Sunday Bulletin 9 March 2025

FSSP Chaplaincy Bulletin, 9 March 2025

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     

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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.

Very Rev. John Berg, Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, was very pleased with his visit to the Gregorian Chaplaincy. He offered holy Mass on Ash Wednesday at Chesham Bois, and on the FSSP feast of St Thomas Aquinas in Bedford.  

On both occasions he stayed to greet parishioners. He also met with Bishop David Oakley in Northampton, who approves of our raising funds to acquire a stable place of worship in or near Bedford.

Fr Berg prayed with the Bedford FSSP clergy in the house chapel,

whose four “choir” stalls were full for the first time since Holy Week last year.

Fr Berg also went on a clergy excursion to Wrest Park, south of Bedford,

where special training in bowling took place.

Clergy-led stations of the Cross for all
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 weekday. Circle your chosen date:

My Week 1: 10―11―12―13―14―15 March

My Week 2: 17―18―19―20―21―22 March

My Week 3: 24―25―26―27―28―29 March

My Week 4: 31 March―1―2―3―4―5 April

My Week 5: 7―8―9―10―11―12 April

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

A confessor awaits you in our state-of-the-art soundproof confessional 20 minutes before every weekday Mass at Our Lady’s in Kempston.

Thank you to the benefactors who covered the significant cost of £1,500.00 for the soundproofing of the confessional at Our Lady of Ransom. The main benefactress does not live in England but she follows the FSSP Gregorian Chaplaincy with interest. She said:

“All the recent legal threats to the seal of Confession around the world as well as attempts by four States in the USA in the past few years alone, have the potential to slowly and stealthily erode the confidence in the Sacrament itself. A concrete undertaking such as yours can prove to be a much more productive counter-argument in the long run than all of the “blather” currently fuelling the public square.”

Let us now make frequent use of our improved confessional, especially this Lent.

Lenten reading: discover the hidden riches of the medieval Marian hymn Stabat Mater presented by Fr de Malleray in his booklet available at CTS: www.ctsbooks.org/product/meditations-on-the-stabat-mater/ for £4.50. Join our Blessed Mother at the foot of the Cross of her Son and walk with her on the road from life to death to eternal life, by meditating upon the Stabat Mater line by line.

Juventutem London monthly holy Mass (7pm) and social, Friday 14^th March,
at the Oratory of St Mary Magdalen, SW18 2QU, Wandsworth
Confessions 6pm-6.55pm;

AND,
Juventutem annual pro-life prayerful witness outside Brixton abortuary on Sat 15 March, 12noon-1pm.
Anyone 18-35 welcome!

Booking forms for this year’s summer camps (for children 10-17) will be available shortly. The boys’ camp will be 4-9 August, and the girls’ camp, 11-16 August. They will once again take place at Savio House, Bollington, in the Peak District.

Well done older RCA pupils who attended their first day of silent recollection at Buckden Towers last 7 March, with the three FSSP clerics preaching and offering Mass.

Interest was expressed for a couple of excursions, one to Colwich Abbey where the traditional Benedictine nuns have  settled, and another to Walsingham as a pilgrimage like last year.

With weekends being already booked for many of us until after Easter, it may be that those events will take place in the late spring or early summer. Feel welcome to email Rita Carroll your preferred dates.

Our Sunday Hall at All Saints:

Dads are requested to put in place the temporary fence along the river if children are to play nearby.

Thank you to the volunteers preparing the hall, doing the tea & coffee, and tidying up after. All are encouraged to pop in into the hall after Sunday Mass as it is an important opportunity to socialise and build up the community. More volunteers are needed: can you offer 90mins (10:00am-11:30am) one Sunday a month?

Our Lady of Walsingham statue now visits Chesham Bois households. Please book to host Our Lady for a week.

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

Thank you for your prayers before and during the weekend of vocational discernment a week ago,
which was attended by 24 young men.
Unwaged participants give whatever they can out of the £95.00 cost per person. Should you wish to help us cover the unpaid expenses, please donate to us clearly indicating “Vocation Weekend.”

Find out how you can make your prayer for priestly vocations more efficacious through our international prayer network, the Confraternity of Saint Peter: www.fssp.org.uk/about-the-confraternity.

Pray for  the sick in our congregations: Mrs Hamel, Fr Patrick Hutton, Tom Holland, 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.

Please pray in particular for Father José María Salgado, FSSP in America, who died of old age on March 8th, 2025. He was 92 years old. He had joined the FSSP years after his priestly ordination and had served in various North American apostolates. RIP.

by Fr AM