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: The world of finance (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that those in charge of finance will work with governments to regulate the financial sphere and protect citizens from its dangers."
4 Tuesday
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Tuesday in the Fifth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[286] Acts 14:19-28;Ps 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 21; John 14:27-31a.
(From the Common of Pastors Readings from the Common of Saints: Common of Pastors: Readings outside Easter Time I. Isa 6:1, 6-8; Ps 40(39):2+4ab, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10+12; Luke 4:16a-22. II. Eph 4:1-7, 11-13; Ps 67(66):2-3, 5, 7-8; John 17:20-26. III. 1 Pet 5:1-4; Ps 23(22):1-3, 4, 5, 6; John 10:11-16. Common of Pastors: Readings during Easter Time I. Acts 20:28-38; Ps 145(144):8-9, 10-11, 12-13ab; John 14:23-29.)
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82nd anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Puff (78) d. 1939 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
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