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");
}
?>
[210] 1 John 5:14-21;Ps 149:1-2, 3-4, 5+6a+9b; John 2:1-12.
Hours of the day
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St Raymond of Penyafort, priest Common of Pastors (Readings from the Common of Saints: [511] 2 Cor 5:14-20 (#722.7); Ps 103:1bc-2, 3-4, 8-9, 13-14, 17-18a (#739.6); Luke 12:35-40 (#742.22).
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St Raymond of Penyafort, priest Common of Pastors Readings from the Common of Saints: [511] 2 Cor 5:14-20 (#722.7); Ps 103:1bc-2, 3-4, 8-9, 13-14, 17-18a (#739.6); Luke 12:35-40 (#742.22).
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Anniversary:
101st anniversary of the death of P. Rudolph Handmann (77) d. 1929 at Sankt Andrä, Austria.
Anniversary:
87th anniversary of the death of P. LuĂs Gonzaga Dialer (77) d. 1943 at Recife, Brazil.
Anniversary:
67th anniversary of the death of F. James Feeley (57) d. 1963 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
67th anniversary of the death of P. Miguel Ferreira da Silva (42) d. 1963 at Furancungo / Lifidzi, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
53rd anniversary of the death of P. Charles O'Neill (50) d. 1977 at Port Elizabeth, RSA.
Anniversary:
17th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Parish (72) d. 2013 at Boscombe, England.
Anniversary:
15th anniversary of the death of P. Joachim von Kerssenbrock (85) d. 2015 at New York, NY, USA.
Birthday:
39th birthday of S. Lovemore MASHIRI (born this day in 1991).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1652
The 10th General Congregation opened and it elected as General the Roman Jesuit Luigi Gottifredi, but he died three months later while the Congregation was still in session. The German Jesuit, Goswin Nickelis elected superior general.
1824
Bishop Du Bourg offered the Jesuits his college, which was to become St. Louis University.
1996
Wilhelm Klein, S.J. dies at Muenster, at the age of 106. He was a Professor and Provincial, perhaps the oldest Jesuit ever.