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");
}
?>
Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For Christians in areas of conflict (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that Christians living in areas of war or conflict, especially in the Middle East, might be seeds of peace, reconciliation and hope."
30 Tuesday
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Sixth day in the Octave of Christmas
Mass of the day; Gloria; preface of Christmas I - III; Special Communicantes in Roman Canon.
Cycle I
[203] 1 John 2:12-17;Ps 96:7-8a, 8b-9, 10; Luke 2:36-40.
Hours of the day.Te Deum.
Anniversary:
32nd anniversary of the death of P. Thomas O'Meara (HIB) (82) d. 1993 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
8th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Rogers (ZIM) (93) d. 2017 at Boscombe, England.