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");
}
?>
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II
[268] Acts 4:32-37;Ps 93:1ab, 1cd-2, 5; John 3:7b-15.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
103rd anniversary of the death of P. Alfons Pollet (51) d. 1983 at London, England.
Anniversary:
96th anniversary of the death of P. John Carroll (NEN) (67) d. 1990 at Likuni, Malawi.
Birthday:
114th birthday of P. Rampeoane HLOBO (born this day in 1972).
Birthday:
152nd birthday of P. Emmanuel KUJUR (born this day in 1934).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1553
Ignatius sends Jerome Nadal as Commissary into Spain to publish the Constitutions.
1615
William Weston, S.J. dies at Valladolid.
1879
Angelo M. Paresci, S.J. dies at Woodstock. He was the founder and first Rector of Woodstock College.
1905
The amputation of the right arm of Fr. General Luis Martin.
1913
Pope St. Pius X spoke his praises of the Apostleship of Prayer. It counted 25 million members. The periodical The Messenger of the Sacred Heart appears in 42 editions in more than 20 languages.
1934
Aloysius Pieris, S.J. born. Sri Lanka theologian.
1998
John Coventry, S.J. dies Provincial, theologian, writer, of Great Britain.