function getOrthodoxEaster($date)
{
/*
Takes any Gregorian date and returns the Gregorian
date of Orthodox Easter for that year.
*/
$year = date("Y", $date);
$r1 = $year % 19;
$r2 = $year % 4;
$r3 = $year % 7;
$ra = 19 * $r1 + 16;
$r4 = $ra % 30;
$rb = 2 * $r2 + 4 * $r3 + 6 * $r4;
$r5 = $rb % 7;
$rc = $r4 + $r5;
//Orthodox Easter for this year will fall $rc days after April 3
return strtotime("3 April $year + $rc days");
}
?>
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Last Quarter
13 Monday
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Monday of the twenty-eighth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[467] Rom 1:1-7;Ps 98:1bcde, 2-3ab, 3cd-4; Luke 11:29-32.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
56th anniversary of the death of P. Herbert Preston (72) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
21st anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Farwell (94) d. 2004 at London, England.
Anniversary:
5th anniversary of the death of P. Emmanuel Mumba (ZAM) (52) d. 2020 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
33rd birthday of NF. Michael MESA (born this day in 1992).
Birthday:
54th birthday of P. Charles B. CHILUFYA (born this day in 1971).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1546
An Apostolic Constitution forbids a female branch of the Society of Jesus. 1572. The death of St. Francis Borgia.
1676
The arrival in London of Claude de la Colombiere, to be the chaplain and confessor of the Duchess of York, the wife of the future King James II.
1857
The death in Naples of Ven. Paul Anthony Capelloni, pastor of the Gesù Nuovo.
1990
The celebration at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome opens the Ignatian Year.