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
[271] Acts 5:34-42;Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14; John 6:1-15.
Hours of the day.
red
St Fidelis of Sigmaringen, priest and martyr
Optional
(Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors Readings from the Common of Saints: [554] Col 1:24-29 (#722.9); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 (#715.2); John 17:20-26 (#742.26).)
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture Sts. Mary Cleopas, Salome and the other women disciples of Jesus (cf. Jn. 19:25, Mk. 16:1-2) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
45th anniversary of the death of P. Phelim Rooney (70) d. 1975 at Oxford, England.
Birthday:
39th birthday of P. Nobert MUNEKANI (born this day in 1981).
Birthday:
21st birthday of *S. Joseph Wafula SIKOLIA (AOR) (born this day in 1999).