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 I
[291] Acts 16:11-15;Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a+9b; John 15:26-16:4a.
Hours of the day.
white
St Augustine of Canterbury, bishop
Optional
(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).)
Anniversary:
125th anniversary of the death of P. Adolph Bontemps (36) d. 1894 at Swartfontein, RSA.
Anniversary:
48th anniversary of the death of P. James Wallace (55) d. 1971 at Inyanga, Republic of Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
37th anniversary of the death of P. Wiliam Butler (70) d. 1982 at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England.
Anniversary:
18th anniversary of the death of P. Michael Ross (85) d. 2001 at Harare, Zimbabwe.