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");
}
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Mass of the Sunday; Creed, Preface of First Sunday of Lent. The beginning of the penitential season may be marked in some way, e.g. by Litany of Saints in Entrance Procession. (PS, 23) Rite of Election (Enrollment of Names) for the catechumens.
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[23] Gen 9:8-15; Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; 1 Pet 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15.
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
216th anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Bédard (44) d. 1889 at Quelimane, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
142nd anniversary of the death of P. Ludger Boekenhoff (58) d. 1963 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
130th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Williams (76) d. 1975 at East London, RSA.
Birthday:
140th birthday of P. Thomas PLASTOW (born this day in 1965).