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 collaboration between different religious traditions (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that believers in different religious traditions might work together to defend and promote peace, justice and human fraternity."
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Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[150] Sir 35:12-14, 16-18; Ps 34:2-3, 17-18, 19+23; 2 Tim 4:6-8, 16-18; Luke 18:9-14.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Princess Juana, the daughter of Charles V, is admitted to the Society in an exceptional way and with the obligation of complete secrecy. She takes vows. She would die as a Jesuit scholastic with her vows.
1556
In Rome the death of Fr. Andrew Frusius. He translated the Spiritual Exercises into Latin, and this was the first book printed by the Society.
1574
A mentally disturbed Jesuit, Gerhard Pesch, murders three Jesuits at the Jesuit College in Cologne. The Rector, minister and one regent.
1644
In Maryland Father Andrew White was seized by some English invaders, carried off prisoner to London, imprisoned, then sentenced to banishment.
1987
Giuseppe Moscati a Neapolitan physician and university professor, friend of Jesuits, who died in 1917, is canonized by Pope John Paul II.