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");
}
?>
[354] 2 Pet 3:12-15a, 17-18;Ps 90:2, 3-4, 10, 14+16; Mark 12:13-17.
Hours of the day.
red
Sts Marcellinus and Peter, martyrs Common of Martyrs Readings from the Common of Saints: [575] 2 Cor 6:4-10 (#716.4); Ps 124:2-3, 4-5, 7b-8 (#715.3); John 17:11b-19 (#718.7).
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Anniversary:
122nd anniversary of the death of F. Alphonse Kury (35) d. 1898 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
23rd anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Nixon (78) d. 1997 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
82nd birthday of E. Dieter SCHOLZ (born this day in 1938).
Birthday:
40th birthday of P. Grant TUNGAY (born this day in 1980).