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");
}
?>
[338] Gen 9:1-13;Ps 102:16-18, 19-21, 29, 22-23; Mark 8:27-33.
Hours of the day.
Outside the Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg [i.e. all non-SACBC territories]
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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 is celebrated on the Thursday after Pentecost, except for SACBC territories which will celebrate it next Thursday. In SACBC territories, the Feria from Ordinary Time should be used as above, or the optional Memorial below can be used.]
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Gen 22:9-18 or Heb 10:4-10; Ps 40 (39):7-8a, 10-11ab, 17 (℟. 8a, 9a); Matt 26:36-42. Download the texts
Hours of the feast. Te Deum.
Anniversary:
96th anniversary of the death of P. Bertram Callan (60) d. 1939 at Makumbi, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
90th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Pacek (77) d. 1945 at Chingombe, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
54th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Conway (56) d. 1981 at Ennis, Ireland.
Birthday:
61st birthday of P. Clyde MUROPA (born this day in 1974).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1572
Pope Gregory XIII exempted the Society from choir and approved simple vows after two years of novitiate and ordination before solemn profession. In these matters he reversed a decree of St. Pius V.
1572
Pope Gregory XIII exempted the Society from Choir, approved the simple vows after two years' noviceship, and allowed Ours to be ordained before Profession: in all these matters reversing a decree of St. Pius V.
1824
Brief of Leo XIII returns the Roman College to the Society of Jesus, Cum multa in Urbe.
1915
Fr. General Ledochowski leaves Rome, goes to Switzerland to better govern and communicate with the Society in WW I.
1966
Gaston Salet, S.J. dies teacher, preacher.
1968
Catonsville Nine: an anti-Vietnam protest, with Jesuits involved.