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 elderly (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for the elderly, who represent the roots and memory of a people; may their experience and wisdom help young people to look towards the future with hope and responsibility."
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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
2nd World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly (est. 2021)
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[111] Gen 18:20-32; Ps 138:1-2a, 2b-3, 6-7a, 7b-8; Col 2:12-14; Luke 11:1-13.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Three magi (cf. Mt. 2:10-11) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
132nd anniversary of the death of P. Alfred Weld (67) d. 1890 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
101st anniversary of the death of F. Peter Schafer (40) d. 1921 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
24th anniversary of the death of P. Frederick Moriarty (64) d. 1998 at Dublin, Ireland.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1575
In Rome Fr. Robert Parsons enters the Society.
1804
Maryland, Fr. Robert Molyneux is appointed First Superior by Fr. General Gruber.
1861
The purchase of the Roehampton property by the Society. The owners thought they were selling it to the Queen as a residence for the Prince of Wales.
1936
The death of S.G. Braulio MartÃnez and Lawrence Isla, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War.
1950
John Birkmeyer, N.S.J. dies Novice drowns at St. Andrew on Hudson, New York in the Hudson River.