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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Wednesday in the Fourth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[246] Isa 49:8-15;Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18; John 5:17-30.
Hours of the day.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1823
The Holy See empowers Georgetown University to confer ecclesiastical degrees in philosophy and theology.
1848
At Rome the fathers and scholastics of the Roman College, the Gesu, S. Andrea, and S. Eusebio, were dispersed by the Revolution.
1934
The Pontifical College, Pio-Brazil, is founded in Rome and entrusted to the Society.
1984
Karl Rahner, S.J. dies theologian, age 80.
2005
John O’Donnell, S.J. dies age 60. Theologian, Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Gregorian University.