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 ecclesial movements and groups (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that ecclesial movements and groups may daily rediscover their evangelizing mission, and that they place their own charisms at the service of the world’s needs."
6 Saturday
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Saturday in the Fourth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[284] Acts 13:44-52;Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4; John 14:7-14.
Hours of the day.
Diocese of Tete, Mozambique
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Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral of St James, the Great (1991)
Feast
Mass of the Dedication of a Church, Gloria, proper readings [701-706], Peface of the Dedication of a Church II. Hours of he Dedication, Te Deum
Anniversary:
128th anniversary of the death of F. Augustine Book (39) d. 1895 at Chishawasha, BSA Co..
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1638
At Ypres, in Belgium, the death of Cornelius Jansenius, the founder of Jansenism, and author of the 'Augustinus', at which he worked for 20 years. Speaking of the Jesuits he said: "Perfecto odio oderam illos". (I detest them with a total hatred)
1816
In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, John Adams called Jesuits "a body of men worthy of damnation."
1816
Letter of John Adams to Thomas Jefferson mentioning the Jesuits. "If any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth and in hell, it is the company of Loyola."
1927
At St. Andrew on Hudson, a Junior runs to the Fathers and says that two KKK are burning down Della Strada chapel. The fathers investigate and discover two pious women with white handkerchiefs on their heads visiting the chapel and lighting candles.
1963
Vincent A. McCormick, S.J. dies. He had been the American Assistant.
1989
The death of Daniel Pasupasu. He had twice been provincial of Central Africa. Regarding a term of office for the General, he said simply that "in Africa the chief is chief for life." At CG 33.
1998
Philip Caraman, S.J. dies. He was an author on Jesuit Saints/History.