MASS INTENTIONS Sunday 1st May : 8.30 am Johanna O’Brien RIP, 12.30 pm Private intention
CONFESSIONS Saturdays 3 pm—5 pm
PRO-LIFE COFFEE MORNING There will be a Pro-Life Coffee Morning on Sunday 8th May following the 8.30 am Mass. Cake donations welcome! Come and enjoy a morning of tea, coffee and cakes with the opportunity to find out more about the life changing work of March for Life UK.
COFFEE ROTA We now have a good number of people who are willing to make the tea and coffee on a regular basis—thank you! It is currently working out about one turn per month. There’s always room for more. It would also be helpful to have a list of those who would prefer not to commit each month, but who could stand in occasionally, perhaps at short notice (there’s a vacancy next Sunday!) Please contact Barbara on mbky3 AT outlook.com.
TRADFEST IN KENT! Social weekend 9th—10th July in the beautiful Kent countryside for young Catholics aged 18—26 organised by Greg Grimer. Inexpensive and fun! Includes Sunday Latin Mass. Please see Instagram link https://www.instagram.com/greggrimer/.
Next Sunday, 1st May, we celebrate the Feast of St Joseph the Worker, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the 8.30 am Mass will be sung. There will be a choir practice in church on Saturday afternoon from 3 pm—5pm. New singers always welcome!
SUMMER CAMPS St Peter Summer Camp for Boys runs 1st—6th August, St Petronilla Summer Camp for Girls runs 8th—13th August, both at Bollington in the Peak District. Age range 10—17. Please contact Fr Phipps (sphipps AT fssp.org) if you are interested—places are going fast!
ST. ANTHONY’S COMMUNICATIONS
There will be brochures for this Catholic Apostolate after the 8:30am Mass for people to take a look at. They have had a rough time over the last two years so please consider supporting them, they have a fantastic offering.
STANDING ORDERS The FSSP is reliant on regular supplementary financial giving in order to maintain their apostolate in Bedford. Please consider setting up a standing order to them. These need to be set up by you through your own bank using the following details: account name: FSSP England (Reading); sort code 30-93-04; account number 02027330. Gift Aid forms are also available by request. Thank you!
MASS INTENTIONS Sunday 3rd April 8.30 am Katarzyna Onisk RIP 12.30 pm Private intention Sunday 10th April 8.30 am Sheila Yowell RIP 12.30 pm Private intention
CONFESSIONS Saturdays 3 pm—5 pm. There will be two FSSP priests hearing Confessions on 9th April, but no Confessions on Holy Saturday.
EASTER COLLECTIONS By Fr Nicholas’s kind agreement, the collection money from the Latin Masses at 8.30 am and 12.30 pm on Easter Sunday will go to support the work of the FSSP Bedford Apostolate. If you want to make a personal gift to the FSSP priests, then please do so outside of the collections, making it clear that it is for their personal use. Thank you!
STANDING ORDERS The FSSP is reliant on regular supplementary financial giving in order to maintain their apostolate in Bedford. Please consider setting up a standing order to them. These need to be set up by you through your own bank using the following details: account name: FSSP England (Reading); sort code 30-93- 04; account number 02027330. Gift Aid forms are also available by request. Thank you.
ST ANTHONY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE Saturday 4th June 9.45 am—5 pm, St Mary’s Church, West Croydon. Speakers include Rev Marcus Holden. More information and required advance booking on www.saintant.com.
ACCESS TO THE SACRAMENTS If there is the need for sacraments — baptism, confirmation, sick calls etc — please contact Fr Goddard on 0118 966 5284 or goddard AT fssp.org.
SUNG MASS Sunday 6th March at 8.30 am is a sung Mass, with a practice tomorrow from 3 pm—5 pm. Please contact Katherine if interested: 07985 214854 / katie DOT peddie AT gmail.com.
FSSP SUMMER CAMPS
After two years of absence, these will take place at Savio House, in Bollington (near Macclesfield, Cheshire). St Peter’s Summer Camp for Boys runs 1-6 August; St Petronilla Summer Camp for Girls runs 8-13 August. Booking forms will be made available very soon. Please contact Fr Phipps for more information.
UKRAINE
There’s an event on 19th/20th March at which people will be collecting various items to send in a lorry down to Ukraine. If anyone would like to donate clothes / toiletries / baby products etc and hasn’t had a chance to drop something off at a local pickup point, do please feel free to bring them to Mass and someone can take them
20th February 2022—Sexagesima MASS INTENTIONS Sunday 20th February 8.30 am Nicholas and Ruth Dyson 20th Wedding Anniversary 12.30 pm Private intention CONFESSIONS Saturdays 3 pm—5 pm.
ASH WEDNESDAY There will be a Low Mass and imposition of ashes on Wednesday 2nd March at 7.30 pm.
NEXT SUNG MASS Sunday 6th March at 8.30 am with a practice on Saturday 5th March 3 pm—5 pm led by Dominic Bevan, who is a professional singer and choir trainer sponsored by the Latin Mass Society. Please contact Katherine Smith if interested: 07985 214854/katie.peddie AT gmail.com. New singers welcome, experience not required!
MASS OF AGES The Spring edition is available free of charge on the table by the door as you leave today.
MASS INTENTIONS Sunday 13th February 8.30 am Ondine Marie reversion and confirmation 12.30 pm Private intention
CONFESSIONS Today 3 pm—5 pm.
Holy Water Stoups back!
You will notice that the holy water stoups have been filled once again for your use. Please make good use of this beautiful sacramental which we have not had for many months.
Puppet Show
There will be a puppet show in the Patrick Donegan Room next to the hall after the 8.30 am Mass today. Children of all ages are welcome, as are parents of the younger ones.
Mass of Ages
The Spring edition is available on the table by the door as you leave today.
Sunday 6th February 8.30 am (sung) FSSP Seminarians
12.30 pm FSSP and Traditional Mass
Choir practise was a great success, with tomorrow’s Mass being the first Sunday, it will be a sung Mass
PUPPET SHOW!
There will be a puppet show in the Patrick Donegan Room next to the hall after the 8.30 am Mass next week. Subject to space, children of all ages are welcome, as are parents of the younger ones.
SACRAMENTS
If there is the need for sacraments — baptism, confirmation, sick calls etc — please contact Fr Goddard as the priest in charge of the Chaplaincy Masses at Christ the King on telephone number 0118 966 5284 or by email: goddard AT fssp.org.
To seek Our Lady’s increased protection, there will be a worldwide consecration of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter and all those entrusted to our care, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on 11 February, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.
In these times of trial within the Church and the world, we are impelled to make this solemn act. Let us strive to prepare ourselves and our apostolates to make this consecration with a generous and trusting heart, praying that this step will obtain for us the graces that we need so much, and that Our Heavenly Mother will look upon us with kindness and gentleness.
Every day, 2-10 of February, we will pray a novena for the FSSP in preparation for this consecration. Please can we ask all members of the Confraternity of St Peter and all our faithful to join in this novena, which we will also be saying at the end of Masses. It will comprise:
One decade of the Rosary
The Memorare:
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.
On 11th February, the following prayer should be said:
Act of Consecration of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, February 11, 2022
This consecration must be recited on Friday, February 11, 2022 by all the members of the Fraternity; the faithful who wish to do so may join in (same remarks as above for the novena).
O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and Help of Christians, behold this day before thy feet, the priests and seminarians of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, together with all those who, united with us as a spiritual family, place their hope and trust in thee.
O Queen and Mother of all priests, it was by thee that Jesus, the High Priest and Victim, was given unto the world, and He in turn has given thee as Mother to us.
Intercede, therefore, we implore thee, for us thy children, whom thou didst receive and accept at the foot of the Cross. Look with favor upon the work we seek to do for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. Obtain for us by thy prayers the graces we need as members of the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, to be instructed and enlightened by her Magisterium, to be devoutly zealous for the graces of her Sacraments, and to be unfailingly loyal in our unity with the Vicar of thy Son.
The rest of the text is recited only by priests and seminarians of the Fraternity: Conscious of our own frailty, and of the hatred of the world for the works of light, we offer this day to thy Immaculate Heart our Priestly Fraternity and beg thee to take it under thy patronage. We chose thee, this day and evermore, as our advocate and Queen, and devote ourselves and all those souls who seek our priestly care, together with all our works and all we have and are, to thy loving protection.
To thee and to thy Immaculate Heart, we entrust and consecrate ourselves. Assist us in our endeavors to spread the Kingdom of thy Son, so that those who have strayed from the truth may once more attend to the teaching of the Church; those separated from her unity may return to the one true fold; those in sin may be restored to a state of grace; and those who have abandoned the Sacraments may return with fervor to receive them.
O Virgin Most Pure, do thou, together with Saint Peter, and all the angels and saints, pray for us all in these times of trial. May thy love and protection be ever upon our Fraternity, so that we may faithfully proclaim the Holy Gospel and bring the Sacraments to ever more souls. Obtain for us by thy prayers that we may persevere in grace until death, when we may be united with thee, our loving Mother, in the house of the Father. Amen.
To seek Our Lady’s increased protection on the Fraternity of St Peter and all those entrusted to our care, there will be a wordwide Marian consecration on 11 February, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Every day after Mass, 2-10 of February, we will pray a novena for the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter in preparation for this consecration. All members of the Confraternity of St Peter, and any faithful in our apostolates are invited to join in this novena, as follows:
Decade of the Rosary Memorare:
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.
Act of Consecration on Friday 11 February:
O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and Help of Christians, behold this day before thy feet, the priests and seminarians of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, together with all those who, united with us as a spiritual family, place their hope and trust in thee. O Queen and Mother of all priests, it was by thee that Jesus, the High Priest and Victim, was given unto the world, and He in turn has given thee as Mother to us. Intercede, therefore, we implore thee, for us thy children, whom thou didst receive and accept at the foot of the Cross. Look with favor upon the work we seek to do for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. Obtain for us by thy prayers the graces we need as members of the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, to be instructed and enlightened by her Magisterium, to be devoutly zealous for the graces of her Sacraments, and to be unfailingly loyal in our unity with the Vicar of thy Son.
The rest of the text is recited only by priests and seminarians of the Fraternity:
Conscious of our own frailty, and of the hatred of the world for the works of light, we offer this day to thy Immaculate Heart our Priestly Fraternity and beg thee to take it under thy patronage. We chose thee, this day and evermore, as our advocate and Queen, and devote ourselves and all those souls who seek our priestly care, together with all our works and all we have and are, to thy loving protection. To thee and to thy Immaculate Heart, we entrust and consecrate ourselves. Assist us in our endeavours to spread the Kingdom of thy Son, so that those who have strayed from the truth may once more attend to the teaching of the Church; those separated from her unity may return to the one true fold; those in sin may be restored to a state of grace; and those who have abandoned the Sacraments may return with fervor to receive them. O Virgin Most Pure, do thou, together with Saint Peter, and all the angels and saints, pray for us all in these times of trial. May thy love and protection be ever upon our Fraternity, so that we may faithfully proclaim the Holy Gospel and bring the Sacraments to ever more souls. Obtain for us by thy prayers that we may persevere in grace until death, when we may be united with thee, our loving Mother, in the house of the Father. Amen.
MASS INTENTIONS Sunday 30th January 8.30 am For a shrine to be established at Ampleforth Abbey in honour of St Philomena 12.30 pm Private intention Sunday 6th February 8.30 am FSSP Seminarians 12.30 pm Private intention
CONFESSIONS Saturdays 3 pm—5 pm.
SUNG MASS AND GREGORIAN CHANT TRAINING There will be a Sung Mass next Sunday, 8.30 am with a practice from 3 pm—5 pm on Saturday 5th February. We are delighted to welcome to the practice Dominic Bevan, a professional musician, who is being sponsored by the Latin Mass Society to provide training in Gregorian chant. Contact Katherine Smith on 07985 214854 if interested.
DIG UP YOUR ANCESTORS! Ever wondered about your family tree? Mary Wooldridge, a member of this congregation who runs the sales table in the hall, can trace it for you and she kindly donates her fees to the FSSP. Speak to her or contact her on wooldridge_mary AT btinternet.com
ACCESS TO THE SACRAMENTS If there is the need for sacraments — baptism, confirmation, sick calls etc — please contact Fr Goddard on 0118 966 5284 or by email: goddard AT fssp.org.
