Sunday Bulletin 23 February 2025

GREGORIAN CHAPLAINCY (established 19 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
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

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.  

Well done all of you who attended the important monthly Chaplaincy talks (three of them in total) this past week in Bedford and Chesham Bois. Investing your time in these events (once a month) is the best way to build up our community and attract people with whom to share the riches of Catholic tradition. Listen to latest talk here https://youtu.be/FpaAaApW66Q?si=ZO5a0LfEo_gvXD_K .

Talk FOR ALL,
at Our Lady’s Kempston,
Wednesday 26 Feb 8:00PM (after usual 6:55PM confessions & 7:15PM holy Mass),
by Fr Gerald Duroisin, FSSP on:
St John-Henry Newman and why convert to Catholicism,

followed by refreshments.
Tell your friends.

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, or by Sunday 2^nd March the latest.

ASH WEDNESDAY Mass times: (not a holiday of obligation) Imposition of ashes before every Mass.

• 6:30AM at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston
• 11:00AM 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

WONDERING what penance will please Our Lord best and benefit you and your family most fruitfully this Lent?
Some took the initiative of a longer penitential season with cold showers; others look at shortening their Internet time. This eventually is to prepare us to partake better in the fruit of the redemption earned for us by the Lord Jesus on the Cross. What about going straight to the Cross then, this Lent? What about attending the unbloody re-enactment of the sacrifice of the Cross once on a weekday?

What about having “Good Friday each week” during this Lent 2025? Ask yourselves what Lenten commitment will truly call for a change of habits, hence merit more for your soul before God, and at the same time which will bring you to Jesus through the shortest and safest route. Break free from your Mass-free weekly routine this Lent. Sit down today and write in your diary on which weekday you will attend holy Mass (at which authorised venue, at what time) on each of the 6 weeks of Lent:
 
My Week 1: 10-15 March: ………………………..
My Week 2: 17-22 March: ………………………..
My Week 3: 24-29 March: …………………………
My Week 4: 31 Mar-3 Apr: ……………………….
My Week 5: 7-12 Apr: ……………………………
My (Holy) Week 6: 14-19 Apr: ……………………
 
No online method, no Exodus programme, no revelation or book will ever suggest a Lenten “penance” more meritorious and altogether fruitful than coming to Calvary at Mass once a week (or more) on a weekday this Lent. If you are afraid of that “penance,” ask Our Lady, ask St Joseph, ask the martyrs, ask the angels for advice and support.

And please remember: a confessor awaits you in our state-of-the-art soundproof confessional 20 minutes before every weekday Mass at Our Lady’s in Kempston.
God bless you!

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.

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?

Our Lady of Walsingham statue now visits Chesham Bois households. Please book to host Our Lady for a week.

With Our Lady this Lent:

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

Please pray for these men next weekend
21 men booked in: let us make it 30!

Bookings still taken until Wed 26 February, 4:00pm

Now until 35 years of age. Spread the word.
MORE SPACES for our annual
Vocation discernment weekend at Buckden Towers, PE19 5TA, on  28 February, 5pm – 2 March, 2pm 2025 for single Catholic men 18-35.
Contact malleray@fssp.org.
COST: £95.00 per person in total (full board). FREE for unwaged and students – give whatever amount you can.

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.

Catholic community spring dance, Saturday 26^th April 2025, St Leonards Parish Hall HP23 6NW.

by Fr AM