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");
}
?>
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28 Wednesday
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Wednesday in the Second Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[232] Jer 18:18-20;Ps 31:5-6, 14, 15-16; Matt 20:17-28.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
126th anniversary of the death of P. Felix Desmaroux (39) d. 1898 at Boroma, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
55th anniversary of the death of P. Julian Plawecki (57) d. 1969 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
4th anniversary of the death of P. Wolfgang Abeler (ZIM) (83) d. 2020 at Munich, Germany.
Birthday:
29th birthday of S. Joseph C KACHITSA (born this day in 1995).
Birthday:
69th birthday of P. Józef MATYJEK (born this day in 1955).
Birthday:
42nd birthday of P. Noah LUNGU (born this day in 1982).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1573
Gregory XIII's Brief Ex Sedis Apost. benignitate,is issued. It exempts the Society from choir, which his predecessor, St. Pius V had imposed, and allows its members to be ordained before the solemn profession.
1957
Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) is founded. It began in the Oregon Province and has inspired similar ventures around the Jesuit world.
1976
Archbishop Thomas Roberts, S.J. dies London. Outspoken critic.
1994
William Ward, S.J. dies Lagos, Nigeria, missionary, pastoral worker, the first Jesuit to die in Nigeria, and the first to be buried there.