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");
}
?>
[316] Heb 9:2-3, 11-14;Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9; Mark 3:20-21.
Common of Pastors, except PROPER 1st Reading: (Readings from the Common of Saints: [520] 2 Tim 1:1-8 or Titus 1:1-5; Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); Luke 10:1-9 (#724.8).) Hours of the Memorial.
Prop. Ants. Bened. & Magn.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Timothy and Titus (cf. Acts 16:1-3, 2 Cor. 7:5-6) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
129th anniversary of the death of P. George Fraser (31) d. 1890 at Keilands, RSA.
Anniversary:
54th anniversary of the death of P. Philip Prime (54) d. 1965 at Port Elizabeth, RSA.
Anniversary:
36th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Crehan (79) d. 1983 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
35th anniversary of the death of P. Dunstan Myerscough (72) d. 1984 at Harare, Zimbabwe.