Sunday Bulletin 6 April 2025

Gregorian Chaplaincy, 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

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

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.

Clergy-led stations of the Cross every Friday in Lent at 9:10am, following the 8:30am holy Mass (at Our Lady of Ransom, Kempston).

Most beneficial Lenten penance: attend a holy Mass once on a weekday. Circle your chosen date:

My Week 5: 7―8―9―10―11―12 April

My (Holy) Week 6: 14―15―16―17―18―19 Apr

Full Solemn Easter Triduum in Bedford

ALL at ALL SAINTS, KEMPSTON MK43 8RH

Maundy Thursday 17 April: 8:00pm Holy Mass, followed by adoration at Altar of Repose until midnight (with confessions heard).

Good Friday 18 April: 4:00pm Solemn Liturgy (ends by 6pm). Compulsory fast & abstinence.

Holy Saturday 19 April: 7:00pm Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday 20 April: 8:30am Holy Mass

And usual 12noon Sunday Mass in Chesham Bois

Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Tang on the announcement of their son Emmanuel’s marriage with Miss Anja Hoffmann in Austria on 20 Sept 2025. Also, please keep in your prayer Tremaine Newman-Brown and Lottie Harvey-Craig who will be united in holy Matrimony at All Saints, Kempston, on 31^st May 2025. We assure the two betrothed couples of our prayers.

Mothers’ Day celebration last Sunday: thank you for those who helped organise the lovely event!

Greenlight to fundraise for a place of worship. We will keep you informed.

Our heartfelt condolences to Tony Nevard, his children, and their families, on the death of Mrs Prima Nevard in hospital on Sat 5 April. Thankfully she had received the Last Rites, less than 24hrs previous. May she rest in peace. Details of her funeral will be communicated soon.

Colwich Abbey trip date confirmed: Bank holiday Monday 26th May 2025. Due to a limited space in the nuns’ chapel and refectory, can we please give priority to young ladies and their mums?

Please email Rita Carroll to register interest.

Annual Chaplaincy pilgrimage to Walsingham on Sat 12^th July. Save the date and register interest with Rita. We will give thanks for 14 years (minus a week) since the establishment of the Gregorian Chaplaincy (19 July 2011) by Bishop Doyle.

Learning our faith while having fun together,

• Men’s group: Wed 9^th, 8pm: Fr de Malleray will speak on Our Lady of Sorrows and the redemptive power of suffering
• Ladies’: Sat 12^th, 1:30pm: Seminarian Luke will speak on the same topic.
• Youth Trek: TBC Sat 26^th April, 11am, Silsoe, Beds: register interest ASAP for us to gauge numbers and confirm date and location.

Booking forms for this year’s summer camps in the Peak District (for children 10-17) will be available shortly. The boys’ camp will be 4-9 August, and the girls’ camp, 11-16 August.

All Saints: kindly remember to put all the hassocks, chairs and pews away safely after holy Mass.

Improving safety together at All Saints: although there will be volunteers on the field to monitor the riverbank, parents still have responsibility for looking after their children.

What is required:

1. Volunteers to be DBS checked
2. Volunteers to undergo one hour safeguarding training online
3. Volunteers to sign a code of conduct
4. Volunteers to wear a high visibility vest in order to identify their role and be a point of reference

Congratulations to Matthew and Ester Blisset on the baptism of their newborn son Joseph on Sunday 6^th April at Our Lady of Ransom, 1pm.

Dowry magazine No65 Spring out: special issue on religious vocations.

Farewell to Seminarian Luke Mazurek, FSSP: meet in hall after Sunday Mass on 6^th April, ahead of Luke’s departure on Easter Monday after six months in pastoral placement with us. Luke has settled well in our community, helping with altar servers’ training, catechism classes, talks, Mass scheduling, liturgical singing, youth apostolate, stations of the Cross, and more. We assure him of our ongoing prayer as he returns to Wigratzbad after the Easter break to complete his sixth year at seminary.

French for Catholics: French language tuition based around Catholicism and French culture. Online lessons in small groups. All ages catered for. Please contact Isabelle and Simon Lubbock at frenchforcatholics@gmail.com for more info.

Young Catholic Man offering Online Tuition in STEM subjects. Currently working as a teaching assistant. Full DBS Check. Contact at: wdommersnes@disroot.org or view tutoring profile here : https://www.firsttutors.com/uk/tutor/william.maths.57/

Juventutem annual Summer Weekend in Ampleforth, 18-20 July 2025, for 18-35 singles. Visit Juventutem on X, Instagram & Facebook.

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

Monthly holy Mass will be offered at Regina Caeli Academy for the pupils and staff by Chaplain Fr de Malleray on Monday, 31^st March.

Pray for  the sick in our congregations: Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Fr Patrick Hutton, 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 Fr AM