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function theseason() {
	today = new Date()
	thismonth = today.getMonth()
	thisdate = today.getDate()
	thisday = today.getDay()

	switch(thismonth)
	{
	case 0:
		if (thisdate == 1) {
			return "New year's Day"
			}
		if ((thisdate > 1) && (thisdate <6)) {
			return "Nativity"
			}
		if (thisdate == 6) {
			return "Epiphany"
			}
		if (thisdate > 6) {
			return "Epiphany Season"
			}
		break
	case 1:
		if (thisdate < 6) {
			return "Epiphany Season"
			}
		if (thisdate == 6) {
			return "Ash Wednesday"
			}
		if (thisdate > 6) {
			return "Lent"
			}
		break
	case 2:
		if (((thisdate != 1) && (thisdate < 20)) || (thisdate == 22)) {
			return "Lent"
			}
		if (thisdate == 1) {
			return "Palm Sunday"
			}
		if (thisdate == 20) {
			return "Maundy Thursday"
			}
		if (thisdate == 21) {
			return "Good Friday"
			}
		if (thisdate == 23) {
			return "Easter"
			}
		if (thisdate > 23) {
			return "Easter Season"
			}
		break
	case 3:
		return "Easter Season"
		break
	case 4:
		if (thisdate < 2) {
			return "Easter Season"
			}
		if (thisdate == 2) {
			return "Ascension Day"
			}
		if ((thisdate > 2) && (thisdate < 12)) {
			return "Easter Season"
			}
		if (thisdate == 12) {
			return "Pentecost"
			}
		if (thisdate > 12) {
			return "Pentecost Season"
			}
		break
	case 5:
		return "Pentecost Season"
		break
	case 6:
		return "Pentecost Season"
		break
	case 7:
		return "Pentecost Season"
		break
	case 8:
		return "Pentecost Season"
		break
	case 9:
		return "Reformation"
		break
	case 10:
		if (((thisday = 4) || (thisday = 5)) && ((thisdate > 18) && (thisdate < 26))) 	{
			return "Thanksgiving"
			}
		else
			return "Spreading the Word"
		break
	case 11:
		if (thisdate < 24) {
			return "Advent"
			}
		if (thisdate == 24) {
			return "Christmas Eve"
			}
		if (thisdate == 25) {
			return "Christmas Day"
			}
		if ((thisdate > 25) && (thisdate < 31)) {
			return "Nativity"
			}
		if (thisdate == 31) {
			return "New Year's Eve"
			}
		break
	}
} <!-- function theseason() -->

function thePicture() {
	today = new Date()
	thismonth = today.getMonth()
	thisdate = today.getDate()
	thisday = today.getDay()

	var tPic = new Array("image/babyjesu.gif",
				"image/magi.gif",
				"image/followers.gif",
				"image/lazarus.gif",
				"image/palms.gif",
				"image/critics.gif",
				"image/supper.gif",
				"image/crucified.gif",
				"image/burial.gif",
				"image/resurrection.gif",
				"image/disciples.gif",
				"image/ascension.gif",
				"image/pentecost.gif",
				"image/saul.gif",
				"image/peter.gif",
				"image/paul.gif",
				"image/commission.gif",
				"image/angel.gif",
				"image/zechariah.gif",
				"image/shepherd.gif")


	switch(thismonth)
	{
	case 0:
		if ((thisdate >= 1) && (thisdate <=5)) {tPicVar = 0}  <!--image/babyjesu.gif-->
		if (thisdate > 5) {tPicVar = 1}  <!--image/magi.gif-->
		break
	case 1:
		tPicVar = 1  <!--image/magi.gif-->
		break
	case 2:
		if (thisdate < 5) {tPicVar = 1}  <!--image/magi.gif-->
		if (thisdate >= 5) {tPicVar = 2}  <!--image/followers.gif-->
		break
	case 3:
		if (thisdate < 9) {tPicVar = 3}  <!--image/lazarus.gif-->
		if (thisdate == 9) {tPicVar = 4}  <!--image/palms.gif-->
		if ((thisdate > 9) && (thisdate < 13)) {tPicVar = 5}  <!--image/critics.gif-->
		if (thisdate == 13) {tPicVar = 6}  <!--image/supper.gif-->
		if (thisdate == 14) {tPicVar = 7}  <!--image/crucified.gif-->
		if (thisdate == 15) {tPicVar = 8}  <!--image/burial.gif-->
		if (thisdate == 16) {tPicVar = 9}  <!--image/resurrection.gif-->
		if (thisdate > 16) {tPicVar = 10}  <!--image/disciples.gif-->
		break
	case 4:
		if (thisdate < 25) {tPicVar = 10}  <!--image/disciples.gif-->
		if (thisdate >= 25) {tPicVar = 11}  <!--image/ascension.gif-->
		break
	case 5:
		if (thisdate < 4) {tPicVar = 11}  <!--image/ascension.gif-->
		if (thisdate >= 4) {tPicVar = 12}  <!--image/pentecost.gif-->
		break
	case 6:
		tPicVar = 13  <!--image/saul.gif-->
		break
	case 7:
		tPicVar = 14  <!--image/peter.gif-->
		break
	case 8:
		tPicVar = 15  <!--image/paul.gif-->
		break
	case 9:
		tPicVar = 16  <!--image/commission.gif-->
		break
	case 10:
		tPicVar = 17  <!--image/angel.gif-->
		break
	case 11:
		if (thisdate < 24) {tPicVar = 18}  <!--image/zechariah.gif-->
		if (thisdate == 24) {tPicVar = 19}  <!--image/shepherd.gif-->
		if (thisdate >= 25) {tPicVar = 0}  <!--image/babyjesu.gif-->
		break
	}  <!--switch(thismonth)-->

	document.Image2.src = tPic[tPicVar]
	document.Image1.src="image/throne.gif" 
}  <!--function thePicture()-->

function theText() {
	today = new Date()
	thismonth = today.getMonth()
	thisdate = today.getDate()
	thisday = today.getDay()

	switch(thismonth)
	{
	case 0:
		if ((thisdate >= 1) && (thisdate <=5)) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Luke 2:15-16</U><BR>When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Lets go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about."  So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger.</P></B></FONT>')}
			<!--image/babyjesu.gif-->
		if (thisdate > 5) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Matthew 2:1-2</U><BR>After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jeruselam and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?  We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."</P></B></FONT>')}
		 <!--image/magi.gif-->
		break
	case 1:
		return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Matthew 2:1-2</U><BR>After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jeruselam and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?  We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."</P></B></FONT>')
			<!--image/magi.gif-->
		break
	case 2:
		if (thisdate < 5) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Matthew 2:9-12</U><BR>After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the palce where the child was.  When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.  On coming to the house, they sw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshipped him.  Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.  And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.</P></B></FONT>')}  
			<!--image/magi.gif-->
		if (thisdate >= 5) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Mark 1:16-18</U><BR>As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.  "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men."  At once they left their nets and followed him.</P></B></FONT>')}  						<!--image/followers.gif-->
		break
	case 3:
		if (thisdate < 9) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>John 11:43-44</U><BR>When he had said this, Jesus called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"  The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.</P></B></FONT>')}  				<!--image/lazarus.gif-->
		if (thisdate == 9) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>John 12:12-13</U><BR>The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus was on his way to jeruselam.  They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,<BR><BR>"Hosanna!"<BR><BR>"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"<BR><BR>"Blessed is the King of Israel!"</P></B></FONT>')}  
			<!--image/palms.gif-->
		if ((thisdate > 9) && (thisdate < 13)) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Luke 20:1-2</U><BR>One day as he was teaching the poeple in the temple courts and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, together with the elders, came up to him.  "Tell us by what authority you are doing these things," they said.  "Who gave you this authority?"<BR><BR>He replied, "I will ask you also a question.  Tell me, Johns baptism - was it from heaven, or from men?</P></B></FONT>')}  
			<!--image/critics.gif-->
		if (thisdate == 13) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Luke 22:14-15</U><BR>When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table.  And he said to them, "I have eagarly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.  For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God."</P></B></FONT>')}  
			<!--image/supper.gif-->
		if (thisdate == 14) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Luke 23:46</U><BR>Jesus called out with a loud voice, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit."  When he had said this, he breathed his last.</P></B></FONT>')}  
			<!--image/crucified.gif-->
		if (thisdate == 15) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>John 19:41-42</U><BR>At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, where no one had ever been laid.  Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, they laid Jesus there.</P></B></FONT>')}
			<!--image/burial.gif-->
		if (thisdate == 16) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Matthew 28:2-4</U><BR>There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.  His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.  The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.</P></B></FONT>')}
			<!--image/resurrection.gif-->
		if (thisdate > 16) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>John 20:19</U><BR>On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!"</P></B></FONT>')}  
			<!--image/disciples.gif-->
		break
	case 4:
		if (thisdate < 26) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>John 20:19</U><BR>Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you!  As the father has sent me, I am sending you."  And with that he breathed on them and said Receive the Holy Spirit.  If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."</P></B></FONT>')}  
			<!--image/disciples.gif-->
		if (thisdate >= 26) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Acts 1:9</U><BR>After he said this, he was taken up before their eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.</P></B></FONT>')}  
			<!--image/ascension.gif-->
		break
	case 5:
		if (thisdate < 8) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Acts 1:10-12</U><BR>They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.  "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky?  This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."</P></B></FONT>')}  
			<!--image/ascension.gif-->
		if (thisdate >= 8) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Acts 2:1-4</U><BR>When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.  Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were staying.  They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.  All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.</P></B></FONT>')}  
			<!--image/pentecost.gif-->
		break
	case 6:
		return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Acts 10:9-16</U><BR>Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lords disciples.  He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jeruselam.  As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.  He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, "Saul,Saul, why do you persecute me?"</P>  <P>"Who are you, Lord?" Saul asked.</P>  <P>"I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," he replied.  "Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do."</P></B></FONT>')
			<!--image/saul.gif-->
		break
	case 7:
		return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Acts 9:1-6</U><BR>About noon the following day as they were approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.  He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.  He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.  It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air.  Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter.  Kill and eat."</P>  <P>"Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied.  "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean."</P>  <P>The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."  This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.</P></B></FONT>')  
			<!--image/peter.gif-->
		break
	case 8:
		return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Acts 9:1-6</U><BR>About noon the following day as they were approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.  He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.  He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.  It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air.  Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter.  Kill and eat."</P>  <P>"Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied.  "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean."</P>  <P>The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."  This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.</P></B></FONT>')  
			<!--image/paul.gif-->
		break
	case 9:
		return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Matthew 28:16-20</U><BR>Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.  When they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted.  Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority has been given to me.  Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.  And surely I will be with you always, to the very end of the age.</P></B></FONT>')
			<!--image/commission.gif-->
		break
	case 10:
		return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Psalm 91:11-12</U><BR>For he will command his angels concerning you, to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.</P></B></FONT>')  
			<!--image/angel.gif-->
		break
	case 11:
		if (thisdate < 24) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Luke 1:11-18</U><BR>Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar if incense.  When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear.  But the angel said to him: "Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard.  Your wife, Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.  He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth, for he will be great in the sight of the Lord.  He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from birth.  Many of the people of Israel will he bring back to their Lord their God.  And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous - to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."</P></B></FONT>')}  
			<!--image/zechariah.gif-->
		if (thisdate == 24) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Luke 2:8-12</U><BR>And there were shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks at night.  An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.  But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid.  I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.  Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.  This will be a sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."</P></B></FONT>')}  
			<!--image/shepherd.gif-->
		if (thisdate >= 25) {return('<FONT SIZE="2"><B><P><U>Luke 2:15-16</U><BR>When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about."  So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger.</P></B></FONT>')} 
			<!--image/babyjesu.gif-->
		break
	}  <!--switch(thismonth)-->
}  <!--function theText()-->


function specialgreeting(){
	today = new Date()
	thismonth = today.getMonth()
	thisdate = today.getDate()
	thisday = today.getDay()

	switch(thismonth)
	{
	case 0:
		if (thisdate == 1) 
		  {return("<FONT COLOR=#000000><BR><BR><B>Happy New Year!</B></FONT>")}
		  break
	case 1:
		if (thisdate == 14) 
		  {return("<FONT COLOR=#FF0000><BR><BR><B>Happy Valentine's Day</B></FONT>")}
		  break
	case 2:
		if (thisdate == 17) 
		  {return("<FONT COLOR=#00FF00><BR><BR><B>Happy St. Patrick's Day</B></FONT>")}
		break
	case 4:
		if ((thisday == 1) && (thisdate <= 14) && (thisdate >= 8)) 
		  {return("<FONT COLOR=#FF6699><BR><BR><B>Happy Mother's Day</B></FONT>")}
		if ((thisday == 2) && (thisdate <= 31) && (thisdate >= 25)) 
		  {return("<FONT COLOR=#0000FF><BR><BR><B>Happy Memorial Day</B></FONT>")}
		break
	case 5:
		if ((thisday == 1) && (thisdate <= 21) && (thisdate >= 15))
		  {return("<FONT COLOR=#660066><BR><BR><B>Happy Father's Day</B></FONT>")}
		break
	case 6:
		if (thisday == 4)
		  {return("<FONT COLOR=#0000FF><BR><BR><B>Happy 4th of July</B></FONT>")}
		break
	case 8:
		if ((thisday == 2) && (thisdate <= 7) && (thisdate >= 1))
		  {return("<FONT COLOR=#CC9966><BR><BR><B>Happy Labor Day</B></FONT>")}
		break
	case 9:
		if (thisday == 31)
		  {return("<FONT COLOR=#000000><BR><BR><B>Happy Reformation Day</B></FONT>")}
		break
	case 10:
		if (((thisday = 4) || (thisday = 5)) && ((thisdate > 18) && (thisdate < 26)))
		  {return("<FONT COLOR=#000000><BR><BR><B>Happy Thanksgiving</B></FONT>")}
		break
	case 11:
		if ((thisdate == 24) || (thisdate == 25))
		  {return("<BR><BR><B><FONT COLOR=#FF0000>Merry</FONT> <FONT COLOR=#00FF00>Christmas</FONT></B>")}
		if (thisdate == 31) 
		  {return("<FONT COLOR=#000000><BR><BR><B>Happy New Year!</B></FONT>")}
		break
	default:
		  {return("")}
	}
}
//-->
