Sunday Bulletin 15th November 2026

Update for Sat 14th Nov:  Mass at 9:00am, no Adoration. Confessions 8:30am-8:55am

FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin

15-29 November 2026

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 [‘OLOR’], 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB

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 Priest: Fr Conán McGonagle, FSSP : conanmcgonagle@fssp.org

Secretary: Mrs Magda Petit-Frere: 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 latest Chaplaincy homilies and more on the dedicated FSSP YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@FSSPLiveMass.

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

CONFESSIONS TIMES

Check online before travelling from afar: 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.

Holy Mass Intentions:

A new Chaplaincy Secretary.

We thank Theresa Madden for her dedication to the Chaplaincy over the past year and wish her well as she passes this important responsibility on to Mrs Magda Petit-Frere, a long-time member of our congregation (with her husband and son).

Your messages to the usual Chaplaincy email address bedford@fssp.org will now be dealt with by Magda.

Attending the priestly ordination of Deacon David Kahn, FSSP in Wigratzbad on Saturday 26^th June 2027? The FSSP in these Isles is blessed with one more priestly ordination next June. Many of our children would know Deacon Kahn from the summer camps. Interest has been expressed for a delegation from Bedford and Chesham Bois to attend the wondrous event. Fr de Malleray will be there, and various other priests and parishioners from the UK & Ireland. Please explore and discuss travel and accommodation options. The nearest airport is Memmingen, with direct flights from Stansted for £104.00 return (out 25^th June and return 27^th June). Or fly to Zurich (Switzerland) or Munich (Germany) both followed by a 2-hour train journey to local station of HERGATZ, at walking distance from our seminary.

See the splendid pictures of our Bavarian seminary here: https://fsspwigratzbad.blogspot.com/.

A new website to help us acquire our own church! Visit holyfamilyproject.co.uk and share the link with your friends and acquaintances. Even though they may not be able to attend our Masses, still they may be inspired by the unique configuration of our Bedford Chaplaincy apostolate, benefitting from full-time clergy, as well as traditional scout groups and education with RCA.  Contact our team of dedicated parishioners via holyfamilyprojectemail@gmail.com.

We highly recommend the forthcoming and first edition of the Pilgrimage for Grace from Reading Abbey to the Tower of London on 1^st-3^rd May 2027. It is a traditional initiative with traditional liturgy and the blessing of the bishops. Visit now www.pilgrimageforgrace.uk.

Autumn Ceilidh on Sat 21^st Nov, 4pm-9pm, at Cottonmill Community & Cycle Centre, Old Oak, St Albans AL1 2EF. Contact Emma John: sizimizi@yahoo.co.uk.

Ahead of the Nativity, we are pleased to announce that our traditional Midnight Mass will take place (at midnight) like last year at All Saints Church, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH, following carols from 11:30pm.

Book for our Bedford post–Christmas dinner on Tuesday 5^th January, 6:30pm at the King William Pub, 56 High St, Kempston MK42 7AL. Email bedford@fssp.org. Or for our pre–Christmas dinner in Chesham Bois on Sat 12^th Dec (email Agostino DF).

How to have a holy Mass offered to any of your intentions?

Did you know that…

Having a holy Mass offered for one’s own intentions, the intentions of relative or a friend, or for a deceased person, used to be the backbone a Catholic devotion from medieval times? Up to the Tudor reformation, there used to be in every main church some side chapels called chantry chapels, dedicated to such Masses for the dead. Therefore, every Catholic should become familiar again with this somewhat lost tradition, to the greater glory for God, to the merit of the benefactor, and to the benefit of those for whom the Mass is offered.

How it works:

Write your intention on our small, printed envelopes, inserting your stipend in cash inside, and hand it to the priest or drop it in the offertory collection basket. (If using your own envelope, make sure to specify clearly how many Masses and what is the stipend per Mass.)

The merits of Christ being infinite in value, your stipend does not “pay for the Mass,” but it goes to support the priest celebrant who retains it for personal use (one stipend / day maximum).

Your intentions will appear on the Chaplaincy bulletin, unless you don’t mind for that Mass to be offered privately.

There is no obligation to attend personally the Mass you ask to be offered.

No online payment please:

We are unable to accept Mass intentions and Mass stipends paid online. Please do not either make a single online donation to the Chaplaincy that would “include a Mass stipend,” as those are accounted distinctly and we don’t have the admin resources to process it.

Intentions can be for your own self, or for someone else, dead or alive, or if personal, you may simply write “Private intention”.

How much?

You may give what you can afford: most people give between £10 and £20 for one Mass. Thank you in advance.

Well done Fr McGonagle, FSSP are parishioners who ran a half Marathon in Leighton Buzzard on 7 Nov for the great charity Mary’s Meal: marysmeals.org.uk.

Save the date: Annual weekend of vocational discernment on 5-7 March 2027,

led by FSSP clergy at Buckden Towers, PE19 5TA. For unmarried men 18-35.

Contact & inquiries:malleray@fssp.org.

Three Solemn High Masses:

• Fri 13 Nov Juventutem London Solemn Requiem 7:00pm, St Mary Magdalene Oratory, Wandsworth;
• Sun 15 Nov 8:30am, All Saints Church, Kempston, with Very Rev Fr John Berg, Superior General FSSP (who will also preach at our 12noon Mass that day in Chesham Bois);
• Sat 28 Nov 12noon, St Joseph’s Church, Bedford, annual Mass of Our Lady of Guadalupe in reparation for abortion, organised by LMS with Chaplaincy clergy.

We are grateful to Archbishop Robert Le Gall, OSB, former Archbishop of Toulouse in retirement at Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight, for having accepted to confer the sacrament of Confirmation in Bedford on Sat 8^th May 2027.

We thank Archbishop Richard Moth of Westminster, Administrator of the Northampton Diocese, for allowing Archbishop Le Gall to step in in the absence of our diocesan bishop, Bishop David Oakley. Candidates from 12 onward are invited to contact the Chaplaincy.

Thank you to all who registered interest in our First Holy Communion classes. We will be in touch shortly to book with you dates for classes, normally taking place two Saturdays a month at 1:00pm at OLOR, Kempston, from January to June 2027. The ceremony will take place like every year on Corpus Christi Sunday, 30^th May 2027.

Chaplaincy parishioners propose: Languages for Catholics. Learn French, Italian or Spanish with practising Catholic tutors. A curriculum centred around the faith. Courses available for ages 4 to adult, from first steps to fluency. Starting at just £5 per week.

Visit languagesforcatholics.org, or

email info@languagesforcatholics.org

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: Philippa Bartlett, Fr John Emerson, FSSP, John Smith, Stephen Moxham, Malgorzata Anna Pietrak, Maureen Readings, Daniel Jahansouz, Emma Pickford, Maria Chidell, Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Gealfio and Liberata Dadulla Zabat, Wailim Fook, Roger Johnson, Patsy Crocker, Prima Nevard, Carl Roberts. Please email additions to this list.

by Fr AM