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 families in crisis (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that broken families might discover the cure for their wounds through forgiveness, rediscovering each other’s gifts, even in their differences."
3 Monday
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Monday of the eighth week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle I
[347] Sir 17:20-24;Ps 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7; Mark 10:17-27.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
64th anniversary of the death of F. Emanuel Gonçalves (87) d. 1961 at Cernache, Portugal.
Anniversary:
14th anniversary of the death of P. Zenon Pilsyk (83) d. 2011 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
11th anniversary of the death of P. Frederick Kabwe (55) d. 2014 at Chikuni, Zambia.
Birthday:
87th birthday of P. Clive DILLON-MALONE (born this day in 1938).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1591
At Rome during a great pestilence, St. Aloysius caught the infection through serving the plague-stricken in the hospital "della Consolazione".
1595
At Tyburn, Fr. Robert Southwell, after long and terrible suffering, dies for his faith.
1595
Clement VIII raised Robert Bellarmine to the Cardinalate, saying that the Church had not his equal in learning.
2008
Meinrad Hebga, S.J. dies age 79. Popular Healer, Exorcist of West Africa, Inculturation.
2014
Announce forthcoming letter of Fr. General on intellectual formation.