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");
}
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St Thomas Aquinas, priest and doctor of the Church
Memorial
Mass of the saint; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle II
[318] 2 Sam 6:12b-15, 17-19;Ps 24:7, 8, 9, 10; Mark 3:31-35,
Common of Doctors of the Church, or Common of Pastors (Readings from the Common of Saints: [522] Wisdom 7:7-10, 15-16 (#725.2); Ps 119:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (#727.3); Matt 23:8-12 (#730.4).) Hours of the Memorial.
Prop. Ants. Bened. & Magn.
Anniversary:
140th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Fuchs (40) d. 1880 at Tati, Rhodesia.
Birthday:
82nd birthday of -P. Peter EDMONDS (born this day in 1938).
Birthday:
40th birthday of P. Choobe M. MAAMBO (born this day in 1980).
Birthday:
19th birthday of NS. Elias João XAVIER (born this day in 2001).