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");
}
?>
Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) [Octave Day of Easter]. (Formerly known as Dominica in Albis (Sunday in White), Quasimodo Sunday or Low Sunday.)
Mass of the Sunday, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I ("on this Easter day"); Easter Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Evening Prayer II of the Sunday. The Easter Octave ends. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
84th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Hancko (74) d. 1995 at Presov, Slovakia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1534
Pierre Favre is ordained a deacon in Paris.
1555
The death of Pope Marcellus II, greatly admired by St. Ignatius. Whenever he wished to turn a conversation to some other subject, he would say, "Let us talk about good Pope Marcellus."
1595
Abraham George, S.J. dies, the first of eight Jesuit martyrs in Ethiopia. l632. At Ingolstadt, John, Count de Tilly, the great Catholic hero, assisted by his Jesuit confessor, breathed his last. He had received his education from the Society.
1595
The death of Abraham George, the ï¬rst of eight Jesuit martyrs in Ethiopia.
1984
Aime Duval, S.J. dies. Singer and recovering alcoholic.
1985
Philip J. Donnelly, S.J. dies He taught at Weston from l939 to 1979, (except for two years away) as professor of Dogmatic Theology.