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 Sunday
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Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[126] Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Ps 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11; Heb 12:18-19, 22-24a; Luke 14:1, 7-14.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Hezekiah, king (cf. 2 Kgs. 18:5) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
71st anniversary of the death of P. Alfred Connell (45) d. 1951 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Birthday:
39th birthday of P. Mwamba D. MUTALE (born this day in 1983).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1628
Edmund Arrowsmith dies a martyr in Lancashire, England. 1632 Paul Le Jeune completes the first Jesuit Relations.
1633
The martyrdom in Japan of the Italian Jesuit, Jácome Antonio Granoni.
1879
The arrival of Fr. Depelchin and Augustine Law in South Africa to begin the mission there.
1983
Dennis J. McCarthy, S.J. dies scripture scholar.
1985
The death of Domenico Mondrone, for 54 years a writer for Civilta Cattolica. He wrote much on hagiography.
2003
The death Maurice Giuliani, founder of Christus, expert in spirituality and a Councillor to Fr. Arrupe.