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 faith-filled young people (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for all young people, called to live life to the fullest; may they see in Mary’s life the way to listen, the depth of discernment, the courage that faith generates, and the dedication to service."
Waning Gibbous
18 Wednesday
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Wednesday in the Fifth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II
[287] Acts 15:1-6;Ps 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5; John 15:1-8.
Hours of the day.
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St John I, pope and martyr
Optional
(Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors: For a Pope Readings from the Common of Saints: [565] Rev 3:14b, 20-22 (#738.2); Ps 23:1-3a, 4, 5, 6 (#721.2); Luke 22:24-30 (#724.9).)
Anniversary:
69th anniversary of the death of P. Eugénio Witz (79) d. 1953 at Soutelo, Braga, Portugal.
Anniversary:
8th anniversary of the death of F. Alphonse McAndrew (CDA) (82) d. 2014 at Pickering, ON, Canada.
Birthday:
31st birthday of S. Dennis Simbarashe ALUBEMBE (born this day in 1991).
Birthday:
40th birthday of P. Nelson NYAMAYARO (born this day in 1982).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1534
Peter Faber is ordained a priest, the first of the companions to become a priest. He says his first Mass on July 22.
1675
Pere Jacques Marquette dies, age 37, at Ludington, Michigan. Explorer of the Mississippi.
1675
The death in Canada, at age 37, of James Marquette, Jesuit missionary who gained lasting reknown for exploring the Mississippi River.
1711
Ruggero Giuiseppi Boscovich, S.J. is born. Astronomer and Mathematician.
1975
Mass for the closing of Woodstock College, New York City.
1985
Thomas Moore, S.J. dies. He was Editor of the Sacred Heart Messenger and director of the Apostleship of Prayer.