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 Sunday, or of the Third Scrutiny; Creed, Preface of Fifth Sunday (with Year "A" readings) or Lent I - II.
Yr A
[34] Ezek 37:12-14; Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; Rom 8:8-11; John 11:1-45 or 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45.
Hours of the Sunday. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
148th anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Morley (44) d. 1923 at Kutama, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
121st anniversary of the death of F. Stephen Buran (49) d. 1950 at Kabwe, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
88th anniversary of the death of P. Bernard Latchford (77) d. 1983 at London, England.
Anniversary:
59th anniversary of the death of P. Bernard Parkin (90) d. 2012 at London, England.
Birthday:
90th birthday of P. Edson HAMBAYI (born this day in 1981).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1635
Louis Lallemant, S.J. dies influential writer and spiritual teacher. 1737. Pope Clement XII adds Regis to the list of saints.
1737
The canonization of St. John Francis Regis by Pope Clement XII.
1850
The first edition of Jesuit newspaper, Civilta Cattolica appears 1904. George Pettit, S.J. is appointed novice director of the New York-Maryland Province, and serves until 1917.
1945
Augustin Merk, S.J. dies New Testament editor. N.T. Graece et Latine. He was also confessor to Pius XII.
1990
Virgil Blum, S.J. dies age 77. Strong advocate of government aid to education.