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");
}
?>
Separate Vigil Mass texts in RM with separate set of readings. An elongated Vigil Liturgy of the Word is one option.
Mass of Pentecost; Gloria, Sequence, Creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I, Double alleluia at the dismissal.
Yr C
[63] Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1+24, 29b-30, 31+34; Rom 8:8-17 (Year C) or 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 14:15-16, 23b-26 (Year C) or Jn 20:19-23.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal
After Evening Prayer, the Paschal Candle is extinguished, and moved to the Baptistery, where it is kept in a place of honor so that the candles of the newly baptised may be lit from it.
The weeks of the year resume with Week 9.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
Birthday:
68th 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.