 336. Email: safeguardingfssp@pm.me. Reminder: NO child must be left unsupervised at any time.


Watch daily Mass by the FSSP on www.livemass.net/locations/warrington.html


Daily Holy Mass readings: www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl


CONFESSIONS TIMES

Our Lady of Ransom (for anyone): Sat 10:00am-11:15am, and 20mins before every weekday Mass. At All Saints: during Sunday Mass in the room behind the organ. Chesham Bois: after the Sunday 12noon Mass if not before.



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.


New articles on https://dowry.org.uk/




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.



Annual Chaplaincy pilgrimage to Walsingham on

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


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.


on Tuesday 25 March, holy Masses at

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.)

SUPPORT FSSP Bedford/Chesham Bois:
Lloyds Bank; Sort Code: 30-80-27 ; Account number: 44025960; Account name: FSSP Bedford


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.