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");
}
?>
Separate Vigil Mass texts in RM with separate set of readings. An elongated Vigil Liturgy of the Word is one option.
Mass of Pentecost; Gloria, Sequence, Creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I, Double alleluia at the dismissal.
Yr B
[63] Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1+24, 29b-30, 31+34; Gal 5:16-25 (Year B) or 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 15:26-27, 16:12-15 (Year B) or Jn 20:19-23.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal
After Evening Prayer, the Paschal Candle is extinguished, and moved to the Baptistery, where it is kept in a place of honor so that the candles of the newly baptised may be lit from it.
The weeks of the year resume with Week 7.
Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
65th anniversary of the death of P. Emil Schmitz (82) d. 1953 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
50th anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Tasman (78) d. 1968 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.