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");
}
?>
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Monday of the fifteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[389] Exod 1:8-14, 22;Ps 124:1-3, 4-6, 7-8; Matt 10:34-11:1.
Hours of the day.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Veronica (Berenike), pious woman (cf. Lk. 23:27) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
129th anniversary of the death of F. Manuel de Freitas (35) d. 1892 at Inhambane, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Death:
Death of P. David Rowan (SAP) (68) d. 2021 at Johannesburg, RSA.
Jubilee:
Silver Jubilee of P. Kelly MICHELO who celebrates 25 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1760
The banishment of Ours from Maranhao, South America.
1936
Arthur Vermeersch, S.J. dies Belgium. Author of Miles Christi Jesu, et al. Canon lawyer, moral theologian. He taught at Louvain and the Gregorian.
1994
Symposium on the Brothers opens in Loyola, Spain, in preparation for the 34th General Congregation.
2000
Fr. Remis Kerketta, S.J. age 47, is shot and killed by assassins. He was a school headmaster, in the state of Bihar, near Ranchi.