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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Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II
[274] Acts 7:51-8:1a;Ps 31:3cd-4, 6ab+7b+8a, 17+21ab; John 6:30-35.
Hours of the day.
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St Louis Grignion de Montfort, priest
Optional
(Common of Pastors: For Missionaries Readings from the Common of Saints: [556A] 1 Cor 1:18-25; Ps 40:2+4, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10; Matt 28:16-20.)
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St Peter Chanel, priest and martyr
Optional
(Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors: For Missionaries Readings from the Common of Saints: [556] 1 Cor 1:18-25 (#722.2); Ps 117:1bc, 2 (#721.8); Mark 1:14-20 (#724.5).)
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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St Pius V, Pope
OptionalÂ
Common of Pastors
Archdiocese of Cape Town, South Africa
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Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Flight into Egypt (1951)
Feast
Mass of the Dedication of a Church, Gloria, proper readings [701-706], Peface of the Dedication of a Church II. Hours of he Dedication, Te Deum.
Anniversary:
121st anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Boos (44) d. 1899 at Fort Victoria, Rhodesia.
Death:
Death of P. Edward C.A. Dougherty (UEA) (79) d. 2020 at Philadelphia, USA.
Birthday:
21st birthday of S. Edward J. MANGAPE (born this day in 1999).
Birthday:
39th birthday of P. Gregory MULOBELA (born this day in 1981).