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");
}
?>
Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) [Octave Day of Easter]. (Formerly known as Dominica in Albis (Sunday in White), Quasimodo Sunday or Low Sunday.)
Mass of the Sunday, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I ("on this Easter day"); Easter Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
Yr B
[44] Acts 4:32-35; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 John 5:1-6; John 20:19-31.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Evening Prayer II of the Sunday. The Easter Octave ends. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
105th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Hornig (75) d. 1931 at Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
79th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Wilmot (88) d. 1957 at Heythrop, England.
Anniversary:
23rd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Groselj (69) d. 2013 at Nangoma, Zambia.
Birthday:
86th birthday of P. Christopher CHATTERIS (born this day in 1950).
Birthday:
84th birthday of P. O. Kenneth JOHNSON (born this day in 1952).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1586
The first and trial edition of the Ratio Studiorum was issued under Fr. General Claudio Acquaviva.
1586
The first Ratio Studiorum was issued under Father General Claude Aquaviva.
1842
Jesuits return to Canada. Superior Peter Chazelle is appointed. 1864. Father Peter de Smet left St. Louis to evangelize the Sioux Indians.
1893
Robert I. Gannon, S.J. is born. Staten Island. He was President of Fordham University, and a famous after dinner speaker.
1955
Pedro Leturia, S.J. dies Rome, historian. He was the founding director of the Archivum Historicum Societatis, Jesu.
1996
Francis McCool, S.J. dies. He had been a professor of Scripture at the Biblicum in Rome.