Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard

Liturgical Calendar - January 2003

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Lectionary: Solemnity of Mary, Ss. Basil the Great & The Most Holy St. Elizabeth Sundays Cycle B Mother of God Gregory Nazianzen, Name of Jesus Ann Seton, Weekdays Year 1 RSA: New Year’s Day bishops & doctors religious 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Epiphany of the Lord St. Raymond of St. Severin St. Gregor of St. John Neumann, bishop Peñafort, priest Nyssa, bishop, OSB 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Baptism of the Lord St. Hilary, St. Maurus & Placidus, St. Anthony, bishop & doctor scholars of St. Benedict, abbot OSB 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2nd Sunday in ordinary time St. Fabian, & St. Agnes, & St. Vincent, deacon & St. Francis de Conversion of martyr & St. martyr martyr Sales, bishop & St. Paul, apostle Sebastian, martyr doctor 26 27 28 29 30 31 3rd Sunday in ordinary time St. Angela Merici, St. Thomas St. John Bosco, St. Timothy & Titus, bishops virgin Aquinas, priest & priest & St. Robert, Alberich & doctor Stephen, Cistercian abbots, OSB

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Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Republic of South Africa Phone +27 32 456 2743 Fax +27 32 456 7962 Donation of clothing, food and household goods to a URL http://bbg.org.za/ family, who lost everything when their hut burnt down.. E-Mail [email protected]

1 January 2003: 8 years Blessed Gérard's Pre-Primary School and Crèche · 26 January 2003: 7 years Blessed Gérard’s Disaster Relief Project

Liturgical Calendar - February 2003

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Presentation of St. Ansgar, bishop & St. Agatha, Ss. Paul Miki, priest & martyr & St. Emiliani, priest the Lord St. Blaise, virgin & martyr companions, martyrs & St. Josephine Bakhita, bishop & martyr virgin 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 5th Sunday in St. Scholastica, WORLD DAY OF Ss. Cyril, monk & ordinary time virgin, OSB THE SICK Methodius, bishop Our Lady of St. Benedict of Aniane, abbot, OSB 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 6th Sunday in Seven Founders of Dedication of the Conventual St. , Chair of St. Peter, apostle ordinary time the Order of Servites Church of St. in bishop & doctor Malta, SMOM

23 24 25 26 27 28 7th Sunday in ordinary time St. , bishop & martyr

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Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 3 February 2003: Republic of South Africa Phone +27 32 456 2743 10 years Fax +27 32 456 7962 URL http://bbg.org.za/ Blessed Gérard's Bursary Fund E-Mail [email protected]

Liturgical Calendar - March 2003

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8th Sunday in ordinary St. Casimir Ash Wednesday Ss. Perpetua & Felicity, St. John of God, time martyrs religious 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 1st Sunday of Lent St. Frances of , religious 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2nd Sunday of Lent St. Patrick, St. , St. , husband of Death of St. Benedict, bishop bishop & doctor Mary abbot, OSB RSA: Human Rights Day 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 3rd Sunday of Lent Annunciation of the Lord Holy Thursday Good Friday St. Turibius of Mogrovejo, bishop 30 31 4th Sunday of Lent

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15 March 2003: 10 years Blessed Gérard’s Malnutrition Clinic

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30 March 2003: 4 years Blessed Gérard's First Aid and Emergency Service

Liturgical Calendar - April 2003

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Blessed Nonius St. Franis of Paola, hermit St. Isidore, St. Vincent Alvarez Pereira, prior, bishop & doctor Ferrer, priest SMOM 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 5th Sunday of St. John Baptist de la Salle, priest St. Stanislaus, Lent bishop & martyr 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Palm Sunday Holy Thursday Good Friday Holy Saturday St. Martin I, pope & martyr 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Easter Sunday Easter Monday Easter Tuesday Easter Wednesday Easter Thursday Easter Friday Easter Saturday St. Anselm, bishop & doctor St. Adalbert, bishop, St. Fidelis of St. Mark, RSA: Family Day missionary & martyr, Sigmaringen, evangelist OSB; priest & martyr St. George, martyr 27 28 29 30 2nd Sunday of St. , priest & martyr; St. St. , St. Pius V, pope Easter Louis Grignion de Montford, priest, virgin & doctor RSA: Freedom Day (transferred from Sunday)

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20 April 1993: The Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard is acknowledged by the Sovereign Council of the Order of Malta in Rome as a Relief Organisation of the Order

Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Republic of South Africa Phone +27 32 456 2743 Fax +27 32 456 7962 URL http://bbg.org.za/ E-Mail [email protected] Audience with the Prince and Grandmaster of the Order of Malta, His Most Eminent Highness Frà Andrew Bertie

Liturgical Calendar - May 2003

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 St. Joseph the St. Athanasius, Ss. Philip & James, worker bishop & doctor apostles RSA: Workers’ Day 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3rd Sunday of Easter Blessed Damian Joseph de Veuster of Molokai, priest 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 4th Sunday of Easter Ss. Nereus & Our Lady of St. Matthias, apostle St. Isidore the Ss. Odo, Majolus, Odilo, Achilleus, martyrs; St. Fatima farmer Hugo & Petrus , Pancras, martyr abbots of Cluny, OSB 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 5th Sunday of Easter St. Caelestin, pope & St. Bernardine of St. Christopher Magallanes, St. Rita of Cascia, Blessed Gerard Mecatti of hermit, OSB Siena, priest priest & companions, religious Villamagna, religious, (7th week in martyrs SMOM; ordinary time) St. John I, pope & martyr 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 6th Sunday of Easter St. Philipp Neri, priest St. Augustine of St. Ubaldesca, virgin, Ascension of the Visitation of the Ss. the Venerable, Canterbury, bishop SMOM Lord Blessed Virgin Mary priest & doctor; Gregory VII, Blessed Joseph pope; de Gerard, priest Pazzi, virgin

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23 May 2003: 8 years Blessed Gérard’s AIDS Education Programme

Liturgical Calendar - June 2003

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7th Sunday of Easter Ss. Marcellinus & Peter, Ss. Charles Lwanga St. Boniface, bishop St. Norbert, bishop St. Justin, martyr martyrs & companions, & martyr martyrs 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pentecost St. Ephrem, deacon & St. , St. Flora of St. , doctor, (10th week in apostle Beaulieu, virgin, priest & doctor, patron ordinary time) SMOM of Mandeni Parish 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Trinity Sunday (11th week in ordinary Blessed Gerland, St. Aloysius time) religious, SMOM; Gonzaga, religious RSA: Youth Day St. Romuald, abbot 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Most Holy Body and Birth of St. John the Most Sacred Heart of Immaculate Heart Blood of Christ Baptist, patron, Jesus (Patronal feast of of Mary Ss. Paulinus of Nola, SMOM the Diocese of Eshowe) St. , bishop; , bishop St. , bishop & martyr & martyr; Thomas Moore, bishop & doctor martyr 29 30 Ss. Peter & Paul, apostles First martyrs of the Church of Rome, (13th week in ordinary time)

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Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Republic of South Africa Phone +27 32 456 2743 Fax +27 32 456 7962 Bridal outfits designed and sewn URL http://bbg.org.za/ in the advanced course E-Mail [email protected] at our Sewing School

Liturgical Calendar - July 2003

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 St. Nicasius, martyr, St. Thomas, St. Elizabeth of St. Anthony Zaccaria, priest SMOM & Blessed apostle Junípero Serra, priest 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14th Sunday in Blessed Adrian St. Augustine Zhao Rong, St. Benedict, Blessed Gunston, ordinary time Fortescue, martyr. priest & companions, abbot, OSB martyr, SMOM; St. St. , SMOM martyrs Johannes Gualbert, abbot, virgin & martyr OSB 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 15th Sunday in St. Toscana, religious, St. Bonaventrure, bishop Our Lady of Mount Carmel St. Camillus de ordinary time SMOM; St. Camillus de & doctor Lellis, priest St. Henry Lellis, priest 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 16th Sunday in St. Lawrence of St. Mary Magdalene St. Bridget of Sweden, St. Charbel St. James, St. Joachim & Anne, parents ordinary time Brinsisi, priest & doctor religious Makhluf, priest apostle of Mary 27 28 29 30 31 17th Sunday in Ss. Martha, Maria & St. , St. Ignatius of ordinary time Lazarus, friends of bishop & doctor Loyola, priest Jesus, OSB

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9 July 2000: Clare Kalkwarf, the Vice-President of the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard, is invested as a dame of the Order of Malta

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Liturgical Calendar - August 2003

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 St. Alphonsus St. Eusebius of Vercelli, Liguori, bishop & bishop & St. Peter doctor Julian Eymard, priest 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 18th Sunday in St.John Vianney, Dedication of St. Transfiguration of the Ss. Sixtus II, pope & St. Dominic, priest St. Teresa Benedicta of ordinary time priest Mary Major Lord martyr & companions, the Cross (), martyrs & Cajetan, priest virgin & martyr RSA: National Women’s Day 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 19th Sunday in St. Clare, virgin St. Jane Frances de St. Pontian, pope & martyr St. Maximilian Mary St. Stephan of Hungary ordinary time Chantal, religious & Hippolytus, priest & Kolbe, priest & martyr St. Lawrence, martyr deacon & martyr 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Assumption of the (20th week in St. Bernard Toloméi, St. Bernard, abbot & St. Pius X, pope Queenship of Mary St. , virgin Blessed Virgin ordinary time) abbot, OSB; St. John doctor Mary Eudes, priest 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 21st Sunday in St. Louis & St. Monica St. Augustine, bishop & Beheading of St. ordinary time Joseph Calasanz, doctor John the Baptist, St. Bartholomew, priest martyr & patron of apostle the SMOM 31 22nd Sunday in ordinary time Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict and the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta, designed and printed for you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 26 August – 4 September 2002: Father Gérard, the President of the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard, represents the Order of Malta at the United Nation’s World Summit on Sustainable Development

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Liturgical Calendar - September 2003

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Death of Blessed Gérard (+1120) & St. Gregory the Great, pope & doctor 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 23rd Sunday in Birthday of the St. , priest Most Holy St. , ordinary time Blessed Virgin Mary, Name of Mary bishop & doctor Our Lady of Philerme, SMOM 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Triumph of the Holy Our Lady of Sorrows Ss. Cornelius, pope & St. Hildegard, virgin & St. Januarius, Ss. Andrew Kim Taegon, Cross martyr & , abbess, OSB; St. Robert bishop & priest & martyr; Paul bishop & martyr Bellarmine, bishop & doctor martyr Chong Hasang & campanions, martyrs 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 25th Sunday in St. Zachary & RSA: Heritage Day Ss. Cosmas & St. Vincent de Paul, priest ordinary time Elizabeth, parents of Damian, St. Mathew, apostle St. John the Baptist, martyrs & evangelist (SMOM) St. Pio of Pietrelcina 28 29 30 26th Sunday in Ss. , St. Jerome, priest & ordinary time & , doctor St. Wenceslaus, martyr; St. Laurence Ruiz & campanions, martyrs Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict and the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta, designed and printed for you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 14 – 30 September 2000: Two medical teams of the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard render First Aid duties in the Vatican’s Basilicas in Rome in the Holy Year

Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Republic of South Africa Phone +27 32 456 2743 Fax +27 32 456 7962 URL http://bbg.org.za/ E-Mail [email protected] Outside the First Aid Station at St. Peter’s Basilica

3 September 2003: 7 years Blessed Gérard’s Care Centre Liturgical Calendar - October 2003

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 St. Theresa of the Child Guardian Angels St. Francis of Jesus, virgin & doctor Assisi, religious 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 27th Sunday in ordinbary St. Bruno, priest Our Lady of the St. Hugh, religious, Ss. Denis, bishop & martyr time Rosary SMOM & companions, martyrs & Blessed Peter Pattarini of John Leonardi, priest Imola, prior, SMOM 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 28th Sunday in ordinary Blessed Gérard, St. Callistus I, pope St. Theresa of Avila, St. Hedwig, religious & St. Ignatius of St. Luke, time founder of the & martyr virgin & doctor Margaret Mary Alacoque, Antioch, bishop evangelist SMOM, patron of virgin & martyr the BBG 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 29th Sunday in ordinary St. John of Capistrano, St. Anthony time priest Claret, bishop Ss. Jogues & John Brébeuf, priests & martyrs & companions, martyrs & Paul of the Cross, priest 26 27 28 29 30 31 30th Sunday in ordinary Ss. Simon & Jude, time apostles 11th anniversary of the foundation of the BBG

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Liturgical Calendar - November 2003

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 All Commemoration of the St. Charles Borromeo, St. Willibrord, faithful departed: All bishop (31st week in bishop, OSB Souls & St. Martin de ordinary time) Porres, religious 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Dedication of the St. Leo the Great, pope & St. Martin of Tours, St. Josaphat, bishop & St. Frances Xavier St. Albert the Lateran Basilica doctor bishop martyr & St. Theodor of Cabrini, virgin Great, bishop & Studion, abbot, OSB doctor 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 33rd Sunday in St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Dedication of the All Saints of the SMOM & Presentation of St. Cecilia, virgin ordinary time religious Churches of St. Peter & St. Mechthild, virgin, OSB the Blessed & martyr St. Margaret of Scotland Paul, apostles & St. Rose Virgin Mary & Gertrude, virgin Philippine Duchesne, virgin 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Jesus Christ the King Ss. Andrew Dung-Lac & St. Catherine of St. Silvester, abbot, OSB Ss. Clement I, pope & companions, martyrs Alexandria, virgin & martyr & Columban, martyr abbot & Blessed Miguel Augustine Pro, priest & martyr

30 Lectionary: 1st Sunday of Advent Sundays Cycle C St. Andrew, apostle starts from Advent

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Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Republic of South Africa Phone +27 32 456 2743 Fax +27 32 456 7962 URL http://bbg.org.za/ E-Mail [email protected] The founder members with Bishop Mansuet Dela Biyase

Liturgical Calendar – December 2003

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 St. Pachomius, abbot, Blessed Virgin Mary, St. , St. John Damascene, St. Sabas, abbot, OSB St. Nicholas, bishop OSB cause of our joy, priest priest & doctor Lectionary: (1st week of Advent) SMOM Sundays Cycle C WORLD AIDS DAY 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 2nd Sunday of Immaculate St. Damasus I, pope St. Jane Frances de St. Odilia, virgin, Advent Conception of Our Chantal, religious & OSB, patron of the St. , bishop Lady Our Lady of Missionary & doctor Guadelupe & St. Lucy, virgin & martyr 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 3rd Sunday of RSA: Day of Advent Reconciliation St. , religious & doctor 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 4th Sunday of Advent St. John of Kanty, Christmas St. Stephen, first St. John, apostle & St. , priest martyr evangelist priest & doctor RSA: Day of Goodwill 28 29 30 31 Holy Family St. , 6th day in the octave 7th day in the octave Holy Innocents, bishop & martyr of Christmas of Christmas martyrs St. Sylvester I, pope

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18 December 2003: 11 years Blessed Gérard’s Poor Sick Fund

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