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 Sunday; Creed, Preface of First Sunday of Lent. The beginning of the penitential season may be marked in some way, e.g. by Litany of Saints in Entrance Procession. (PS, 23) Rite of Election (Enrollment of Names) for the catechumens.
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[24] Deut 26:4-10; Ps 91:1-2, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15; Rom 10:8-13; Luke 4:1-13.
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
97th anniversary of the death of F. Emanuel Gonçalves (87) d. 1961 at Cernache, Portugal.
Anniversary:
47th anniversary of the death of P. Zenon Pilsyk (83) d. 2011 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
44th anniversary of the death of P. Frederick Kabwe (55) d. 2014 at Chikuni, Zambia.
Birthday:
120th 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.