Sunday Bulletin 18 October 2026

  FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin

18 Oct – 2 Nov 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 Theresa Madden: 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 20 mins 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.

28 FSSP seminarians TONSURED this month at our two seminaries, 13 in Wigratzbad on 17^th Oct, and 15 at OLGS on 24^th Oct. Pray for them, and for our three seminarians from the UK & Ireland admitted in First Year this autumn.

On Sunday 18^th October:

38^th anniversary of establishment of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter as of pontifical right by the Holy See.  Learn more about the FSSP through our founding documents and papal decrees here: fssp.org/en/presentation-2/documents. Shared recitation of the Confraternity Prayer for Vocations and blessing of members after both Masses.

V. Remember, O Lord, Thy congregation.

R. Which Thou hast possessed from the beginning.

Let us pray: / O Lord Jesus, born to give testimony to the Truth, Thou who lovest unto the end those whom Thou hast chosen, kindly hear our prayers for our pastors. / Thou who knowest all things, knowest that they love Thee and can do all things in Thee who strengthenest them. / Sanctify them in Truth. Pour into them, we beseech Thee, the Spirit whom Thou didst give to Thy apostles, who would make them, in all things, like unto Thee. / Receive the homage of love which they offer up to Thee, who hast graciously received the threefold confession of Peter. / And so that a pure oblation may everywhere be offered without ceasing unto the Most Holy Trinity, graciously enrich their number and keep them in Thy love, who art one with the Father and the Holy Ghost, to whom be glory and honour forever. / Amen.

Discover the Confraternity of St Peter, our 10,000-strong international prayer network for priestly vocations: fssp.org.uk/about-the-confraternity

Fr de Malleray will attend the annual FSSP clergy session in France this week.

All Saints parties on Sunday 1^st November. In either parish halls after Mass in Bedford and in Chesham Bois, children are invited to dress up as their favourite saints.

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

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 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 booking please: We are unable to accept Mass intentions and Mass stipends paid online. Please do not either make a single 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”.

Thank you in advance.

Watch the lecture by Fr de Malleray, FSSP on St Francis of Assisi and creation:

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

The sacrament of Confirmation will be conferred as planned in Bedford on Sat 8^th May 2027 by a retired bishop. Any adults who have not yet received this great sacrament are invited to contact the Chaplaincy. Children from age 12 onward may also be enrolled in the preparation programme.

We will contact the applicants shortly.

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

Next Talk for All in Chesham Bois: Sat 31^st Oct, 7pm

by Fr McGonagle, FSSP on

The Universal Call to Holiness,

at the Hall at Our Lady’s Chesham Bois.

Congratulations to Alix Grimer, to be baptised and confirmed on 1^st Nov, 11am, at OLOR.

Gathering of teenagers 13-17 on Sat 24^th Oct, 3pm-7pm, St Leonard’s Hall in TRING.

Contact Fr McGonagle, FSSP.

Next Trek for unmarried 18-35s: Sat 31^st Oct at Marlow.

Meet at St Peter’s Catholic Church, 7 St Peter St, Marlow SL7 1NQ, start 90min trek along Thames,

then holy Mass by Fr McGonagle, FSSP,

and veneration of the relic of the hand of St James the Apostle, followed by lunch at nearby pub.

Join the WhatsApp group!

Help us raise money to buy our own place of worship. Thank you for £40k raised already. Contact Holy Family Project, our team of parishioners: holyfamilyprojectemail@gmail.com.

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: 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.

Holy Mass Intentions:

by Fr AM