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 small businesses (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for small and medium sized businesses; in the midst of economic and social crisis, may they find ways to continue operating, and serving their communities."
5 Friday
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Friday of the eighteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[411] Nah 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7;Deut 32:35cd-36ab, 39abcd, 41; Matt 16:24-28.
Hours of the day.
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The Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary Major Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary Readings from the Common of Saints: [613] Rev 21:1-5a (#708.3); Judith 13:18, 19 (#709.2); Luke 11:27-28 (#712.10).
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Anniversary:
106th anniversary of the death of P. Salvator Blanca (81) d. 1916 at Palermo, Italy.
Anniversary:
8th anniversary of the death of P. Michael O'Donnell (76) d. 2014 at Pickering, ON, Canada.
Jubilee:
Wooden Jubilee of P. Clemence MUTIMUTEMA who celebrates 5 years of Priesthood today.
Jubilee:
Wooden Jubilee of P. Inos CHIMIRE who celebrates 5 years of Priesthood today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1570
A group of Spanish Jesuits arrive in Chesapeake Bay area, but are killed six months later.
1574
At Santo Domingo, the shipwreck of seven Spanish Jesuits sailing for Mexico. They escaped death and eventually reached their destination.
1762
The Parliament at Paris condemned the Society’s Institute as opposed to natural law, confiscated all Jesuit property and forbade the Jesuit habit and community life.
1762
The Parliament at Paris condemned the Society's Institute as opposed to the natural law: laid its hand on all Jesuit property, and forbade the Jesuit habit and community life.
1915
The Jesuit Curia, and Fr. General Ledochowski arrive in Zizers, Switzerland, their exile for security reasons during World War I.