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 Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle II
[297] Acts 19:1-8;Ps 68:2-3ab, 4-5acd, 6-7ab; John 16:29-33.
Hours of the day.
white
St Bede the Venerable, priest and doctor of the Church
Optional
(Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church Readings from the Common of Saints: [567] 1 Cor 2:10b-16 (#728.3); Ps 119:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (#727.3); Matt 7:21-29 (#730.2).)
white
St Gregory VII, pope
Optional
(Common of Pastors: For a Pope Readings from the Common of Saints: [568] Acts 20:17-18a. 28-32, 36 (#720.2); Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4 (#721.7); Matt 16:13-19 (#724.2).)
white
St Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, virgin
Optional
(Common of Virgins, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious Readings from the Common of Saints: [569] 1 Cor 7:25-35 (#734.1); Ps 148:1-2, 11-13, 13-14 (#733.2); Mark 3:31-35 (#742.14).)
Anniversary:
5th anniversary of the death of P. John Doyle (84) d. 2015 at Pickering, ON, Canada.
Birthday:
32nd birthday of P. Frank Fanie TARUWONA (born this day in 1988).
Birthday:
52nd birthday of P. Nathanael MITI (born this day in 1968).
Birthday:
28th birthday of S. Paul KANDA (born this day in 1992).