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");
}
?>
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Jeremiah, prophet (cf. Jer. 1:9) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
141st anniversary of the death of P. Bernard Rizzonelli (71) d. 1926 at Italy.
Anniversary:
44th anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Serra Ferreira (POR) (84) d. 2023 at Lisbon, Portugal.
Birthday:
81st birthday of P. Martin NYADEWO (born this day in 1986).
Jubilee:
Oak Jubilee of P. John MUJDRICA who celebrates 80 years since professing Final Vows today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1570
Six Jesuits, later twenty, become the official penitentieri in St. Peter's Basilica.
1572
At Rome, Pope St. Pius V breathed his last. His decree imposing Choir on the Society was canceled by his successor, Gregory XIII.
1592
Adam Schall, S.J. is born. Cologne.
1873
In Rome the Italian Parliament passed a law declaring religious orders non-existent in Italy, and ownership of all their properties passed to the state.
1881
Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. is born.
1965
Pope Paul VI entrusts the task of combating atheism to the Society of Jesus.
1987
Edith Stein and Rupert Mayer, S.J. are beatified by John Paul II.
1987
Raymond Schoder, S.J. dies in Chicago. He was a classical scholar and noted photographer.