Sunday Bulletin 29 September 2024
SUNSHINE upon BUCKDEN for our CHAPLAINCY GATHERING ON 28TH SEPT (10am-5pm) !
Gregorian Chaplaincy, 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 11:30am ; 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
For the sake of confidentiality please whisper rather than speak. 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.
Schedule for FSSP Chaplaincy Family Day
Saturday 28th September 2024, 10am-5pm Buckden Towers, High Street, Buckden, Saint Neots PE19 5TA
For: the Catholic congregations served by FSSP Bedford & Chesham Bois, friends, and visitors
- 10:00am Arrival: make your way to the Great Tower, First Floor “King’s Room”
- 10:15am Holy Mass (Offertory collection to cover our costs for the day)
- 11:15am Coffee, and discussion: Ideas, wishes, and offers to increase our community
- 11:15am All children out for games (volunteers to assist lead adult)
- 12noon Angelus in church
- 12noon Adults workshop : The traditional way of visiting a Catholic church building
- 12:15pm Family Quiz (without smartphone assistance 😊)
- 1pm Shared lunch & Farm Shop: discounted Quiches, Sausage rolls, Pork pies, Pies, Eggs (cash only)
- 2pm Colouring and singing workshops for children / Eucharistic servers’ practice
- 2pm Conference by FSSP Chaplain on Fidelity, Joy, and Merit in Marriage
- 3pm Eucharistic adoration with public recitation of the Rosary, and Confessions
- 3:45pm Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
- 4pm Coffee/tea & biscuits
- 4pm At car park: blessing of all vehicles (and of dogs)
- 4pm Children workshop : The traditional way of visiting a Catholic church
- 4:15pm In “King’s Room”: Blessing of any items sorted (better tag your name on them): rosaries, holy statues, holy pictures, crucifixes, medals, scapulars, holy water
- 5pm Departure
Contact: bedford@fssp.org ; fssp.org.uk/bedford ; fssp.org.uk/chesham
Feast of St Michael the Archangel this Sunday
Monthly talk for all in Chesham Bois: Sat 5th Oct, 7:00pm by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, at parishioners’ house near church, on the theme:
“Interpreting the axiom No salvation outside the Church”.
Bring wine & cheese.
Contact us for address (5mins walk from church).
Finance Update: £1,401.00/week (based on £5,604.00/month). Such is the ongoing cost to be met by the Bedford & Chesham Bois FSSP Chaplaincy, consisting chiefly of the rents for four buildings (St Alban House and the three churches where we serve weekly). Since Sunday 28th July 2024 when we started in the new Bedford location at All Saints, absolutely every penny you put in the Offertory collection basket goes to us, the FSSP Chaplaincy. However, standing orders are quicker and easier for us to process. Thank you in advance for your generosity.
Sort code: 30-80-27 Account number: 44025960.
Thank you to the parishioner who donated money to help cover expenses connected with the move to our new church locations. A vestment press has now been delivered to Our Lady of Ransom where we offer Mass Mon-Sat. It allows us to store vestments and linens properly, rather than having them pile up on a chair.
We don’t have vestments in each colour yet, nor for Benediction, nor up-to-date altar missals, nor altar frontals. Some of those items are being purchased and should be delivered soon.
The requiem Low Mass set and black cope have just arrived: so we are all geared up well ahead of All Souls!
A beautiful set of six candlesticks and matching crucifix were purchased second hand for All Saints: they greatly enhance the sight of the high altar during holy Mass.
Young English Catholic man seeks room in Bedford, moving back from FSSP Vancouver 1st December-1st January. Best with local Catholic family or fellow Catholic men in a faith-filled environment, including attending daily Mass: Paul Capon ; paulcapon11@gmail.com ;+1 416 645 8018 (WhatsApp/Telegram).
Sunday Bedford practicalities:
NO MORE PARKING in car park in front of the parish hall. That space is needed by the village inhabitants and by the worshippers coming to the service after our Mass. Please park in the church car park on the road before the church (go through yellow gate), or on the smaller car park to the right of the parish hall if you have a van too high to pass under the yellow barrier of the main car park.
Use every space in all pews along the central aisle to allow best sight of the sanctuary during Sunday Mass at All Saints Church. You will see even better on weekday Masses at Our Lady’s Church.
Host count at All Saints: BEFORE MASS please could each communicant put one host in the container by the church entrance door when walking into the church. Thank you.
Thank you to volunteers for setting up chairs in church by 8:15am before Sunday Mass, and for setting up and cleaning the hall after Mass.
Children safety: Because of no fence along the steep riverbank, children are strictly forbidden from being in the churchyard or hall yard unsupervised. The same applies of course for access during holy Mass to the lavatories situated in the parish hall.
Two young sisters in our congregation share impressions of their recent trip-pilgrimage: “We were lucky enough to have a week in Paris for B.’s thirteenth birthday. There were lots to see which meant lots of walking! Our favourite part was seeing St Catherine Labouré [at the Rue du Bac convent of the Miraculous Medal]. The chapel was beautiful and it felt very special kneeling in front of a saint, H. wanted to stay there all day. Some of the other places we visited were the Sacré-Cœur, the Eiffel tower and the Louvre.”
Come to London on Sat 12th Oct for the great Rosary Crusade (starts 1:45pm, outside Westminster Cathedral.)
Your FSSP priests try to go on an excursion once a month.
This past week we were blessed with no rain for our visit of Peterborough Cathedral…
where we venerated the tomb of Queen Catherine of Aragon.
On our way back we visited Fotheringhay, where Queen Mary Stuart was executed. RIP.
In both places (cathedral and village church) we prayed some of the breviary: it must have been centuries since the Roman divine office was last recited over there.
Come to London on Sat 12th Oct for the great Rosary Crusade (starts 1:45pm, outside Westminster Cathedral.)
Pray for the sick in our congregations: 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.
By the way, can you forward this to any priest, deacon, seminarian you think might be interested? Thank you !
RETREAT FOR CLERGY
(FOR PRIESTS/DEACONS/SEMINARIANS)
preached by Fr Armand de Malleray FSSP
Mon 14 – Fri 18 Oct 2024
at Theodore House in Stonyhurst, Lancashire
Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1480983475847242
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