We care in any case Liturgical Calendar - June 2011 Calendar for the year 2O11 We wholeheartedly thank Sappi for donating these calendars to us. sappi Printed on Sappi Triple Green Print Gloss 170g/m2 Caring without borders 2011 Children of Blessed Gérard’s Children’s Home with their educator Sr. Edith Zulu O.S.B. Liturgical Calendar - January 2011 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Solemnity of Mary, Lectionary: {11th December 2010 – Mother of God Sundays: Cycle A 18th January 2011 RSA: New Year’s Day Weekdays: Year I School Holidays} World Day of Prayer for peace (16 years Blessed Gérard’s Pre-Primary School & Crèche) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Epiphany of the Lord (The Most Holy St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, St. John Neumann, bishop Blessed André Bessette, St. Raymond of Peñafort, (Our Lady of Prompt Succour) Sts. Basil the Great & Gregory Name of Jesus) religious (USA) (USA) religious (USA) priest Nazianzen, bishops & doctors (18 years Blessed Gérard’s Relief Fund) 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Baptism of the Lord (St. Gregory of Nyssa, (60th anniversary of the (St. Victorian) St. Hilary, bishop & doctor (St. Engelmar) (Sts. Maurus & Placidus, St. Adrian of Canterbury, abbot bishop, OSB) erection of the Diocese of scholars of St. Benedict, OSB) (St. Julian) (1st week in ordinary time) Eshowe) 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2nd Sunday in ordinary time St. Anthony, abbot (St. Prisca) (Sts. Kanut & Godfrey) St. Fabian, pope & martyr; St. Agnes, virgin & martyr St. Vincent, deacon & martyr (St. Marcellus) 18 – 25 January: Week of St. Sebastian, martyr; prayer for Christian Unity (“Back to school”) Blessed Cyprian Michael Tansi, priest 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 3rd Sunday in ordinary time St. Francis de Sales, Conversion of St. Paul, apostle Sts. Timothy & Titus, bishops; St. Angela Merici, virgin St. Thomas Aquinas, (St. Charles) (St. Ildefons) bishop & doctor (St. Robert, Alberich & Stephen, priest & doctor Cistercian abbots, OSB) (15 years Blessed Gérard’s Disaster Relief Project) 30 31 4th Sunday in ordinary time St. John Bosco, priest (St. Mary Ward) Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict , the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard & Blessed Gérard’s Care Centre P.O. Box 440, Mandeni, 4490, Republic of South Africa • Phone: +27 (0)32 4562743 • Fax: +27 (0)32 4567962 • www.bbg.org.za • [email protected] We care in any case Eternal rest grant unto her, o Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon her. May she 2011 rest in peace! Inpatient Care - A patient being admitted Liturgical Calendar - February 2011 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 (St. Bridget) Presentation of the Lord St. Blaise, bishop & martyr, (Sts. Gilbert & Rhabanus) St. Agatha, virgin & martyr World Day of Consecrated Life St. Ansgar, bishop, (18 years Blessed Gérard’s Bursary Fund) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 5th Sunday in ordinary time (St. Mel) St. Jerome Emiliani, priest (Sts. Alto & Julian) St. Scholastica, virgin, OSB Our Lady of Lourdes (St. Deodat) Sts. Paul Miki, priest & martyr (Blessed Pius IX, pope) St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin (St. Benedict of Aniane, & companions, martyrs abbot, OSB) WORLD DAY OF THE SICK 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 6th Sunday in ordinary time Sts. Cyril, monk & (St. Siegfried) (Bl.Joseph Allemano) Seven Founders of the Order (St. Theothon) (St. Irmgard) (St. Castor) Methodius, bishop of Servites, religious (St. Valentine’s Day) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 7th Sunday in ordinary time St. Peter Damian, Chair of St. Peter, apostle St. Polycarp, bishop & martyr (Sts. Ethelbert, Mathias (Priory of Inkamana raised to St. Alexander of Alexandria, Dedication of the Conventual bishop & doctor Mulumba & Willigis) an abbey in 1982) bishop Church of St. John the Baptist International Mother (St. Victor) in Malta, SMOM Language Day World Day of Social Justice 27 28 8th Sunday in ordinary time (St. Oswald) (Sts. Gabriel & Leander) (St. Romanus) Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict , the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard & Blessed Gérard’s Care Centre P.O. Box 440, Mandeni, 4490, Republic of South Africa • Phone: +27 (0)32 4562743 • Fax: +27 (0)32 4567962 • www.bbg.org.za • [email protected] We care in any case 2011 Home Care - A patient being examined Liturgical Calendar - March 2011 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 (Sts. Almarich & Switbert) (St. Enrique) (St. Katharine Drexel, virgin) St. Casimir (St. Alto) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 9th Sunday in ordinary time Sts. Perpetua & Felicity, St. John of God, religious Ash Wednesday (St. Aemilius) (St. Wolfram) (St. Beatrice) (St. Coleta) martyrs International Women’s Day St. Frances of Rome, religious (Abbey of St. Ottilien raised to the rank of an Archabbey in 1914) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1st Sunday of Lent (St. Mathilde) (St. Clement) (Sts. Herbert & Heribert) St. Patrick, bishop St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Joseph, (St. Paulina) (18 years Blessed Gérard’s bishop & doctor husband of Mary Malnutrition Clinic) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 2nd Sunday of Lent Death of St. Benedict, St. Deogratias, bishop St. Turibius de Mongrovejo, (St. Elias) Annunciation of the Lord (St. Ludger) (St. Irmgard) abbot, OSB (Blessed Clemens August bishop (St. Ancilla) RSA: Human Rights Day von Galen, SMOM) International Day of the (Sts. Damian & Octavian) Elimination of Racial World Water Day Discrimination 27 28 29 30 31 3rd Sunday of Lent (St. Guntram) (St. Helmut) (12 years Blessed Gérard’s (Sts. Amos, Benjamin & Gwido) St. John of Egypt, hermit, First Aid and Emergency (St. Ruprecht) 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 African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard & Blessed Gérard’s Care Centre P.O. Box 440, Mandeni, 4490, Republic of South Africa • Phone: +27 (0)32 4562743 • Fax: +27 (0)32 4567962 • www.bbg.org.za • [email protected] Caring without borders 2011 Our youngest child getting a treat with Father Gérard Liturgical Calendar - April 2011 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 St. Nonius Alvarez Pereira, St. Francis of Paola, hermit {2nd – 10th April: prior, SMOM, School Holiday} (7 years Blessed Gérard’s Hospice HAART Programme) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 4th Sunday of Lent St. Isidore, bishop & doctor St. Vincent Ferrer, priest (5th anniversary St. John Baptist de la Salle, (St. Beate) (St. Waltraud) (Laetare Sunday) St. Benedict ‘the Black’, of Clare Kalkwarf’s death) priest (St. Richard) religious World Health Day 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 5th Sunday of Lent St. Stanislaus, bishop & martyr St. Zeno of Verona St. Martin I, pope & martyr (St. Lidwina) (St. Damian de Veuster) (St. Bernadette) (St. Ezekiel) (St. Julius) (St. Hermenegild) {“Back to school”} 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Palm Sunday Monday of the Holy Week Tuesday of the Holy Week Wednesday of the Holy Week Holy Thursday Good Friday Easter Vigil (Sts. Innocent & Rudolf) (St. Wigbert) (Sts. Gerold & Werner) St. Marcellinus, bishop St. Anselm, bishop & doctor (St. Cajus) St. George, martyr (Pope Benedict XVI elected) Sts. Vincent & Dominicus, (St. Adalbert, bishop, missionaries missionary & martyr, OSB) (18 years Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard acknowledged as Relief Organisation of the Order of Malta) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Easter Sunday Easter Monday Easter Tuesday Easter Wednesday Easter Thursday Easter Friday Easter Saturday St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, St. Mark, evangelist (St. Kleto) RSA: Freedom Day St. Peter Chanel, priest St. Catherine of Siena, St. Pius V, pope priest & martyr RSA: Family Day (RSA: School Holiday) & martyr, (St. Louis Mary virgin & doctor Grignion de Montfort, priest) Including the General Roman Calendar, the Proper Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict , the Proper Calendar of the Order of Malta and the African Saints brought to you by the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard & Blessed Gérard’s Care Centre P.O. Box 440, Mandeni, 4490, Republic of South Africa • Phone: +27 (0)32 4562743 • Fax: +27 (0)32 4567962 • www.bbg.org.za • [email protected] Caring without borders 2011 Everybody gets their turn at Blessed Gérard’s Children’s Home Liturgical Calendar - May 2011 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2nd Sunday of Easter St. Athanasius, Sts. Philip & James, apostles (St. Florian) (Sts. Angelo & Godehard) (Sts. Aldricus, (Blessed Notker) Divine Mercy Sunday bishop & doctor (St. Ansfried) Dominic & Edmar) St. Joseph the worker RSA: Public Holiday RSA: Workers’ Day 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 3rd Sunday of Easter (St. Germanus) (Blessed Damian Joseph de (Sts. Odo, Majolus, Odilo, Sts. Nereus & Achilleus, (Our Lady of Fatima) St. Matthias, apostle (St. Victor) Veuster of Molokai, priest) Hugo & Petrus the venerable, martyrs; Mothers’ Day abbots of Cluny, OSB) St. Pancras, martyr 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 4th Sunday of Easter (St. John Nepomuc) (Sts. Dietmar & Paschalis) St. John I, pope & martyr, (St. Celestin, St. Bernardine of Siena, priest (St. Christopher Magallanes, “Good Shepherd Sunday” Blessed Gerard Mecatti of pope & hermit, OSB) priest & companions, martyrs) World Day of Prayer Villamagna, religious, SMOM, World Day for Cultural for Vocations (St. Erich) Diversity for Dialogue and St. Isidore the farmer (USA) Development (18 years Blessed Gérard’s Friendship Club & 11 years Blessed Gérard’s Children’s Home) International Day of Families 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 5th Sunday of Easter (St.