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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Mass of the Vigil or of the Solemnity, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Ascension I - II Special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I.
Yr B
[60] Acts 1:15-17, 20a, 20c-26; Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20; 1 John 4:11-16; John 17:11b-19.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum.Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
79th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Roberts (68) d. 1978 at Wrexham, Wales.
Birthday:
85th birthday of P. Chiedza CHIMHANDA (born this day in 1972).
Birthday:
105th birthday of P. Alojz PODGRAJSEK (born this day in 1952).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1558
Entrance into the Society of Francisco de Toledo - the first of the Society to be raised to the Cardinalate.
1559
At Tusculum, i.e. Frascati, a villa was purchased for the Fathers and Brothers of the Roman College. Aloysius Gonzaga and John Berchmans would go there for summer vacations.
2007
Robert North, S.J. dies, age 91. He edited the Elenchus Bibliographicus for years, Pontifical Biblical Institute and Marquette.