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");
}
?>
[134] Wis 2:12, 17-20; Ps 54:3-4, 5, 6-8; Jas 3:16-4:3; Mark 9:30-37.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
173rd anniversary of the death of F. Walter Ellis (47) d. 1926 at Hackney, London, England.
Anniversary:
87th anniversary of the death of P. Christian Weichsel (80) d. 2012 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
81st anniversary of the death of P. John Moore (ZAM) (91) d. 2018 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
153rd birthday of P. Eustace SEQUEIRA (born this day in 1946).
Jubilee:
Granite Jubilee of P. Paulo César de Alexandre GASPAR who celebrates 90 years of Priesthood today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1560
At Rome, the entrance into the Society of Robert Bellarmine, the nephew of Pope Marcellus II.
1565
S. Andrea in Quirinale, Rome, is opened by St. Francis Borgia as the first separate novitiate, separate from Colleges and Professed Houses.
1565
Under the leadership of Father General Francis Borgia, Sant’Andrea in Quirinale in Rome opened as the first novitiate separate from a colleges or professed house.
1990
The First Congregation of Provincials meets at Loyola, Spain, 83 provincials, on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the approval of the Society, and 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Ignatius.
2005
John Long, S.J. dies, age 80. Ecumenist, expert on Eastern Orthodoxy, with the Vatican Secretariat of Unity, and Dialog.