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 prayer with the Word of God. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that praying with the Word of God be nourishment for our lives and a source of hope in our communities, helping us to build a more fraternal and missionary Church."
Last Quarter
16 Friday
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Friday of the first week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle II
[309] 1 Sam 8:4-7, 10-22a;Ps 89:16-17, 18-19; Mark 2:1-12.
Hours of the day.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1554
St. Ignatius manifests the desire, if the Society allows, to go to Africa and work on the mission he established there.
1656
At Meliapore died Father Robert de Nobili, nephew of Cardinal Bellarmine. Sent to the Madura Mission, he learned to speak three languages and for 45 years labored with great fruit among the Brahmins of the highest caste.
1679
In Wales Fr. Ignatius Price, pursued for alleged complicity in the Titus Oates plot, dies of exhaustion and exposure to the cold.
1860
At Calcutta, Belgian Jesuits opened St. Francis Xavier College.
1987
Robert F. Hartnett, S.J. from Chicago, was editor of America magazine. January 17