Calendar for the Year 2017 Inpatient Care „Tender Loving Care“ As It Should Be

Calendar for the year 2017 Inpatient Care „Tender loving care“ as it should be

We care in any case January 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mary, Mother of God Sts. Basil the Great & The Most Holy (St. Elizabeth Ann Seton) (St. John Neumann, (St. André St. Raymond of RSA: New Year’s Gregory Nazianzen, Name of Jesus 24 years Blessed Gérard’s Relief bishop) Bessette) Peñafort, priest Day bishops & doctors Fund World Day of prayer RSA: Public holiday for peace 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Epiphany of the Lord Baptism of the Lord (St. Gregory of (Blessed William Carter) (St. Marguerite St. Hilary, bishop (St. Felix of (St. Severinus) St. Adrian of Canterbury, Nyssa, bishop, Anniversary: Vicariate Apostolic Bourgeoys) & doctor Nola) abbot OSB) of Eshowe elevated to the (St. Julian, martyr) Diocese of Eshowe, 1951 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 2nd Sunday in (St. Bernard & St. Anthony, (St. Prisca) (St. Canute) St. Fabian, pope St. Agnes, virgin ordinary time companions) abbot 18 – 25 January: Week of & martyr; & martyr (Sts. Maurus & World Day of prayer for Christian Unity St. Sebastian, Placidus, scholars of Migrants and martyr; St. Benedict, OSB) Refugees Blessed Cyprian (St. Isidore of Michael Tansi, Alexandria) priest 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3rd Sunday in (St. Marianne Cope & St. St. Francis de Conversion of St. Paul, the Sts. Timothy & Titus, St. Angela St. Thomas ordinary time Vincent, martyr) Sales, bishop & Apostle bishops; Merici, virgin Aquinas, priest & St. Vincent of doctor (St. Robert, Alberich & Holocaust doctor Saragozza, deacon & Stephen, Cistercian Memorial Day martyr abbots, OSB) 21 years Blessed Gérard’s Disaster Relief Project 29 30 31 Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard th 4 Sunday in (St. Martina, virgin & St. John Bosco, P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa ordinary time martyr) priest Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] (St. Gildas the Wise, World Day of abbot) Leprosy Lectionary: Sundays: Cycle A, Weekdays: Year 1

Caring without borders February 2016 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 (St. Brigid of Presentation of St. Blaise, bishop & (St. John de Britto) Ireland) the Lord martyr, World Cancer Day World Day for St. Ansgar, bishop Consecrated Life (24 years Blessed Gérard’s Bursary Fund) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 5th Sunday in Sts. Paul Miki, priest & martyr & (St. Moses) St. Josephine (St. Apollonia) St. Scholastica, virgin, Our Lady of Lourdes ordinary time companions, martyrs: “Twentiy-six Bakhita, virgin OSB (St. Benedict of St. Agatha, virgin & martyrs of Japan” St. Jerome Aniane, abbot, OSB) martyr Emiliani, priest World Day of the Sick 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 6th Sunday in (St. Catherine de Ricci) Sts. Cyril, monk & (St. Faustinus) (St. Juliana of Seven Founders of the (St. Simeon, bishop ordinary time Methodius, bishop Cumae, martyr) Order of Servites, & martyr) (St. Damian) St. Valentine’s Day religious 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 7th Sunday in Dedication of the Conventual St. Peter Damian, The Chair of St. St. Polycarp, (St. Sergius) (St. Ethelbert of ordinary time Church of St. John the Baptist in bishop & doctor Peter, apostle bishop & martyr Kent) (St. Boniface of Malta, SMOM International Priory of Inkamana Lausanne) World Day of Social Justice Mother Language raised to an abbey in Day 1982 26 27 28 8th Sunday in (St. Gabriel of Our Lady of (St. Hilary, pope) Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard ordinary time Sorrows) P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa St. Alexander of Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 Alexandria, bishop www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] (St. Victor of Plancy,hermit) 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

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

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We care in any case May 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 St. Joseph the St. Athanasius, bishop Sts. Philip & James, (Blessed Martyrs of England (St. Asaph, (St. Dominic Savio) worker & doctor apostles and Wales) bishop) RSA: Workers’ Day 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4th Sunday of Easter (St. George Preca) (St. Damien de (Sts. Odo, Majolus, Odilo, Sts. Nereus & Our Lady of Fatima (St. John of Beverley, Veuster of Moloka’i) Hugo & Petrus the venerable, Achilleus, World bishop) abbots of Cluny, OSB) martyrs; Communications St. Pancras, Day martyr International Nurses Day 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 5th Sunday of Easter (St. Dymphna) (St. Brendan, (St. Paschal Baylon) St. John I, pope & martyr (St. Celestin, St. Bernardine of St. Matthias, apostle World Day of abbot) Blessed Gerard Mecatti of pope & hermit, Siena, priest RSA: Mothers’ Day Prayer for Villamagna, OSB) Vocations, religious, SMOM (St. Dunstan, International Day archbishop) of Families 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 6th Sunday of Easter St. Rita of Cascia, Blessed William Apor, The Blessed Virgin St. Bede the Venerable, St. Philip Neri, St. Augustine of St. Christopher religious bishop & martyr, Mary, Help for priest & doctor; priest Canterbury, Magallanes, priest & SMOM Christians St. Gregory VII, pope; bishop companions, martyrs 23 years Blessed St. Mary Magdalene de World Day for Cultural Gérard’s AIDS Pazzi, virgin Diversity for Dialogue and Education Programme Development 28 29 30 31 Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 7th Sunday of Easter Blessed Joseph (St. Joan of Arc) Visitation of the P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa St. Ubaldesca, virgin, Gerard OMI, Blessed Virgin Mary Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 SMOM priest World No-Tobacco www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Day 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 Paediatric Inpatient Care „Tender loving care“ We care as it should be in any case June 2017 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. Justin, martyr Sts. Marcellinus & Peter, martyrs Sts. Charles Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 International Lwanga & www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Children’s Day companions, martyrs 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pentecost St. Boniface, bishop & St. Norbert, bishop (St. Robert, abbot) Blessed James St. Ephrem of Syria, deacon & (St. Ithamar) Sunday martyr Anniversary: Bishop Berthieu, martyr doctor Immaculate World Environment Kumalo ordained Heart of Mary Day bishop in 2008 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Trinity St. Flora of Beaulieu, St. Anthony of Padua, (St. Valerius) (Sts. Vitus & (St. Aurelian) (St. Paschal Sunday virgin, SMOM priest & doctor, Patron Modestus, RSA: Youth Day Baylon) St. Barnabas, St. Onophrius, hermit of Mandeni Parish martyrs) apostle 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 “Corpus St. Romuald, abbot (Sts. Alban, Aaron & St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Sts. Paulinus of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Birth of St. John Christi” Blessed Gerland, Julius) religious Nola, bishop Patronal feast of the Diocese of the Baptist, (St. Gregory religious, SMOM World Refugee Day June solstice John Fisher, Eshowe & the Missionary patron, SMOM Barbagio, bishop & martyr Benedictines bishop) Thomas Moore, (St. Joseph Cafasso) RSA: Fathers’ martyr Day 25 26 27 28 29 30 12th Sunday in (St. Anthelm) St. Cyril of Alexandria, St. Irenaeus, Sts. Peter & First Martyrs of the Holy Roman ordinary time International Day bishop & doctor bishop & martyr Paul, apostles Church (St. William of Against Drug Abuse Vercelli, abbot) 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 Blessed Gérard‘s Pre-Primary School & Crèche

Caring without borders July 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 1 P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa St. Nicasius, martyr, SMOM Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 13th Sunday in ordinary St. Thomas, St. Elizabeth of St. Anthony M. Zaccaria, St. Maria Goretti, (St. Willibald Blessed Adrian Fortescue, time apostle Portugal priest virgin & martyr St. Palladius, martyr, SMOM (St. Oliver Plunkett) bishop) (Sts. Aquila & Priscilla) 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 14th Sunday in ordinary (Bl. Emmanuel St. Benedict, Blessed David Gunston, St. Henry St. Camillus de St. Bonaventure, bishop & time Ruiz) abbot, OSB martyr, SMOM Lellis, priest doctor St. Augustine Zhao Rong, World (St. Johannes Gualbert, St. Toscana, priest & companions, Population Day abbot, OSB) religious, SMOM martyrs (Mary Queen of Peace) 17 years Blessed Gérard’s Children’s Home 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 15th Sunday in ordinary (Carmelite Nuns of (St. Camillus de (Sts. Justa & Rufina, martyrs) St. Apollinaris, St. Lawrence of St. Mary Magdalene time Compiegne) Lellis) bishop & martyr Brindisi, priest & Our Lady of Mount Carmel RSA: Nelson doctor Mandela Day 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 16th Sunday in ordinary St. Sharbel St. James, St. Joachim & Anne, parents (St. Theobald) St. Victor I, pope & Sts. Martha, Maria & time Makhluf, priest apostle of the Blessed Virgin Mary martyr Lazarus, friends of Jesus, St. Bridget of Sweden, OSB religious 30 31 17th Sunday in ordinary 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 time Loyola, priest and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints St. Peter Chrysologus, brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard bishop & doctor St. Justin de Jacobis, bishop

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Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 1 2 3 4 5 P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 St. Alphonsus Mary St. Eusebius of (St. Waltheof, St. John Vianney, Dedication of the Republic of South Africa de Liguori, bishop & Vercelli, bishop, abbot) priest Basilica of St. Mary Phone +27 82 4924043 doctor St. Peter Julian Major Fax +27 86 6938940 Eymard, priest www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] (Our Lady od the Angels) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Transfiguration of the Sts. Sixtus II, pope St. Dominic, priest St. Teresa Benedicta St. Lawrence, St. Clare of Assisi, St. Jane Frances de Lord & martyr & of the Cross (Edith deacon & martyr virgin Chantal, religious, companions, Stein), virgin & martyr Blessed Isidore martyrs RSA:National Bakanja, martyr St. Cajetan, priest Women’s Day International International Day of Youth Day the World’s Indigenous People 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 19th Sunday in St. Maximilian Mary Assumption of the St. Stephan of (St. Hyacinth) Blessed Victoria St. John Eudes priest, ordinary time Kolbe, priest & Blessed Virgin Mary Hungary Rasoamanarivo (St. Bernard Toloméi, St. Pontian, pope & martyr abbot, OSB) martyr St. Hippolytus, priest & martyr 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 20th Sunday in St. Pius X, pope Queenship of the St. Rose of Lima, St. St. Louis of France, (Our Lady of ordinary time Blessed Virgin Mary virgin Bartholomew, St. Joseph Calasanz, Czestochowa) St. Bernard, abbot & apostle priest (St. Victor) doctor World Day of Migrants and Refugees 27 28 29 30 31 Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the st St. Augustine, Beheading of St. Blessed Alfredo (St. Aidan of 21 Sunday in Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta bishop & doctor John the Baptist, Ildefonso Schuster Lindisfarne, ordinary time and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of martyr, patron of the O.S.B, SMOM bishop) St. Monica South Africa + the African Saints SMOM Blessed Ghebre Anniversary: Prefecture brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Michael, priest & Apostolic of Zululand Gérard erected in 1921 martyr

We care in any case Inpatient Care „Tender loving care“ as it should be September 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard (St. Giles, abbot) (St. William of Roskilde) P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa 23 years Blessed Gérard’s Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Pre-Primary School & Crèche 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 22nd Sunday in (St. Rosalia) (St. Mother (St. Faustus) (St. Cloud) Birthday of the Blessed St. Peter Claver, priest ordinary time Teresa of Virgin Mary, Our Lady St. Gregory the Calcutta) of Philerme, SMOM Great, pope & doctor, Death of Blessed Gérard (+1120), 21 years Blessed Gérard’s Care Centre & Hospice 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 23rd Sunday in (St. Most Holy St. John Chrysostom, bishop & Triumph Our Lady of Sorrows St. Cornelius, pope & ordinary time Paphnutius) Name of Mary doctor of the Holy Cross martyr (St. Nicholas of World First Aid St. Cyprian, bishop & Tolentino) Day martyr 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24th Sunday in (St. Joseph of St. Januarius, St. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, priest & St. Matthew, St. Maurice and the St. Zachary & ordinary time Cupertino) bishop & martyr, Sts. Paul Chŏng Ha-sang & apostle & Theban Legion, martyrs Elizabeth, parents of St. St. Robert martyr companions, martyrs: “Korean evangelist September equinox John the Baptist, Bellarmine, bishop Martyrs” International Day (SMOM) & doctor of Peace St. Pio of Pietrelcina, (St. Hildegard, religious virgin & abbess, OSB) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 25th Sunday in (St. Finbar) Sts. Cosmas & St. Vincent de Paul, St. Wenceslaus & Sts. Michael, Gabriel & St. Jerome, priest & ordinary time RSA: Public Damian, priest companions, Raphael, archangels doctor St. Stephanie, Holiday martyrs martyrs, martyr Blessed Paul St. Laurence Ruiz (Our Lady of VI, pope & companions, Ransom) martyrs RSA: Heritage Day 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

Caring without borders October 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 26th Sunday in Holy Guardian (St. Gérard of Brogne) St. Francis of Blessed Peter Pattarini of Imola, St. Bruno, abbot Our Lady of the Rosary ordinary time Angels World Habitat Day Assisi, religious prior, SMOM St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus (of Lisieux), virgin & doctor International Day of Older Persons 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 27th Sunday in Sts. Denis, bishop & St. Daniel Comboni, St. John XXIII, (St. Wilfred) Blessed Gérard, St. Callistus I, ordinary time martyr & bishop & founder of the pope, SMOM International Day for Natural founder of the pope & martyr St. Hugh, religious, companions, Comboni Missionaries World Hospice & Disaster Reduction SMOM, patron of SMOM martyrs, World Mental Health Palliative Care Day the BBG St. John Leonardi, Day priest 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 28th Sunday in St. Hedwig, religious St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Luke, Sts. John Brébeuf & Isaac Blessed Daudi Blessed Charles of ordinary time St. Margaret Mary bishop & martyr evangelist Jogues, priests & martyrs & Okelo & Jildro Irwa, Austria, SMOM St. Teresa of Jesus Alacoque, virgin International Day for the companions, martyrs “North martyrs (of Avila), virgin & World Food Day Eradication of Poverty American Martyrs” doctor St. Paul of the Cross, priest 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29th Sunday in St. John of St. Anthony Mary (Forty Martyrs of (St. Alfred the Great) (St. Otteran) Sts. Simon & Jude, ordinary time Capistrano, priest Claret, bishop England and apostles, (St. John Paul II, United Nations Day Wales) 25th anniversary of the pope) foundation of the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 29 30 31 30th Sunday in St. Marcellus, martyr (St. Quentin, martyr) Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard ordinary time P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa “World Mission Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 Sunday” www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] (St. Narcissus of Jerusalem, bishop) 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 Pastoral Care

We care in any case November 2016 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 All Saints Commemoration of all the St. Martin de Porres, St. Charles Borromeo, Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 faithful departed: “All religious bishop www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Souls’ Day” 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 31st Sunday in ordinary All Saints of (St. Willibrord, (St. Godfrey, bishop Dedication of the Lateran St. Leo the Great, St. Martin of Tours, time Africa bishop of Utrecht, Blessed John Duns Basilica pope & doctor bishop (Sts. Elizabeth & Zachary) OSB) Scotus) 25 years Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard acknowledged by the bishop 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 32nd Sunday in ordinary (St. Frances (St. Nicholas St. Albert the Great, St. Margaret of Scotland St. Elizabeth of Dedication of the time Xavier Tavelic & bishop & doctor St. Gertrude, virgin Hungary, religious Basilicas of Sts. Peter St. Josaphat, bishop & Cabrini) companions) International Day of St. Dionysius of & Paul, apostles martyr, World Diabetes Tolerance Alexandria, bishop (St. Theodore of Studion, Day abbot, OSB) World Pneumonia Day 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 33rd Sunday in ordinary (St. Edmund Presentation of the St. Cecilia, virgin & Sts. Clement I, pope & St. Andrew Dung-Lac, St. Catherine of time “Stewardship Sunday” Rich) Blessed Virgin martyr martyr, priest & martyr, & Alexandria, virgin & All Saints of the SMOM Universal Mary St. Columban, abbot companions, martyr (St. Mechthild, virgin, OSB) Children’s Day martyrs World Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 26 27 28 29 30 Jesus Christ the King (St. James (St. Catherine (St. Brendan) St. Andrew, apostle “Bible Sunday” Intercisus) Labouré, virgin) (St. Silvester, abbot, OSB) 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

We wish you a Merry Christmas! December 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 1 2 Blessed Clementine Blessed Virgin Mary, P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa Anuarite, virgin & cause of our joy, Phone +27 82 4924043 · Fax +27 86 6938940 martyr SMOM www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] World AIDS Day From 3 December 2017: Lectionary: Sundays: Cycle B, Weekdays: Year 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1st Sunday of St. John Damascene, priest & (St. Sabas, abbot, OSB) St. Nicholas of Bari, St. Ambrose, Immaculate St. Juan Diego Advent doctor 9 years Blessed Gérard’s bishop of Myra bishop & doctor Conception of the Cuauhtlatoatzin, St. Francis Xavier, Convent Blessed Virgin Mary hermit priest International Volunteer International Anti- International day Day for Economic and Corruption Day of disabled Social Development persons 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 2nd Sunday of St. Damasus I, pope Our Lady of Guadalupe St. Lucy, virgin & martyr St. John of the (St. Valerian) (St. Adelaide) Advent Inkamana Abbey: Anniversary (St. Odilia, virgin, OSB, Cross, religious RSA: Day of St. Melchiades, of the dedication of the church patron of the Missionary & doctor Reconciliation pope Anniversary: Prefecture Benedictines) (Our Lady of Apostolic of Zululand elevated Loreto) to Vicariate Apostolic of Human Rights Eshowe in 1923 Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 3rd Sunday of (St. Rufus) (St. Anastasius I, pope) Blessed Scubilion, St. Peter (St. Flavian) St. John of Kanty, Advent “Gaudete 25 years Blessed Gérard’s Poor religious Canisius, priest priest Sunday” Sick Fund International Human & doctor (St. Olympias) International Migrants Day Solidarity Day December solstice 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 4th Sunday of The Birth of the Lord St. Stephen, first St. John, apostle & Holy Innocents, 5th day in the 6th day in the octave Advent “Christmas” martyr evangelist martyrs octave of Christmas of Christmas Vigil of Christmas RSA: Day of Goodwill St. Thomas Becket, “Christmas Eve” Boxing Day bishop & martyr 31 The Holy Family Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta St. Sylvester I, and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard pope New Year’s Eve

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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 2017.

The choice of pictures is not a reward for meritorious members, but we have simply chosen the best pictures of 2016.

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 to us and the people we help. P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 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

The May & July pictures in this calendar [email protected] were taken by Jessica Mayer, www.bbg.org.za the December picture by Blessed Gérard’s Children’s Home and all other pictures by Mrs. Maresi Rehder.