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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St Robert Bellarmine, bishop and doctor of the Church [SJ] Outside SJ churches opt. mem. or St Hildegard of Bingen, opt. mem. Texts in the Jesuit Supplement. (Download Mass texts and Divine Office texts here)
[446] 1 Cor 15:1-11; Ps 118:1b-2, 16ab-17, 28; Luke 7:36-50.
Hours of the Memorial. Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church Readings from the Common of Saints: [641] Wis 7:7-10, 15-16 (#725.2); Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11 (#727.1); John 6:63c, 68c (#729.3); Matt 7:21-29 (#730.2)
Anniversary:
140th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Terörde (GER) (36) d. 1880 at Gwembe Valley, Zambia.
Anniversary:
42nd anniversary of the death of P. Felix Jackson (70) d. 1978 at Florida, Transvaal, RSA.
Birthday:
21st birthday of NS. Arthur MCDONALD (born this day in 1999).