sign in sign up
<<
Home , Benedict Daswa, Felix of Nola, Michael de Sanctis

Calendar for the year 2020 Home Care

We care in any case January 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 1 2 3 4 P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of Mary, Sts. Basil the Great & The Most Holy (St. Elizabeth Ann Seton) Phone +27 82 4924043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Mother of God Gregory Nazianzen, Name of Jesus 27 years Blessed Gérard’s Relief RSA: New Year’s Day bishops & doctors Fund Lectionary: Sundays: Cycle A, Weekdays: Year 1 World Day of Peace 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Epiphany (St. André St. Raymond of Wednesday after St. Adrian of Canterbury, Friday after Saturday after Epiphany of the Lord Bessette) Peñafort, priest Epiphany abbot Epiphany (Blessed William Carter) (St. John Neumann, (St. Severinus) (St. Gregory of Anniversary: Vicariate Apostolic bishop) Nyssa, bishop, of Eshowe elevated to the OSB) Diocese of Eshowe, 1951 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 St. Hilary, bishop & Tuesday 1st week (Sts. Maurus & Placidus, (St. Bernard & St. Anthony, (St. Prisca) of the Lord doctor in Ordinary time scholars of St. Benedict, companions) abbot 18 – 25 January: Week of (St. Marguerite (St. Felix of ) OSB) World Day of prayer for Christian Unity Bourgeoys) Migrants and Refugees 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2nd Sunday St. Fabian, & St. Agnes, & St. Vincent of Saragozza, (St. Marianne Cope & St. St. Francis de Conversion of St. Paul, the in ordinary time ; martyr deacon & martyr Vincent, martyr) Sales, bishop & Apostle (St. Canute) St. Sebastian, doctor martyr; Blessed Tansi, priest 26 27 28 29 30 31 3rd Sunday St. Angela Merici, St. Thomas (St. Gildas the Wise, (St. Martina, virgin & St. John Bosco, in ordinary time virgin Aquinas, priest & abbot) martyr) priest Sts. Timothy & Titus, Holocaust doctor bishops; Memorial Day (St. Robert, Alberich & Stephen, Cistercian abbots, OSB) 24 years Blessed Gérard’s Disaster Relief Project World Leprosy Day Including the , the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Caring without borders February 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 1 P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa Blessed Benedict Daswa, Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 martyr www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] (St. Brigid of Ireland) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Presentation of St. Blaise, bishop & (St. John de Britto) St. Agatha, Sts. Paul Miki, priest & martyr & (St. ) St. Josephine Bakhita, the Lord martyr, World Cancer Day virgin & martyr companions, : “Twenty- virgin World Day for St. Ansgar, bishop six ” St. Emiliani, priest Consecrated Life (27 years Blessed International Day of Prayer Gérard’s Bursary Fund) and Awareness Against Human Trafficking 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 5th Sunday in St. Scholastica, Our Lady of (St. Damian) (St. Catherine de Ricci) Sts. Cyril, monk & (St. Faustinus) ordinary time virgin, OSB Lourdes Methodius, bishop International Childhood (St. Apollonia) (St. Benedict of St. Valentine’s Day Cancer Day Aniane, abbot, OSB) World Day of the Sick 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 6th Sunday in Seven Founders of (St. , bishop (St. Boniface of Dedication of the Conventual St. , The Chair of St. Peter, ordinary time the Order of Servites, & martyr) Lausanne) Church of St. bishop & doctor apostle (St. Juliana of religious in Malta, SMOM International Cumae, martyr) World Day of Social Justice Mother Language Day 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 7th Sunday in (St. Sergius) (St. Ethelbert of Ash Wednesday Thursday after Ash Wednesday Friday after Ash Saturday after Ash ordinary time Kent) St. Alexander of (St. of Our Lady of Wednesday Wednesday St. , Priory of Inkamana Alexandria, bishop Sorrows) (St. Hilary, pope) bishop & martyr raised to an abbey in 1982 Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard

Blessed Gérard‘s Pre-Primary School & Crèche March 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1st Sunday (St. Agnes of (St. Katherine St. Casimir of (St. Kieran, bishop) (St. Colette) Sts. Perpetua & Felicity, of Lent Bohemia) Drexel) Poland martyrs (St. of Wales) World Day of Prayer 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2nd Sunday St. Frances of , (St. John (St. Constantine, (St. Seraphina) (Bl. Agnello of (St. Maud) of Lent religious Ogilvie, martyr) martyr) Abbey of St. Ottilien Pisa) Commonwealth Day St. John of God, raised to the rank of an religious Archabbey in 1914 International Women’s Day 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 3rd Sunday (St. Herbert) St. Patrick, St. Cyril of St. , spouse of (St. Ambrosius Death of St. Benedict, of Lent bishop Jerusalem, the Blessed Virgin Sansedoni of abbot, OSB (St. Louise de bishop & doctor Mary Siena, religious) RSA: Marillac) Human Rights Day 27 years Blessed International Day for the Gérard’s Malnutrition Elimination of Racial Clinic Discrimination 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4th Sunday St. Turibius de (St. Aldemar) Annunciation of (Blessed Didacus St. John of Egypt, (St. Venturino of Bergamo) of Lent “Laetare” Mogrovejo, bishop World Our Lord Joseph of Cadiz) hermit Blessed Clemens Tuberculosis August von Galen, Day SMOM St. Deogratias, bishop World Water Day 29 30 31 5th Sunday (St. John Climacus, (St. Benjamin, Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard abbot) martyr) of Lent P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa 21 years Blessed (St. Jonas & Phone +27 82 4924043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Barachisius, Gérard’s First Aid & martyrs) Emergency 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 Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard

Caring without borders April 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard St. Nonius Alvarez St. Francis of (St. Richard of Wyche) St. Isidore, bishop & Pereira, prior, SMOM Paola, hermit doctor P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa 16 years Blessed St. Benedict ‘the Phone +27 82 4924043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Gérard’s Hospice Black’, religious HAART Programme 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Palm Sunday Monday of Holy Week Tuesday of Holy Wednesday of Holy Holy Thursday Good Friday Easter Vigil St. Vincent (St. Celestino I, pope Week Week (St. Mary of (St. Michael de Sanctis) St. Stanislaus, Ferrer, St. Peter of Verona) St. John Baptist (St. Walter of Cleophas) bishop & martyr priest 14th anniversary of Clare de la Salle, Pontnoise, abbot) World Youth Kalkwarf’s death priest Day World Health Day 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Easter Monday in the Octave of Tuesday in Wednesday in the Thursday in the Friday in the Octave Saturday in the Sunday Easter the Octave of Octave of Easter Octave of of Easter Octave of Easter St. Zeno of St. Martin I, Easter (St. Hunna) Easter (St. Landricus, bishop (Blessed Marie- Verona, bishop pope & martyr (St. Maximus, (St. Bernadette & abbot) Anne Blondin) RSA: Family Day martyr) Soubirous, religious) 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2nd Sunday of St. Marcellinus, bishop St. Anselm, (St. Alexander, St. George, martyr St. Fidelis of St. Mark, evangelist Easter “Divine Sts. Vincent & Dominicus, bishop & doctor martyr) (St. Adalbert, Sigmaringen, priest & Mercy Sunday” missionaries bishop, missionary martyr (Leo IX, pope) 27 years Brotherhood of & martyr, OSB) Blessed Gérard acknowledged as Relief Organisation of the Order of Malta 26 27 28 29 30 Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, 3rd Sunday of (St. Zita) St. Peter St. Catherine of Our Lady, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta Easter RSA: Freedom Day Chanel, priest & Siena, virgin & doctor Mother of Africa and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of (St. Cletus) martyr, South Africa + the African Saints St. Louis Mary brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Grignion de Montfort, priest, Gérard St. Pius V., pope

Pastoral Care May 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard St. Joseph the St. Athanasius, bishop P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa worker & doctor Phone +27 82 4924043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] RSA: Workers’ Day 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 4th Sunday of Easter (Blessed Martyrs of England (St. Asaph, (St. Dominic (St. John of Beverley, (St. George Preca) Sts. Philip & James, and Wales) bishop) Savio) bishop) apostles World Day of Prayer for Vocations 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 5th Sunday of Easter (Sts. Odo, Majolus, Odilo, Sts. Nereus & Our Lady of St. Matthias, apostle (St. Dymphna) (St. Brendan, (St. Damien de Veuster Hugo & Petrus , Achilleus, martyrs; Fatima World Day of abbot) of Moloka’i) abbots of Cluny, OSB) St. Pancras, Prayer for RSA: Mothers’ Day martyr Vocations, International International Day Nurses Day of Families 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 6th Sunday of Easter St. John I, (St. Celestin, St. Bernardine of Ascension of the Lord St. Rita of Cascia, Blessed William Apor, (St. Paschal Baylon) pope & martyr pope & hermit, Siena, priest St. Christopher religious bishop & martyr, Blessed Gerard Mecatti of OSB) Magallanes, priest & SMOM Villamagna, companions, martyrs 25 years Blessed religious, SMOM World Day for Cultural Gérard’s AIDS Diversity for Dialogue and Education Programme Development 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 7th Sunday of Easter St. the Venerable, priest St. Philip Neri, St. Augustine of St. Ubaldesca, virgin, Blessed Joseph (St. ) The Blessed Virgin & doctor; priest Canterbury, SMOM Gerard OMI, priest Mary, Help for St. Gregory VII, pope; bishop Christians St. de Pazzi, World Communications virgin Day 31 Pentecost Sunday Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta Visitation of the and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Blessed Virgin Mary World No-Tobacco Day

Inpatient Care „Tender loving care“ as it should be

We care in any case June 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 St. Justin, martyr Sts. Marcellinus & Sts. Charles Lwanga (St. Quirinus of St. Boniface, St. Norbert, bishop Mary, the Mother Peter, martyrs & companions, Siscia, bishop) bishop & martyr of the Church martyrs World Environment Day International Children’s Day 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Trinity Sunday Blessed James St. Ephrem of (St. Ithamar) St. , St. Flora of Beaulieu, virgin, SMOM St. Anthony of (St. Robert, abbot) Berthieu, martyr Syria, deacon & apostle St. Onophrius, hermit Padua, priest & Anniversary: Bishop doctor doctor, Patron of Kumalo ordained Mandeni Parish bishop in 2008 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 “Corpus Christi” (Sts. Vitus & (St. Aurelian) (St. Paschal Baylon) (St. Gregory The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Immaculate Heart of (St. Valerius) Modestus, RSA: Youth Day Barbagio, Patronal feast of the Diocese of Eshowe & Mary martyrs) bishop) the Missionary Benedictines, St. (Sts. Alban, Aaron & Romuald, abbot Julius) Blessed Gerland, religious, SMOM World Refugee Day 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 12th Sunday Sts. Paulinus of (St. Joseph Birth of St. John the (St. William of (St. Anthelm) St. , in ordinary time Nola, bishop Cafasso) Baptist, Vercelli, abbot) International Day Against Drug Abuse and bishop & doctor St. Aloysius Gonzaga, , patron, SMOM Illicit Trafficking religious bishop & martyr RSA: Fathers’ Day Thomas Moore, martyr 28 29 30 13th Sunday Sts. Peter & First Martyrs of Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard in ordinary time Paul, apostles the Holy Roman P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa St. , Church Phone +27 82 4924043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] 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 Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard We care in any case July 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 1 2 3 4 P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa St. Nicasius, martyr, SMOM (St. Oliver Plunkett) St. Thomas, St. Elizabeth of Phone +27 82 4924043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] apostle Portugal 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 14th Sunday St. , (St. Willibald Blessed Adrian Fortescue, St. Augustine Zhao Rong, (Bl. Emmanuel St. Benedict, in ordinary time virgin & martyr St. Palladius, bishop) martyr, SMOM priest & companions, martyrs Ruiz) abbot, OSB St. Anthony M. Zaccaria, (Mary Queen of Peace) World priest 20 years Blessed Gérard’s Population Day Children’s Home 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 15th Sunday St. Henry St. Camillus de St. , Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Carmelite Nuns of (St. Camillus de in ordinary time Lellis, priest bishop & doctor Compiegne) Lellis) Blessed David Gunston, St. Toscana, RSA: Nelson martyr, SMOM religious, SMOM Mandela Day (St. Johannes Gualbert, abbot, OSB) Sea Sunday 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16th Sunday St. Apollinaris, St. Lawrence of St. Mary Magdalene St. Bridget of Sweden, St. Sharbel St. James, in ordinary time bishop & martyr Brindisi, priest & religious Makhluf, priest apostle (Sts. Justa & Rufina, doctor martyrs) 26 27 28 29 30 31 17th Sunday (St. Theobald) St. Victor I, pope & Sts. Martha, Maria & St. , St. Ignatius of in ordinary time martyr Lazarus, friends of Jesus, bishop & doctor Loyola, priest St. Joachim & Anne, OSB St. Justin de Jacobis, bishop parents 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 Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Inpatient Care „Tender loving care“ as it should be

We care in any case August 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 1 P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa St. Alphonsus Mary de Phone +27 82 4924043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Liguori, bishop & doctor 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 18th Sunday (St. Waltheof, St. John Vianney, Dedication of the Transfiguration Sts. Sixtus II, pope & St. Dominic, priest in ordinary time abbot) priest Basilica of St. Mary of the Lord martyr & St. Eusebius of Vercelli, Major companions, martyrs bishop, St. Peter Julian St. Cajetan, priest Eymard, priest, (Our Lady od the Angels) 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 19th Sunday St. Lawrence, St. , St. Jane Frances de St. Pontian, pope & martyr St. Maximilian Mary (St. Mechthild) in ordinary time deacon & martyr virgin Chantal, religious, St. Hippolytus, priest & Kolbe, priest & martyr St. Teresa Benedicta of the RSA: Public Blessed Isidore martyr Cross (), virgin & Holiday Bakanja, martyr martyr International RSA: Youth Day National Women’s Day International Day of the World’s Indigenous People 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Assumption (St. Hyacinth) Blessed Victoria St. John Eudes St. Bernard, St. Pius X, pope Queenship of the of the Blessed Virgin Mary Rasoamanarivo priest, abbot & doctor Blessed Virgin Mary St. Stephan of Hungary (St. Bernard Toloméi, abbot, OSB) 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 21st Sunday St. Bartholomew, St. Louis of France, (Our Lady of St. Monica St. Augustine, bishop Beheading of St. John in ordinary time apostle St. Joseph Czestochowa) Anniversary: Prefecture & doctor the Baptist, martyr, St. , Calasanz, World Day of Apostolic of Zululand patron of the SMOM virgin priest Migrants and erected in 1921 Refugees 30 31 22nd Sunday (St. Aidan of Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, Lindisfarne, in ordinary time the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints bishop) Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Schuster O.S.B, SMOM Blessed Ghebre Michael, priest & martyr

September 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 (St. Giles, abbot) (St. William of Roskilde) St. Gregory the (St. ) (St. Mother Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 26 years Blessed Gérard’s Great, pope & doctor, Teresa of P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa Pre-Primary School & Death of Blessed Calcutta) Phone +27 82 4924043 · www.bbg.org.za · Crèche Gérard (+1120), [email protected] World Day of Prayer for 24 years Blessed the Care of Creation Gérard’s Care Centre & Hospice 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 23rd Sunday (St. Cloud) Birthday of the Blessed St. , priest (St. Nicholas of (St. Paphnutius) Most Holy Name in ordinary time Virgin Mary, Our Lady Tolentino) World First Aid of Mary (St. Faustus) of Philerme, SMOM Day 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 24th Sunday Triumph Our Lady of Sorrows St. Cornelius, pope & St. Robert (St. Joseph of St. Januarius, in ordinary time of the Holy Cross martyr Bellarmine, bishop & Cupertino) bishop & martyr St. , St. Cyprian, bishop & doctor bishop & doctor martyr (St. Hildegard, virgin & abbess, OSB) 13 – 20 September 2019: 52nd International Eucharistic Congress (Budapest, Hungary) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 25th Sunday St. Matthew, St. Maurice and the St. Zachary & Elizabeth, St. Stephanie, martyr (St. Finbar) Sts. Cosmas & in ordinary time apostle & Theban Legion, martyrs parents of St. John the (Our Lady of Damian, martyrs St. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, priest & evangelist Baptist, (SMOM) Ransom) St. Paul VI, pope martyr, Sts. Paul Chŏng Ha-sang International Day St. Pio of Pietrelcina, RSA: Heritage Day & companions, martyrs: “Korean of Peace religious Martyrs” Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper 27 28 29 30 Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar 26th Sunday Sts. Michael, Gabriel & St. Wenceslaus & St. Jerome, priest & of the Order of Malta in ordinary time companions, , doctor and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + St. Vincent de Paul, martyrs, the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of priest St. Laurence Ruiz Blessed Gérard World Day of Migrants and & companions,

Refugees martyrs

Blessed Gérard‘s Pre-Primary School & Crèche October 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard St. Thérèse of the Holy Guardian (St. Gérard of Brogne) Child Jesus (of Angels World Habitat Day P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Lisieux), virgin & Republic of South Africa doctor Phone +27 82 4924043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] International Day of Older Persons 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 27th Sunday Blessed Peter Pattarini of St. Bruno, abbot Our Lady of the Rosary St. Hugh, religious, Sts. Denis, bishop & St. Daniel Comboni, in ordinary Imola, prior, SMOM SMOM martyr & bishop & founder of the time companions, Comboni Missionaries St. Francis of martyrs, World Mental Health Assisi, religious St. John Leonardi, Day priest 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 28th Sunday (St. Wilfred) Blessed Gérard, St. Callistus I, St. Teresa of Jesus St. Hedwig, religious St. , in ordinary International Day for Natural founder of the pope & martyr (of Avila), virgin & St. Margaret Mary bishop & martyr time Disaster Reduction SMOM, patron of doctor Alacoque, virgin International Day for St. John XXIII, the BBG World Food Day the Eradication of pope, SMOM Poverty World Hospice & Palliative Care Day 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 29th Sunday Sts. John Brébeuf & Blessed Daudi Blessed Charles of (St. John Paul II, St. John of St. Anthony Mary in ordinary Jogues, priests & martyrs & Okelo & Jildro Irwa, Austria, SMOM pope) Capistrano, priest Claret, bishop time companions, martyrs “North martyrs United Nations Day “World American Martyrs” Mission St. Paul of the Cross, priest Sunday” St. Luke, evangelist 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 30th Sunday (St. Alfred the Great) (St. Otteran) Sts. Simon & Jude, (St. Narcissus of St. Marcellus, martyr (St. Quentin, martyr) in ordinary apostles Jerusalem, bishop) time 28th anniversary of the (Forty Martyrs foundation of the of England and Brotherhood of Blessed Wales) 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 Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard We care in any case November 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 All Saints Commemoration of all St. Martin de Porres, St. Charles Borromeo, Sts. Elizabeth & Zachary All Saints of (St. Willibrord, the faithful departed: religious bishop 27 years Brotherhood of Africa bishop of Utrecht, “All Souls’ Day” Blessed Gérard OSB) acknowledged by the bishop 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 32nd Sunday Dedication of the St. Leo the Great, St. Martin of Tours, St. Josaphat, (St. Frances (St. Nicholas in ordinary time Lateran Basilica pope & doctor bishop bishop & martyr, Xavier Tavelic & (St. Godfrey, bishop (St. Theodore of Studion, Cabrini) companions) Blessed John Duns abbot, OSB) World Diabetes Scotus) World Pneumonia Day Day 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 33rd Sunday St. Margaret of Scotland St. Elizabeth of Dedication of the All Saints of the SMOM (St. Edmund Presentation of the in ordinary time St. Gertrude, virgin Hungary, religious Basilicas of Sts. Peter & (St. Mechthild, virgin, OSB) Rich) Blessed Virgin “Stewardship Sunday” International Day of St. Dionysius of Paul, apostles Universal Mary St. Albert the Great, Tolerance Alexandria, bishop Children’s bishop & doctor Day World Day of the Poor 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Jesus Christ the Sts. Clement I, St. Andrew Dung-Lac, St. Catherine of (St. Silvester, abbot, OSB) (St. James (St. Catherine King pope & martyr, priest & martyr, & Alexandria, virgin & Intercisus) Labouré, virgin) “Bible Sunday” St. Columban, abbot companions, martyr St. Cecilia, martyrs World Day for the virgin & martyr Elimination of Violence against Women 29 30 1st Sunday of Advent St. Andrew, apostle Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard (St. Brendan) P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa Lectionary: Phone +27 82 4924043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Sundays: Cycle B, Weekdays: Year 2 Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard

December 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Blessed Clementine Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Francis St. John Damascene, (St. Sabas, abbot, Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Anuarite, virgin & cause of our joy, Xavier, priest priest & doctor OSB) P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 martyr SMOM International day 12 years Republic of South Africa World AIDS Day of disabled Blessed Gérard’s Phone +27 82 4924043 persons Convent www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 2nd Sunday of Advent St. , Immaculate St. Juan Diego St. Melchiades, St. Damasus I, pope Our Lady of Guadalupe St. Nicholas of Bari, bishop bishop & doctor Conception of the Cuauhtlatoatzin, pope Inkamana Abbey: Anniversary of Myra Blessed Virgin hermit (Our Lady of of the dedication of the Mary International Anti- Loreto) church Corruption Day Human Rights Anniversary: Prefecture Day Apostolic of Zululand elevated to Vicariate Apostolic of Eshowe in 1923 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 3rd Sunday of Advent St. John of the (St. Valerian) (St. Adelaide) (St. Olympias) (St. Rufus) (St. Anastasius I, pope) “Gaudete Sunday” Cross, religious & RSA: Day of 28 years Blessed Gérard’s St. Lucy, virgin & martyr doctor Reconciliation Poor Sick Fund (St. Odilia, virgin, OSB, International Migrants Day patron of the Missionary Benedictines) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 4th Sunday of Advent St. , (St. Flavian) St. John of Kanty, Vigil of The Birth of the Lord St. Stephen, first Blessed Scubilion, priest & doctor priest Christmas “Christmas” martyr religious “Christmas RSA: Day of Goodwill International Human Eve” Boxing Day Solidarity Day 27 28 29 30 31 The Holy Family Holy Innocents, St. , 6th day in the Octave St. Sylvester I, St. John, apostle & martyrs bishop & martyr of Christmas pope evangelist New Year’s Eve Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard

The Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard is ... Pledge to donate The Relief Organisation of the  a "Private Association of Christ's Faithful" Kindly indicate  how you would like to support the needy Order of Malta in South Africa in the Roman (FBO), cared for and looked after by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard:

 the Relief Organisation of the  I want to support the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard as a Order of Malta in South Africa, Donor member through an  annual  quarterly  monthly donation  a (South African) Public Benefit Organisa- of (amount):______(currency) ______. tion (PBO 18/11/13/2769) operated not for profit (NPO). Title (Mr/Mrs/Miss/Dr):______First Names: ______ a group of idealists, resolved to live our Surname or faith according to our motto Company/Society: ______"tuitio fidei et obsequium pauperum", Date of birth: which means (use letters, not figures for the month)______

"Protection of faith and service to the poor". Postal address: ______ an instrument of the Church to serve the ______Lord in the poor and to bring God's love Postal/ZIP Code: ______Town/City: ______

to the needy through our service. State/Province: ______Country: ______We serve the needy irrespective of their creed,  (home) Code ______No. ______colour of skin, sexual orientation  (work) Code ______No. ______and political affiliation. Fax Code ______No. ______We serve an impoverished community. E-mail Address: ______Therefore we render all our services free of charge Homepage URL: http://______and have to rely solely on donations and grants Signed at: ______Date: ______to finance our work. Signature: ______

Please send this form to the:

Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard P O Box 440 P O Box 440 Mandeni 4490 Republic of South Africa Mandeni 4490 Fax +27 86 6938940 May we Republic of South Africa introduce [email protected] See http://bbg.org.za/finance/donation.htm for information about obtaining tax deductible certificates in several countries. www.bbg.org.za ourselves to you? Phone +27 82 4924043 Fax +27 86 6938940 We render a health care service to poor and needy persons, including the care for people living with HIV/AIDS Child Care at the hotspot of the AIDS pandemic in the world, the North Coast of Zululand in South Africa.

Our AIDS treatment (HAART) Programme comprises Hospice & Palliative Care Pre-Primary School & Crèche Voluntary Counsel- We provide residen- ling and HIV-Testing tial Palliative Care We provide "edu-care" (VCT) for terminally ill pa- and an early childhood We offer free and confi- tients in our Inpatient development service for dential HIV Tests to the Unit. underprivileged pre- general public. We can admit up to 40 school children. patients, which makes us the largest inpatient hos- Children's Home pice in South Africa. We look after, counsel We send out mobile and give a home to sick home-nursing teams, and healthy “Orphans and which supplement and Vulnerable Chil- Antiretroviral support the family's dren” (OVCs). Treatment home based care through hands-on-training and We provide free Highly additional aids in the Active Anti-Retroviral home situation of the Treatment (HAART) as respective patient. This includes the assessment of patients at comprehensive medical home and proper medical home care. care including regular Malnutrition Clinic medical examinations, Relief & Social Care We provide a health care blood monitoring, on- service to poor and needy going prevention or treat- Relief Fund persons by running a clin- ment of opportunistic ic, where we examine, We provide poverty relief infections, medical and treat and feed malnour- by helping people in our psychosocial counselling and dispensing of the drugs. ished infants and teach local community in genu- their parent/carer in proper baby care and nutrition. ine cases of immediate Adherence need. Monitoring Bursary Fund

Our Therapeutic Counsel- We provide poverty Poor Sick Fund lors make home visits to relief by giving bursa- our patients on ARV- We provide poverty relief ries to poor pupils and treatment to ensure that by helping sick people students of our local they adhere to the treat- from our local communi- ment and so to prevent community. ty, if they cannot afford treatment failure. This urgently needed medical enables us to discover adverse drug reactions early and to pre- treatment. Thank you!

It is with sincere gratitude that we send you our special calendar for 2020.

The choice of pictures is not a reward for meritorious members, but we have simply chosen the best pictures of 2019.

It is printed in a low volume and given to our generous benefactors as a sign of our sincere appreciation

of your support.

Your assistance means a great deal P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 to us and the people we help. Republic of South Africa

May God bless you abundantly Phone +27 82 492 4043 and reward you for your generosity! [email protected] www.bbg.org.za All pictures were taken by Mrs. Maresi Rehder.