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Calendar for the year 2021 We care in any case January 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 1 2 P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of Mary, Sts. Basil the Great & Phone +27 82 492 4043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Mother of God Gregory Nazianzen, RSA: New Year’s bishops & doctors Lectionary: Sundays: Cycle B, Weekdays: Year 2 Day 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Epiphany of (St. Elizabeth Ann Seton) (St. John Neumann, bishop) (St. André Bessette) St. Raymond of Friday after St. Adrian of the Lord 28 years Blessed Gérard’s Peñafort, priest Epiphany Canterbury, abbot The Most Holy Relief Fund (St. Severinus) Name of Jesus 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 of the Monday 1st week in (St. Marguerite Bourgeoys) St. Hilary, bishop & doctor (St. Felix of (Sts. Maurus & (St. Bernard & Lord Ordinary time Nola) Placidus, scholars of companions) (St. Gregory of (Blessed William Carter) St. Benedict, OSB) Nyssa, bishop, Anniversary: Vicariate OSB) Apostolic of Eshowe elevated to the Diocese of Eshowe, 1951 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 2nd Sunday in (St. Prisca) (St. Canute) St. Fabian, & ; St. St. Agnes, St. Vincent of (St. Marianne Cope) ordinary time Sebastian, martyr; Blessed & martyr Saragozza, deacon St. Anthony, Tansi, priest & martyr abbot 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 3rd Sunday in Conversion of St. Paul, Sts. Timothy & Titus, St. Angela Merici, virgin St. Thomas (St. Gildas the Wise, (St. Martina, virgin & ordinary time the Apostle bishops · (St. Robert, Aquinas, priest abbot) martyr) St. Francis de Alberich & Stephen, & doctor Sales, bishop & Cistercian abbots, OSB) doctor 25 years Blessed Gérard’s Disaster Relief Project 31 th 4 Sunday in Including the , the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of ordinary time and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard St. John Bosco, priest

Caring without borders February 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Blessed Benedict Daswa, Presentation of St. Blaise, bishop & (St. John de Britto) St. Agatha, virgin Sts. Paul Miki, priest & martyr the Lord martyr · St. Ansgar, & martyr martyr & companions, (St. Brigid of Ireland) bishop : “Twenty-six martyrs (28 years Blessed of Japan” Gérard’s Bursary Fund) 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 5th Sunday in St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin (St. Apollonia) St. Scholastica, Our Lady of (St. Damian) (St. Catherine de Ricci) ordinary time St. Emiliani, priest virgin, OSB Lourdes (St. ) (St. Benedict of Aniane, abbot, OSB) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 6th Sunday in (St. Faustinus) (St. Juliana of Ash Wednesday Thursday after Friday after Ash Dedication of the Principal ordinary time Cumae, martyr) Seven Founders of Ash Wednesday Wednesday Church of the Order of Sts. Cyril, monk the Order of Servites, (St. , (St. Boniface of Malta, SMOM & Methodius, religious bishop & martyr) Lausanne) bishop 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 1st Sunday of The Chair of St. Peter, St. , (St. Sergius) (St. Ethelbert of St. Alexander of (St. of Our Lady of Lent apostle bishop & martyr Kent) Alexandria, Sorrows) St. , of Inkamana bishop bishop & doctor raised to an abbey in 1982 28 Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 2nd Sunday of P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa Lent Phone +27 82 492 4043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] (St. Hilary, pope) Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the 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 March 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Monday of the Second (St. Agnes of ) (St. Katherine St. Casimir of (St. Kieran, bishop) (St. Colette) week of Lent (St. of Drexel) Poland Wales) 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 3rd Sunday St. John of God, religious St. Frances of , (St. John Ogilvie, (St. Constantine, (St. Seraphina) (Bl. Agnello of ) of Lent religious martyr) martyr) Abbey of St. Ottilien raised Sts. Perpetua & to the rank of an Archabbey Felicity, in 1914 martyrs 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 4th Sunday (St. Louise de Marillac) (St. Herbert) St. Patrick, St. Cyril of St. , spouse of the (St. Ambrosius of Lent 28 years Blessed Gérard’s bishop , Blessed Virgin Mary Sansedoni of Siena, “Laetare” Malnutrition Clinic bishop & doctor religious) (St. Maud) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 5th Sunday Blessed Clemens August St. Turibius de (St. Aldemar) Annunciation of (Blessed Didacus Joseph St. John of Egypt, of Lent Count von Galen, SMOM Mogrovejo, bishop Our Lord of Cadiz) hermit Death of St. St. Deogratias, Benedict, bishop abbot, OSB RSA: Public Holiday RSA: Human Rights Day 28 29 30 31 Palm Sunday Monday of Holy Week (St. Tuesday of Holy Week Wednesday of (St. Venturino Jonas & Barachisius, (St. John Climacus, Holy Week Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard of Bergamo) martyrs) abbot) (St. Benjamin, P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa 22 years Blessed martyr) Phone +27 82 492 4043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] 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 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Holy Thursday Good Friday Easter Vigil Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard St. Nonius Alvarez St. Francis of Paola, (St. Richard of P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa Pereira, prior, SMOM hermit Wyche) Phone +27 82 492 4043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] 17 years Blessed Gérard’s Hospice HAART Programme 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Easter Sunday Monday in the Tuesday in the Octave of Wednesday in the Thursday in the Friday in the Saturday in the St. Isidore, bishop & Octave of Easter Octave of Easter Octave of Easter Octave of Easter Octave of Easter doctor Easter (St. Celestino I, pope St. John Baptist de la (St. Walter of (St. Mary of (St. Michael de St. Benedict ‘the St. Vincent St. Peter of Verona) Salle, priest Pontnoise, abbot) Cleophas) Sanctis) Black’, religious Ferrer, priest 15th anniversary of Clare Kalkwarf’s RSA: Family death Day 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2nd Sunday of St. Zeno of St. Martin I, pope & martyr (St. Maximus, martyr) (St. Hunna) (St. Bernadette (St. Landricus, Easter “Divine Verona, bishop Soubirous, religious) bishop & abbot) Mercy Sunday” St. Stanislaus, bishop & martyr 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 3rd Sunday of (Leo IX, pope) St. Marcellinus, bishop St. Anselm, (St. Alexander, St. George, martyr St. Fidelis of Easter Sts. Vincent & Dominicus, bishop & doctor martyr) St. Adalbert, bishop, Sigmaringen, priest (Blessed Marie- & martyr, & martyr Anne Blondin) 28 years Brotherhood of Blessed OSB Gérard acknowledged as Relief Organisation of the Order of Malta 25 26 27 28 29 30 4th Sunday of (St. Cletus) (St. Zita) St. , St. Catherine of Our Lady, Easter RSA: Freedom Day priest & martyr, Siena, virgin & doctor Mother of Africa St. Mark, evangelist St. Louis Mary Grignion de Montfort, priest, St. Pius V., pope Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the 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 May 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard St. Joseph the P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa worker Phone +27 82 492 4043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] RSA: Workers’ Day 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 5th Sunday of Sts. Philip & (Blessed Martyrs of England (St. Asaph, bishop) (St. Dominic (St. John of Beverley, Easter James, apostles and Wales) Savio) bishop) St. Athanasius, bishop & doctor 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 6th Sunday of (St. Damien de (Sts. Odo, Majolus, Odilo, Sts. Nereus & Ascension of St. Matthias, apostle (St. Dymphna) Easter Veuster of Moloka’i) Hugo & Petrus , Achilleus, martyrs; the Lord (St. George Preca) abbots of Cluny, OSB) St. Pancras, martyr Our Lady of RSA: Mothers’ Day Fatima 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 7th Sunday of (St. Paschal St. John I, pope & martyr (St. Celestin, pope St. Bernardine of St. Christopher St. Rita of Cascia, Easter Baylon) Blessed Gerard Mecatti of & hermit, OSB) Siena, priest Magallanes, priest & religious (St. Brendan, Villamagna, religious, SMOM companions, martyrs abbot) 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Pentecost Sunday The Blessed Virgin St. the Venerable, priest St. Philip Neri, St. Augustine of St. Ubaldesca, virgin, Blessed Joseph Blessed William Apor, Mary, Help for & doctor; priest Canterbury, SMOM Gerard OMI, bishop & martyr, Christians St. Gregory VII, pope; bishop priest SMOM St. de Pazzi, 27 years Blessed virgin Gérard’s AIDS Education Programme

30 31 Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, Trinity Sunday Visitation of the the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of South Africa + the African Saints (St. ) Blessed Virgin brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Mary

We care in any case June 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 St. Justin, Sts. Marcellinus & Sts. Charles Lwanga (St. Quirinus of Siscia, bishop) St. Boniface, martyr Peter, martyrs & companions, bishop & martyr Mary, the martyrs Mother of the Church 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 “Corpus Christi” Monday of the tenth Blessed James St. Ephrem of Syria, (St. Ithamar) The Most Sacred Heart of St. Flora of St. Norbert, bishop week in ordinary time Berthieu, martyr deacon & doctor Jesus, Patronal feast of the Beaulieu, virgin, (St. Robert, abbot) Diocese of Eshowe SMOM Anniversary: Bishop & the Missionary Benedictines St. Onophrius, Kumalo ordained St. , apostle hermit bishop in 2008 Immaculate Heart of Mary 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 11th Sunday (St. Valerius) (Sts. Vitus & (St. Aurelian) (St. Paschal Baylon) (St. Gregory Barbagio, bishop) St. Romuald, in ordinary time Modestus, RSA: Youth Day abbot St. , martyrs) Blessed Gerland, priest & doctor, Patron of religious, SMOM Mandeni Parish 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 12th Sunday St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Sts. Paulinus of (St. Joseph Cafasso) Nativity of St. John (St. William of Vercelli, abbot) (St. Anthelm) in ordinary time religious Nola, bishop the Baptist, (Sts. Alban, Aaron & , patron, SMOM Julius) bishop & martyr RSA: Fathers’ Day Thomas Moore, martyr 27 28 29 30 13th Sunday St. , Sts. Peter & First Martyrs of the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard in ordinary time bishop & martyr Paul, apostles Holy Roman Church P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa St. , Phone +27 82 492 4043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] bishop & 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 We care in any case July 2021 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. Nicasius, martyr, SMOM (St. Oliver Plunkett) St. Thomas, Phone +27 82 492 4043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] apostle 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 14th Sunday St. Anthony M. Zaccaria, St. , (St. Willibald Blessed Adrian Fortescue, St. Augustine Zhao Rong, (Bl. Emmanuel in ordinary priest virgin & martyr St. Palladius, bishop) martyr, SMOM priest & companions, Ruiz) time martyrs St. Elizabeth of (Mary Queen of Peace) Portugal 21 years Blessed Gérard’s Children’s Home 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15th Sunday Blessed David Gunston, St. Henry St. Camillus de Lellis, St. , Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Carmelite of in ordinary martyr, SMOM priest bishop & doctor Compiegne) time (St. Johannes Gualbert, St. Toscana, religious, St. Benedict, abbot, OSB) SMOM abbot, OSB 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 16th Sunday (Sts. Justa & Rufina, St. Apollinaris, St. Lawrence of St. Mary Magdalene St. Bridget of Sweden, St. Sharbel in ordinary martyrs) bishop & martyr Brindisi, priest & doctor religious Makhluf, priest time (St. Camillus de Lellis) RSA: Nelson Mandela Day 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 17th Sunday St. Joachim & Anne, (St. Aurelius, St. Victor I, pope & Sts. Martha, Maria & St. , St. Ignatius of in ordinary parents of the Blessed martyr) martyr Lazarus, friends of Jesus, bishop & doctor Loyola, priest time Virgin Mary OSB St. Justin de Jacobis, bishop St. James, apostle Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the 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 August 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 18th Sunday St. Eusebius of Vercelli, (St. Waltheof, St. John Vianney, Dedication of the Transfiguration Sts. Sixtus II, pope & in ordinary time bishop, St. Peter Julian abbot) priest Basilica of St. Mary of the Lord martyr & St. Alphonsus Mary de Eymard, priest, (Our Lady Major companions, martyrs Liguori, bishop & doctor od the Angels) St. Cajetan, priest 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 19th Sunday St. Teresa Benedicta of the St. Lawrence, St. , St. Jane Frances de St. Pontian, pope & martyr St. Maximilian Mary in ordinary time Cross (), virgin deacon & martyr virgin Chantal, religious, St. Hippolytus, priest & Kolbe, priest & St. Dominic, priest & martyr Blessed Isidore martyr martyr RSA: Bakanja, martyr National Women’s Day 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Assumption St. Stephan of Hungary (St. Hyacinth) Blessed Victoria St. John Eudes St. Bernard, St. Pius X, pope of the Blessed Rasoamanarivo priest, abbot & doctor Virgin Mary (St. Bernard (St. Mechthild) Toloméi, abbot, OSB) 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 21st Sunday St. , St. Bartholomew, St. Louis of (Our Lady of St. Monica St. Augustine, bishop in ordinary time virgin apostle , Czestochowa) Anniversary: Prefecture & doctor Queenship of the St. Joseph Apostolic of Zululand Blessed Virgin Mary Calasanz, erected in 1921 priest 29 30 31 22nd Sunday Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso (St. Aidan of Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Schuster O.S.B, SMOM Lindisfarne, in ordinary time P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa Blessed Ghebre Michael, bishop) Passion of St. John the Phone +27 82 492 4043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Baptist, martyr, patron priest & martyr of the SMOM 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 September 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 (St. Giles, abbot) (St. William of St. Gregory the Great, (St. Rosalia) Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 27 years Blessed Gérard’s Roskilde) pope & doctor, P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa Pre-Primary School & Death of Blessed Phone +27 82 492 4043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Crèche Gérard (+1120), 25 years Blessed Gérard’s Care Centre & Hospice 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 23rd Sunday (St. Faustus) (St. Cloud) Nativity of the Blessed St. , (St. Nicholas of (St. Paphnutius) in ordinary Virgin Mary, Our Lady priest Tolentino) time of Philerme, SMOM (St. of Calcutta) 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 24th Sunday St. , Exaltation of the Our Lady of Sorrows St. Cornelius, pope & St. , (St. Joseph of in ordinary bishop & doctor Holy Cross martyr bishop & doctor Cupertino) time St. Cyprian, bishop & (St. Hildegard, virgin & Most Holy martyr , OSB) Name of Mary 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 25th Sunday St. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, priest St. Matthew, St. Maurice and St. Zechariah & St. Stephanie, martyr (St. Finbar) in ordinary & martyr, Sts. Paul Chŏng Ha- apostle & companions, martyrs Elizabeth, parents of (Our Lady of Ransom) time sang & companions, martyrs: evangelist St. , RSA: Heritage Day St. Januarius, “” (SMOM) bishop & St. Pius of Pietrelcina, martyr religious 26 27 28 29 30 Including the General Roman Calendar, the 26th Sunday St. Vincent de Paul, St. Wenceslas & Sts. Michael, Gabriel & St. Jerome, priest & Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, in ordinary priest companions, , doctor the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta time martyrs, and the Proper Calendar for the Dioceses of Sts. Cosmas St. Lawrence Ruiz South Africa + the African Saints brought to & Damian, & companions, you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard martyrs martyrs

St. Paul VI, pope

October 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 1 2 St. Thérèse of the Child Holy Guardian P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Jesus (of Lisieux), virgin Angels Republic of South Africa & doctor · Our Lady Phone +27 82 492 4043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Queen of Nigeria 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 27th Sunday St. Francis of Blessed Peter Pattarini of St. Bruno, abbot Our Lady of the St. Hugh, religious, Sts. Denis, bishop in ordinary time Assisi, religious Imola, prior, SMOM Rosary SMOM & martyr & (St. Gérard of companions, Brogne) martyrs, St. John Leonardi, priest 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 28th Sunday St. John XXIII, (St. Wilfred) Blessed Gérard, St. Callistus I, St. Teresa of Jesus (of St. Hedwig, in ordinary time pope, SMOM founder of the pope & martyr Avila), virgin & doctor religious St. Daniel Comboni, SMOM, patron of the St. Margaret Mary bishop & founder of BBG Alacoque, virgin the Comboni Missionaries 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 29th Sunday St. Luke, Sts. John Brébeuf & Blessed Daudi Okelo Blessed Charles of (St. John Paul II, pope) St. John of in ordinary time evangelist Jogues, priests & martyrs & & Jildro Irwa, martyrs Austria, SMOM Capistrano, priest “World Mission companions, martyrs “North Sunday” American Martyrs” St. , St. Paul of the Cross, priest bishop & martyr 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 30th Sunday (Forty Martyrs (St. Alfred the Great) (St. Otteran) Sts. Simon & Jude, (St. Narcissus of St. Marcellus, in ordinary time of England and apostles Jerusalem, bishop) martyr St. Anthony Mary Wales) 29th anniversary of the Claret, bishop foundation of the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 31 31st Sunday Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict, the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta in 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. Quentin, martyr)

We care in any case November 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 All Saints Commemoration of all St. Martin de Porres, St. Charles Sts. Elizabeth & Zachary All Saints of the faithful departed: religious Borromeo, bishop 28 years Brotherhood of Africa “All Souls’ Day” Blessed Gérard acknowledged by the bishop 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 32nd Sunday (St. Godfrey, Dedication of the St. Leo the Great, pope St. Martin of Tours, St. Josaphat, (St. Frances in ordinary time bishop Blessed Lateran Basilica & doctor bishop bishop & martyr, Xavier (St. Willibrord, bishop John Duns (St. Theodore of Studion, Cabrini) of Utrecht, OSB) Scotus) abbot, OSB) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 33rd Sunday St. Albert the St. Margaret of Scotland St. Elizabeth of Dedication of the All Saints of the SMOM (St. Edmund in ordinary time Great, bishop & St. Gertrude, virgin Hungary, religious Basilicas of Sts. Peter (St. Mechthild, virgin, Rich) “Stewardship Sunday” doctor St. Dionysius of & Paul, apostles OSB) (St. Nicholas Tavelic Alexandria, bishop & companions) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Jesus Christ the St. Cecilia, Sts. Clement I, St. Andrew Dung-Lac, St. Catherine of (St. Silvester, abbot, OSB) (St. James King virgin & martyr pope & martyr, priest & martyr, & Alexandria, virgin & Intercisus) “Bible Sunday” St. Columban, abbot companions, martyr Presentation of the martyrs Blessed Virgin Mary 28 29 30 1st Sunday of Advent (St. Brendan) St. Andrew, apostle (St. Catherine Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Labouré, virgin) P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 · Republic of South Africa Lectionary: Phone +27 82 492 4043 · www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] Sundays: Cycle C, Weekdays: Year 1 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 December 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard 1 2 3 4 P O Box 440 · Mandeni 4490 Blessed Clementine Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Francis St. John Damascene, Republic of South Africa Anuarite, virgin & martyr cause of our joy, Xavier, priest priest & doctor Phone +27 82 492 4043 www.bbg.org.za · [email protected] SMOM 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2nd Sunday of St. Nicholas of , St. , Immaculate St. Juan Diego St. St. Damasus I, pope Advent bishop of Myra bishop & doctor Conception of the Cuauhtlatoatzin, hermit Melchiades, Inkamana Abbey: Anniversary of (St. Sabas, Blessed Virgin Mary pope the dedication of the church abbot, OSB) (Our Lady of Anniversary: Prefecture Apostolic Loreto) of Zululand elevated to Vicariate Apostolic of Eshowe in 1923 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 3rd Sunday of St. Lucy, virgin & martyr St. John of the (St. Valerian) (St. Adelaide) (St. Olympias) (St. Rufus) Advent (St. Odilia, virgin, OSB, Cross, religious & RSA: Day of 28 years Blessed Gérard’s “Gaudete patron of the Missionary doctor Reconciliation Poor Sick Fund Sunday” Benedictines) Our Lady of Guadalupe 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 4th Sunday of Blessed Scubilion, St. Peter (St. Flavian) St. John of Kanty, priest Vigil of The Birth of the Lord Advent religious Canisius, priest & Christmas “Christmas” (St. doctor “Christmas Anastasius I, Eve” pope) 26 27 28 29 30 31 The Holy St. John, apostle & Holy Innocents, St. , 6th day in the Octave St. Sylvester I, Family evangelist martyrs bishop & martyr of Christmas pope St. Stephen, RSA: Public Holiday first martyr RSA: Day of Goodwill 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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Our AIDS treatment (HAART) Programme comprises Hospice & Palliative Care Pre-Primary School & Crèche Voluntary Counsel- We provide residential ling and HIV-Testing Palliative Care for We provide "edu-care" and (VCT) terminally ill patients in our an early childhood develop- We offer free and confi- Inpatient Unit. ment service for underprivi- dential HIV Tests to the leged pre-school children. We can admit up to 40 patients, general public. which makes us the largest inpa- tient hospice in South Africa. Children's Home

We look after, counsel and We send out mobile give a home to sick and home-nursing teams, healthy “Orphans and which supplement and Vulnerable Children” (OVCs). Antiretroviral support the family's 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. Malnutrition Clinic care including regular 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- ic, where we examine, ment of opportunistic infections, medical and psychosocial We provide poverty re- treat and feed malnour- counselling and dispensing of the drugs. lief by helping people in ished infants and teach our local community in their parent/carer in proper baby care and nutrition. genuine cases of immedi- Adherence Monitoring ate need. Bursary Fund Our Therapeutic Counsel- lors make home visits to We provide poverty Poor Sick Fund our patients on ARV- relief by giving bursa- treatment to ensure that We provide poverty relief ries to poor pupils and they adhere to the treat- by helping sick people students of our local ment and so to prevent from our local communi- community. treatment failure. This ty, if they cannot afford enables us to discover urgently needed medical adverse drug reactions early and to prevent problems. treatment. Thank you!

It is with sincere gratitude that we send you our special calendar for 2021.

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

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