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");
}
?>
Mass of the Vigil or of the Solemnity, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Ascension I - II Special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I.
Yr B
[60] Acts 1:15-17, 20a, 20c-26; Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20; 1 John 4:11-16; John 17:11b-19.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum.Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
21st anniversary of the death of P. John Doyle (84) d. 2015 at Pickering, ON, Canada.
Birthday:
48th birthday of P. Frank Fanie TARUWONA (born this day in 1988).
Birthday:
68th birthday of P. Nathanael MITI (born this day in 1968).
Birthday:
44th birthday of S. Paul KANDA (born this day in 1992).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1537
St. Francis Borgia was converted from the vanities of the world by the sight of Empress Isabella’s corpse.
1590
In Japan died Father Gaspar Coelho, a renowed missioner, who with only one companion, converted 35,000 persons and sixty Bonzes to the Church.
1621
St. John Berchmans offered to God l00 acts of self-humiliation in honor of St. Aloysius.
1773
The scholastics at Bologna, Italy, pressed immediately before the suppression by Cardinal Malvezzi to take off their religious habit and accept dispensation from their vows, refused to listen to him.
1773
The Scholastics at Bologna, pressed by Cardinal Malvezzi to take off their Religious habit and accept dispensation from their vows, refused to listen to him.
1802
The death of John Carroll, member of the Society before the Suppression, founder of Georgetown University and as first bishop of Baltimore, the founder of the U.S. hierarchy.
1879
St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC is consecrated. The property had been purchased by Anton Kohlmann, S.J.
1989
Philip Carey, S.J. dies Labor priest, mediator, of the Labor Relations Institute at Xavier Parish in New York City.