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");
}
?>
[139] Isa 5:1-7; Ps 80:9+12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20; Phil 4:6-9; Matt 21:33-43.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture Sts. Damaris, wife of Dionysius the Areopagite and Crispus (cf. Acts 17:34) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
127th anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Ferreira (45) d. 1893 at Quelimane, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
124th anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Sauguinetti (72) d. 1896 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
76th anniversary of the death of F. Theophile Szopinski (77) d. 1944 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
58th anniversary of the death of P. George Barrett (83) d. 1962 at London, England.
Anniversary:
27th anniversary of the death of F. António Ferreira (46) d. 1993 at Quelimane, Rep. of Mozambique.
Birthday:
80th birthday of P. Brian MACGARRY (born this day in 1940).