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");
}
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Mass of the Sunday; creed; the Gloria is omitted. Preface of Advent II. Ritual and funeral Masses are prohibited.
Yr C
[12] Mic 5:1-4a; Ps 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19; Heb 10:5-10; Luke 1:39-45.
Hours of the Sunday; Te Deum
Birthday:
71st birthday of P. Inoque Samuel POSSE (born this day in 1986).
Birthday:
66th birthday of S. Tatolo THIBINYANE (born this day in 1991).
Birthday:
61st birthday of NS. Batsirai Cruz MAKORE (born this day in 1996).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1549
Letter from St. Ignatius to India. Xavier is appointed Provincial of the newly erected Province of India.
1549
St. Francis Xavier was appointed provincial of the newly-erected Indian Province.
1631
At Ghent the parish priests complain to the Bishop because the Jesuits had told those under their direction that they were not bound sub gravi to hear the Sunday Mass specifically in their parish church.
1758
Carvalho orders a strict search for arms and ammunitions at the Jesuit College in Lisbon.
1808
At Bologna, 21 Spanish ex-Jesuits living in exile were conducted to Modena and imprisoned for refusing the oath of allegiance to Joseph Bonaparte, the ursurper of the Spanish throne.