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");
}
?>
[144] 2 Kgs 5:14-17; Ps 98:1, 2-3a, 3b-4; 2 Tim 2:8-13; Luke 17:11-19.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Abraham, patriarch (cf. Gn. 17:3-5) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
112th anniversary of the death of P. Vladimir ZukotýNsky (85) d. 1949 at Stara Wies, Poland .
Anniversary:
74th anniversary of the death of P. Louis Haven (67) d. 1987 at Kabwe, Zambia.
Anniversary:
56th anniversary of the death of P. James McPolin (HIB) (74) d. 2005 at Dublin, Ireland.
Jubilee:
Oak Jubilee of P. Józef MATYJEK who celebrates 80 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1607
Francis de Sales visits the chapel of Blessed Peter Faber whom he revered as a saint.
1627
Jansenius lefdt Louvain for Salamanca to create an excitement against the Jesuits and prevent Philip IV from giving to them the large college of Madrid.
1820
The 20th General Congregation of the Society opened. The first to be held by the restored Society, it elected Luigi Fortis as Superior General.
1820
The 20th General Congregation opens. The first of the restored Society. Aloysius Fortis is elected the 20th Superior General.
1972
Jose Maria Posada dies Columbia. Social worker and Provincial.