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");
}
?>
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Wednesday of the fifth week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle II
[331] 1 Kgs 10:1-10;Ps 37:5-6, 30-31, 39-40; Mark 7:14-23.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
87th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Buckland (71) d. 1935 at Preston, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
33rd anniversary of the death of F. George Feeney (55) d. 1989 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
18th birthday of NS. Cephas Joseph CHODZAZA (born this day in 2004).
Birthday:
73rd birthday of P. Michael LEWIS (born this day in 1949).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1809
Robert Molyneux, S.J. dies age 71. He was a missionary from England, the second President of Georgetown and the first Superior of the Jesuits in the USA.
1932
The Iraq mission is assigned to the New England Province.
1945
The Ateneo de Manila shelled and bombed, February 9-14th. The Japanese leave and the Americans arrive on the 19th.