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");
}
?>
[421] Ezek 34:1-11;Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Matt 20:1-16.
Hours of the day.
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St John Eudes, priest Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women Readings from the Common of Saints: [624] Eph 3:14-19 (#740.7); Ps 131:1bcde, 2, 3 (#739.9); Matt 11:25-30 (#742.4).
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[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Sarah (cf. Gn. 17:15) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
87th anniversary of the death of P. Edmund Goetz (67) d. 1933 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.