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");
}
?>
111th World Day of Prayer for the Sick (est. 1992)
Mass of the Sunday; Creed, Preface of First Sunday of Lent. The beginning of the penitential season may be marked in some way, e.g. by Litany of Saints in Entrance Procession. (PS, 23) Rite of Election (Enrollment of Names) for the catechumens.
Yr C
[24] Deut 26:4-10; Ps 91:1-2, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15; Rom 10:8-13; Luke 4:1-13.
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
111th World Day of Prayer for the Sick (est. 1992)
111th World Day of Prayer for the Sick (est. 1992)
Anniversary:
154th anniversary of the death of P. James O'Connell (76) d. 1949 at Preston, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
136th anniversary of the death of F. Philip Hogg (64) d. 1967 at Ilkley, England.
Birthday:
102nd birthday of S. Faustino Atanásio JOÃO (born this day in 2001).
Birthday:
162nd birthday of -P. John MLAKAR (born this day in 1941).