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");
}
?>
Separate Vigil Mass texts in RM with separate set of readings. An elongated Vigil Liturgy of the Word is one option.
Mass of Pentecost; Gloria, Sequence, Creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I, Double alleluia at the dismissal.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal
After Evening Prayer, the Paschal Candle is extinguished, and moved to the Baptistery, where it is kept in a place of honor so that the candles of the newly baptised may be lit from it.
The weeks of the year resume with Week 8.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
185th anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Kunsztowicz (56) d. 1895 at Stara Wies, Poland.
Anniversary:
180th anniversary of the death of P. Henry Depelchin (78) d. 1900 at Calcutta, India.
Anniversary:
91st anniversary of the death of P. Marian Folta (82) d. 1989 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
86th anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Boron (91) d. 1994 at Lusaka, Zambia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1595
St. Philip Neri, priest. Memorial. Most devoted to the Society of Jesus, he had asked to be admitted to the Society, but St. Ignatius saw that it was not his vocation.
1645
St. Mariana Parades of Quito dies. She lived a solitary, with extreme penances. She spent each Friday night in a coffin and had three hours of sleep each night and died at age of 26. Her feast in June 2. She was directed by Jesuits and is listed in one Jesuit martyrology.
1647
Massachusetts passed a law banning Jesuits; they would be put to death if they returned after banishment.
1647
The state of Massachusetts passed a law banning Jesuits. First time offenders are banished. Second time offenders will be executed.
1673
Ching Wei-San (Emmanuel de Sigueira) dies, the first Chinese Jesuit priest.
1803
Archbishop Carroll and Bishop Neale of Maryland write to Fr. General Gruber that thirteen ex-Jesuits beg to be admitted to the Society, together with a few other priests.
1839
St. Francis Jerome is canonized by Pope Gregory XVI.
1871
At Paris the Communards executed five French Jesuits: Frs Olivaint, Canbert and deBengy today, and Ducoudray and LeClerc two days earlier.