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");
}
?>
[133] Isa 55:6-9; Ps 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18; Phil 1:20c-24, 27a; Matt 20:1-16a.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Matthew, evangelist (cf. Mt. 9:9) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Jonah, prophet (cf. Jon. 2:1) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Birthday:
78th birthday of P. Admire Rufaro NHIKA (born this day in 1981).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1557
Melchior Cano is accused of being a heretic in disguise, and so he writes to Charles V, whose confessor he was.
1558
St. Francis Borgia preaches the eulogy for the Emperor Charles V at Valladolid.
1761
At Lisbon, the martyrdom of Fr. Gabriel Malagrida, aged seventy two. Pombal's inquisitors had found him guilty of heresy in a life of St. Anne written not by him, but by the ex- Capuchin, Norbert. He died by strangulation and the flames.
1851
In Rome at the Basilica of St. Peter, Pope Pius IX beatiļ¬ed Peter Claver, "The apostle of the slaves."
1996
Henri Nouwen dies, age 64 in Holland. He was a spiritual writer and teacher, and at the end he lived and worked with LāArche communities. Jesuit alumnus.
1999
Piet Schoonenberg, S.J. dies, age 87. Theologian. New Dutch Catechism, The Christ.