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.
HABEMUS PAPAM!
“Pax Vobis”: Deeply heartened by these first words of Leo XIV in echoing the Good Shepherd in these days after the Resurrection, we ardently join the Holy Father in his intentions for peace within the world and within the Church.
We assure him of our fervent prayers by invoking in particular the very Patron of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles: Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram ædificabo ecclesiam meam.
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:
- Volunteers to be DBS checked
- Volunteers to undergo one hour safeguarding training online
- Volunteers to sign a code of conduct
- Volunteers to wear a high visibility vest in order to identify their role and be a point of reference
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.
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