Sunday Bulletin 22 March 2026

 FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin

22 March – 5 April 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, 307 Bedford Rd, Kempston, Bedford MK42 8QB: see below.

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

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 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

With presently only one priest, occasional changes in Mass times and other activities may take place.

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:

Well done Chesham Bois Chaplaincy parishioners who contributed £2,000.00 to the cost of the £15,000.00 new organ purchased by the parish. Fr Roy, PP expressed his gratitude on behalf of the wider parish. Our own organists are very pleased with the prospect of enhanced liturgical music.

Thank you to the parishioners who have sent us their story about discovering the Traditional Latin Mass. Find out more about this opportunity on: https://fssp.org.uk/why-we-come-to-the-traditional-latin-mass/. Send us yours now!

Juventutem London: for young men and women 18+; one Friday evening every month, 6pm Confessions,7pm Sung Mass with homily by Chaplain Fr de Malleray, 8pm social with Q&As. Next dates: 17 Apr, 15 May, 19 Jun, 10 Jul.

Thank you for your prayers for spiritual fruit for our annual Men’s Vocation Weekend last 13-15 March 2026 at Buckden Towers. Happily 23 men attended (an additional four had cancelled the week before), plus Frs de Malleray and Homolya. God knows how deeply grateful we are to a family of our congregation who took care of all the meals.

Thank you to all who contributed to the lovely Mother’s Day Tea Party last Sunday!

MAJOR MARIAN FEAST OF THE ANNUNCATION, this Wednesday 25th March.

Come and give thanks to God for his Incarnation from our heavenly Mother – a prerequisite to the redeeming Passion of Jesus next week.

HOLY MASS FOR ALL at OLOR at 7:15PM after Confessions.

Main secular French television channel CNews celebrated International Women’s Day last 8^th March with a special broadcast on… the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Perfect Woman. Radio Maria England and our own English national shrine of Walsingham featured prominently: https://dai.ly/xa1ieg8.

Fr de Malleray attended the quarterly deanery meeting last month, hosted at Biggleswade by the new dean, Fr Prasad Kasireddy. Please pray for Fr Alex Ibe of Sts Philip and James in Bedford who was assaulted outside his presbytery and had his car stolen from him. Fr de Malleray and Deacon McGonagle will attend the Chrism Mass on 1^st April at noon, and meet up with fellow clergy for refreshments at Bishop’s House afterward.

4 babies baptised: Congratulations to Josh and Kym Knight on the Holy Baptism of their son Hugo last 18^th March; to Brandon and Isabella Bakowski on the Holy Baptism of their twins Ernest and Anastasia; as well as to Louis and Francesca Grimer on the Holy Baptism of their son Leo – all three on 22^nd March. Please pray for the mothers in our congregations expecting a child.

Thank you in the name of all to the benefactors who donated to date £37,630.00 to the Holy Family Project. There is still a long way to go as we aim for buying a church as our permanent home. Thank you for further donations, and for telling your contacts about this: a webpage is being designed, which should go live next month.

Bank Details: Account Name: Holy Family Ltd; Sort Code: 23-05-80 ; Account Number: 5629 3213

To inspire us, see what our Fraternity did in rural Nigeria where we needed a church : https://fsspnigeria.com/2024/12/04/construction-of-a-traditional-church/

FULL SOLEMN TRADITIONAL LATIN EASTER TRIDUUM

at All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH

With Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, Fr Thomas Crean OP, and Deacon Conan McGonagle, FSSP

BEDFORD IS ONE OF THE VERY, VERY FEW PLACES ACROSS THE UK WHERE

• A FULL SOLEMN ROMAN TRADITIONAL EASTER TRIDUUM WILL BE OFFERED
• WITH OFFICIAL PERMISSION FROM THE LOCAL ORDINARY
• BY EXPERTLY TRAINED MINISTERS,
• AND IN A CHURCH BUILT IN 1099 FOR THAT VERY SAME LITURGY.
• PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
• AND MAKE SURE TO AVAIL YOURSELVES OF ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL LITURGIES.

See the beautiful pictures of last year’s Triduum here.

• Maundy Thursday (2 April): 8:00pm Holy Mass, followed by adoration until midnight & confessions.
• Good Friday (3 April): 3:30pm Solemn Liturgy (ends by 5:30pm).
• Holy Saturday (4 April): 9:00pm Easter Vigil (service ends by midnight).
• Easter Sunday (5 April): 8:30am Sung Mass

ALSO: Easter Sunday Sung Mass at 12noon, at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church, 30 Amersham Road, Chesham Bois HP6 5PE

SUPPORT FSSP Bedford/Chesham Bois:
Lloyds Bank; Sort Code: 30-80-27 ; Account number: 44025960; Account name: FSSP Bedford

Books for Lent – and Easter

Baronius hand missal

Gregorian Chaplaincy price £49.99. Please pay in cash at our Mass centres (no shipping, no online payment). Public price £63.95

Meditations on the Stabat Mater:

Gregorian Chaplaincy price £3.99. Please pay in cash at our Mass centres (no shipping, no online payment). Public price £4.50.

Painting Salvation: A fresh look at twelve classical paintings – by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP

Like sails, paintings consist of canvas stretched across perpendicular frames to reach some destination yet unseen. This book is like a sailing boat, then. Each of the twelve paintings commented upon could be seen as one of its sails. They display before our minds some limited aspect of God’s revelation: his Incarnation, his childhood, the calling of his apostles, his sacrifice, his Resurrection, and the witness of his saints. Our commentaries offer a time of contemplation, an aesthetic emotion. They seek to reveal the beating heart of famous images. If any artist is expected to help us decipher the world, even more should the Christian artist describe faithfully the Design revealed to men by God. A feast for the mind even of the unbeliever, our approach will set in motion these ingenious paintings as powerful systems of signification. These pictures move―like sails catching the wind. Land ahoy, or heaven ahead, rather, if our crossing proves to be a safe and happy one. So many images are stored in our memory, which we wish were not. Some violent, some impure; some having occurred by accident, some culpably; some naturally, some as products of technique such as cinema, videos, computer games or advertising. A good way to heal our sight is to furnish our faculties with beautiful images designed as vehicles of truth. Our memory, our imagination, our emotions subsequently use such images as safe material to cleanse and refine our outlook on the world, on people and, fundamentally, on God and eternity.

First Holy Communion Classes are given by the Chaplain at OLOR, 1pm-2pm. Next dates: 18, 25 April; 9, 16 May; 6 June (Confessions and recollection).

New family chapter for the UK Scouts of Europe at the Chartres Pilgrimage. Leader: Dr Simon Lubbock simon.lubbock@gseuk.org ; with Mr Matthew Blissett and Mrs Sophie Hector as deputies.

Catholic Community Spring Dance, Sat 18^th April, 1pm: HP23 6NW: georgetyldesley@hotmail.co.uk

New Regina Caeli Academy UK video on RCA UK Youtube, also facebook and Instagram!

THE EPSTEIN SYNDROM

Watch more recent homilies: on https://www.youtube.com/user/LiveMassChannel .

Adult Catechism in Chesham Bois, on some Wednesday evenings. Thank you to our lay catechists who generously give of their time at the Chaplain’s request to help train several adult converts. Catholic adults are welcome to attend as well. Contact the Chaplain for details : malleray@fssp.org.

Pray for  the sick in our congregations: Stephen Moxham, Roger Johnson, Baby Pio Yardley, Malgorzata Anna Pietrak, Maureen Readings, Daniel Jahansouz, Jean-Francois Moore, Lottie Newman-Craig, Maria Chidell, Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Patsy Crocker, Prima Nevard, Carl Roberts. Please email additions to this list.

by Fr AM