Sunday Bulletin 10 Nov 2024
Gregorian Chaplaincy in Bedford and Chesham Bois
Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Diocese of Northampton
Residence: St Alban House, 18 Brett Drive, Bromham, Bedford MK43 8RF
Landline: 01234 954 316
Worship across three churches:
Sunday 8:30am: All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH
Sunday 12noon: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE
Weekdays: Our Lady of Ransom, 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB: Mon 9:30am ; Tue 6:30am ; Wed 7:15pm ; Thu 9:30am ; Fri 11:30am ; Sat 11:30am (following Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions from 10:00am & Eucharistic Benediction ending by 11:20am)
fssp.org.uk/bedford or fssp.org.uk/chesham
facebook.com/bedfordlatinmass
facebook.com/fssp.england
Chaplain: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org
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
Holy Mass at Regina Caeli Academy last week:
Remembrance Sunday this Sunday 10 Nov: Sung Mass of Requiem at All Saints, 8:30am
CONFESSIONS TIMES
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.
EXPAND: Please email us if you become aware of a redundant church building, a school, a warehouse, a garage, or other with parking for sale…
Bishop David Oakley will confer the sacrament of Confirmation again to our Chaplaincy candidates on Saturday 4th October 2025. You can start registering interest.
On Remembrance Sunday 10 Nov in Bedford & Chesham Bois, two sung Masses of Requiem with catafalque in intercession for all the dead of the two world wars of the past century. RIP.
Email us as soon as possible the names of candidates for First Holy Communion to take place on Corpus Christi Sunday, 22 June 2025.
Welcome to FSSP seminarian Luke Mazurek from St Peter’s International Seminary in Wigratzbad. Luke will be part of the clergy chaplaincy, on pastoral placement until Easter. Luke is Polish but has worked for a dozen years in London and is therefore very familiar with our country, speaking fluent English. We look forward to his involvement in the life of the chaplaincy, e.g. servers’ training, youth group. Less visible to parishioners but essential to communal life at St Alban House, Luke takes part in Lauds, Vespers and Compline now more easily prayed in choir by three than by two clerics.
Solemn high “First” Mass by newly ordained Fr Miklos Homolya, FSSP on Sunday 17 Nov, 8:30am, at All Saints Church, Kempston, followed by First Blessings and refreshments.
Fr Homolya will offer another “First” Mass the day before – Sat 16th Nov – at Our Lady’s Church in Chesham Bois at 11:00am followed by First Blessings and refreshments.
Please tell your friends and attend these two Masses to give thanks to God for another priest now serving in England (Warrington). With so few priests left in the dioceses, and so many aging or dying, we need to realise the grace of having priests come to us to give us the sacraments. By so doing we also foster a culture of vocations and we call upon us God’s mercy for more men to answer the call. Find out more on: fssp.org.uk/about-the-confraternity/.
Can you help your clergy with ongoing small sewing jobs mending vestments for holy Mass and clergy cassocks? The problem is that the longer we wait to mend those, the worse it gets and the bigger the work. We warmly welcome the offering of your time and skills. Thank you!
Juventutem gathering in London on Friday 15th Nov at St Mary Magdalene’s Church, Wandsworth: 6pm Confessions, 7pm Sung Mass, 8pm Social – with newly ordained Fr Miklos Homolya, FSSP. Any 18+ young adult welcome!
FSSP statistic annual update: find out more about the largest Catholic traditional priestly community, numbering 583 members spread across 4 continents in 151 dioceses, serving 255 Mass centres and training 197 seminarians in 2 international seminaries (USA & Germany) and a Propaedeutic House (Australia), including 5 from the UK & Ireland. Visit https://www.fssp.org/en/statistics-update/.
Christmas Dinner Chesham Bois: Sat 7 December, 7:00pm, with quiz designed by chaplaincy clergy. Have you booked your place already?
Signup sheet after Mass at All Saints in Bedford for a Bedford Christmas dinner: about our last chance to book.
Monthly meetings of adult groups at Our Lady of Ransom in Kempston this week:
This Wednesday evening 13th Nov:
6:50pm-7:10pm Confessions
7:15pm: Holy Mass
8:00pm:MONTHLY MEN’S GROUP on the topic: Can killing be legal and yet immoral? Scope and discernment in disposing of the lives of others and of one’s own.
MONTHLY LADIES GROUP on:
Saturday 16th Nov at 1pm: shared lunch & talk on Spiritual growth with the virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. Arrive earlier for:
10:00am: Eucharistic adoration & confessions for all
11:30am: Holy Mass for all
Young adults’ first excursion (for unmarried men and women 18+) on Saturday 30th November.
Meet by 11:00am at Woburn public car park on Park Street (X9QM+H8 Milton Keynes or https://maps.app.goo.gl/NVHEd8GR7idH3RbaA). Walk together across Woburn Abbey deer park, followed by lunch at nearby pub (e.g. the Woburn Arms) with informal chat, with clergy in attendance. If you live near Chesham Bois or Bedford please email attendance and lift need and lift offer (malleray@fssp.org). Your friends from outside Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire are most welcome!
Chaplaincy and CoE Parish representatives met last Monday at All Saints for a friendly chat on our use of their church, hall and car parks. We confirm that the parking space between the parish hall and the school must be left free. Our parishioners must park in the large church car park through the yellow gate unless they are family vans that can park to the side of the hall. Thank you for complying for a smooth running of everybody’s Sunday morning.
Also, hazard at the steps to the parish hall. The railing to the left of the entrance has come adrift and it could be 2 to 3 weeks before the repair is carried out. It is believed to have been caused by children swinging on the railing (out of five groups of children using the hall). Please do NOT USE this railing.
Finally, NO CHILD must be left out of SIGHT of his responsible adult, especially by the RIVER BANK.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: mother of Hal Hamel, 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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