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.
FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 26th January 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 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 Soundproofing work is nearing completion in the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom. For the sake of confidentiality please whisper rather than speak. 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 from the Patriarch of Jerusalem to our chaplaincy that raised £750 in our Advent Almsgiving project to support Christians in the Holy Land directly. Below is a photo of our very own Fr Evans handing over the total sum raised by the apostolates of the FSSP in England. His Beatitude Cardinal Pizzaballa, the Patriarch, wishes to convey his gratitude. God reward you for your generosity!
Novena and solemn renewal of the Consecration of the FSSP on February 2-11, 2025
Three years ago, at a moment of deep incertitude, the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter called out to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, mindful that never was it known that anyone who fled to her protection has been left unaided. Following a novena, the Fraternity consecrated itself to her Immaculate Heart on the very day that the Holy Father providentially published the decree reaffirming the practice and charism that the Fraternity has had from its foundation.
Three years later, in order to render thanks once again and implore her continual help, all the members of the Fraternity will solemnly renew this consecration. To represent them all, the members of the Plenary Council and I will recite the act of consecration at the Grotto of Lourdes on her feast day, February 11.
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.
Candlemas on Sunday 2nd February: 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 who will be baptised and confirmed on Sat 1st Feb, 11:00am, at Chesham Bois, and who will make his First Holy Communion there on Sun 2nd Feb.
Let us pray for him, for our recent converts, and for forthcoming catechumens.
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.
Discover articles about faith and culture on our dedicated ‘Dowry’ website: www.dowry.org.uk.
Catholic community spring dance, Saturday 26th April 2025, St Leonards Parish Hall HP23 6NW.
On monthly clergy excursion last week, Frs de Malleray and Coelho, and Seminarian Luke, went on pilgrimage to the shrine of St Alban, Protomartyr of England, under whose patronage the FSSP house in Bedford is placed. We also visited the local museum of Roman antiquity.
[picture Malleray]
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.
MORE SPACES for our annual Vocation discernment weekend at Buckden Towers, PE19 5TA, on 28 February – 2 March 2025 for single Catholic men 18-30.
Led by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, assisted by Seminarian Luke Mazurek, FSSP
Contact malleray@fssp.org. COST: £95.00 per person in total (full board). FREE for unwaged and students – give whatever amount you can.
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. 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…/.
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.
Several dads have booked bespoke altar serving tuitions with seminarian Luke for them and their sons. Do book now for further training. Email Luke: l.j.mazurek@pm.me .
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.
THIS EVENING: London Juventutem Mass & Social: Fri 17 Jan, 7pm (after 6pm Confessions & before 8pm social) for anyone 18-35, at St Mary Magdalene Catholic Church, Wandsworth, 96 North Side, London SW18 2QU.
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
THE BEST CONFESSIONAL IN TOWN…
awaits us 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.
Epiphany Water: Bring empty bottles (one bottle per household suffices) and fill it from our container after daily Mass from 6th Jan.
Bishop David Oakley confirmed to Fr de Malleray that he approves of our aspiration to acquire a permanent place of worship. The FSSP superiors are currently looking at the best way to secure that. 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 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? For smooth running with the CoE parish in charge of the hall, it is ESSENTIAL to go through the following check-list every Sunday:
The kitchen is left clean and tidy will all crockery washed and put away.
The kitchen external door is locked, and the emergency exit door is firmly closed.
The Immersion Heater in the kitchen is off.
The central heating is on a timer and will turn off automatically. The timer should not be overridden.
All lights in all rooms are off.
All taps are turned off.
The electric panel heaters in the Entrance Lobby and in the Accessible Toilet are turned off.
All windows are closed (including in every toilet).
The Urn in the kitchen is emptied and plugged out.
All floors are swept and mopped if necessary.
The bin bags in the kitchen and the toilets are removed and placed in the black bin outside. Replacement bags are in the FSSP box in the kitchen.
Reminder: all children must be constantly monitored by parents if outside, and in loos and lobby. Thank you to all.
Fr de Malleray will give a talk to any adults at Chesham Bois, Sat 25 Jan 7pm:
On cloistered men and women. What is their place in the Church today? Why we never see any. Why they matter still and how they help us. The three evangelical counsels. Why we should know religious persons better and pray for many more, even though our callings differ.
Bookings openfor our annual
Vocation discernmentweekend
at Buckden Towers, PE19 5TA,
on 28 February – 2 March 2025
for single Catholic men 18-30.
Contact malleray@fssp.org.
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.
Activities 1st semester 2025
January
Feb
March
April
May
June
Men’s Group
15
19
19
9
14
25
Ladies’ Group
18
22
22
12
17
28
Youth Group
11
22
22
26
10
28
1st Holy Communion & Confirmation classes
11, 25
8
1, 15, 29
5
10, 31
14
Juventutem London youth Mass & Social
17
14
14
4
10
13
Talk for any adults, Chesham Bois
25
?
?
?
?
?
Vocation Weekend Men 18+ Buckden Towers
28
1, 2
Paris-Chartres Pilgrimage
7-9
Please book now in your diaries the ten dates for candidates for First Holy Communion (to take place on Corpus Christi Sunday, 22 June 2025) and/or for Confirmation classes ahead of Saturday 4th October 2025 when Bishop Oakley will confer the sacrament.
You are more than welcome to avail yourselves of the 10am-11:30am Adoration and confessions, and the 11:30am Mass every Saturday. You can have your lunch in the parish hall between 12:15pm and 1:00pm.
Several dads have booked bespoke altar serving tuitions with seminarian Luke for them and their sons. Do book now for further training. Email Luke: l.j.mazurek@pm.me .
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.
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
Soundproofing work is nearing completion in the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom.
For the sake of confidentiality please whisper rather than speak. 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 for your help to Gaza Catholics this past Advent, raising £750!
THIS WEEK:
On cloistered men and women. What is their place in the Church today? Why we never see any. Why they matter still and how they help us. The three evangelical counsels. Why we should know religious persons better and pray for many more, even though our callings differ.
Fr de Malleray will discuss this topic at the THREE groups this month.
Men’s group Wed 8pm, after 7:15pm Mass:
15 Jan, 19 Feb, 19 Mar, 9 Apr, 14 May, 25 Jun
Ladies’ group Sat 1:30pm, after 11:30am Mass:
18 Jan, 22 Feb, 22 Mar, 12 Apr, 17 May, 28 Jun
For All group, Chesham Bois, Sat 25 Jan 7pm
Next London Juventutem Mass & Social: Fri 17 Jan, 7pm (after 6pm Confessions & before 8pm social) for anyone 18-35, at St Mary Magdalene Catholic Church, Wandsworth, 96 North Side, London SW18 2QU.
15 young adults attended our monthly Young Adults’ trek on Sat 11 Jan at Ivinghoe Beacon, with Fr de Malleray and First Year FSSP seminarian James from Hemel Hempstead. Contact us to be added to the WhatsApp group.
Epiphany Water: Bring empty bottles (one bottle per household suffices) and fill it from our container after daily Mass from 6th Jan.
Bring chalk on Sunday 5th January if you wish it blessed by the priest then, for the head of your household later to mark the lintel of your front door as follows: 20 + C + M + B + 25 (i.e. the number of the year and the initials of the three wise men.) Read more on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalking_the_door.
Congratulations for our children doing their Scout Promise this Sunday. Fr de Malleray will attend and bless them in their important commitment.
The monthly ministry of the FSSP at Regina Caeli Academy will take place this Monday, including Holy Mass, Confessions, catechism, and altar servers’ training.
COST: £95.00 per person in total (bed + 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.
Baronius missals are available for £45. These and other books such as Vermeer’s Angel, Ego Eimi etc make good Christmas presents. Ask Rita if you would like to buy any of them (please bring cash.)
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.
SACRAMENTS PREPARATION DATES: Your clergy look forward to seeing you at Our Lady of Ransom Church in Kempston from 1:00pm to 2:00pm on the following Saturdays: 11th & 25th January; 8th February; 1st, 15th & 29th March; 5th April; 10th & 31st May; 14th June. Please note that all ten sessions are compulsory for admission to the sacraments.
Please book now in your diaries those ten dates for candidates for First Holy Communion (to take place on Corpus Christi Sunday, 22 June 2025) and/or for Confirmation classes ahead of Saturday 4th October 2025 when Bishop Oakley will confer the sacrament.
You are more than welcome to avail yourselves of the 10am-11:30am Adoration and confessions, and the 11:30am Mass every Saturday. You can have your lunch in the parish hall between 12:15pm and 1:00pm.
Several dads have booked bespoke altar serving tuitions with seminarian Luke for them and their sons. Do book now for further training starting on from 12th Jan onward.
Email Luke:l.j.mazurek@pm.me .
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.
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
In total 326 people attended our three Christmas Masses: Night, Dawn and Day.
Midnight Mass at Sts Philip & James.
Daily Holy Mass readings: www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl
CONFESSIONS TIMES
Soundproofing work is nearing completion in the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom.
For the sake of confidentiality please whisper rather than speak. 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.
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Epiphany: Attending holy Mass on Monday 6th January for the solemnity of the Epiphany is not an obligation this year. But we invite all to our holy Mass that will take place on the traditional date (Twelfth Night after the Nativity) on Mon 6th Jan in Bedford at 9:30am.
Epiphany Water will be provided by the clergy for you this year. (The 45min-long blessing must take place the day before, but it clashes with Sunday when the only priest available will need to go the Chesham Bois.) Bring empty bottles (one bottle per household suffices) and fill it from our container after daily Mass from 6th Jan.
Bring chalk on Sunday 5th January if you wish it blessed by the priest then, for the head of your household later to mark the lintel of your front door as follows: 20 + C + M + B + 25 (i.e. the number of the year and the initials of the three wise men.) Read more on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalking_the_door.
Thank you
for your help to Gaza Catholics this past Advent,
raising £750!
Kindly book in your diaries the following dates, and tell your friends:
Men’s group Wed 8pm, after 7:15pm Mass:
15 Jan, 19 Feb, 19 Mar, 9 Apr, 14 May, 25 Jun
Ladies’ group Sat 1:30pm, after 11:30am Mass:
18 Jan, 22 Feb, 22 Mar, 12 Apr, 17 May, 28 Jun
And monthly talk for all at Chesham Bois on Saturday 25 January, 7pm.
Next Bucks & Beds Young Adults’ Trek (for any non-married adult 18-35): Saturday 11 January 2025. Meet at 10:45am at Ivinghoe Beacon Circular Walk Car Park (National Trust Car Park, Dunstable, LU6 2EG. No road name for this, it’s just a turning off the B489.) Join our WhatsApp group to get all updates and request/offer lifts. Includes 2hr walk + lunch at nearby pub with friendly chats. Back at car park before 4pm.
Next London Juventutem Mass & Social: Fri 17 Jan, 7pm (after 6pm Confessions & before 8pm social) for anyone 18-35, at St Mary Magdalene Catholic Church, Wandsworth, 96 North Side, London SW18 2QU.
Welcome to FSSP Seminarian James from Hemel Hempstead,
COST: £95.00 per person in total (bed + 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.
Baronius missals are available for £45. These and other books such as Vermeer’s Angel, Ego Eimi etc make good Christmas presents. Ask Rita if you would like to buy any of them (please bring cash.)
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.
SACRAMENTS PREPARATION DATES: Your clergy look forward to seeing you at Our Lady of Ransom Church in Kempston from 1:00pm to 2:00pm on the following Saturdays: 11th & 25th January; 8th February; 1st, 15th & 29th March; 5th April; 10th & 31st May; 14th June. Please note that all ten sessions are compulsory for admission to the sacraments.
Please book now in your diaries those ten dates for candidates for First Holy Communion (to take place on Corpus Christi Sunday, 22 June 2025) and/or for Confirmation classes ahead of Saturday 4th October 2025 when Bishop Oakley will confer the sacrament.
You are more than welcome to avail yourselves of the 10am-11:30am Adoration and confessions, and the 11:30am Mass every Saturday. You can have your lunch in the parish hall between 12:15pm and 1:00pm.
Several dads have booked bespoke altar serving tuitions with seminarian Luke for them and their sons. Do book now for further training starting on from 12th Jan onward.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: 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.
Martyrdom of St Thomas Becket, painted in the 1330s in the parish church of St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington, Oxfordshire (copyright Motacilla for Wikipedia). His feast takes precedence over the Sunday after Christmas, 29 Dec.
FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 29th Dec 2024
Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Diocese of Northampton
Residence: St Alban House, 18 Brett Drive, Bromham, Bedford MK43 8RF
Landline: 01234 954 316
Worship across three churches:
Sunday 8:30am: All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH
Sunday 12noon: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, 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
Soundproofing work is nearing completion in the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom.
For the sake of confidentiality please whisper rather than speak. 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 for your help to Gaza Catholics this past Advent. We will soon know the amount of your gift. Last chance this Sunday to put your offering in the Offertory collection basket in an envelope bearing the purpose “Holy Land FSSP Appeal”).
Frs de Malleray and Coelho, and seminarian Luke wish you and your families a grace-filled Christmastide and thank you wholeheartedly for your cards, gifts and generous support.
Next Bucks & Beds Young Adults’ Trek (for any non-married adult 18-35): Saturday 11 January 2025. Meet at 10:45am at Ivinghoe Beacon Circular Walk Car Park (National Trust Car Park, Dunstable, LU6 2EG. No road name for this, it’s just a turning off the B489.) Join our WhatsApp group to get all updates and request/offer lifts. Includes 2hr walk + lunch at nearby pub with friendly chats. Back at car park before 4pm.
COST: £95.00 per person in total (bed + full board). FREE for unwaged and students – give whatever amount you can.
Gain a plenary indulgence on 31st December through the public recitation of the Te Deum after our 6:30am Holy Mass.
Gain a plenary indulgence on 1st January through the public recitation of the Veni Creator before our 7:15pm Holy Mass.
Epiphany: Attending holy Mass on Monday 6th January for the solemnity of the Epiphany is not an obligation this year. But we invite all to our holy Mass that will take place on the traditional date (Twelfth Night after the Nativity) on Mon 6th Jan in Bedford at 9:30am.
Epiphany Water will be provided by the clergy for you this year. (The 45min-long blessing must take place the day before, but it clashes with Sunday when the only priest available will need to go the Chesham Bois.) Bring empty bottles (one bottle per household suffices) and fill it from our container after daily Mass from 6th Jan.
Bring chalk on Sunday 5th January if you wish it blessed by the priest then, for the head of your household later to mark the lintel of your front door as follows: 20 + C + M + B + 25 (i.e. the number of the year and the initials of the three wise men.) Read more on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalking_the_door.
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.
Baronius missals are available for £45. These and other books such as Vermeer’s Angel, Ego Eimi etc make good Christmas presents. Ask Rita if you would like to buy any of them (please bring cash.)
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.
SACRAMENTS PREPARATION DATES: Your clergy look forward to seeing you at Our Lady of Ransom Church in Kempston from 1:00pm to 2:00pm on the following Saturdays: 11th & 25th January; 8th February; 1st, 15th & 29th March; 5th April; 10th & 31st May; 14th June. Please note that all ten sessions are compulsory for admission to the sacraments.
Please book now in your diaries those ten dates for candidates for First Holy Communion (to take place on Corpus Christi Sunday, 22 June 2025) and/or for Confirmation classes ahead of Saturday 4th October 2025 when Bishop Oakley will confer the sacrament.
You are more than welcome to avail yourselves of the 10am-11:30am Adoration and confessions, and the 11:30am Mass every Saturday. You can have your lunch in the parish hall between 12:15pm and 1:00pm.
Check our new website https://dowry.org.uk/ for articles on faith, culture, and spirituality.
Several dads have booked bespoke altar serving tuitions with seminarian Luke for them and their sons. Do book now for further training starting on from 12th Jan onward.
Email Luke:l.j.mazurek@pm.me .
Pray for the sick in our congregations: 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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