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: An environmentally sustainable lifestyle (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray that we all will make courageous choices for a simple and environmentally sustainable lifestyle, rejoicing in our young people who are resolutely committed to this."
26 Sunday
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Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
107th World Day of Migrants and Refugees (est. 1914)
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[137] Num 11:25-29; Ps 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14; Jas 5:1-6; Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Gideon, judge (cf. Jgs. 8:22-23) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
128th anniversary of the death of P. InocĂȘncio Perrodin (39) d. 1893 at Milanje Road, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
94th anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Timmer (60) d. 1927 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
1st anniversary of the death of P. Luka LuÄiÄ (ZAM) (81) d. 2020 at Zagreb, Croatia.
Birthday:
31st birthday of S. Martin B. MUSONDA (born this day in 1990).
Birthday:
22nd birthday of S. Blackwell CHALULA (born this day in 1999).
Birthday:
41st birthday of P. Bendito Evressone NGOZO (born this day in 1980).
Letter from Father Laurence Ricci, ordering prayers to avert impending calamities.
1886
At Florence in the theatre "Re Umberto," 3,000 Liberals shouted for the expulsion of all Jesuits from Tuscany. Soon after, the theatre was burned to the ground.
1889
Martin Heidegger is born. Philosopher, had been a Jesuit novice.
1926
Felix Millan dies in the leper colony in Culion, Philippines. He is called "The Father of the Lepers."
1926
Jesuit High, New Orleans, opens.
1926
The death at the leprosarium in CuliĂłn, the Philippines, of Father Felipe MillĂĄn, known as the "Father of Lepers" after a life heroically dedicated to caring for the sick.