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");
}
?>
11th Day of Prayer for the Church in China (est. 2008)
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[289] Acts 15:22-31;Ps 57:8-9, 10+12; John 15:12-17.
Hours of the day.
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Our Lady of the Way [SJ] Texts in the Jesuit Supplement (Download here)
Optional
(Proper (Preface: The Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary) Readings from the Common of Saints: During Easter Time: Heb 10:19-25, or Outside Easter Time: Prov 4:10-18, Ps 119 (118):1-2, 12+14, 36-37, 41-42, Luke 2:15b-19)
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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The Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians
MemorialÂ
Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture Bl. Johanna, wife of Chuza, disciple (cf. Lk. 8:1b-3) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Manaen, prophet in Antioch (cf. Acts 13:1) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
104th anniversary of the death of F. Martin Meyringer (81) d. 1915 at Diest, Belgium.
Anniversary:
88th anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Segura (77) d. 1931 at S. Salvador da BaÃa, Brasil.
Anniversary:
63rd anniversary of the death of F. William Blackledge (56) d. 1956 at Petworth, W. Sussex, England.
Anniversary:
19th anniversary of the death of P. Donal McKenna (67) d. 2000 at Limbe, Malawi.
Anniversary:
15th anniversary of the death of P. Bertold Beck (GER) (84) d. 2004 at Köln, Germany.
Birthday:
56th birthday of +P. Dhanapalan RAYAR (born this day in 1963).