Liturgical Calendar - January 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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2 Back to school Children of Blessed Gerard s Children s Home waiting for being taken to school with our minibus (called Winnie the Pooh ) Liturgical Calendar - January 0 Lectionary: Sundays: Cycle B Weekdays: Year I Epiphany of the Lord St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, religious (USA) ( years Blessed Gérard s Relief Fund) Baptism of the Lord (Erection of the South African Church hierarchy in. Vicariate of Eshowe became a diocese) nd Sunday (St. Prisca) January: Week of prayer for Christian Unity rd Sunday Conversion of St. Paul, apostle St. John Neumann, bishop (USA) ( st week in ordinary time) (St. Victorian) (Sts. Kanut & Godfrey) Sts. Timothy & Titus, bishops; (St. Robert, Alberich & Stephen, Cistercian abbots, ( years Blessed Gérard s Disaster Relief Project) Blessed André Bessette, religious (USA) St. Hilary, bishop & (Rememberance of the proto-s of the Missionary Benedictines who died at Pugu/Tanzania in ) St. Fabian, pope & ; St. Sebastian, ; Blessed Cyprian Michael Tansi, priest St. Angela Merici, virgin St. Raymond of Peñafort, priest (St. Engelmar) St. Agnes, virgin & St. Thomas Aquinas, priest & ; Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God RSA: New Year s Day World Day of Prayer for peace - ( years Blessed Gérard s Pre-Primary School & Crèche) (Our Lady of Prompt Succour) (Sts. Maurus & Placidus, scholars of St. Benedict, St. Vincent, deacon & (St. Charles) Sts. Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, bishops & s St. Adrian of Canterbury, abbot (St. Julian) (St. Marcellus) (St. Ildefons) (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 P O Box 0 Mandeni 0 Phone + (0) Fax + (0) (The Most Holy Name of Jesus) 0 (St. Gregory of Nyssa, bishop, St. Anthony, abbot St. Francis de Sales, bishop & St. John Bosco, priest

3 Pastoral Care The Hospice Chaplain visiting a patient Liturgical Calendar - February 0 th Sunday in ordinary time (St. Bridget) th Sunday in ordinary time St. Jerome Emiliani, priest St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin th Sunday in ordinary time (St. Siegfried) th Sunday in ordinary time Chair of St. Peter, Presentation of the Lord (Sts. Alto & Julian) (Bl.Joseph Allemano) St. Polycarp, bishop & St. Blaise, bishop &, St. Ansgar, bishop, ( years Blessed Gérard s Bursary Fund) 0 St. Scholastica, virgin, OSB Seven Founders of the Order of Servites, religious (Sts. Ethelbert, Mathias Mulumba & Willigis) (Sts. Gilbert & Rhabanus) Our Lady of Lourdes (St. Benedict of Aniane, abbot, WORLD DAY OF THE SICK (St. Theothon) (Priory of Inkamana raised to an abbey in ) St. Agatha, virgin & (St. Deodat) (St. Irmgard) St. Alexander of Alexandria, bishop (St. Victor) Ash Wednesday Sts. Paul Miki, priest & & companions, s (St. Castor) Dedication of the Conventual Church of St. John the Baptist in Malta, SMOM (Sts. Gabriel & Leander) (St. Mel) Sts. Cyril, monk & Methodius, bishop St. Peter Damian, bishop & (St.Romanus) 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 African Saints brought to you by the P O Box 0 Mandeni 0 Phone + (0) Fax + (0)

4 Home Care Putting a smile on the faces of the family Liturgical Calendar - March 0 st Sunday of Lent (Sts. Almarich & Switbert) nd Sunday of Lent St. John of God, religious rd Sunday of Lent (St. Clement) ( years Blessed Gérard s Malnutrition Clinic) th Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday) St. Deogratias, bishop (Sts. Damian & Octavian) th Sunday of Lent (St. Helmut) (St. Enrique) St. Frances of Rome, religious, (Sts. Herbert & Heribert) St. Turibius de Mongrovejo, bishop (0 years Blessed Gérard s First Aid and Emergency Service) (St. Katharine Drexel, virgin) 0 (St. Aemilius) St. Patrick, bishop (St. Elias) (Sts. Amos, Benjamin & Gwido) St. Casimir (St. Wolfram) St. Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop &, Annunciation of the Lord (St. Ancilla) (St. Alto) (St. Beatrice) (Abbey of St. Ottilien raised to the rank of an Archabbey in ) St. Joseph, husband of Mary (St. Ludger) (St. Coleta) (St. Paulina) (St. Irmgard) St. John of Egypt, hermit, (St. Ruprecht) Sts. Perpetua & Felicity, s (St. Mathilde) Death of St. Benedict, abbot, OSB, RSA: Human Rights Day, (St. Guntram) 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 P O Box 0 Mandeni 0 Phone + (0) Fax + (0)

5 Blessed Gerard s Pre-Primary School & Creche Liturgical Calendar - April 0 Palm Sunday St. Vincent Ferrer, priest Easter Sunday St. Zeno of Verona (St. Julius) nd Sunday of Easter Divine Mercy Sunday (Sts. Gerold & Werner) (Pope Benedict XVI elected) rd Sunday of Easter (St. Kleto) Monday of Holy Week ( rd anniversary of Clare Kalkwarf s death) Easter Monday RSA: Family Day, St. Martin I, pope & (St. Hermenegild) St. Marcellinus, bishop Sts. Vincent & Dominicus, missionaries ( years of Blessed Gérard acknowledged as Relief Organisation of the Order of Malta) RSA: Freedom Day Tuesday of Holy Week St. John Baptist de la Salle, priest Easter Tuesday (St. Lidwina) St. Anselm, bishop & St. Peter Chanel, priest & (St. Louis Mary Grignion de Montfort, priest) Blessed Nonius Alvarez Pereira, prior, SMOM ( years Blessed Gérard s Hospice HAART Programme) Wednesday of Holy Week (St. Beate) Easter Wednesday (St. Damian de Veuster) (St. Cajus) St. Catherine of Siena, virgin & St. Francis of Paola, hermit Holy Thursday (St. Waltraud) Easter Thursday (St. Bernadette) St. George, (St. Adalbert, bishop, missionary &, St. Pius V, pope (St. Richard) 0 Good Friday (St. Ezekiel) Easter Friday (Sts. Innocent & Rudolf) St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, 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 P O Box 0 Mandeni 0 Phone + (0) Fax + (0) St. Isidore, bishop & St. Benedict the Black, religious Easter Vigil St. Stanislaus, bishop & Easter Saturday (St. Wigbert) St. Mark, evangelist

6 Blessed Gerard s Children s Home Caring without borders Liturgical Calendar - May 0 th Sunday of Easter Sts. Philip & James, apostles (St. Ansfried) 0 th Sunday of Easter (Blessed Damian Joseph de Veuster of Molokai, priest) th Sunday of Easter (Sts. Dietmar & Paschalis) th Sunday of Easter (St. Dagmar) (St. Florian) (Sts. Odo, Majolus, Odilo, Hugo & Petrus the venerable, abbots of Cluny, St. John I, pope &, Blessed Gerard Mecatti of Villamagna, religious, SMOM, (St. Erich) St. Bede the Venerable, priest & ; St. Gregory VII, pope; St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, virgin (Sts. Angelo & Godehard) Sts. Nereus & Achilleus, s; St. Pancras, (St. Celestin, pope & hermit, St. Philip Neri, priest (Sts. Aldricus, Dominic & Edmar), (Our Lady of Fatima) St. Bernardine of Siena, priest St. Augustine of Canterbury, bishop (St. Notker / Gernot) St. Matthias, apostle Ascension of the Lord (St. Christopher Magallanes, priest & companions, s) St. Ubaldesca, virgin, SMOM St. Joseph the worker RSA: Workers Day (St. Victor) St. Isidore the farmer (USA) ( years Blessed Gérard s Friendship Club & years Blessed Gérard s Children s Home) (St. Rita of Cascia, religious) Blessed Joseph Gerard OMI, priest St. Athanasius, bishop & (St. Germanus) (St. John Nepomuc) (St. Desiderius) ( years Blessed Gérard s AIDS Education Programme) (St. Joan of Arc) Pentecost Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 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 P O Box 0 Mandeni 0 Phone + (0) Fax + (0)

7 Blessed Gerard s Relief Fund Happy faces: When their house had burnt down we gave the children shelter, clothing, food and lots of tender loving care. Now they return to their parents. Liturgical Calendar - June 0 Trinity Sunday (St. Jeremias) Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (St. Richard) th Sunday in ordinary time St. Aloysius Gonzaga, religious th Sunday in ordinary time St. Irenaeus, bishop & St. Justin, th week in ordinary time Blessed James Berthieu, (St. Vitus) Sts. Paulinus of Nola, bishop John Fisher, bishop & Thomas Moore, Sts. Peter & Paul, apostles Sts. Marcellinus & Peter, s St. Ephrem, deacon & (St. Pacificus) (Sts. Aurelian, Benno & Quirinus) Immaculate Heart of Mary RSA: Youth Day (St. Edeltraud) First s of the Church of Rome Sts. Charles Lwanga & companions, s (St. Kevin) 0 (St. Diana) (St. Quirin) St. Barnabas, apostle (St. Armando) Birth of St. John the Baptist, patron, SMOM (Sts. Prosper & Wilhelm) St. Boniface, bishop & St. Flora of Beaulieu, virgin, SMOM St. Onophrius, hermit Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Patronal feast of the Diocese of Eshowe & the Missionary Benedictines) St. Romuald, abbot Blessed Gerland, religious, SMOM (St. Vigilius) 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 St. Norbert, bishop St. Anthony of Padua, priest &, patron of Mandeni Parish (St. Novatus) St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop & (Our Mother of Perpetual Help) P O Box 0 Mandeni 0 Phone + (0) Fax + (0)

8 Blessed Gerard s Pre-Primary School & Crèche Liturgical Calendar - July 0 th Sunday St. Anthony Zaccaria, priest th Sunday Blessed David Gunston,, SMOM (St. Johannes Gualbert, abbot, th Sunday (St. Arsenio) th Sunday St. Joachim & Anne, parents of the St. Maria Goretti, virgin & St. Henry, (St. Eugene) (St. Apollinarius) (Sts. Berthold & Rudolf) (Sts. Walter & Willibald) St. Camillus de Lellis, priest; Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, virgin (USA) St. Toscana, religious, SMOM St. Laurence of Brindisi, priest & St. Victor I, pope &, (St. Maximilian Kolbe) St. Nicasius,, SMOM (Blessed Junípero Serra, priest) Blessed Adrian Fortescue,, SMOM St. Bonaventure, bishop & St. Mary Magdalene Sts. Martha, Maria & Lazarus, friends of Jesus, OSB (Sts. Mario & Martinian) (St. Augustine Zhao Rong, priest & companions, s) (St. Godfrey) Our Lady of Mount Carmel St. Bridget of Sweden, religious St. Peter Chrysologus, bishop & St. Thomas, apostle 0 (Sts. Alexander, Silvanus & Vitalis) (Sts. Alexius, Leo & Pambo) (St. Sharbel Makhluf, priest) St. Ignatius of Loyola, priest St. Justin de Jacobis, bishop St. Elizabeth of Portugal St. Benedict, abbot, OSB (St. Arnold) St. James, apostle Blessed Virgin Mary 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 P O Box 0 Mandeni 0 Phone + Fax +

9 Our principal collecting some of our children from Pre-School Liturgical Calendar - August 0 St. Alphonsus Liguori, bishop & th Sunday St. Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop (St. Peter Julian Eymard, priest) th Sunday (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), virgin & ) th Sunday St. Stephan of Hungary st Sunday St. Rose of Lima, virgin nd Sunday Blessed Ghebre Michael, priest & (Sts. Benno & Nicodem) 0 St. Lawrence, deacon & RSA: National Women s Day (St. Hyacinth) St. Bartholomew, apostle (Sts. Aidan & Raimund) St. John Vianney, priest St. Clare, virgin (St. Susanna, ) (St. Helena) St. Louis of France, St. Joseph Calasanz, priest Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major (St. Jane Frances de Chantal, religious) Blessed Isidore Bakanja, St. John Eudes, priest, (St. Bernard Toloméi, abbot, (Our Lady of Czestochowa) Transfiguration of the Lord St. Pontian, pope &, St. Hippolytus, priest & St. Bernard, abbot & St. Monica Sts. Sixtus II, pope & & companions, s St. Cajetan, priest St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, priest & St. Pius X, pope Blessed Victoria Rasoamanarivo St. Augustine, bishop & St. Dominic, priest Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Queenship of the Virgin Mary Beheading of St. John the Baptist,, patron 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 African Saints brought to you by the P O Box 0 Mandeni 0 Phone + (0) Fax + (0)

10 Home Care Training Liturgical Calendar - September 0 rd Sunday (St. Magnus) th Sunday St. John Chrysostom, bishop & th Sunday St. Andrew Kim Taegŏn, priest &, Sts. Paul Chŏng Hasang & companions, s th Sunday St. Vincent de Paul, (St. Dietrich) Triumph of the Holy Cross St. Matthew, apostle & evangelist (St. Ruth) (Prefecture Apostolic of Zululand constituted in ) Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Philerme, SMOM Our Lady of Sorrows St. Maurice and the Theban Legion, s (St. Otto) (Sts. Justin & Nonnosus) St. Peter Claver, priest (USA) St. Cornelius, pope & ; St. Cyprian, bishop & St. Zachary & Elizabeth, parents of St. John the Baptist, (SMOM) (St. Pio of Pietrelcina) St. Gregory the Great, pope & Death of Blessed Gérard (+), ( years Blessed Gérard s Care Centre) 0 (St. Diethard) St. Robert Bellarmine, bishop & (St. Hildegard, virgin & abbess, St. Stephanie, (Our Lady of Ransom) RSA: Heritage Day (St. Moses) (St. Felix) (Sts. Lambert & Luke) (St. Nicolas) (St. Maria Theresia) (Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary) St. Januarius, bishop & Sts. Cosmas & Damian, s St. Wenceslaus, Sts. Michael, Gabriel & St. Jerome, priest &, (St. Laurence Raphael, archangels Ruiz & companions, (St. Victor) priest s) 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 P O Box 0 Mandeni 0 Phone + (0) Fax + (0)

11 Father Liturgical Calendar - October 0 th Sunday in ordinary time St. Francis of Assisi, religious th Sunday in ordinary time (St. Bruno) th Sunday in ordinary time World Mission Sunday St. Luke, evangelist th Sunday in ordinary time (St. Gaudence) Blessed Peter Pattarini of Imola, prior, SMOM, (St. Mary Faustina) (St. Wilfried) St. Paul of the Cross, priest, Sts. John Brébeuf & Isaac Jogues, priests & s & companions, s (USA), (Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta) (Sts. Evaristo & Gilbert) St. Bruno, priest, Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, virgin (USA) Blessed Gérard, founder of the SMOM, patron of the BBG (St. Edward) Blessed Daudi Okelo & Jildro Irwa, s (St. Wendelin) (St. Frumentius) Our Lady of the Rosary St. Callistus I, pope & (St. Ursula) Sts. Simon & Jude, apostles th anniversary of the foundation of the of Blessed Gérard St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, virgin, (St. Angelo) St. Hugh, religious, SMOM St. Teresa of Avila, virgin & (St. Ingbert) (St. Narcis) Guardian Angels Sts. Denis, bishop & & companions, s St. John Leonardi, priest St. Hedwig, religious St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin St. John of Capistrano, priest, (St. Herfried) St. Marcellus,, (St. Claudius) (Sts. Ewald & Udo) 0 St. Daniel Comboni, bishop & founder of the Comboni Missionaries, (St. Viktor) St. Ignatius of Antioch, bishop & St. Anthony Claret, bishop (St. Felix) (St. Wolfgang) 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 P O Box 0 Mandeni 0 Phone + (0) Fax + (0)

12 Motivational talk on World AIDS Day by a Therapeutic Counsellor Liturgical Calendar - November 0 All Saints (St. Harald) nd Sunday in ordinary time (St. Godfrey) rd Sunday in ordinary time St. Albert the Great, bishop & (St. Leopold) Jesus Christ the King St. Cecilia, virgin & st Sunday of Advent Commemoration of all the faithful departed: All Souls Dedication of the Lateran Basilica St. Margaret of Scotland St. Gertrude, virgin Sts. Clement I, pope &, St. Columban, abbot, (Blessed Miguel Augustine Pro, priest & ) St. Andrew, apostle St. Martin de Porres, religious 0 St. Leo the Great, pope & St. Elizabeth of Hungary, religious St. Dionysius of Alexandria, bishop (Sts. Andrew Dung- Lac & companions, s) St. Charles Borromeo, bishop St. Martin of Tours, bishop Dedication of the Basilicas of Sts. Peter & Paul, apostles (St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, virgin) St. Catherine of Alexandria, virgin & (St. Zacharia) ( years of Blessed Gérard acknowledged by the bishop) St. Josaphat, bishop &, (St. Theodore of Studion, abbot, All Saints of the SMOM, (St. Mechthild, virgin, (St. Silvester, abbot, All Saints of Africa (St. Leonard) St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin (USA) (St. Bernward) (St. Bilhild) (St. Maximinus) (St. Willibrord, bishop, (St. Didas) Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (St. Sostenes) (St. James of the Marches) (St. Jolanda) 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 P O Box 0 Mandeni 0 Phone + (0) Fax + (0)

13 We wish you a Merry Christmas! Liturgical Calendar December 0 nd Sunday of Advent St. Nicholas, bishop rd Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday) St. Lucy, virgin & (St. Odilia, virgin, OSB, patron of the Missionary Benedictines) th Sunday of Advent Blessed Scubilion, religious (Sts. Abraham & Theophil) Holy Family St. John, apostle & Lectionary: Sundays Cycle C Weekdays II starts from Advent St. Ambrose, bishop & St. John of the Cross, religious & St. Peter Canisius, priest & Blessed Clementine Anuarite, virgin & (St. Pachomius, abbot, WORLD AIDS DAY Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (St. Reinald) (St. Jutta) Blessed Virgin Mary, cause of our joy, SMOM (St. Bibiana) (St Juan Diego, hermit) (St. Adelheid) RSA: Day of Reconciliation St. John of Kanty, priest St. Francis Xavier, priest (St. Zephania) International day of disabled persons 0 St. Melchiades, pope (Sts. Lazaro & Sturmius) Vigil of Christmas St. John Damascene, priest & (St. Barbara) St. Damasus I, pope Inkamana Abbey: Anniversary of the dedication of the church (St. Wunibald) ( years Blessed Gérard s Poor Sick Fund) Christmas (St. Sabas, abbot, (St. Gerald) St. Jane Frances de Chantal, religious Our Lady of Guadalupe (USA) (St. Konrad) St. Stephen, first RSA: Day of Goodwill Holy Innocents, th day in the octave of th day in the octave of th day in the octave s Christmas St. Thomas Christmas of Christmas evangelist Becket, bishop & St. Sylvester I, 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 African Saints brought to you by the P O Box 0 Mandeni 0 Phone + Fax +

14 Thank you! It is with sincere gratitude that we send you our special calendar for 0. The choice of pictures is not a reward for meritorious members, but we have simply chosen the best pictures of 0. It is printed in a low volume and given to our generous benefactors as a sign of our sincere appreciation of your continued support. Your assistance means a great deal to us and the people we help. May God bless you abundantly and reward you for your generosity! & Blessed Gérard s Care Centre P O Box 0 Mandeni 0 Phone + (0) Fax + (0)