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: That the world might grow in compassion (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that each one of us might find consolation in a personal relationship with Jesus, and from his Heart, learn to have compassion on the world."
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Ascension of the Lord
59th World Communications Sunday (est. 1967)
Mass of the Vigil or of the Solemnity, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Ascension I - II Special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum.Week 3 of the Psalter.
Birthday:
62nd birthday of P. António VirgÃlio Faria de Oliveira e COSTA (born this day in 1963).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1566
At Murcia, the death of Fr. James Suarez, over whose room a bright light was seen shining in the night. He was occasionally found raised from the ground during prayer.
1637
Jacques Marquette, S.J. is born.
1948
Peter Lutz, S.J. dies. Novice Director, New York.
1958
Charles De Gaulle becomes Premier of France. Jesuit alumnus.
1989
The death of Sergio Restrepo, aged 50, whose defense of the rights of the powerless and of the environment made him a threat to the interests of the economic and political powers in Tierralta, Colombia.