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 I
[293] Acts 17:15, 22-18:1;Ps 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14; John 16:12-15.
Hours of the day.
white
St Paul VI, pope
Optional
(Common of Pastors: For a Pope Readings from the Common of Saints: [571A] 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23 (#722.4); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); Matt 16:13-19 (#724.2).)
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
white
Bl Joseph Gerard, Priest
OptionalÂ
Common of Pastors
Anniversary:
120th anniversary of the death of F. Peter Paravicini (64) d. 1899 at Itu, Brazil.
Anniversary:
10th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald McCabe (76) d. 2009 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
37th birthday of P. Shepherd MUHAMBA (born this day in 1982).