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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Mass of the Sunday, or of the Third Scrutiny; Creed, Preface of Fifth Sunday (with Year "A" readings) or Lent I - II.
Yr B
[35] Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15; Heb 5:7-9; John 12:20-33.
Yr B
Alt. (from Year A) [34] Ezek 37:12-14; Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; Rom 8:8-11; John 11:1-45 or 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45.
In Year B, during the week, Year A's gospel (Jn 11:1-45) may be used [1st R: 2 Kgs 4:18b-21, 32-27; Ps 17] Lect. [250].
Hours of the Sunday. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Birthday:
87th birthday of S. Wales BANDA (born this day in 1994).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1649
In Canada, among the Iroquois, Jean de Brebeuf died a glorious martyr after a series of horrible tortures, the very recital of which makes one shudder.
1880
The French Parliament pass Jules Ferry's Bill for the closing of all the Society's houses and colleges in France.
1988
Fr. General Kolvenbach meets Commander in Chief Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba.
1990
Joseph Sebes, S.J. dies Chinese scholar and professor at Georgetown University.
2005
Antonio deAldama, S.J. dies age 97. Secretary of the Society from 1945-50 and expert on the Constitutions.
2007
Daniel Degnan, S.J. dies lawyer, had been president of St. Peter’s College.