Sunday Bulletin 21 July 2024
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: Christ the King Church, Harrowden Road, Bedford MK42 0SP; and on Sundays and major feasts at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE
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
Visiting Priest: Fr Miguel Coelho: 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: Children must be accompanied to the loo by a parent.
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
NEW WEEKDAY HOLY MASS TIMES
BEDFORD: See further down. Sunday 8:30am
CHESHAM BOIS: Sunday: 12noon
Holy Days: (check website before travelling)
NEW CONFESSIONS TIMES
From 22 July onward at Our Lady of Ransom: Sat 10:00am-11:15am, and 20mins before every weekday Mass.
At All Saints from 28 July: during Sunday Mass.
Chesham Bois: after the Sunday 12noon Mass.
CHESHAM BOIS: Sunday: 12noon
Holy Days: (check website before travelling)
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Pray for the sick in our congregations: Michael Baron, Mrs Courtney, Claire Barret, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Patsy Crocker, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Carl Roberts. Please email to sick list.
DAILY HOLY MASSES
WELCOME BACK to Fr Coelho after over two months spent at the FSSP apostolate in Ireland with Fr O’Donohue, FSSP. Fr Coelho has now been granted his visa, allowing him to minister permanently in Bedford.
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday 28th September 10am-5pm community gathering at Buckden Towers, High St, Buckden, Saint Neots PE19 5TA. We look forward to spending a splendid day together with families, children and single adults. There will be activities for every age, including workshops for children, Holy Mass, conference by chaplain on Fidelity, Joy, and Merit in Marriage (the mansion is the last-but-one place of internment of Queen Catherine of Aragon), and picnic.
Chaplaincy Masses moving to Bedford West, in Kempston Village & Rural:
- Starting Monday 22nd July: every weekday at Our Lady of Ransom, 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB.
- Starting Sunday 28th July at 8:30am and every Sunday following, at All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH.
New Weekday Mass Times by FSSP Chaplaincy at Our Lady of Ransom (across the street from Sainsbury’s). Free church car park, WC, parish room
Mon 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Tue 6:30am (Confessions 6:10am-6:25am)
Wed 7:15pm (Confessions 6:55pm-7:10pm)
Thu 9:30am (Confessions 9:10am-9:25am)
Fri 11:30am (Confessions 11:10am-11:25am)
Sat 11:30am (following 10am Eucharistic Exposition, Confessions & Eucharistic Benediction all ended by 11:20am; if 2nd confessor present, Confessions carry on during Mass, e.g. First Saturday)
And starting Sunday 28th July at 8:30am and every Sunday following, at All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH.
The building at our new Sunday location is a pre-Reformation church dating back to the 11th century (now CoE). Because the Blessed Sacrament cannot be reserved in a tabernacle after Holy Mass,
the priest must consecrate just the right number of hosts. Therefore, BEFORE MASS please put ONE host per communicant in the container by the church entrance door as you walk into the church.
The site made available to us every Sunday consists of the church, a church car park for about 40 cars, the parish hall, and the hall car park for about 20 vehicles (priority to family vans). We thank Bishop Oakley of Northampton for granting us canonical “permission to celebrate the sacraments” at All Saints by letter dated 5th July 2024.
We are also grateful to Canon Seamus Keenan from Our Lady of Ransom, and to the Parochial Church Council of All Saints for the use of their respective churches.
Thank you to Martin Kay, a former parishioner skilled in joinery, who prepared a wider altar top for our Masses at Our Lady of Ransom; to Rita Carroll who is putting together frontals, and to the family who lends a pair of altar servers’ simple black cassocks & cottas (any hidden ones left anywhere else, or any sowing projects?).
CONFIRMATIONS
on Saturday 27th July, 3:00pm
at Christ the King Church,
followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and refreshments in parish hall. We are grateful to Bishop David Oakley of Northampton for conferring the sacrament to our candidates.
Please pray for them,
who will receive the Holy Ghost in only 6 days.
Sponsoring offered for Regina Caeli Academy by benefactors willing to assist parents in our congregations of Bedford and Chesham Bois who would like to send their child(dren) to RCA. Please contact Fr de Malleray: malleray@fssp.org.
REGINA CAELI ACADEMY’s SUMMER RECESS: Fr de Malleray offered holy Mass at the Academy on Thursday 13 July and imposed the scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel to about twenty children and staff (ahead of Our Lady’s feast on 16 July).
RCA welcomes job inquiries for this September:
Congratulations to Very Rev John Berg, FSSP, who was elected Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter last week for six years. Fr Berg has already served twice in that capacity between 2006 and 2012. Please pray for the FSSP delegates gathered until 18 July at American seminary for the general chapter of our Fraternity. As every six years, they discuss the ministry of our priests and the formation of our seminarians.
Dowry Mag online: read articles on varied topics such as as Chaste Sleuths Win, Vocations, Challenges in Marriage, Vermeer, Tolkien and more. Visit https://fssp.org.uk/dowry-mag-summer-issue-now-online/
In this issue,
Editorial: A Stir Is Being Felt
Despite bleak times, small signs of revival give hope, especially among young people undertaking pilgrimages, founding families, and entering consecrated life, comments Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP.
Traffic Island Becomes Treasure Island
A participant reflects on her day of vocational discernment spent in London last April among twenty-three young ladies, based at Tyburn Convent where the relics of many English martyrs are displayed.
Chaste Sleuths Win By Popular Acclaim
Seldom promiscuous, some popular fiction detectives are often single, when not in sacred vows: an unwitting homage paid by secular culture to the Christian religion, Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP observes.
Challenges to Married Life in Secular Society
In this spontaneous contribution, a Catholic married septuagenarian looks back at the challenges inherent to married life in our time of faith demise, and forward to eternity as the goal of matrimony.
How Abbot Suger Invented the Gothic Style
Art historian Leslie Anne Hamel tells about the royal Basilica of St-Denis in Paris where, long before A.W.N. Pugin revived it, the Gothic style was invented as an architectural manifesto of transcendent faith.
Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance
Painted c. 1664, Johannes Vermeer’s picture displays Catholic hints about Judgement, the Blessed Virgin Mary and clandestine holy Masses, finds the author of the novel Vermeer’s Angel Fr Armand de Malleray
Tolkien and the Green Knight
Tolkien scholar Prof. Robert Lazu Kmita explains how the Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight honouring chastity influenced the author of Lord of the Rings.
Save the date: March for Life in London on Sat 7 September. We hope to have a large delegation from our FSSP chaplaincy to this family-friendly event.
Scouts & Guides Summer weekend on 19-21 July.
Fr de Malleray will attend on Saturday for confessions (in priority for Confirmation candidates)
and Fr Coelho on Sunday for 12noon outdoor Mass.
A new chant choir is starting in Oakham, Rutland for children age 7-18. Info: Jenny Urquhart on: 01572 770 580, or email rcchurchoakham@dioceseofnottingham.uk
Our Lady of Walsingham’s statue will stay at the home of Karen Kelly this week.
MORE BOOKS at Sunday repository:
Just arrived: Know Your Mass comic book: £10.00/copy.
FSSP colouring books on the Gospels at the heavily discounted price of £5.00/copy.
MORE SPACES : Juventutem Summer Weekend on 2-4 August at Ampleforth Abbey for 18-35s: £165/person including all accommodation, food, and a space on the coach to/from York Station if required. Liturgies and talks by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, Fr Thomas Crean, OP, LMS Chairman Dr Joseph Shaw, Benedictine Nuns of Gower on vocation, William Currie of SPUC Scotland on pro-life, Mother-of-ten and convert Alison Cotton on Catholic upbringing. Simply complete the form at bit.ly/juventutem2024 or email juventutemldn@gmail.com if you have any queries!
FINANCES: online donations and standing orders are still gratefully received, being also much quicker and easier to process than cash. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Sort code: 30-80-27 Account number: 44025960 Thank you in advance.
GIFT AID: Increase your donation to the FSSP Chaplaincy by 25% at no further expense to you. Ask Rita for a Gift Aid form, fill it in and hand it back to her. That will help us a lot.
RETREAT FOR CLERGY
(FOR PRIESTS/DEACONS/SEMINARIANS)
preached by Fr Armand de Malleray FSSP
Mon 14 – Fri 18 Oct 2024
Vatican honours Our Lady of Walsingham with new national feast day
The Catholic Herald July 12, 2024 at 4:03 pm
The Vatican has granted permission for Our Lady of Walsingham to be celebrated as a new Feast in the dioceses of England, starting this year on 24 September.
Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, wrote to Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, president of the Bishops’ Conference, in response to his request last year that the Obligatory Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Walsingham be raised to the rank of Feast.
He explained that normally it wouldn’t be moved but an exception would be made.
He said: “Given the historic importance of this shrine for the Church in England and Wales, dating back just over one thousand years, and given the growing devotion to Our Lady of Walsingham to which you attest, the Dicastery has decided that, by way of exception, your request may be granted.”
The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham was established in 1061, according to the text of the Pynson Ballad, when devout noblewoman Richeldis de Faverches asked in prayer for inspiration so that she could carry out a special work in honour of Our Lady.
The Pynson Ballad says that Our Lady appeared to Richeldis and showed her in spirit the House of the Annunciation where the Angel greeted Mary in Nazareth, and asked her to build a replica in Walsingham as a perpetual memorial of the Annunciation.
Cardinal Roche said he hoped that the new Feast day would strengthen the faithful.
He said: “May this yearly celebration be a source of renewed grace and evangelical endeavour for the Church in England and Wales, as, imitating Mary, the faithful may ever more become disciples of her Son, receive the message of the Gospel, treasure it in their hearts and reflect on it in their minds”.
The feast will be in the National Calendar for England along with the National Marian Shrine in Wales, Our Lady of Taper.
Texts for Mass, the Lectionary and the Liturgy of the Hours may be found on the Liturgy Office website.
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