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");
}
?>
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II
[268] Acts 4:32-37;Ps 93:1ab, 1cd-2, 5; John 3:7b-15.
Hours of the day.
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St Anselm, bishop and doctor of the Church
Optional
(Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church Readings from the Common of Saints: [552] Eph 3:14-19 (#740.7); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 (#739.5); Matt 7:21-29 (#730.2).)
Anniversary:
129th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Prihoda (49) d. 1891 at Boroma, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
5th anniversary of the death of F. Michael Hayward (89) d. 2015 at Preston, Lancs, England.