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");
}
?>
[368] 2 Cor 11:1-11;Ps 111:1b-2, 3-4, 7-8; Matt 6:7-15.
Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest
Feast
Mass of the feast. Gloria, Preface of the priesthood of Christ and of the Church. [In the Universal Calendar, this feast was celebrated last Thursday, on the Thursday after Pentecost, to mark an octave before Corpus Christi, but since Corpus Christi is transferred to this coming Sunday, in SACBC territories only, the feast is moved a week later, to the Thursday after the Most Holy Trinity, to commence a triduum leading to Corpus Christi. In non-SACBC territories, the Feria from Ordinary Time should be used as above.]
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Isa 6:1-4,8 or Heb 2:10-18; Ps 23 (22):2-3, 5, 6 (℟.1); John 17:1-2, 9, 14-26. Download the texts
Hours of the feast. Te Deum.
Anniversary:
51st anniversary of the death of P. Tilman Esser (88) d. 1968 at Makumbi, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
5th anniversary of the death of P. John Dove (91) d. 2014 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
44th birthday of P. Chrispen MATSILELE (born this day in 1975).
Birthday:
49th birthday of P. Ugenio PHIRI (born this day in 1970).