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");
}
?>
[350] 1 Pet 2:2-5, 9-12;Ps 100:2, 3, 4, 5; Mark 10:46-52.
Hours of the day.
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St Augustine of Canterbury, bishop Common of Pastors: For Missionaries Readings from the Common of Saints: [571] 1 Thess 2:2b-8 (#722.10); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); Matt 9:35-38 (#724.1).
Optional
Outside the Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg [i.e. all non-SACBC territories]
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Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest
Feast
Mass of the feast. Gloria, Preface of the priesthood of Christ and of the Church. [In the Universal Calendar, this feast is celebrated on the Thursday after Pentecost, except for SACBC territories which will celebrate it next Thursday. In SACBC territories, the Feria from Ordinary Time should be used as above, or the optional Memorial below can be used.]
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Isa 6:1-4,8 or Heb 2:10-18; Ps 23 (22):2-3, 5, 6 (℟.1); John 17:1-2, 9, 14-26. Download the texts
Hours of the feast. Te Deum.
Anniversary:
116th anniversary of the death of P. Adolph Bontemps (36) d. 1894 at Swartfontein, RSA.
Anniversary:
39th anniversary of the death of P. James Wallace (55) d. 1971 at Inyanga, Republic of Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
28th anniversary of the death of P. Wiliam Butler (70) d. 1982 at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England.
Anniversary:
9th anniversary of the death of P. Michael Ross (85) d. 2001 at Harare, Zimbabwe.