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 disarmament and peace. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that nations move toward effective disarmament, particularly nuclear disarmament, and that world leaders choose the path of dialogue and diplomacy instead of violence."
Full Moon
30 Monday
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Monday of Holy Week
Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II
[257] Is 42:1-7;Ps 27:1, 2, 3, 13-14; John 12:1-11.
Hours of the day
Anniversary:
2nd anniversary of the death of P. Wolfgang Thamm (SAP) (91) d. 2024 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
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.