Calendar for the Year 2018 Home Care

Calendar for the year 2018 Home Care

We care in any case January 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mary, Mother of God Sts. Basil the Great & The Most Holy (St. Elizabeth Ann Seton) (St. John Neumann, (St. André RSA: New Year’s Gregory Nazianzen, Name of Jesus 25 years Blessed Gérard’s Relief bishop) Bessette) Lectionary: Day bishops & doctors Fund Sundays: Cycle B, World Day of prayer Weekdays: Year 2 for peace 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Epiphany Baptism of the Lord St. Adrian of Canterbury, (St. Gregory of (Blessed William Carter) (St. Marguerite St. Hilary, bishop of the Lord (St. Severinus) abbot Nyssa, bishop, Anniversary: Vicariate Apostolic Bourgeoys) & doctor St. Raymond of OSB) of Eshowe elevated to the Peñafort, priest Diocese of Eshowe, 1951 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2nd Sunday (Sts. Maurus & (St. Bernard & St. Anthony, abbot (St. Prisca) (St. Canute) St. Fabian, pope in ordinary time Placidus, scholars of companions) World Day of 18 – 25 January: Week of prayer & martyr; (St. Felix of Nola) St. Benedict, OSB) Migrants and for Christian Unity St. Sebastian, Refugees martyr; Blessed Cyprian Michael Tansi, priest 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 3rd Sunday St. Vincent of (St. Marianne Cope & St. St. Francis de Conversion of St. Paul, the Sts. Timothy & Titus, St. Angela Merici, in ordinary time Saragozza, deacon & Vincent, martyr) Sales, bishop & Apostle bishops; virgin St. Agnes, virgin & martyr doctor (St. Robert, Alberich & Holocaust martyr Stephen, Cistercian Memorial Day abbots, OSB) 22 years Blessed Gérard’s Disaster Relief Project 28 29 30 31 4th Sunday (St. Gildas the Wise, (St. Martina, virgin & St. John Bosco, Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard in ordinary time abbot) martyr) priest P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa St. Thomas World Day of Phone +27 82 4924043 Aquinas, priest & Leprosy Fax +27 86 6938940 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] doctor 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 February 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard (St. Brigid of Presentation of St. Blaise, bishop & P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa Ireland) the Lord martyr, Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 World Day for St. Ansgar, bishop www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Consecrated Life (25 years Blessed Gérard’s Bursary Fund) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5th Sunday in St. Agatha, virgin & Sts. Paul Miki, priest & martyr & (St. Moses) St. Josephine (St. Apollonia) St. Scholastica, virgin, ordinary time martyr companions, martyrs: “Twenty-six Bakhita, virgin OSB (St. John de Britto) martyrs of Japan” St. Jerome World Cancer Day Emiliani, priest 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 6th Sunday in (St. Damian) (St. Catherine de Ricci) Ash Wednesday Thursday after Friday after Ash Seven Founders of the ordinary time Sts. Cyril, monk & Ash Wednesday Wednesday Order of Servites, Our Lady of Lourdes Methodius, bishop (St. Faustinus) (St. Juliana of religious (St. Benedict of St. Valentine’s Day Cumae, martyr) Aniane, abbot, OSB) World Day of the Sick 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1st Sunday of Lent (St. Boniface of Dedication of the Conventual Church St. Peter Damian, The Chair of St. St. Polycarp, (St. Sergius) (St. Simeon, bishop & Lausanne) of St. John the Baptist in Malta, bishop & doctor Peter, apostle bishop & martyr martyr) SMOM International World Day of Social Justice Mother Language Day 25 26 27 28 2nd Sunday of Lent St. Alexander of (St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows) (St. Hilary, pope) (St. Ethelbert of Kent) Alexandria, bishop Priory of Inkamana 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

March 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 1 2 3 P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa (St. David of Wales) (St. Agnes of (St. Katherine Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 Bohemia) Drexel) www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3rd Sunday of (St. Kieran, bishop) (St. Colette) Sts. Perpetua & Felicity, St. John of God, St. Frances of Rome, (St. John Lent martyrs religious religious Ogilvie, martyr) St. Casimir of International Poland Women’s Day World Day of Prayer 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 4th Sunday of (St. Seraphina) (Bl. Agnello of (St. Maud) (St. Louise de (St. Herbert) St. Patrick, Lent Abbey of St. Ottilien Pisa) Commonwealth Day Marillac) bishop “Laetare” raised to the rank of an 25 years Blessed (St. Archabbey in 1914 Gérard’s Malnutrition Constantine, Clinic martyr) 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 5th Sunday of St. Joseph, spouse of March Death of St. Benedict, Blessed Clemens St. Turibius de (St. Aldemar) Lent the Blessed Virgin equinox abbot, OSB August von Galen, Mogrovejo, bishop World St. Cyril of Mary RSA: Human Rights Day SMOM Tuberculosis Jerusalem, International Day for the St. Deogratias, Day bishop & Elimination of Racial bishop doctor Discrimination World Water Day 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Palm Sunday Monday of Holy Week Tuesday of Wednesday of Holy Week Holy Thursday Good Friday Easter Vigil Holy Week (St. Venturino of Bergamo) (St. Jonas & (St. John Climacus, (St. Benjamin, St. John of Barachisius, abbot) martyr) Egypt, hermit martyrs) 19 years Blessed Gérard’s First Aid & 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 Blessed Gérard‘s Pre-Primary School & Crèche April 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Easter Sunday Monday in the Tuesday in the Wednesday in the Thursday in Friday in the Octave of Easter Saturday in the St. Nonius Alvarez Pereira, Octave of Easter Octave of Easter Octave of Easter the Octave of (St. Celestino I, pope Octave of prior, SMOM St. Francis of Paola, (St. Richard of St. Isidore, bishop & Easter St. Peter of Verona) Easter 14 years Blessed Gérard’s hermit Wyche) doctor St. Vincent 12th anniversary of Clare Kalkwarf’s St. John Baptist de Hospice HAART Programme St. Benedict ‘the Ferrer, death la Salle, priest Black’, religious priest World Health Day 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2nd Sunday of Easter (St. Mary of (St. Michael de St. Stanislaus, St. Zeno of St. Martin I, (St. Maximus, “Divine Mercy Sunday” (St. Cleophas) Sanctis) bishop & martyr Verona, bishop pope & martyr martyr) Walter of Pontnoise, abbot) 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 3rd Sunday of Easter (St. Bernadette World Day of Prayer (Blessed Marie- (Leo IX, pope) St. Marcellinus, bishop St. Anselm, (St. Hunna) Soubirous, for Vocations Anne Blondin) Sts. Vincent & Dominicus, bishop & doctor religious) RSA: Family Day missionaries 25 years Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard acknowledged as Relief Organisation of the Order of Malta 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4th Sunday of Easter St. George, martyr St. Fidelis of St. Mark, evangelist (St. Cletus) (St. Zita) St. Peter Chanel, (St. Alexander, (St. Adalbert, Sigmaringen, priest RSA: Freedom Day priest & martyr, martyr) bishop, missionary & martyr St. Louis Mary & martyr, OSB) Grignion de Montfort, priest, St. Pius V., pope 29 30 Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 5th Sunday of Easter Our Lady, Mother P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa St. Catherine of Siena, of Africa Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] virgin & doctor 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

May 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 St. Joseph the St. Athanasius, Sts. Philip & (Blessed Martyrs of (St. Asaph, worker bishop & doctor James, apostles England and Wales) bishop) RSA: Workers’ Day 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 6th Sunday of (St. John of Beverley, (St. George Preca) (St. Damien de (Sts. Odo, Majolus, Sts. Nereus & Easter bishop) Veuster of Odilo, Hugo & Petrus Achilleus, (St. Dominic Moloka’i) the venerable, abbots of martyrs; Savio) Cluny, OSB) St. Pancras, martyr International Nurses Day 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 7th Sunday of St. Matthias, apostle (St. Dymphna) (St. Brendan, (St. Paschal St. John I, pope & (St. Celestin, Easter RSA: Mothers’ Day World Day of abbot) Baylon) martyr pope & hermit, Our Lady of Fatima Prayer for Blessed Gerard Mecatti OSB) World Vocations, of Villamagna, Communications International religious, SMOM Day Day of Families 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Pentecost St. Christopher St. Rita of Blessed William The Blessed St. Bede the Venerable, St. Philip Neri, Sunday Magallanes, priest & Cascia, religious Apor, bishop & Virgin Mary, Help priest & doctor; priest St. Bernardine of companions, martyrs martyr, SMOM for Christians St. Gregory VII, pope; Siena, priest World Day for Cultural 24 years Blessed St. Mary Magdalene de Diversity for Dialogue Gérard’s AIDS Pazzi, virgin and Development Education Programme 27 28 29 30 31 Brotherhood Trinity Sunday St. Ubaldesca, virgin, Blessed Joseph (St. Joan of Arc) Visitation of the of Blessed Gérard St. Augustine of SMOM Gerard OMI, Blessed Virgin Canterbury, priest Mary P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 bishop World No- Republic of South Africa Tobacco Day Phone +27 82 4924043 Fax +27 86 6938940 www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] 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 A Social Worker making a home visit June 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 1 2 P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa St. Justin, martyr Sts. Marcellinus Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 International Children’s Day & Peter, martyrs www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 “Corpus Christi” (St. Quirinus of St. Boniface, bishop & St. Norbert, bishop (St. Robert, abbot) The Most Sacred Heart of Immaculate Heart Sts. Charles Siscia, bishop) martyr Anniversary: Bishop Jesus, Patronal feast of the of Mary Lwanga & World Environment Kumalo ordained Diocese of Eshowe & the St. Ephrem of companions, Day bishop in 2008 Missionary Benedictines Syria, deacon & martyrs Blessed James Berthieu, martyr doctor 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 10th Sunday in St. Barnabas, St. Flora of Beaulieu, St. Anthony of Padua, (St. Valerius) (Sts. Vitus & Modestus, martyrs) (St. Aurelian) ordinary time apostle virgin, SMOM priest & doctor, Patron RSA: Youth Day (St. Ithamar) St. Onophrius, hermit of Mandeni Parish 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 11th Sunday in (St. Gregory St. Romuald, abbot (Sts. Alban, Aaron & St. Aloysius Sts. Paulinus of Nola, bishop (St. Joseph ordinary time Barbagio, Blessed Gerland, Julius) Gonzaga, religious John Fisher, bishop & martyr Cafasso) (St. Paschal bishop) religious, SMOM World Refugee Day June solstice Thomas Moore, martyr Baylon) RSA: Fathers’ Day 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Birth of St. John (St. William of (St. Anthelm) St. Cyril of Alexandria, St. Irenaeus, Sts. Peter & Paul, apostles First Martyrs of the Baptist, Vercelli, abbot) International Day bishop & doctor bishop & martyr the Holy Roman patron, SMOM Against Drug Abuse Church and Illicit Trafficking 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 July 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 13th Sunday in (St. Oliver Plunkett) St. Thomas, St. Elizabeth of St. Anthony M. Zaccaria, St. Maria Goretti, (St. Willibald ordinary time apostle Portugal priest virgin & martyr St. Palladius, St. Nicasius, martyr, bishop) SMOM 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14th Sunday in St. Augustine Zhao Rong, (Bl. Emmanuel St. Benedict, Blessed David Gunston, St. Henry St. Camillus de ordinary time priest & companions, Ruiz) abbot, OSB martyr, SMOM Lellis, priest Blessed Adrian martyrs World Population (St. Johannes Gualbert, St. Toscana, Fortescue, martyr, SMOM (Mary Queen of Peace) Day abbot, OSB) religious, SMOM 18 years Blessed Gérard’s Children’s Home 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 15th Sunday in Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Carmelite Nuns (St. Camillus de (Sts. Justa & Rufina, St. Apollinaris, St. Lawrence of ordinary time of Compiegne) Lellis) martyrs) bishop & martyr Brindisi, priest & St. Bonaventure, bishop & RSA: Nelson doctor doctor Mandela Day 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 16th Sunday in St. Bridget of Sweden, St. Sharbel St. James, St. Joachim & Anne, (St. Theobald) St. Victor I, pope & ordinary time religious Makhluf, priest apostle parents of the Blessed martyr St. Mary Magdalene Virgin Mary 29 30 31 17th Sunday in St. Peter Chrysologus, St. Ignatius of Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta ordinary time bishop & doctor Loyola, priest and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints Sts. Martha, Maria & St. Justin de Jacobis, brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Lazarus, friends of Jesus, bishop OSB

We care Inpatient Care in any case „Tender loving care“ as it should be August 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard St. Alphonsus Mary de St. Eusebius of Vercelli, (St. Waltheof, St. John Vianney, P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa Liguori, bishop & bishop, St. Peter Julian abbot) priest Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 doctor Eymard, priest, (Our Lady www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] od the Angels)

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 18th Sunday in Transfiguration of Sts. Sixtus II, pope St. Dominic, priest St. Teresa Benedicta of the St. Lawrence, St. Clare of Assisi, ordinary time the Lord & martyr & Cross (Edith Stein), virgin & deacon & martyr virgin Dedication of the Basilica companions, martyr of St. Mary Major martyrs RSA:National Women’s St. Cajetan, priest Day International Day of the World’s Indigenous People 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19th Sunday in St. Pontian, pope & St. Maximilian Mary Assumption of the St. Stephan of Hungary (St. Hyacinth) Blessed Victoria ordinary time martyr Kolbe, priest & Blessed Virgin Mary Rasoamanarivo St. Jane Frances de St. Hippolytus, priest & martyr Chantal, religious, martyr Blessed Isidore Bakanja, martyr International Youth Day 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 20th Sunday in St. Bernard, abbot & St. Pius X, pope Queenship of the St. Rose of Lima, St. St. Louis of ordinary time doctor Blessed Virgin Mary virgin Bartholomew, France, St. John Eudes priest, apostle St. Joseph (St. Bernard Toloméi, Calasanz, abbot, OSB) priest 26 27 28 29 30 31 21st Sunday in St. Monica St. Augustine, Beheading of St. John Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso (St. Aidan of ordinary time Anniversary: bishop & doctor the Baptist, martyr, Schuster O.S.B, SMOM Lindisfarne, (Our Lady of Prefecture Apostolic of patron of the SMOM Blessed Ghebre Michael, bishop) Czestochowa) Zululand erected in priest & martyr World Day of Migrants 1921 and Refugees 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

September 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard (St. Giles, abbot) P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa 24 years Blessed Gérard’s Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Pre-Primary School & Crèche 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 22nd Sunday in St. Gregory the Great, (St. Rosalia) (St. Mother (St. Faustus) (St. Cloud) Birthday of the Blessed ordinary time pope & doctor, Death of Teresa of Virgin Mary, Our Lady (St. William of Blessed Gérard (+1120), Calcutta) of Philerme, SMOM Roskilde) 22 years Blessed Gérard’s Care Centre & Hospice 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 23rd Sunday in (St. Nicholas of (St. Most Holy Name St. John Chrysostom, bishop & Triumph Our Lady of Sorrows ordinary time Tolentino) Paphnutius) of Mary doctor of the Holy Cross St. Peter Claver, priest World First Aid Day 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 24th Sunday in St. Robert Bellarmine, (St. Joseph of St. Januarius, St. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, priest & St. Matthew, St. Maurice and the ordinary time bishop & doctor Cupertino) bishop & martyr martyr, Sts. Paul Chŏng Ha-sang & apostle & Theban Legion, martyrs St. Cornelius, pope & (St. Hildegard, virgin & companions, martyrs: “Korean evangelist September equinox martyr abbess, OSB) Martyrs” International Day St. Cyprian, bishop & of Peace martyr 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 25th Sunday in St. Stephanie, martyr (St. Finbar) Sts. Cosmas & St. Vincent de Paul, St. Wenceslaus & Sts. Michael, Gabriel & ordinary time (Our Lady of Ransom) Damian, martyrs priest companions, Raphael, archangels St. Zachary & RSA: Heritage Day Blessed Paul VI, martyrs, Elizabeth, parents of pope St. Laurence Ruiz St. John the Baptist, & companions, (SMOM) martyrs St. Pio of Pietrelcina, religious 30 26th Sunday in Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta ordinary time and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard St. Jerome, priest & doctor

October 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 St. Thérèse of the Holy Guardian (St. Gérard of Brogne) St. Francis of Blessed Peter Pattarini of St. Bruno, abbot Child Jesus (of Angels World Habitat Day Assisi, religious Imola, prior, SMOM Lisieux), virgin & doctor International Day of Older Persons 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 27th Sunday in St. Hugh, religious, Sts. Denis, bishop & St. Daniel Comboni, St. John XXIII, (St. Wilfred) Blessed Gérard, ordinary time SMOM martyr & bishop & founder of the pope, SMOM International Day for Natural founder of the Our Lady of the Rosary companions, Comboni Missionaries World Hospice Disaster Reduction SMOM, patron of martyrs, World Mental Health Day & Palliative Care the BBG St. John Leonardi, Day priest 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 28th Sunday in St. Teresa of Jesus St. Hedwig, religious St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Luke, Sts. John Brébeuf & Isaac Blessed Daudi Okelo ordinary time (of Avila), virgin & St. Margaret Mary bishop & martyr evangelist Jogues, priests & martyrs & & Jildro Irwa, martyrs St. Callistus I, doctor Alacoque, virgin International Day for the companions, martyrs “North pope & martyr World Food Day Eradication of Poverty American Martyrs” St. Paul of the Cross, priest 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29th Sunday in (St. John Paul II, St. John of St. Anthony Mary Claret, (Forty Martyrs of (St. Alfred the Great) (St. Otteran) ordinary time pope) Capistrano, priest bishop England and Blessed Charles of United Nations Day Wales) Austria, SMOM 28 29 30 31 30th Sunday in (St. Narcissus of St. Marcellus, martyr (St. Quentin, martyr) ordinary time Jerusalem, bishop) “World Mission Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Sunday” P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa Sts. Simon & Jude, Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 apostles, www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] 26th anniversary of the foundation of the 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 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 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 1 2 3 P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa All Saints Commemoration of all St. Martin de Porres, Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 the faithful departed: religious www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] “All Souls’ Day” 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 31st Sunday in Sts. Elizabeth & Zachary All Saints of (St. Willibrord, (St. Godfrey, bishop Dedication of the St. Leo the Great, ordinary time 26 years Brotherhood of Africa bishop of Utrecht, Blessed John Duns Lateran Basilica pope & doctor St. Charles Borromeo, Blessed Gérard OSB) Scotus) bishop acknowledged by the bishop 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 32nd Sunday in St. Josaphat, bishop & (St. Frances (St. Nicholas St. Albert the Great, St. Margaret of Scotland St. Elizabeth of ordinary time martyr, Xavier Tavelic & bishop & doctor St. Gertrude, virgin Hungary, religious St. Martin of Tours, (St. Theodore of Studion, Cabrini) companions) International Day of St. Dionysius of bishop abbot, OSB) World Diabetes Day Tolerance Alexandria, bishop World Pneumonia Day 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 33rd Sunday in All Saints of the SMOM (St. Edmund Presentation of the St. Cecilia, virgin & Sts. Clement I, pope & St. Andrew Dung-Lac, ordinary time (St. Mechthild, virgin, Rich) Blessed Virgin Mary martyr martyr, priest & martyr, & “Stewardship Sunday” OSB) Universal St. Columban, abbot companions, Dedication of the Children’s martyrs Basilicas of Sts. Peter Day & Paul, apostles 25 26 27 28 29 30 Jesus Christ the King (St. Silvester, abbot, OSB) (St. James (St. Catherine (St. Brendan) St. Andrew, apostle “Bible Sunday” Intercisus) Labouré, virgin) St. Catherine of Alexandria, virgin & martyr World Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 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 December 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 1 Blessed Clementine P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa Anuarite, virgin & Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 martyr www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] World AIDS Day From 2 December 2018: Lectionary: Sundays: Cycle C, Weekdays: Year 1 3 5 2 (St. Sabas, abbot, OSB) 8 St. Francis 1st Sunday of Advent 4 10 years 6 7 Immaculate Xavier, priest Blessed Virgin Mary, St. John Damascene, priest & Blessed Gérard’s Convent St. Nicholas of Bari, St. Ambrose, Conception of the International day cause of our joy, doctor International Volunteer bishop of Myra bishop & doctor Blessed Virgin of disabled SMOM Day for Economic and Mary persons Social Development 9 10 11 St. Damasus I, pope 13 2nd Sunday of Advent St. Melchiades, Inkamana Abbey: Anniversary St. Lucy, virgin & martyr 14 St. Juan Diego pope of the dedication of the church 12 (St. Odilia, virgin, OSB, St. John of the 15 Cuauhtlatoatzin, (Our Lady of Anniversary: Prefecture Our Lady of Guadalupe patron of the Cross, religious (St. Valerian) hermit Loreto) Apostolic of Zululand elevated Missionary & doctor International Anti- Human Rights to Vicariate Apostolic of Benedictines) Corruption Day Day Eshowe in 1923 16 18 20 21 3rd Sunday of Advent St. Peter (St. Rufus) Blessed Scubilion, “Gaudete Sunday” 17 19 Canisius, priest 22 26 years Blessed Gérard’s Poor religious (St. Adelaide) (St. Olympias) (St. Anastasius I, pope) & doctor (St. Flavian) Sick Fund International Human RSA: Day of December Solidarity Day Reconciliation International Migrants Day solstice 24 26 29 23 5th day in the Vigil of 25 St. Stephen, first 27 28 4th Sunday of Advent octave of Christmas The Birth of the Lord martyr St. John, apostle & Holy Innocents, St. John of Kanty, Christmas “Christmas “Christmas” RSA: Day of Goodwill evangelist martyrs priest St. Thomas Becket, Eve” Boxing Day bishop & martyr 31 Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, 30 the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta St. Sylvester I, The Holy Family and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints pope

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Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard P O Box 440 May we P O Box 440 Mandeni 4490 Republic of South Africa Mandeni 4490 introduce Fax +27 86 6938940 Republic of South Africa ourselves [email protected] See http://bbg.org.za/finance/donation.htm for information about obtaining tax deductible certificates in several countries. www.bbg.org.za 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 Counselling and HIV-Testing (VCT) We provide residential Palliative We provide "edu-care" and an early We offer free and confidential HIV Tests to the general public. Care for terminally ill patients in our childhood development service for underprivileged pre-school children. HAART Readiness Courses Inpatient Unit. We can admit up to 40 patients, which makes Before starting patients on the medication Children's Home we ensure that they get sufficient infor- us the largest inpatient hospice in South Africa. mation to give their informed consent We look after, counsel and give a and to understand that antiretroviral home to sick and healthy “Orphans We send out mobile home-nursing teams, treatment is of vital importance for them. and Vulnerable Children” (OVCs). which supplement and support the family's Antiretroviral Treatment home based care through hands-on- training and additional aids in the home We provide free Highly Active Anti- Retroviral Treatment (HAART) as com- situation of the respective patient. This prehensive medical care including regular includes the assessment of patients at medical examinations, blood monitor- home and proper medical home care. ing, on-going prevention or treatment of opportunistic infections, medical and psychosocial counselling and dispensing Poor Sick Fund of the drugs. We provide poverty relief by helping Adherence Monitoring sick people from our local community, if they cannot afford urgently Our Therapeutic Counsellors make home needed medical treatment. visits to our patients on ARV-treatment to ensure that they adhere to the treatment and so to prevent treatment failure. This Relief & Social Care Malnutrition Clinic enables us to discover adverse drug reac- tions early and to prevent problems. Relief Fund We provide a health care service to poor and needy persons by running We provide poverty relief by helping peo- Support Groups a clinic, where we examine, treat ple in our local community in genuine We have several Support Groups and feed malnourished infants and cases of immediate need. where our HAART Patients meet teach their parent/carer in proper voluntarily to encourage and support First Aid & Emergency Service baby care and nutrition. one another and prevent isolation. We provide First Aid Bursary Fund Motivation and Income Generation at church and other events. Our Therapeutic Counsellors motivate and en- We provide poverty relief by Disaster Relief courage our HAART patients to engage in in- giving bursaries to poor pupils come generating activities instead of expecting We provide disaster relief being ready to give and students of our local com- that their families or society would have to medical assistance and care as a relief organi- munity. provide for them because they are sick. sation in case of a disaster. Thank you!

It is with sincere gratitude that we send you our special calendar for 2018.

The choice of pictures is not a reward for meritorious members, but we have simply chosen the best pictures of 2017.

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 and reward you for your generosity! Phone +27 82 492 4043 Fax +27 86 693 8940

[email protected] The April picture in this calendar was taken by Father Gérard, www.bbg.org.za and all other pictures by Mrs. Maresi Rehder.