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 the abolition of the death penalty (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray that the death penalty, which attacks the dignity of the human person, may be legally abolished in every country."
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Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[135] Amos 8:4-7; Ps 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8; 1 Tim 2:1-8; Luke 16:1-13 or 16:10-13.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
130th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony de Carvalho (35) d. 1892 at Urmbini, Mhanji.
Anniversary:
129th anniversary of the death of P. Lourenço Loubière (30) d. 1893 at on the way to Milange.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1539
Paul III approves the Formula of the Institute verbally at Tivoli, his summer residence. This is based upon the "five chapters" sent him by Ignatius.
1561
The first entrance of the Society into France at the invitation and under the favor of five Cardinals. The insolent opposition of its enemies was repressed.
1641
The death of Brother Richard Fulwood, rejoicing that his sufferings from calculus were so intense. As only his head was free from pain, he prayed that it too might have its suffering. (Calculus = stones)
1768
1,600 of the exiled Spanish Fathers and Scholastics were driven out of Corsica by De Choiseul’s orders, the island having been ceded by Genoa to France.
1989
James L. Vizzard, S.J. dies. He supported the rural life movement, and the United Farm Workers.