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");
}
?>
Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For vocations to the priesthood and religious life (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the ecclesial community might welcome the desires and doubts of those young people who feel a call to serve Christ’s mission in the priesthood and religious life."
1 Saturday
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Saturday of the third week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle I
[322] Heb 11:1-2, 8-19;Luke 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75; Mark 4:35-41.
Hours of the day.
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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Optional
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
73rd anniversary of the death of F. John Göll (80) d. 1952 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
9th anniversary of the death of P. John O'Leary (88) d. 2016 at Los Gatos, CA, USA.
Birthday:
76th birthday of P. John MUJDRICA (born this day in 1949).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1549
The first band of missioners to Brazil set sail from Lisbon. Sent by Ignatius, they include the Superior, Manuel Nobrega.
1645
The death of Henry Morse, known as the "Priest of the Plague" because of his care for the plague-stricken. He was martyred at Tyburn, England, by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
1833
Father General John Roothaan wrote the Ordinatio de Mineverali that granted Jesuit schools permission to charge tuition in line with other reputable day schools in the country. Poor students, however,were not to be turned away.
1953
The dedication of the Philosophate at Spring Hill, Alabama.
1956
Neil Boyton, S.J. dies. He was a teacher at Regis, a friend of youth, and pastoral worker at St.Ignatius Parish, NY.
2000
Peter Levi dies, age 68. . Ex-Jesuit, poet, Oxford don.