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 a shared mission (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the Church continue to sustain a synodal lifestyle in every way, as a sign of co-responsibility, promoting the participation, communion and mission shared by priests, religious and laity."
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Tuesday of the twenty-ninth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[474] Eph 2:12-22;Ps 85:9ab-10, 11-12, 13-14; Luke 12:35-38.
Hours of the day.
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St John Paul II, pope Common of Pastors: For a Pope Readings from the Common of Saints: [663A] Isa 52:7-10 (#719.5); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); John 21:15-17 (#724.12).
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Anniversary:
32nd anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Kowalik (71) d. 1992 at Katondwe, Zambia.
Anniversary:
4th 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.