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 those who have lost a child (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that all parents who mourn the loss of a son or daughter find support in their community, and may receive peace of heart from the Spirit of Consolation."
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Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[155] 1 Kgs 17:10-16; Ps 146:7, 8-9a, 9b-10; Heb 9:24-28; Mark 12:38-44 or 12:41-44.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1549
Pope Paul III dies To him the Society owes its first constitution as a religious order, the Formula of the Institute, approved on 27 September, 1540.
1551
Xavier ends his two year mission in Japan.
1569
Fr. Sforza Pallavicini, historian of the Council of Trent, was despite his attempts to escape the office, made a cardinal by Pope Alexander VII.
1619
Descartes has a dream/vision/insight into a unitary universal science. Jesuit educated.