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");
}
?>
[115] 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a; Ps 85:9a+10, 11-12, 13-14; Rom 9:1-5; Matt 14:22-33.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
72nd anniversary of the death of F. Gerhard Zocholl (39) d. 1966 at Marymount, Mt. Darwin, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
70th anniversary of the death of P. William Weller (62) d. 1968 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
50th anniversary of the death of P. Denis Mangan (61) d. 1988 at Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
48th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Svec (67) d. 1990 at Bratislava, Slovakia.
Anniversary:
46th anniversary of the death of A. Francis Markall (87) d. 1992 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
61st birthday of P. Wilfred M. SUMANI (born this day in 1977).
Birthday:
48th birthday of S. Matthew SALABAKILE (born this day in 1990).
Jubilee:
Wine Jubilee of P. Lammert Bert OTTEN who celebrates 85 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1581
Anthony Possevino was received with extraordinary honors by Basilowicz, the Czar of Russia.
1581
Father Anthony Possevino was received with extraordinary honors by Basilowicz, the Czar of Russia.
1834
At London the Vicar Apostolic wrote to Propaganda that there were serious difficulties against the Jesuits having a church in London, which a benefactor offered to build. Gregory XVI then insisted that the Society was to have a church in the city.
1849
In Rome, the Republicans (Mazzinians) defeated by the French,tried to set fire to the Roman College.
1949
Letter of the Holy Office to Cardinal Cushing, on the Leonard Feeney case - extra ecclesiam nulla salus. The letter has this date on it, but was only made public later.
1989
William Cunningham, S.J. dies Chicago, activist lawyer.
2008
The death of Joseph Gelineau, S.J. pioneer on liturgical music, composer, singing the Psalms. Age. 87. Friend, composer for Taize, and Paris parish priest.