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“Back to school”

Children of Blessed Gerard’s Children’s Home waiting for being taken to school with our minibus (called “Winnie the Pooh”)

Liturgical Calendar - January 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Solemnity of Mary, Sts. Basil the (The Most Holy Mother of God Great & Gregory Name of Jesus) RSA: New Year’s Day Nazianzen, World Day of Prayer for & doctors Lectionary: peace - (14 years Blessed Sundays: Cycle B Gérard’s Pre-Primary Weekdays: Year I School & Crèche) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Epiphany St. John Neumann, Blessed André Bessette, St. Raymond of (Our Lady of Prompt St. Adrian of (St. Gregory of of the Lord (USA) religious (USA) Peñafort, priest Succour) Canterbury, Nyssa, bishop, St. Elizabeth Ann abbot (St. Julian) OSB) Seton, religious (USA) (16 years Blessed Gérard’s Relief Fund) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Baptism of the (1st week in St. Hilary, bishop & doctor (St. Engelmar) (Sts. Maurus & Placidus, (St. Marcellus) St. Anthony, abbot Lord ordinary time) (Rememberance of the scholars of St. Benedict, (Erection of the South (St. Victorian) proto-martyrs of the OSB) African Church Missionary Benedictines hierarchy in 1951. who died at Vicariate of Eshowe Pugu/Tanzania in 1889) became a diocese) 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 2nd Sunday (Sts. Kanut & St. Fabian, pope & martyr; St. Agnes, virgin & St. Vincent, & (St. Ildefons) St. Francis de in ordinary time Godfrey) St. Sebastian, martyr; martyr martyr Sales, bishop & (St. Prisca) Blessed Cyprian Michael doctor 18 – 25 January: Week Tansi, priest of prayer for Christian Unity 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 3rd Sunday Sts. Timothy & St. Angela Merici, St. Thomas Aquinas, (St. Charles) (St. Mary Ward) St. John Bosco, in ordinary time Titus, bishops; virgin priest & doctor; priest Conversion of St. (St. Robert, Alberich & Stephen, Paul, apostle Cistercian abbots, OSB) (13 years Blessed Gérard’s Disaster Relief Project) Including the , the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict , the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Brotherhood P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Phone +27 (0)32 4562743 www.bbg.org.za of Blessed Gérard Republic of South Africa Fax +27 (0)32 4567962 [email protected]

Pastoral Care The Hospice Chaplain visiting a patient

Liturgical Calendar - February 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 4th Sunday in Presentation St. Blaise, bishop & (Sts. Gilbert & Rhabanus) St. Agatha, virgin Ash Wednesday (St. Mel) ordinary time of the Lord martyr, St. Ansgar, bishop, & martyr Sts. Paul Miki, priest & (St. Bridget) (16 years Blessed Gérard’s martyr & companions, Bursary Fund) martyrs 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5th Sunday in (Sts. Alto & St. Scholastica, virgin, Our Lady of Lourdes (St. Deodat) (St. Castor) Sts. Cyril, monk & ordinary time Julian) OSB (St. Benedict of Aniane, Methodius, bishop St. Jerome abbot, OSB) Emiliani, priest St. WORLD DAY OF THE Josephine Bakhita, SICK virgin 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 6th Sunday in (Bl.Joseph Seven Founders of the (St. Theothon) (St. Irmgard) Dedication of the St. Peter Damian, ordinary time Allemano) Order of Servites, Conventual Church of bishop & doctor (St. Siegfried) religious St. John the Baptist in Malta, SMOM 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 7th Sunday in St. Polycarp, (Sts. Ethelbert, Mathias (Priory of Inkamana raised St. Alexander of (Sts. Gabriel & (St.Romanus) ordinary time bishop & martyr Mulumba & Willigis) to an abbey in 1982) Alexandria, bishop Leander) Chair of St. Peter, (St. Victor) apostle Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict , the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Brotherhood P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Phone +27 (0)32 4562743 www.bbg.org.za of Blessed Gérard Republic of South Africa Fax +27 (0)32 4567962 [email protected]

Home Care Putting a smile on the faces of the family

Liturgical Calendar - March 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1st Sunday of Lent (St. Enrique) (St. Katharine Drexel, St. Casimir (St. Alto) (St. Coleta) Sts. Perpetua & (Sts. Almarich & virgin) Felicity, martyrs Switbert) 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2nd Sunday of St. Frances of , (St. Aemilius) (St. Wolfram) (St. Beatrice) (St. Paulina) (St. Mathilde) Lent religious, (Abbey of St. Ottilien raised to the rank of an Archabbey in St. John of God, 1914) religious 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 3rd Sunday of Lent (Sts. Herbert & Heribert) St. Patrick, bishop St. Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop St. Joseph, (St. Irmgard) Death of St. Benedict, (St. Clement) & doctor, husband of Mary abbot, OSB, (16 years Blessed RSA: Gérard’s Malnutrition Human Rights Day, Clinic) 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4th Sunday of Lent St. Turibius de Mongrovejo, (St. Elias) Annunciation (St. Ludger) St. John of (St. Guntram) (Laetare Sunday) bishop of the Lord Egypt, hermit, (St. Ruprecht) St. Deogratias, bishop (St. Ancilla) (Sts. Damian & Octavian) 29 30 31 5th Sunday of Lent (10 years Blessed Gérard’s (Sts. Amos, Benjamin (St. Helmut) First Aid and Emergency & Gwido) Service) Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard

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Liturgical Calendar - April 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Blessed Nonius Alvarez St. Francis of Paola, (St. Richard) St. Isidore, bishop & Pereira, prior, SMOM hermit doctor (5 years Blessed Gérard’s St. Benedict ‘the Hospice HAART Programme) Black’, religious 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Palm Sunday Monday of Holy Week Tuesday of Holy Wednesday of Holy Week Holy Thursday Good Friday Easter Vigil rd St. Vincent (3 anniversary of Clare Week (St. Beate) (St. Waltraud) (St. Ezekiel) St. Stanislaus, Ferrer, priest Kalkwarf’s death) St. John Baptist de la bishop & martyr Salle, priest 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Easter Easter Monday Easter Tuesday Easter Wednesday Easter Thursday Easter Friday Easter Saturday Sunday RSA: Family Day, (St. Lidwina) (St. Damian de Veuster) (St. Bernadette) (Sts. Innocent & (St. Wigbert) St. Zeno of St. Martin I, pope & martyr Rudolf) Verona (St. Hermenegild) (St. Julius) 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2nd Sunday St. Marcellinus, bishop St. Anselm, bishop & (St. Cajus) St. George, martyr St. Fidelis of St. Mark, of Easter Sts. Vincent & Dominicus, doctor (St. Adalbert, bishop, Sigmaringen, evangelist Divine Mercy missionaries missionary & martyr, priest & martyr Sunday (16 years Brotherhood of OSB) (Sts. Gerold & Blessed Gérard acknowledged Werner) as Relief Organisation of the (Pope Benedict Order of Malta) XVI elected) 26 27 28 29 30 3rd Sunday of RSA: Freedom Day St. Peter Chanel, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Pius V, pope Easter priest & martyr virgin & doctor (St. Kleto) (St. Louis Mary Grignion de Montfort, priest) Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict , the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Brotherhood P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Phone +27 (0)32 4562743 www.bbg.org.za of Blessed Gérard Republic of South Africa Fax +27 (0)32 4567962 [email protected]

Blessed Gerard’s Children’s Home Caring without borders

Liturgical Calendar - May 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 St. Joseph the St. Athanasius, bishop worker & doctor RSA: Workers’ Day 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 4th Sunday of (St. Florian) (Sts. Angelo & (Sts. Aldricus, Dominic & (St. Notker / Gernot) (St. Victor) (St. Germanus) Easter Godehard) Edmar), Sts. Philip & James, apostles (St. Ansfried) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 5th Sunday of (Sts. Odo, Majolus, Odilo, Sts. Nereus & (Our Lady of Fatima) St. Matthias, apostle St. Isidore the farmer (St. John Nepomuc) Easter Hugo & Petrus the Achilleus, martyrs; (USA) (Blessed Damian venerable, abbots of St. Pancras, (16 years Blessed Joseph de Veuster Cluny, OSB) martyr Gérard’s Friendship of Molokai, priest) Club & 8 years Blessed Gérard’s Children’s Home) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 6th Sunday of St. John I, pope & martyr, (St. Celestin, St. Bernardine of Siena, Ascension (St. Rita of Cascia, (St. Desiderius) Easter Blessed Gerard Mecatti pope & hermit, priest of the Lord religious) (15 years Blessed (Sts. Dietmar & of Villamagna, religious, OSB) (St. Christopher Gérard’s AIDS Paschalis) SMOM, (St. Erich) Magallanes, priest & Education Programme) companions, martyrs) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 7th Sunday of St. Bede the Venerable, St. Philip Neri, St. Augustine of St. Ubaldesca, virgin, Blessed Joseph (St. Joan of Arc) Easter priest & doctor; priest Canterbury, bishop SMOM Gerard OMI, priest (St. Dagmar) St. Gregory VII, pope; St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, virgin 31 Pentecost Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict , the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard

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Blessed Gerard’s Relief Fund Happy faces: When their house had burnt down we gave the children shelter, clothing, food and lots of tender loving care. Now they return to their parents.

Liturgical Calendar - June 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 St. Justin, martyr Sts. Marcellinus & Sts. Charles Lwanga & (St. Quirin) St. Boniface, bishop & St. Norbert, bishop 9th week in Peter, martyrs companions, martyrs martyr ordinary time (St. Kevin) 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Trinity Sunday Blessed James St. Ephrem, (St. Diana) St. Barnabas, St. Flora of Beaulieu, virgin, St. Anthony of Padua, (St. Jeremias) Berthieu, martyr deacon & doctor apostle SMOM priest & doctor, patron (St. Pacificus) St. Onophrius, hermit of Mandeni Parish 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Most Holy (St. Vitus) (Sts. Aurelian, (St. Armando) Most Sacred Heart of (St. Novatus) Body and Benno & Quirinus) Jesus (Patronal feast of Immaculate Heart the Diocese of Eshowe & Blood of Christ of Mary the Missionary (St. Richard) RSA: Youth Day Benedictines) St. Romuald, abbot Blessed Gerland, religious, SMOM 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 12th Sunday Sts. Paulinus of (St. Edeltraud) Birth of St. John (Sts. Prosper & (St. Vigilius) St. Cyril of Alexandria, in ordinary Nola, bishop the Baptist, Wilhelm) bishop & doctor John Fisher, (Our Mother of Perpetual time bishop & martyr patron, SMOM Help) St. Aloysius Thomas Moore, Gonzaga, martyr religious 28 29 30 13th Sunday Sts. Peter & First martyrs of the in ordinary Paul, apostles Church of Rome time St. Irenaeus, bishop & martyr Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard

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Liturgical Calendar - July 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 St. Nicasius, martyr, SMOM (Sts. Mario & Martinian) St. Thomas, St. Elizabeth of (Blessed Junípero Serra, apostle Portugal priest) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 14th Sunday St. Maria Goretti, (Sts. Walter & Blessed Adrian Fortescue, (St. Augustine Zhao Rong, (Sts. Alexander, St. Benedict, in ordinary time virgin & martyr Willibald) martyr, SMOM priest & companions, Silvanus & abbot, OSB St. Anthony martyrs) Vitalis) Zaccaria, (St. Godfrey) priest 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 15th Sunday St. Henry, (St. St. Camillus de Lellis, St. Bonaventure, bishop & Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Sts. Alexius, (St. Arnold) in ordinary time Eugene) priest; doctor Leo & Pambo) Blessed David Blessed Kateri Gunston, martyr, Tekakwitha, virgin SMOM (USA) (St. Johannes St. Toscana, religious, Gualbert, abbot, SMOM OSB) 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16th Sunday (St. Apollinarius) St. Laurence of St. Mary Magdalene St. Bridget of Sweden, (St. Sharbel St. James, apostle in ordinary time Brindisi, religious Makhluf, priest) (St. Arsenio) priest & doctor 26 27 28 29 30 31 17th Sunday (Sts. Berthold & St. Victor I, pope & Sts. Martha, Maria & Lazarus, St. Peter Chrysologus, St. Ignatius of in ordinary time Rudolf) martyr, friends of Jesus, OSB bishop & doctor Loyola, priest St. Joachim & Anne, (St. Maximilian Kolbe) St. Justin de parents of the Jacobis, bishop Blessed Virgin Mary Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict , the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Brotherhood P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Phone +27 32 456 2743 www.bbg.org.za of Blessed Gérard Republic of South Africa Fax +27 32 456 7962 [email protected]

Our principal collecting some of our children from Pre-School

Liturgical Calendar - August 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 St. Alphonsus Liguori, bishop & doctor 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 18th Sunday (Sts. Benno & St. John Vianney, Dedication of the Basilica Transfiguration of Sts. Sixtus II, St. Dominic, in ordinary time Nicodem) priest of St. Mary Major the Lord pope & martyr & priest St. Eusebius of companions, Vercelli, bishop (St. martyrs St. Cajetan, priest Peter Julian Eymard, priest) 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 19th Sunday St. Lawrence, St. Clare, virgin (St. Jane Frances de St. Pontian, pope & St. Maximilian Assumption of in ordinary time deacon & martyr (St. Susanna, Chantal, religious) martyr, St. Hippolytus, Mary Kolbe, priest the Blessed RSA: National martyr) Blessed Isidore Bakanja, priest & martyr & martyr (St. Teresa Benedicta Virgin Mary of the Cross (Edith Women’s Day martyr Stein), virgin & martyr)

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20th Sunday (St. Hyacinth) (St. Helena) St. John Eudes, priest, (St. St. Bernard, abbot & St. Pius X, pope Queenship of the in ordinary time Bernard Toloméi, abbot, doctor Blessed Victoria Virgin Mary St. Stephan of OSB) Rasoamanarivo Hungary 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 21st Sunday St. Bartholomew, St. Louis of France, (Our Lady of Czestochowa) St. Monica St. Augustine, Beheading of St. John in ordinary time apostle St. Joseph bishop & doctor the Baptist, martyr, St. Rose of Lima, Calasanz, priest patron of the SMOM virgin 30 31 22nd Sunday (Sts. Aidan & in ordinary time Raimund) Blessed Ghebre Michael, priest & martyr Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict , the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard

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Home Care Training

Liturgical Calendar - September 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 (St. Ruth) (Sts. Justin & Nonnosus) St. Gregory the (St. Moses) (St. Maria Theresia) (Prefecture Apostolic of Great, pope & doctor Zululand constituted in Death of Blessed 1921) Gérard (+1120), (13 years Blessed Gérard’s Care Centre) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 23rd Sunday (St. Dietrich) Birthday of the St. Peter Claver, priest (USA) (St. Diethard) (St. Felix) (Most Holy in ordinary time Blessed Virgin Mary, Name of the (St. Magnus) Our Lady of Philerme, Blessed Virgin SMOM Mary) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 24th Sunday Triumph of the Our Lady of Sorrows St. Cornelius, pope & martyr; St. Robert (Sts. Lambert St. Januarius, in ordinary time Holy Cross St. Cyprian, bishop & martyr Bellarmine, bishop & & Luke) bishop & martyr St. John Chrysostom, doctor bishop & doctor (St. Hildegard, virgin & abbess, OSB) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 25th Sunday St. Matthew, apostle St. Maurice and the St. Zachary & Elizabeth, St. Stephanie, martyr (St. Nicolas) Sts. Cosmas & in ordinary time & evangelist Theban Legion, martyrs parents of St. John the (Our Lady of Damian, martyrs St. Andrew Kim Taegŏn, (St. Otto) Baptist, (SMOM) Ransom) priest & martyr, Sts. Paul (St. Pio of Pietrelcina) RSA: Heritage Day Chŏng Hasang & companions, martyrs 27 28 29 30 26th Sunday St. Wenceslaus, Sts. Michael, Gabriel & St. Jerome, priest & doctor

in ordinary time martyr, (St. Laurence Raphael, archangels St. Vincent de Paul, Ruiz & companions, (St. Victor) priest martyrs) Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict , the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard P O Box 440 Phone Brotherhood www.bbg.org.za Mandeni 4490 +27 (0)32 456 2743 [email protected] of Blessed Gérard Republic of South Africa Fax +27 (0)32 456 7962

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Liturgical Calendar - October 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 St. Theresa of the Child Guardian Angels (Sts. Ewald & Udo) Jesus, virgin, (St. Angelo) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 27th Sunday Blessed Peter Pattarini of St. Bruno, priest, Our Lady of the Rosary St. Hugh, Sts. Denis, St. Daniel Comboni, in ordinary Imola, prior, SMOM, Blessed Marie Rose religious, SMOM bishop & martyr bishop & founder of (St. Mary Faustina) Durocher, virgin & companions, the Comboni time (USA) martyrs Missionaries, St. Francis of St. John (St. Viktor) Assisi, religious Leonardi, priest 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 28th Sunday (St. Wilfried) Blessed Gérard, St. Callistus I, pope & St. Teresa of Avila, St. Hedwig, St. Ignatius of Antioch, in ordinary founder of the martyr virgin & doctor religious bishop & martyr SMOM, patron of St. Margaret time the BBG Mary Alacoque, (St. Bruno) (St. Edward) virgin 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 29th Sunday St. Paul of the Cross, priest, Blessed Daudi Okelo (St. Ursula) (St. Ingbert) St. John of St. Anthony Claret, in ordinary Sts. John Brébeuf & Isaac & Jildro Irwa, martyrs Capistrano, bishop Jogues, priests & martyrs & (St. Wendelin) priest, (St. (St. Felix) time companions, martyrs (USA), Herfried) World Mission (Blessed Mother Teresa of Sunday Calcutta) St. Luke, evangelist 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 30th Sunday (Sts. Evaristo & Gilbert) (St. Frumentius) Sts. Simon & Jude, (St. Narcis) St. Marcellus, (St. Wolfgang) in ordinary apostles martyr, (St. 17th anniversary of the Claudius) time foundation of the (St. Gaudence) Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict , the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Brotherhood P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Phone +27 (0)32 4562743 www.bbg.org.za of Blessed Gérard Republic of South Africa Fax +27 (0)32 4567962 [email protected]

Motivational talk on World AIDS Day by a Therapeutic Counsellor

Liturgical Calendar - November 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 All Saints Commemoration of all the St. Martin de Porres, St. Charles Borromeo, (St. Zacharia) All Saints of (St. , (St. Harald) faithful departed: All Souls religious bishop (17 years Brotherhood of Africa bishop, OSB) Blessed Gérard (St. Leonard) acknowledged by the bishop) 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 32nd Sunday Dedication of the Lateran St. Leo the Great, St. Martin of Tours, bishop St. Josaphat, bishop & St. Frances (St. Didas) in ordinary Basilica pope & doctor martyr, Xavier Cabrini, (St. Theodore of Studion, virgin (USA) time abbot, OSB) (St. Godfrey) 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 33rd Sunday in St. Margaret of Scotland St. Elizabeth of Dedication of the Basilicas of All Saints of the SMOM, (St. Bernward) Presentation of the ordinary time St. Gertrude, virgin Hungary, religious Sts. Peter & Paul, apostles (St. Mechthild, virgin, Blessed Virgin Mary St. Albert the St. Dionysius of (St. Rose Philippine OSB) Great, bishop & Alexandria, bishop Duchesne, virgin) doctor (St. Leopold) 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Jesus Christ Sts. Clement I, pope & martyr, (Sts. Andrew Dung- St. Catherine of Alexandria, (St. Silvester, abbot, OSB) (St. Bilhild) (St. Sostenes) the King St. Columban, abbot, Lac & companions, virgin & martyr (St. Maximinus) (St. James of the St. Cecilia, virgin (Blessed Miguel Augustine martyrs) Marches) & martyr Pro, priest & martyr) 29 30 1st Sunday of St. Andrew, apostle Advent (St. Jolanda) Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict , the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Brotherhood P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Phone +27 (0)32 4562743 www.bbg.org.za of Blessed Gérard Republic of South Africa Fax +27 (0)32 4567962 [email protected]

WWee wwiisshh yyoouu aa MMeerrrryy CChhrriissttmmaass!!

Liturgical Calendar – December 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Blessed Clementine Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Francis Xavier, St. John (St. Sabas, abbot, Lectionary: Anuarite, virgin & martyr cause of our joy, SMOM priest (St. Zephania) Damascene, priest OSB) Sundays Cycle C (St. Pachomius, abbot, (St. Bibiana) International day of & doctor (St. Gerald) Weekdays II OSB) disabled persons (St. Barbara) starts from Advent WORLD AIDS DAY 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 2nd Sunday of St. Ambrose, Immaculate (St Juan Diego, hermit) St. Melchiades, pope St. Damasus I, pope St. Jane Frances de Advent bishop & doctor Conception of the Inkamana Abbey: Chantal, religious St. Nicholas, bishop Anniversary of the Our Lady of Blessed Virgin dedication of the Guadalupe (USA) Mary church 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 3rd Sunday of St. John of the (St. Reinald) (St. Adelheid) (Sts. Lazaro & (St. Wunibald) (St. Konrad) Advent Cross, religious & RSA: Day of Reconciliation Sturmius) (17 years (Gaudete Sunday) doctor Blessed Gérard’s St. Lucy, virgin & Poor Sick Fund) martyr (St. Odilia, virgin, OSB, patron of the Missionary Benedictines) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 4th Sunday of St. Peter Canisius, (St. Jutta) St. John of Kanty, priest Vigil of Christmas Christmas St. Stephen, Advent priest & doctor first martyr Blessed Scubilion, RSA: Day of religious Goodwill (Sts. Abraham & Theophil) 27 28 29 30 31 Holy Family Holy Innocents, 5th day in the octave of 6th day in the octave of 7th day in the octave St. John, apostle & martyrs Christmas · St. Thomas Christmas of Christmas evangelist Becket, bishop & martyr St. Sylvester I, pope Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict , the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Brotherhood P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Phone +27 32 456 2743 www.bbg.org.za of Blessed Gérard Republic of South Africa Fax +27 32 456 7962 [email protected]

Thank you!

It is with sincere gratitude that we send you our special calendar for 2009.

The choice of pictures is not a reward for meritorious members, but we have simply chosen the best pictures of 2008.

It is printed in a low volume

and given to our generous benefactors as a sign of our sincere appreciation Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard of your continued support. & Blessed Gérard’s Care Centre Your assistance means a great deal P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa to us and the people we help. Phone +27 (0)32 4562743 · Fax +27 (0)32 4567962

May God bless you abundantly www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] and reward you for your generosity!