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 10.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Barnabas, apostle (cf. Acts 4:36-37) [from the Roman Martyrology].
168th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Dichamp (57) d. 1911 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
162nd anniversary of the death of F. Augustine Zurek (70) d. 1917 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
142nd anniversary of the death of F. Jacob Longa (80) d. 1937 at Kasisi, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
116th anniversary of the death of P. Henry Quin (88) d. 1963 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
80th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph McDonald (81) d. 1999 at Chikuni, Zambia.
Anniversary:
72nd anniversary of the death of F. Amadeu Inácio (93) d. 2007 at Cernache, Portugal.
Anniversary:
61st anniversary of the death of P. Shaun Carls (SAF) (54) d. 2018 at Clarens, RSA.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1612
At Quito died Mark Antonio, an Italian lay-brother known as "the Saint." To the age of 80, he macerated his body with fasts, disciplines, hair shirts. Once during Mass he was seen raised in the air, his face shining with light.
1742
Pope Benedict XIV forbade the Chinese and Malabar Rites; persecution broke out at once in China.