Sunday Bulletin 20th July 2025

FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 20^th July 2025

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, 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.

DID you KNOW? Join us for coffee & biscuits in the village hall after every 8:30am Sunday Mass in Bedford. Plus charity book stall, crafts, and children’s games. Walk across church cemetery to find the parish hall by the river. And also after our 12noon Sunday Mass in Chesham Bois.

Please pray of our FSSP Gregorian Chaplaincy that turned fourteen last Saturday. May God and Our Lady grant that modest canonical and pastoral framework protection and stability to bear abundant spiritual fruit.

(Feast of St Anne, Mother of the Bl. Virgin Mary on Sat 26th July, holy Mass 11:30am)

Pray for a fruitful Summer Camp of our Wolfcubs, Guides and Wolvets from next 23^rd to 27^th July in Cambridgeshire, ending with outdoor holy Mass on Sunday afternoon.

Congratulations to Daniel and Emily McLoone on the birth of their baby boy Raphael last 9^th July (feast of Sts John Fisher & Thomas More), and on his holy Baptism scheduled on Sunday 3^rd August.

Marian Franciscan Discernment Retreat

in Dundee, 13^th-16^th August.

Contact: vocations@themarianfranciscans.org.

LMS Walking Pilgrimage Ely to Walsingham Thursday 21^st – Sunday 24^th August 2025, with over 230 young adults (coach from London on Sunday): visit https://lms.org.uk/walsingham.

Pray for spiritual fruit of the annual Juventutem Summer weekend at Ampleforth 18-20 July. Fr de Malleray will be there as Juventutem Chaplain, with other clergy, and lay speakers.

FSSP Chaplaincy clergy will host the Deanery meeting in Kempston on 23^rd July. It falls within the week of the fourteenth anniversary of the canonical establishment of the FSSP Gregorian Chaplaincy in the Northampton Diocese on 19^th July 2011.

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: Barbara Kay, Maria Chidell, Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Fr Patrick Hutton, Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Prima Nevard, Carl Roberts.  Please email additions to this list.

Celebrate the Jubilee at WeBelieve, a festival of Catholic Life, 25th-28th July, Oscott seminary, cf www.webelievefestival.com, with Fr de Malleray.

We were requested to publicise this event about the theory of evolution: 20 July 12:30pm-3pm St Mary Magdalen Church, North Side Wandsworth Common, London SW18 2QU; https://eventcatholic.com/event/the-catholic-doctrine-of-creation-in-the-age-of-ai-5/.

Our parishioner Sebastien offers his services for DYI, gardening, patio installation, tree felling, etc:
07814164308 ; sebpetitfrere@protonmail.com.

In this warm weather, we all enjoy lighter clothing. But the usual customs of modesty apply for women and men as well. Thank you. 😊

In addition, wearing Sunday best at Sunday Mass is a traditional way of celebrating the day of the Lord (avoiding t-shirts, sport shoes, casual wear.)                 Thank youfor your consideration.

Polish-Scottish family with 3 children, in the process of relocating from Poland to Bedford in order to attend RCA and join the FSSP Bedford community is looking for a 2- or 3-bedroom flat or small house to rent from September: faykiwak@gmail.com.

French family attending FSSP Fontainebleau is looking for an au pair: francois.chotard@gmail.com.

by Fr AM