Sunday Bulletin 8-22 March 2026

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

Holy Mass Intentions:

Please note BELOW that on occasions holy Mass is NOT taking place as usual at OLOR due to clash with other commitments.

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.

First Saturday in Bedford on 7th March

the Feast of St Thomas Aquinas, 2^nd class feast in the FSSP:
devotions 10am and 11:00am holy Mass (not 11:30am),
followed by shared lunch, and by

Talk for all by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, on Saturday 7^th March, 2:00PM

at Cauldwell Community Centre, 51a Althorpe Street, Bedford  MK42 9HF

on Episcopal Consecration without Papal Mandate.

In light of the SSPX announcement to consecrate bishops again, the talk will discuss the traditional criteria for a state of necessity, and the unity of government within Holy Church.

Thank you to the parishioners who have sent us their story about discovering the Traditional Latin Mass. Find out more about this opportunity on: https://fssp.org.uk/why-we-come-to-the-traditional-latin-mass/. Send us yours now!

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

Please pray for the spiritual fruit of our annual Men’s Vocation Weekend 13-15 March 2026 at Buckden Towers. We thank Fr John Emerson, FSSP for covering our weekend Masses at OLOR, All Saints, and Chesham Bois. We thank Fr Miklos Homolya,  FSSP, who will assist Fr de Malleray at the Vocation Weekend.

THE EPSTEIN SYNDROM

Watch more recent homilies: on https://www.youtube.com/user/LiveMassChannel .

An All-Saints Church Cleaning Group is being created: please speak with Jonathan Moxham to offer help ahead of Easter.

Au pair wanted for one year from September 2026, in Angers, France, for a family with five young children. Independent studio provided, plus salary and French tuition. Contact Mrs Pradel +33 6 17 58 38 71 ; virgile.pradel@gmail.com.

Four babies! Congratulations to Josh and Kym Knight on the happy birth of Hugo; to Tremaine and Lottie Newman-Craig on the happy birth of Jemima; to Brandon and Isabella Bakowski on the happy births of Ernest and Anastasia.

Please keep in your prayer the mothers in our congregations expecting a child.

Please donate to the Holy Family Project:

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

New Regina Caeli Academy UK video on RCA UK Youtube, also facebook and Instagram!

FULL SOLEMN TRADITIONAL LATIN EASTER TRIDUUM at All Saints, Church End, Kempston, Bedford MK43 8RH

• Maundy Thursday (2 April): 8:00pm Holy Mass, followed by adoration until midnight.
• Good Friday (3 April): 3:30pm Solemn Liturgy (ends by 5:30pm).
• Holy Saturday (4 April): 9:00pm Easter Vigil (service ends by midnight).
• Easter Sunday (5 April): 8:30am Sung Mass

ALSO: Easter Sunday Sung Mass at 12noon, Chesham Bois, 30 Amersham Road, HP6 5PE

Dowry Mag now online: Papal audience, Abortion, IVF, Marriage, Newman & Péguy, fine arts… Visit: https://fssp.org.uk/category/dowry/

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

First Holy Communion Classes are given by the Chaplain at OLOR, 1pm-2pm. Next dates: 21 March; 18, 25 April; 9, 16 May; 6 June (Confessions and recollection).

Books for Lent

Baronius hand missal

Gregorian Chaplaincy price £49.99. Please pay in cash at our Mass centres (no shipping, no online payment). Public price £63.95

The “1962 Daily Missal” contains the English translations and the Latin originals of the rites and texts for Holy Mass and many other liturgical ceremonies that were attended by the vast majority of Roman Catholics in the centuries before the liturgical reforms of Vatican Council II took effect. The liturgy of the 1962 Daily Missal is better known as the “Tridentine Mass”, “Traditional Latin Rite” or “Traditional Roman Rite” and since 2007 as the “Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite”.

With its splendid texts and ceremonies that orient both priest and people entirely to the worship of God, this form of the sacred liturgy has fostered a living faith that has produced numerous saints and inspired countless artists, writers and thinkers to create much of what we now know as Western culture. Thanks to Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Letter “Summorum Pontificum” in 2007, this form of the liturgy is now being celebrated more regularly and freely.

Features of the Baronius Press edition of the 1962 Daily Missal:

• 2,248 pages printed in red/black.
• Six ribbons in different colors
• Full Latin and English text of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum issued by Pope Benedict XVI on 7th July 2007.
• 115 engravings throughout carefully scanned, corrected where necessary and digitally remastered.
• Foreword and Imprimatur from the Most Reverend Fabian W. Bruskewitz, STD, Bishop of Lincoln.
• All the Masses of the Liturgical Year, in Latin with English translation (Biblical texts are from the Douay-Rheims), according to the Roman Calendar of 1962 – Temporal and Sanctoral Cycles and accompanying rites (Blessing of Ashes, Blessing of Palms, Chrism Mass, and the Blessing of Holy Oils, etc)
• Ordinary of the Mass, in Latin with English translation
• Liturgical Calendar
• Table of Moveable Feasts up to AD 2066
• Complete Holy Week Liturgy of 1962 (including the Office of Tenebrae)
• Common Masses of the Saints and the Blessed Virgin
• Supplement of special Masses for the Dioceses of the USA
• Supplement of special Masses for the Dioceses of England and Wales
• Supplement of special Masses for the Dioceses of Scotland
• Supplement of special Masses for the Dioceses of Australia and New Zealand
• Feasts celebrated in particular places and in certain religious congregations
• Votive Masses for the days of the week
• Sixteen Votive Masses for various occasions
• Masses for the Dead (including infants), Complete Burial Service, Prayers for the Dead
• Marriage Service and Nuptial Mass
• The Churching of Women
• Kyriale, in traditional Gregorian chant notation, including:
  • Tones for the most common Ordinaries: I (Lux et Origo), IV (Cunctipotens Genitor Deus), VIII (De Angelis), IX (Cum Jubilo), XI (Orbis Factor), XXVII (Sundays of Advent & Lent), XVIII (Deus Genitor Alme)
  • Tones for the Asperges and the Vidi Aquam
  • Tones for the Credo: I, II, III and IV
• Vespers for Sundays and Feasts
• Compline for Sundays
• Hymns and chants for Exposition and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
• Anthems to the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Litany of the Saints
• Various Devotions and Prayers including favourite Litanies, the Way of the Cross, prayers of the Rosary and others
• Morning and Evening Prayers
• Devotions for Confession
• Devotions for Holy Communion
• Te Deum Laudamus
• The Itinerary or Office before a Journey
• Various Blessings
• An explanation of “The Liturgy or Public Worship of the Catholic and Roman Church”
• An Abridgement of Christian Doctrine

Meditations on the Stabat Mater

Gregorian Chaplaincy price £3.99. Please pay in cash at our Mass centres (no shipping, no online payment). Public price £4.50.

Description

Stabat mater dolorosa – “The mournful mother was standing”. This is the opening line of the extraordinary hymn attributed to the 13th-century Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi, which is still a popular Lenten devotion.

In this book Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP meditates upon the Stabat Mater line by line. This is a book to help the reader to walk the road from Lent to Passiontide to Easter – and indeed from life to death to eternal life – in the company of the most Blessed and Sorrowful Mother, who stands at the foot of the Cross of her Son.

“If you truly wish to be transformed by Christ, go to the Cross and contemplate his Passion. If you truly desire to plumb the depths of knowledge of Christ’s Passion, go to his Blessed Mother… If you want to know some of what the Blessed Virgin Mary teaches about her Son’s Passion, read this book.” (Mother Marilla, OSB, Superior General of the Tyburn Nuns)

“This beautiful little book, born of prayer, is just what I need, what every Catholic needs, for the fruitful praying of the Stations of the Cross.” (Fr John Saward, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford​​​​​​​)

Our Lady of Hope Retreat, Hope Cove: https://ourladyofhoperetreat.co.uk/
A peaceful retreat house located on the edge of the fishing village of Hope Cove, Devon.

Catholic Community Spring Dance, Sat 18^th April, 1:00PM: St Leonards Parish Hall, Tring, HP23 6NW. Bookings: georgetyldesley@hotmail.co.uk

Pray for  the sick in our congregations: Roger Johnson, Baby Pio Yardley, Malgorzata Anna Pietrak, Maureen Readings, Daniel Jahansouz, Jean-Francois Moore, Lottie Newman-Craig, Maria Chidell, Monika Oledzka, Mrs Henn, Eliah Isaac, Baby Vincent Jones, Tom and Inma Jones, Baby Joseph Osborn. R.I.P. Patsy Crocker, Prima Nevard, Carl Roberts. Please email additions to this list.

New family chapter for the UK Scouts of Europe at the Chartres Pilgrimage. This is to allow Catholic Scouts, Guides, Wolvets and Wolfcubs from the UK to attend with their parents, in their Scouts uniforms and show unity with our European confrères! We will have members coming from other units from around the country (Birmingham, Gateshead, elsewhere) as well as our Bedford Scouts. We will be doing the shorter (50km) walk, given that a number of our Wolfcubs etc are too young to do the full walk.
We have chosen St Francis of Assisi as our patron saint, given that he is the patron saint of the yellow branch (Wolfcubs/Wolvets), and his life of poverty fits so well with the ethos of the pilgrimage (having all comforts stripped away and forcing us to go beyond ourselves in the name of Christ).
Leader: Dr Simon Lubbock simon.lubbock@gseuk.org ; with Mr Matthew Blissett and Mrs Sophie Hector as deputies. Francis Carey latinmassuk@icloud.com will also be running his Our Lady Immaculate family chapter, which will be adjacent in the column, with us sharing a communal bivouac.

VIRTUS: the FSSP “EXODUS 90” has landed!

Our Septuagesima-Lent programme Virtus begins in English this year. Please do spread the word! Starts Feb 1, 2026, ends Apr 12, 2026.

Visit hozana.org/en/community/12820-virtus-journey-great-lent-2026

Adult Catechism in Chesham Bois, on some Wednesday evenings. Thank you to our lay catechists who generously give of their time at the Chaplain’s request to help train several adult converts. Catholic adults are welcome to attend as well. Contact the Chaplain for details : malleray@fssp.org.

by Fr AM