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");
}
?>
[477] Eph 4:1-6;Ps 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6; Luke 12:54-59.
Hours of the day.
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St John of Capistrano, priest Common of Pastors: For Missionaries Readings from the Common of Saints: [664] 2 Cor 5:14-20 (#722.7); Ps 16:1b-2a+5, 7-8, 11 (#721.1); Luke 9:57-62 (#742.19).
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Anniversary:
86th anniversary of the death of P. Edmund Collingridge (49) d. 1934 at Sinoia, S Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
62nd anniversary of the death of P. Charles Shackles (59) d. 1958 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
19th anniversary of the death of P. LuÃs AbÃlio Goncalves (63) d. 2001 at Lisbon, Portugal.
Anniversary:
13th anniversary of the death of F. Hugo Keller (92) d. 2007 at Pickering, ON, Canada.