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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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[109] 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12; Ps 119:57+72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130; Rom 8:28-30; Matt 13:44-52 or 13:44-46.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Birthday:
48th birthday of P. Ignatius A. TAMBUDZAI (born this day in 1975).
Birthday:
85th birthday of P. Klaus CIESZYŃSKI (born this day in 1938).
Jubilee:
Diamond Jubilee of F. Lawrence MAKONORA who celebrates 60 years in the Society 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.