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 right to an education (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for migrants, refugees and those affected by war, that their right to an education, which is necessary to build a better world, might always be respected."
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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
6th Sunday of the Word of God (est. 2020)
72nd World Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) Day (est. 1953)
Mass of the Sunday; Gloria, Creed, Pref. of Sunday.
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[69] Neh 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10; Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 15; 1 Cor 12:12-30 or 12:12-14, 27; Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Timothy and Titus (cf. Acts 16:1-3, 2 Cor. 7:5-6) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
135th anniversary of the death of P. George Fraser (31) d. 1890 at Keilands, RSA.
Anniversary:
60th anniversary of the death of P. Philip Prime (54) d. 1965 at Port Elizabeth, RSA.
Anniversary:
42nd anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Crehan (79) d. 1983 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
41st anniversary of the death of P. Dunstan Myerscough (72) d. 1984 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
18th anniversary of the death of P. Karl-Ferdinand Schmidt (78) d. 2007 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1611
The first Jesuit missionaries sail from Europe to New France, Canada. 1616. Close of the Seventh General Congregation. One of its enactments was to refuse support (alimenta) to members dismissed from the Society.
1758
In France the Duke de Choiseul is made Prime Minister. The Lavalette affair supplied the opportunity he sought to ruin the Society.
1975
The death of Josef Jungmann, whose studies of liturgical history contributed to the reform of the liturgy.