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 collaboration between different religious traditions (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that believers in different religious traditions might work together to defend and promote peace, justice and human fraternity."
10 Friday
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Friday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[465] Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2;Ps 9:2-3, 6+16, 8-9; Luke 11:15-26.
Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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St Daniel Comboni, Bishop
MemorialÂ
Common of Pastors
Anniversary:
74th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Furniss (71) d. 1951 at London, England.
Anniversary:
27th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Hughes (91) d. 1998 at Blackburn, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
22nd anniversary of the death of P. Jock Earle (78) d. 2003 at London, England.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1549
The Province of India constituted, with Xavier as its first Provincial.
1806
The first Novitiate of the Maryland Mission is opened, at Georgetown, in a house facing Holy Trinity Church. Ten Novices enter. The Novice Director is Fr. Francis Neale, himself a novice who had entered the Jesuits on that day.
1820
At the 20th GC Father Petrucci, Vicar-General, led astray by the turbulent Father Rezzi, was deposed. Father Rezzi was expelled from the Society as a factiosus.
1938
The first golf match is held between the theologians and philosophers at the new golf course at Woodstock. It ends in a tie, but the theologians win two days later in a playoff.
1948
The official blessing and dedication of LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY.
1949
Letter of Fr. General Janssens, "Instruction on the Social Apostolate." 1950. Jan Korec is ordained a priest in prison in Czechoslovakia. One year later, at the age of 27, he is made a bishop, and a cardinal in 1991. He is released from prison in 1968.