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");
}
?>
Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) [Octave Day of Easter]. (Formerly known as Dominica in Albis (Sunday in White), Quasimodo Sunday or Low Sunday.)
Mass of the Sunday, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I ("on this Easter day"); Easter Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
Yr A
[43] Acts 2:42-47; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 Pet 1:3-9; John 20:19-31.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Evening Prayer II of the Sunday. The Easter Octave ends. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary of the election of Pope Benedict XVI (2005)
Anniversary:
99th anniversary of the death of P. Michael McMahon (55) d. 1921 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
80th anniversary of the death of F. Daniel Shields (72) d. 1940 at Rainhill, Merseyside, England.
Anniversary:
58th anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Flood (HIB) (31) d. 1962 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
33rd anniversary of the death of P. Francis X Sharp (76) d. 1987 at Wimbledon, London, England.
Anniversary:
2nd anniversary of the death of P. John O'Holohan (HIB) (95) d. 2018 at Zomba, Malawi.