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; Gloria; preface of Christmas I - III; Special Communicantes in Roman Canon.
Cycle II
[204] 1 John 2:18-21;Ps 96:1-2, 11-12, 13; John 1:1-18.
Hours of the day.Te Deum.
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St. Sylvester I, pope Common of Pastors: For a Pope Readings from the Common of Saints: [700] Ezek 34:11-16 (#719.9); Ps 23:1-3a, 4, 5, 6 (#721.2); Matt 16:13-19 (#724.2).
Optional
Anniversary:
99th anniversary of the death of P. JoaĚo JoseĚ de Moura (66) d. 1921 at BaiĚa, Brazil.
Anniversary:
25th anniversary of the death of P. Ivan Bougaardt (63) d. 1995 at Johannesburg, RSA.
Anniversary:
24th anniversary of the death of P. Faustino Rodrigues (79) d. 1996 at PĂłvoa de Varzim, Portugal.
Anniversary:
6th anniversary of the death of P. Domingos da Silva (80) d. 2014 at Lifidzi, Rep. of Mozambique.
Birthday:
45th birthday of P. Slyvester KASIRORI (born this day in 1975).