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 grandparents and the elderly. (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that members of the Church might always appreciate the treasure of faith and wisdom offered to us by grandparents and the elderly, and be willing to learn from their experience."
New Moon
4 Sunday
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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[101] Ezek 2:2-5; Ps 123:1-2a, 2bc, 3-4; 2 Cor 12:7-10; Mark 6:1-6.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Silver Jubilee of P. Shepherd MUHAMBA who celebrates 25 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Silver Jubilee of P. Choobe M. MAAMBO who celebrates 25 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Silver Jubilee of P. Gregory MULOBELA who celebrates 25 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Silver Jubilee of P. Admire Rufaro NHIKA who celebrates 25 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Silver Jubilee of P. Makasa Adrian CHIKWAMO who celebrates 25 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Silver Jubilee of P. Kenneth SIMALALO who celebrates 25 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1558
To celebrate the election of Fr. James Lainez as general, a "brilliant academical exhibition" was given in the Pantheon in Rome by the scholastics.
1648
Fr. Anthony Daniel is shot with arrows and cast into flames in Canada by the Iroquois. The Huron village is taken.
1751
General Congregation XVII elected 69-year-old Ignacio Visconti to be superior general.
1869
The Buffalo Mission (German speaking)is established with 13 fathers and 8 brothers. They take responsibility for St. Michael and St. Anne parishes in Buffalo.
1872
Kaiser Wilhelm I signs the so called "Jesuit law." Jesuits are"enemies of the Reich". 550 are expelled.
1886
F.X. Gautralet, S.J. dies . He founded the Apostleship of Prayer in 1844. 2003. The death of Bertrand deMargerie, S.J. French theologian and spiritual writer.