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 Synod (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the world’s peripheries."
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Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
97th World Mission Sunday (est. 1926)
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[145] Isa 45:1, 4-6; Ps 96:1+3, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10; 1 Thess 1:1-5b; Matt 22:15-21.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
31st anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Kowalik (71) d. 1992 at Katondwe, Zambia.
Anniversary:
3rd anniversary of the death of P. Karl Steffens (ZIM) (84) d. 2020 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1536
Favre, Rodriguez, Salmeron, Bobadilla, Jay, Codure, and Broet are granted their M.A. degrees. Lainez and Xavier already had theirs.
1642
Charles Raymbault dies French missionary, the first to die in Canada. He is buried next to Samuel Champlain.
1861
Beaumont Lodge, Old Windsor, the Novitiate of the English Province from 1854-1861, was opened as a College.
1870
In France, Garibaldi and his filibusters drove the Jesuits from the Colleges of Dole and Mont Roland.
1986
Frances Xavier Weiser, S.J. dies. Writer, on liturgy and church feasts. Also wrote a book for youth that sold one million copies, and was translated into forty languages, The Light on the Mountain.