Sunday Bulletin 2 March 2025
FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 2 March 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
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
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.
Very Rev. John Berg, Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, will informally visit Chesham Bois and Bedford on 5-8 March, after his earlier visits in our other English apostolates of Warrington and Reading.
Anyone who wishes to greet Fr Berg can do so after the two holy Masses at which Fr Berg will be the celebrant: in Chesham Bois on Ash Wednesday after the 11:00am Sung Mass; in Bedford after the 8:30am Mass on Friday 7th March, Feast of St Thomas Aquinas (2nd class in FSSP). Tea & coffee will be available in the parish halls on both occasions.
Congratulations to Jonathan and Jacinta Moxham on the happy birth of their ninth child Sebastian who will be baptised on Shrove Tuesday 4th March at 7:30am in Kempston.
Catholic recycling (actually a rubric from the missal): Bring your blessed palms from last year’s Palm Sunday to be burned into ashes ahead of Ash Wednesday. Hand your palms to the clergy in a bag this Sunday 2nd March the latest.
ASH WEDNESDAY (5 March)
Day of fast and abstinence. All Catholics aged 18-59 inclusive are obliged to fast (one meal & two small snacks permitted); and all Catholics aged 14+ must abstain from meat. (Reminder that all days of Lent, excluding Sundays, are days of penance too.)
Not a Holy Day of Obligation, but the faithful are encouraged to mark the beginning of Lent by assisting at Mass at:
- 6:30AM at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston (starts with blessing of ashes, hence Mass ending by 7:20am)
- 11:00AM Sung Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois (celebrant: Very Rev Fr John Berg, Superior General FSSP).
- 5:45PM at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston
Imposition of ashes at the beginning of every Mass
Most beneficial Lenten penance: attend a holy Mass once on weekday. Circle your chosen date(s):
My Week 1: 10―11―12―13―14―15 March
My Week 2: 17―18―19―20―21―22 March
My Week 3: 24―25―26―27―28―29 March
My Week 4: 31 March―1―2―3―4―5 April
My Week 5: 7―8―9―10―11―12 April
My (Holy) Week 6: 14―15―16―17―18―19 Apr
A confessor awaits you in our state-of-the-art soundproof confessional 20 minutes before every weekday Mass at Our Lady’s in Kempston.
Thank you to the benefactress who vouched to help us cover the significant cost of £1,500.00 for the soundproofing of the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom.
Lenten reading: discover the hidden riches of the medieval Marian hymn Stabat Mater presented by Fr de Malleray in his booklet available at CTS: ctsbooks.org/product/meditations-on-the-stabat-mater/ for £4.50. Join our Blessed Mother at the foot of the Cross of her Son and walk with her on the road from life to death to eternal life, by meditating upon the Stabat Mater line by line.
Watch video presentation of the book here.
| Activities 1st semester 2025 | March | April | May | June | ||
| Men’s Group | 19 | 9 | 14 | 25 | ||
| Ladies’ Group | 22 | 12 | 17 | 28 | ||
| Youth Group | 22 | 26 | 10 | 28 | ||
| 1st Holy Communion & Confirmation classes | 1, 15, 29 | 5 | 10, 31 | 14 | ||
| Juventutem London youth Mass & Social | 14 | 4 | 10 | 13 | ||
| Talk for any adults, Chesham Bois | 22 | – | 29 | 14 | ||
| Vocation Weekend Men 18+ Buckden Towers | 1, 2 | |||||
| Paris-Chartres Pilgrimage | 7-9 |
Juventutem London monthly holy Mass (7pm) and social, Friday 14th March, at the Oratory of St Mary Magdalen, SW18 2QU, Wandsworth;
AND, Juventutem annual pro-life prayerful witness outside Brixton abortuary on Sat 15 March, 12noon-1pm. Anyone 18-35 welcome!
Thank you to Fr Gerald Duroisin, FSSP for his visit last Wednesday and fascinating talk on St John-Henry Newman and why convert to Catholicism.
Twenty-one people attended, followed by refreshments. Fr Duroisin holds a doctorate from the Angelicum University in Rome on the philosophy of St John-Henry Newman.
Our Sunday Hall at All Saints:
Thank you to the volunteers preparing the hall, doing the tea & coffee, and tidying up after. All are encouraged to pop in into the hall after Sunday Mass as it is an important opportunity to socialise and build up the community. More volunteers are needed: can you offer 90mins (10:00am-11:30am) one Sunday a month?
Bookings open for Catholic community spring dance, Saturday 26th April 2025, St Leonards Parish Hall HP23 6NW. Email: georgetyldesley@hotmail.co.uk.
Our Lady of Walsingham statue now visits Chesham Bois households. Please book to host Our Lady for a week.
SUPPORT FSSP Bedford/Chesham Bois:
Lloyds Bank; Sort Code: 30-80-27 ; Account number: 44025960; Account name: FSSP Bedford
Please pray for 25 Catholic young men discerning the will of God this weekend at Buckden Towers, with Fr de Malleray and Seminarian Luke. Thank you for having shared the event details over the past months.
Unwaged participants give whatever they can out of the £95.00 cost per person. Should you wish to help us cover the unpaid expenses, please donate to us clearly indicating “Vocation Weekend.”
Find out how you can make your prayer for priestly vocations more efficacious through our international prayer network, the Confraternity of Saint Peter: www.fssp.org.uk/about-the-confraternity.
Pray for the sick in our congregations: Mrs Hamel, Fr Patrick Hutton, Tom Holland, 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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