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 priests in crisis. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for priests going through moments of crisis in their vocation, that they may find the accompaniment they need and that communities may support them with understanding and prayer."
Full Moon
1 Wednesday
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Wednesday of Holy Week
Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II
[259] Is 50:4-9a;Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31+33-34; Matt 26:14-25.
Hours of the day
Anniversary:
25th anniversary of the death of P. Hubert Delaney (HIB) (71) d. 2001 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
62nd birthday of P. David MASIKINI (born this day in 1964).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1767
All the Society's Colleges and houses in Spain were occupied by troops, and the Jesuits dragged to Cartagena to be shipped as exiles to the Papal States.
1863
Governor John A. Andrews approves the charter for Boston College.
1941
Hippolyte Delehaye, S.J. dies. Brussels: hagiographer, President of the Bollandists from 1912 to 1941.
1963
Gerald Ellard, S.J. dies Liturgist, and one of the founders of the National Liturgical Conference.
1984
Georgetown University wins the NCAA Basketball Championship, John Thompson is the coach.