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 good use of artificial intelligence. (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that artificial intelligence might always be developed to serve human dignity and that we might know how to use it wisely."
Last Quarter
27 Sunday
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Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[98] Wis 1:13-15, 2:23-24; Ps 30:2+4, 5-6, 11-12a+13b; 2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13-15; Mark 5:21-43 or 5:21-24, 35b-43.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
49th anniversary of the death of F. Bernard Lisson (68) d. 1978 at Magondi, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
49th anniversary of the death of P. Gregor Richert (48) d. 1978 at Magondi, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
33rd anniversary of the death of P. Joaquim dos Santos Abranches (97) d. 1994 at Lisbon, Portugal.
Anniversary:
25th anniversary of the death of P. Roland Pichon (85) d. 2002 at Limoges, France.
Birthday:
82nd birthday of P. Ludwig REAL (born this day in 1945).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1539
Completion of the Deliberation of the First Fathers of the Society. 1549. Xavier sails from Malacca for Japan.
1581
400 copies of Campion's Decem Rationes appear on the benches of Oxford University Church. He presents reasons why he challenges Anglicans to a discussion of religion.
1615
The Holy See gave permission to the Jesuits of China to celebrate Mass with heads covered, to translate the Bible into Chinese and to administer the sacraments in that same language.
1844
Joseph Smith (Mormon founder) and his brother Hyrum are killed by armed mob in Carthage, Illinois - because of polygamy.
1978
Brother Bernard Lisson, S.J. mechanic, age 69, is shot to death and Fr. Gregor Richert, S.J., parish priest, age 48, is shot to death in Zimbabwe at St. Rupert's Mission, Sinoia.