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."
30 Saturday
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Saturday of the seventeenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[406] Jer 26:11-16, 24;Ps 69:15-16, 30-31, 33-34; Matt 14:1-12.
Hours of the day.
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St Peter Chrysologus, bishop and doctor of the Church Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church Readings from the Common of Saints: [608] Eph 3:8-12 (#728.4); Ps 119:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (#727.3); Luke 6:43-45 (#730.6).
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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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St Justin De Jacobis, Bishop
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Common of Pastors
Birthday:
47th birthday of P. Ignatius A. TAMBUDZAI (born this day in 1975).
Birthday:
84th birthday of P. Klaus CIESZYŃSKI (born this day in 1938).
Ordination:
Ordination of P. Ashton Isheanesu MUGOZHI.
Ordination:
Ordination of P. Emmanuel BANDA.
Ordination:
Ordination of P. Tanaka MASHICHE.
Jubilee:
Ruby Jubilee of P. David ROWAN who celebrates 40 years of Priesthood today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1556
As he lay near to death, Ignatius asked Juan de Polanco to go and obtain for him the pope’s blessings and indulgence.
1556
Ignatius asked Father Polanco to go and obtain for him the Pope's blessing and Indulgence. He delayed, and thus never never got it in time.
1784
Denis Diderot dies Jesuit educated encyclopedist, promoter of the Enlightenment
1890
Emile Mersch, S.J. B wrote on the Mystical Body of Christ.
1916
A Jersey City munitions explosion at a train depot results in stained glass broken at St. Peter’s Church and College.
1976
Edward Rooney, S.J. dies President of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association from 1937-66.