Sunday Bulletin 3 Nov 2024
FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 3–9 Nov 2024
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.
EXPAND: Please email us if you become aware of a redundant church building, a school, a warehouse, a garage, or other with parking for sale…
Bishop David Oakley will confer the sacrament of Confirmation again to our Chaplaincy candidates on Saturday 4th October 2025. You can start registering interest.
Email us as soon as possible the names of candidates for First Holy Communion to take place on Corpus Christi Sunday, 22 June 2025.
From 1st to 8th Nov inclusive, help one holy soul into heaven each day: aplenary indulgence applicable only to the Poor Souls in Purgatory is granted to those who visit a cemetery and pray even if only mentally for the departed, and for the traditional intentions of the Holy Father. There must be one visit for each day one seeks to gain the indulgence; one visit will not apply for several days.One must also have received holy Communion that day, be free from mortal sins and have no attachment to venial sins (sacramental absolution received the week before or after).
Well done the families who organised and attended the splendid All Saints party on Friday 1st Nov at All Saint’s hall, Kempston after the 11:00am Mass at All Saints Church next door: children dressed up as their favourite saints and explained why their lives called for imitation.
Help requested for ongoing small sewing jobs mending vestments for holy Mass and clergy cassocks. Thank you!
On All Souls Day, 2nd Nov, holy Mother Church unleashes all her intercessory power to hasten entrance into blessed eternity for the souls of her children suffering in Purgatory. The Priestly Fraternity of St Peter worldwide was 100% committed to that undertaking of supernatural charity, offering within one day 1,158 holy Masses of Requiem. That amounts to 48.25 Masses per hour, or 1 traditional holy Mass starting every 74 seconds over 24hrs. Furthermore, since all Masses were offered with permission from the local bishops they were fully lawful, thus deriving maximum fruit. Thank you to our choir who sang one of them in Bedford. Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis !
FSSP statistic annual update: find out more about the largest Catholic traditional priestly community, numbering 583 members spread across 4 continents in 151 dioceses, serving 255 Mass centres and training 197 seminarians in 2 international seminaries (USA & Germany) and a Propaedeutic House (Australia), including 5 from the UK & Ireland. Visit https://www.fssp.org/en/statistics-update/.
MONTHLY ADULTS’ GROUPS:
Well done those who made time to attend the two monthly groups this past week. If you have missed them, consider attending next time, as this is a very rare opportunity to improve your Catholic knowledge as taught by a priest, with access to Holy Mass and Confessions, and in a convivial setting. Many Catholics across the country pray they might be granted such an opportunity near them. We prayed, and were granted it. Now let us harvest the fruit together.
Christmas Dinner Chesham Bois: Sat 7 December, 7:00pm, with quiz designed by chaplaincy clergy. Have you booked your place already?
Signup sheet after 3 Nov Mass at All Saints in Bedford for a Bedford Christmas dinner.
Assisted suicide bill: read the good summary by Cardinal Nichols, contact your MP, and pray: https://rcdow.org.uk/cardinal/homilies/pastoral-letter-on-assisted-suicide/.
A group for young adults in Bedford/Chesham? There is interest for activities for young single men and women age 18+.
We could start in November with a walk and lunch in a country pub, e.g. across Woburn Abbey deer park , followed by lunch at the Woburn Arms with informal chat, with clergy in attendance (chatting, not cooking though). Please email interest (malleray@fssp.org). Your friends from outside Bedfordshire are welcome!
Sunday Bedford practicalities:
NO MORE PARKING in any parking spaces between parish hall, school and cottages. That space is needed by the village inhabitants and by the worshippers coming to the service after our Mass.
Traditional Latin high Mass of Reparation for Abortion, at Holy Child and St Joseph’s Church in Bedford on Sat 9 Nov, 12noon. Refreshments afterwards.
Please note that to facilitate attendance at that Mass, we anticipated ours in Kempston from 11:30am to 9:00am on that Saturday, followed by our usual Confessions and Adoration ending by 11:30am.
Also on Sat 9 Nov, at Our Lady of Kempston during adoration, Altar servers’ practice in preparation for the following event.
Solemn high “First” Mass by newly ordained Fr Miklos Homolya, FSSP on Sunday 17 Nov, 8:30am, at All Saints Church, Kempston, followed by First Blessings and refreshments.
Fr Homolya will offer another “First” Mass the day before – Sat 16 Nov – at Our Lady’s Church in Chesham Bois at 11:00am followed by First Blessings and refreshments.
Please tell your friends and attend these two Masses to give thanks to God for another priest now serving in England (Warrington). With so few priests left in the dioceses, and so many aging or dying, we need to realise the grace of having priests come to us to give us the sacraments. By so doing we also foster a culture of vocations and we call upon us God’s mercy for more men to answer the call. Find out more on: fssp.org.uk/about-the-confraternity/.
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.
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