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 formation in discernment (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that we might again learn how to discern, to know how to choose paths of life and reject everything that leads us away from Christ and the Gospel."
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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
106th Sea Sunday (est. 1919)
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[105] Deut 30:10-14; Ps 69:14+17, 30-31, 33-34, 36a+37 or Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11; Col 1:15-20; Luke 10:25-37.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Ezra, priest (cf. Ezr. 7:8,10) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
111th anniversary of the death of F. Peter Perrodin (69) d. 1914 at Port Alfred, RSA.
Anniversary:
57th anniversary of the death of P. Laurence Crehan (58) d. 1968 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
33rd anniversary of the death of P. Anthony O'Flynn (76) d. 1992 at New Orleans, USA.
Anniversary:
24th anniversary of the death of F. Andrew Perdik (83) d. 2001 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
53rd birthday of P. Anesu Douglas MANYERE (born this day in 1972).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1556
St. Ignatius resigned the government of the Society into the hands of Fathers John Polanco and Christopher Madrid.
1572
Arrival in Mexico of the first band of missioners of the Society.
1572
The first band of Jesuit missionaries entered Mexico.
1667
At Vannes, the death of Fr. Bartholomew Vimont, apostle of the Indians in Canada, and the first to introduce nuns into Canada.
1720
The General Court of Massachusetts issues a proclamation that there is a 100 pound bounty or reward if one catches a Jesuit and takes him to Boston for justice.
1941
James Conlon, S.J. dies. He founded the Catholic Mission Board.