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
[286] Acts 14:19-28;Ps 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 21; John 14:27-31a.
Hours of the day.
red
St Pancras, martyr
Optional
(Common of Martyrs Readings from the Common of Saints: [563] Rev 19:1, 5-9a (#738.3); Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 8-9, 13-14, 17-18 (#739.6); Matt 11:25-30 (#742.4).)
red
Sts Nereus and Achilleus, martyrs
Optional
(Common of Martyrs Readings from the Common of Saints: [562] Rev 7:9-17 (#714.2); Ps 124:2-3, 4-5, 7-8 (#715.3); Matt 10:17-22 (#718.1).)
Anniversary:
139th anniversary of the death of P. Carlos Wehl (43) d. 1881 at Sofala, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
68th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph O'Neil (84) d. 1952 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
66th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald Landreth (50) d. 1954 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
51st anniversary of the death of P. Eric Edmonstone (62) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
40th anniversary of the death of P. Desmond Ford (65) d. 1980 at London, England.
Anniversary:
7th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Meiring (91) d. 2013 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
21st birthday of S. Maynard MASAUSO (born this day in 1999).