Sunday Bulletin 28 January 2025

FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin,

28 Dec 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: 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.

Our beautiful Christmas

Thank you all who travelled sometimes long distances to attend our Christmas liturgies. Close to 400 people took part in our three Sung Masses at Sts Philip & James in Bedford, at All Saints in Kempston, and at Our Lady’s in Chesham Bois. Fr de Malleray thanks you also for your many Christmas cards and gifts, and wishes he were able to write to each household personally.

From Ireland Fr Miguel Coelho requested to pass on his thanks to the faithful who wrote to him over Christmas. Special thanks go to our servers, singers, musicians, photographers, and flower arrangers.

It was lovely to meet with visiting families, including two of our recently married couples, Tremaine and Lottie Newman-Craig (living in Chester), and Emmanuel and Anja Tang (living in Austria).

Epiphany Masses (holy day of obligation): Tuesday 6^th January 2026: 7:00am at OLOR, Bedford; 7:00pm at Chesham Bois. Epiphany water blessing on Monday 5^th January after the 9:30am Mass (please bear in mind that this blessing lasts close to an hour). Epiphany water will be made available for those who wish.

Welcome to our seminarians on their well-deserved Christmas holiday home: James from Hemel Hampstead (in Second Year at the FSSP seminary in America), Piotr from London (in Second Year at the FSSP seminary in Germany, staying with us in Bedford from 5^th to 9^th January on apostolate) and Francis from St Albans (in Theology at the ICKSP seminary in Italy). Please pray for these young men on their way to the sacred priesthood, and kindly let others know of our Vocation Discernment weekend below.

Bookings are coming in for our annual Men’s Vocation Weekend 13-15 March 2026, at Buckden Towers PE19 5TA. £99.00 per person in total (bed + full board). FREE for unwaged.

For 18+ single Catholic men. Contact malleray@fssp.org.

Find out more here: https://fssp.org.uk/mens-discernment-weekend-13-15-march-2026/ .

Altar servers: boys, young – and adult – men are encouraged to learn how to serve holy Mass. This will bring many graces to them and their families, as well as enhancing the celebration of the holy sacrifice. One boy and his dad, as well as some young men, attended a servers’ workshop led in Chesham Bois by Fr de Malleray last 13^th December. Contact our servers’ coordinator Francis Ibabu for further workshops: ibabu10@proton.me.

Finance update: £1,163.00 needed every Sunday. Dear friends, our Chaplaincy has no other income than what you are able to give. Because we receive no funding from the Diocese, the current arrangement is that we fully retain our Sunday collections. Thus, EVERY penny you give to FSSP Bedford-Chesham Bois remains with us to cover our costs. Those consist chiefly of the rents for four buildings (£2,827.00 for St Alban House plus the three churches where we serve weekly), and the utilities, borough taxes, accounting, secretary, sacristy consumable, clergy allowance, clergy pension and car, food. Monthly total to pay: £4,650.00. So far our Chaplaincy has broken even and could cover the costs. Thank you for your generous support! Share our news with friends and contacts who may wish to give on occasion.  

A thirty-day novena in preparation for the renewal of the Fraternity’s consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary is being organized this year. It will begin on Sunday, January 12, and end on February 11, the anniversary of the consecration, when the act of consecration will be publicly renewed. The preparatory thirty-day novena will consist of the daily recitation of a decade of the Rosary and the Memorare.

To conclude this thirty-day novena, the General House, the seminaries, the North American Province, and the Districts will send representatives this year to Fatima, on February 10 and 11, 2025. There, they will renew the consecration of the entire Fraternity to Our Lady at the site of the apparitions. Members of our international prayer network, the Confraternity of St Peter, are requested to do the novena. Anyone else is warmly encouraged to do the same.

Why we come to the Traditional Latin Mass

An apostolic initiative from the FSSP Gregorian Chaplaincy in the Northampton Diocese, UK

But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you. (1 Pet 3:15)

Dear faithful, most members of our congregations are fairly or very new to the Traditional Latin Mass. Some come from no religion, some were Anglicans, some were lapsed Catholics, or perhaps attended Mass in the vernacular according to Paul VI’s new missal. It is fascinating and inspiring to hear your stories, your journeys, your motivations, the hindrances you overcame, and the inspiration you drew from your new chosen type of worship in our Gregorian Chaplaincy (cf. northamptondiocese.org/chaplaincy).

More people out there may feel just like you did perhaps one, two or ten years ago. Reading your story might be just what they need to look into the opportunity of the Traditional Latin Mass. Whether you are a family or a single person, email us your testimony. We will include it in a public presentation of our Gregorian Chaplaincy apostolate. It may also inspire benefactors far and wide to support our newly started Holy Family Project Ltd fundraising to acquire a place of worship in Bedfordshire. James Kelliher kindly accepted to coordinate the testimonies on behalf of the Gregorian Chaplaincy. Feel welcome to email him (kelliher@pm.me) between 100 and 500 words using the questions below. God bless you!

1. First name
2. How many live under your roof?
3. How many children you have (if any)?
4. For how long you have been attending the Traditional Latin Mass?
5. Do you attend Mass every Sunday (or more, or less)?
6. What drove you to the Latin Mass?
7. Do you come from no religion, or from a non-Christian faith, or from a Protestant denomination, or from a Catholic Mass in the vernacular, or other?
8. What was/has been the reaction of your wider family or friends to your shift of worship (if anything)?
9. If you don’t attend the Bedford or Chesham Bois Chaplaincy Masses, please specify if you attend the Traditional Latin Mass offered by a diocesan priest, or one of a traditional priestly community formerly known as “Ecclesia Dei” (FSSP, ICKSP, IBP; Marian Franciscans), or even perhaps one without manifest link with the local bishop.
10. How has the Latin Mass helped you grow in your Catholic faith, in the practice of virtue, in the love of God and the Church, and in your service to neighbours?
11. What do you wish for the Traditional Latin Mass movement in the future?
12. By emailing us, you permit us to make public use of your testimony (without your surname). If you wish us to alter your first name(s) for the sake of discretion, please let us know.

Click here to open and download this questionnaire as a two-page Word document.

☐ I agree to public use of the information above.

[Visit https://fssp.org.uk/bedford/ ; Version 27 December 2025]

Thank you to the benefactors who started donating to the Holy Family Project, the new legal entity formed to raise funds to acquire a place of worship for our Chaplaincy. Contact any of the members of our team: Alex Windo, Jon Moxham or James Paul.

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

Next TREK on Saturday 17 January, 11am, with Fr de Malleray: save the date. For unmarried men and women 18+. Meet at 10:45am at Woburn public car park on Park Street (X9QM+H8 Milton Keynes, or https://maps.app.goo.gl/NVHEd8GR7idH3RbaA). Walk across Woburn Abbey deer park, followed by lunch at nearby pub (e.g. the Woburn Arms) with informal chat, with clergy in attendance. If you live near Chesham Bois or Bedford please email Dominic attendance, lift need, and lift offer (difalcodom@gmail.com). We were 23 at the last trek. Your friends from outside Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire are most welcome!

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: 16 Jan, 20 Feb, 20 Mar, 17 Apr, 15 May, 19 Jun, 10 Jul.

Venue: St. Mary Magdalen, 96 North Side Wandsworth Common, Wandsworth, London, SW18 2QU.

First Saturday devotions on 3^rd Jan:

• 10am Eucharistic adoration & confessions at OLOR;
• 11:00am Holy Mass at OLOR;
• 1pm-3pm Activities at Willington Scout Hall.

First Holy Communion Classes will be given by the Chaplain at OLOR, 1pm-2pm on the following Saturdays: 24, 31 Jan; 14, 21, 28 Feb; 21 March; 18, 25 April; 9, 16 May; 6 June (Confessions and recollection). Thank you to the parents supporting their little ones in this essential leg of their faith journey.

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: Daniel Jahansouz, Jean-Francois Moore, Lottie Newman-Craig, Maria Chidell, Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, 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.

by Fr AM