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");
}
?>
[368] 2 Cor 11:1-11;Ps 111:1b-2, 3-4, 7-8; Matt 6:7-15.
Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest
Feast
Mass of the feast. Gloria, Preface of the priesthood of Christ and of the Church. [In the Universal Calendar, this feast was celebrated last Thursday, on the Thursday after Pentecost, to mark an octave before Corpus Christi, but since Corpus Christi is transferred to this coming Sunday, in SACBC territories only, the feast is moved a week later, to the Thursday after the Most Holy Trinity, to commence a triduum leading to Corpus Christi. In non-SACBC territories, the Feria from Ordinary Time should be used as above.]
Yr B
Jer 31:31-34 or Heb 10:11-18; Ps 110 (109):1b-e, 2, 3 (℟. 4b); Mark 14:22-25. Download the texts
Hours of the feast. Te Deum.
Diocese of Kabwe, Zambia
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The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Patronal Feast of the Diocese
Feast
Mass of the solemnity. Gloria, Creed, Preface of Sacred Heart (Sunday Lect.) [170] Deut 7:6-11; Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8+10; 1 John 4:7-16; Matt 11:25-30. Hours of he Dedication, Te Deum.
Diocese of Monze, Zambia
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The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Patronal Feast of the Diocese
Feast
Mass of the solemnity. Gloria, Creed, Preface of Sacred Heart (Sunday Lect.) [170] Deut 7:6-11; Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8+10; 1 John 4:7-16; Matt 11:25-30. Hours of he Dedication, Te Deum.
Anniversary:
145th anniversary of the death of P. Francis von Wersch (59) d. 1888 at Dunbrody, RSA.
Anniversary:
77th anniversary of the death of F. Patrick Mellon (74) d. 1956 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
62nd anniversary of the death of P. Adam Wargocki (35) d. 1971 at Katondwe, Zambia.
Anniversary:
48th anniversary of the death of P. Lachlan Hughes (60) d. 1985 at London, England.
Birthday:
32nd birthday of S. Costantino CHIBULA (born this day in 2001).
Birthday:
32nd birthday of S. Chrispin STANDE (born this day in 2001).
Birthday:
66th birthday of *P. Dondo Bena, Benoît (ACE) (born this day in 1967).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Tradtional feast of St. John Francis Regis. "a wonderful apostle, whom no violence of cold, no snows, no torrents, no difficulties could stop when souls were to be saved."
1573
The close of the Third General Congregation, with some disturbance. Pope Gregory XIII had expressed a wish that the General should not be a Spaniard. Fr. Everard Mercurian, a Belgian, was elected.
1737
John Francis Regis is canonized.
1879
The end of the New York-Canada Mission. Links with France are cut. Canada is linked to England. 225 from New York are united with 300 from Maryland for a total of 525 in the new Province. For one year, it is called the NY Province.
1927
Letter of Fr. General Ledochowski to Ours on swimming, warning of the dangers. Ours are not to swim at health resorts and other like places, and obviously not with women. This letter follows a letter of July 1926 from the Sacred Congregation of Religious on swimming.
1929
Claude de la Colombiere is beatified.
1939
A further letter of Fr. General Ledochowski on swimming.
1994
Edward (Doc) Kilmartin S.J. dies. Theologian, expert on the Eucharist, from the New England Province.
1999
Jules Toner, S.J. dies, expert on discernment, Ignatian spirituality