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 South Africa 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 Baptism 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, pope & martyr; St. St. Agnes, virgin St. Vincent of (St. Marianne Cope) ordinary time Sebastian, martyr; Blessed & martyr Saragozza, deacon St. Anthony, Cyprian Michael 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 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. 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 martyrs: “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. Jerome Emiliani, priest virgin, OSB Lourdes (St. Moses) (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. Simeon, (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. Polycarp, (St. Sergius) (St. Ethelbert of St. Alexander of (St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Lent apostle bishop & martyr Kent) Alexandria, Sorrows) St. Peter Damian, Priory 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 Bohemia) (St. Katherine St. Casimir of (St. Kieran, bishop) (St. Colette) week of Lent (St. David of Drexel) Poland Wales) 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 3rd Sunday St. John of God, religious St. Frances of Rome, (St. John Ogilvie, (St. Constantine, (St. Seraphina) (Bl. Agnello of Pisa) 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. Joseph, spouse of the (St. Ambrosius of Lent 28 years Blessed Gérard’s bishop Jerusalem, 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- missionaries missionary & 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. Peter Chanel, 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 the venerable, 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. Bede 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. Mary Magdalene 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.