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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Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II
[287] Acts 15:1-6;Ps 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5; John 15:1-8.
Hours of the day.
white
Our Lady of Fatima
Optional
(Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary Readings from the Common of Saints: [563A] Isa 61:9-11 (#707.9); Ps 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17 (#709.3); Luke 11:27-28.)
Anniversary:
82nd anniversary of the death of P. Domingos da Piedade Luís Fernandes (81) d. 1938 at Kotagiri, India.
Anniversary:
76th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Gardner (71) d. 1944 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
30th anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Lopes (86) d. 1990 at Porto, Portugal.