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");
}
?>
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[272] Acts 6:1-7;Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19; John 6:16-21.
Hours of the day.
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St Pius V, pope
Optional
(Common of Pastors: For a Pope Readings from the Common of Saints: [558] 1 John 4:1-5 (#722.3); Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4 (# 721.7); John 21:15-17 (#724.12).)
Archdiocese of Lilongwe, Malawi
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Our Lady of Africa, Patronal Feast of the Archdiocese
Feast
Mass from the Common of the BVM, Gloria, readings from the Common of the BVM, preface of the BVM.
Archdiocese of Lusaka, Zambia
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Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral of the Child Jesus (2006)
Feast
Mass of the Dedication of a Church, Gloria, proper readings [701-706], Peface of the Dedication of a Church II. Hours of he Dedication, Te Deum.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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Our Lady, Mother of Africa
Feast
Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Anniversary:
106th 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.