Sunday Bulletin 27 July 2025
FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 27th 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.
First Saturday Marian Devotions 2nd August:
- 10am-11am Adoration, Confessions & Benediction;
- 11am holy Rosary & Confessions;
- 11:30am holy votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary;
- 12:30pm shared lunch at family venue.
Thank you for your prayer for a happy annual Summer Weekend of Juventutem last week: a unique opportunity for 18-35 singles to meet, pray, chat, learn and make friends. Young adults from Bedford and Chesham Bois were among the 54 who attended, including six FSSP priests, deacon, and seminarians. See our picture album on www.flickr.com/photos/138056205@N08/.
There are currently 12 Juventutem groups in activity in Europe and America: https://juventutem.org/ and many more, now inactive, since the beginning in 2004.
The FSSP Chaplaincy clergy hosted the quarterly
clergy Deanery meeting in Kempston last Wednesday. With fourteen priests and deacons attending, it was the largest deanery meeting over the past twelve months. With approval from the Dean and Parish Priest, the scheduled included dedicated prayer time. Thus, after a presentation by a diocesan Youth minister, Eucharistic adoration and Benediction followed, with Confessions being heard. It was a rare opportunity for all of us priests and deacons serving souls between Bedford, Shefford, and Leighton Buzzard, to pray together before the Lord, and for each other. All were then invited by the Chaplaincy for lunch at a nearby restaurant.
March for Life UK in London on
Saturday 6th September 2025. Save the date!
Jubilee Walk and Prayer with parishioners from the Bedford Deanery on Saturday 4th October: depart at 9:15am from Bedford churches, arrive by 10:15am at St Joseph’s Church for public recitation of the holy Rosary, adoration, and confessions.
Reminder: the same day at 3pm, Confirmations by Bishop Oakley.
Supporting God? Well, yes, through helping us purchase a proper stand or “throne” to support the sacred monstrance used for Eucharistic adoration every Saturday morning. So far we have had a makeshift stand unworthy of such a liturgical function. After enquiry, the best affordable option is this gilded throne (also usable as missal stand for main feasts).
Thank you for contributing to its £582.42 purchase and shipping if you can.
SUPPORT FSSP Bedford/Chesham Bois:
Lloyds Bank; Sort Code: 30-80-27 ; Account number: 44025960; Account name: FSSP Bedford
Congratulations to Daniel and Emily McLoone on the birth of their baby boy Raphael last 9th July (feast of Sts John Fisher & Thomas More), and on his holy Baptism scheduled on Sunday 3rd August.
Pray for a fruitful Summer Camp of our Wolfcubs, Guides and Wolvets from next 23rd to 27th July in Cambridgeshire, ending with outdoor holy Mass on Sunday afternoon.
Marian Franciscan Discernment Retreat
in Dundee, 13th-16th August.
Contact: vocations@themarianfranciscans.org.
Please pray of our FSSP Gregorian Chaplaincy that turned fourteen last 19th July.
May God and Our Lady grant that modest canonical and pastoral framework protection and stability to bear abundant spiritual fruit.
LMS Walking Pilgrimage Ely to Walsingham Thursday 21st – Sunday 24th August 2025, with over 230 young adults (coach from London on Sunday): visit https://lms.org.uk/walsingham.
Celebrate the Jubilee at WeBelieve, a festival of Catholic Life, 25th-28th July, Oscott seminary, cf www.webelievefestival.com, with Fr de Malleray.
Our parishioner Sebastien offers his services for DIY, 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.
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.
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