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");
}
?>
Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle II
[302] Acts 28:16-20, 30-31;Ps 11:4, 5+7; John 21:20-25.
Hours of the day.
In the evening:
red
Vigil of Pentecost
Solemnity
Mass of the Vigil; Gloria, sequence, creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I. Double alleluia at the dismissal
[62] Gen 11:1-9 or Exod 19:3-8a, 16-20b or Ezek 37:1-14 or Joel 3:1-5; Ps 104:1-2, 24+35, 27-28, 29b-30; John 7:37-39.
For pastoral reasons, the texts of the day Mass may also be used.
Anniversary:
131st anniversary of the death of P. Bertram Callan (60) d. 1939 at Makumbi, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
125th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Pacek (77) d. 1945 at Chingombe, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
89th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Conway (56) d. 1981 at Ennis, Ireland.
Birthday:
96th 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.