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 the elderly (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for the elderly, who represent the roots and memory of a people; may their experience and wisdom help young people to look towards the future with hope and responsibility."
3 Sunday
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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr C
[102] Isa 66:10-14c; Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16+20; Gal 6:14-18; Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 or 10:1-9.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Thomas, apostle (cf. Jn. 20:28) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
53rd anniversary of the death of P. Herman Kaibach (88) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1580
Queen Elizabeth I issues a statute forbidding to Jesuits all entrance into England.
1634
In the Maryland Mission the baptism of the King of Piscatoway and of his wife and son by Father Andrew White.
1883
Pierre Charles, S.J. is born. Brussels, Missiologist, spiritual writer: Prayer of All Things, All Times, All Men.
1891
Three Jesuit scholastics are killed as lightning strikes the villa house at St. Inigo's, Maryland.