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");
}
?>
Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V.
Yr B
[47] Acts 3:13-15, 17-19; Ps 4:2, 4, 7-8, 9; 1 John 2:1-5a; Luke 24:35-48.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
170th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Boos (44) d. 1899 at Fort Victoria, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
49th anniversary of the death of P. Edward C.A. Dougherty (UEA) (79) d. 2020 at Philadelphia, USA.
Birthday:
70th birthday of S. Edward J. MANGAPE (born this day in 1999).
Birthday:
88th birthday of P. Gregory MULOBELA (born this day in 1981).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1575
At Rome died Father James Ceruto, who is said to have renewed his religious vows a thousand times a day.
1581
Alexander Briant was arrested in London.
1767
At Tarracona in Spain 19 of the novices of the Province of Aragon, undismayedby threats and ill-treatment, insist on accompanying the Fathers into exile in Italy.
1842
The Republic of Colombia passed a law permitting Jesuits to return to that country some years after the universal restoration of the Society.