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
[290] Acts 16:1-10;Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 5; John 15:18-21.
Hours of the day.
red SJ
St Andrew Bobola, priest and martyr [SJ] Texts in the Jesuit Supplement. (Download Mass texts and Divine Office texts here)
Optional
(From the Common of Martyrs Readings from the Common of Saints: Common of Martyrs: Readings outside Easter Time I. Wisdom 10:10-14; Ps 116(115):10+15, 16-17, 18-19; John 15:9-17. II. Phil 1:20b-26; Ps 31(30):3b-4, 6-8a, 16b-17, 21; Matt 10:16-22. III. 1 Pet 3:14-17; Ps 124(123):2-3, 4-5, 7cd-8; John 12:24-26. Common of Martyrs: Readings during Easter Time I. Rev 12:10-12b; Ps 34(33):2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9; John 17:11b-19.)
Anniversary:
107th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Ostrowski (59) d. 1913 at Chishawasha, BSA Co..
Anniversary:
58th anniversary of the death of P. Bernard Whiteside (80) d. 1962 at Roehampton, England.
Birthday:
65th birthday of P. Gerard KARAS (born this day in 1955).
Birthday:
40th birthday of P. Tilimboyi Vincent NCHIMUNYA (born this day in 1980).