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: Human fraternity (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "May the Lord give us the grace to live in full fellowship with our brothers and sisters of other religions, praying for one another, open to all."
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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
2nd Sunday of the Word of God (est. 2020)
Mass of the Sunday; Gloria, Creed, Pref. of Sunday.
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[68] Jon 3:1-5, 10; Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; 1 Cor 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
54th anniversary of the death of P. Leo McQuillan (77) d. 1967 at Edinburgh, Scotland.
Anniversary:
13th anniversary of the death of F. Hermann Toma (69) d. 2008 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1554
Blessed Joseph Anchieta, a novice, and his Provincial, Nobrega, found the mission of Sao Paulo (city of Sao Paulo) on the vigil of the feast of St. Paul.
1594
Pope Clement VIII addresses the Jesuits at the Professed House in Rome, with the changes he wants. The fathers are thunderstruck. The changes regard the term of office, etc.
1623
Francis de Sales, bishop and doctor, Memorial was buried. Influenced by Jesuits and admirer of Jesuits.
1645
Fr. Henry Morse is led a prisoner from Durham to Newgate, London. On hearing his execution was fixed for February lst, he exclaimed: "Welcome ropes, hurdles, gibbets, knives, butchery of an infamous death! Welcome for the love of Jesus, my Savior."
1679
The martyrdom at Tyburn in London of William Ireland, procurator for the English Jesuits. He was falsely accused of plotting to kill the king.