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");
}
?>
Separate Vigil Mass texts in RM with separate set of readings. An elongated Vigil Liturgy of the Word is one option.
Mass of Pentecost; Gloria, Sequence, Creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I, Double alleluia at the dismissal.
Yr C
[63] Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1+24, 29b-30, 31+34; Rom 8:8-17 (Year C) or 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 14:15-16, 23b-26 (Year C) or Jn 20:19-23.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal
After Evening Prayer, the Paschal Candle is extinguished, and moved to the Baptistery, where it is kept in a place of honor so that the candles of the newly baptised may be lit from it.
The weeks of the year resume with Week 7.
Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
117th anniversary of the death of P. Eugénio Witz (79) d. 1953 at Soutelo, Braga, Portugal.
Anniversary:
56th anniversary of the death of F. Alphonse McAndrew (CDA) (82) d. 2014 at Pickering, ON, Canada.
Birthday:
79th birthday of S. Dennis Simbarashe ALUBEMBE (born this day in 1991).
Birthday:
88th 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.