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 ecclesial movements and groups (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that ecclesial movements and groups may daily rediscover their evangelizing mission, and that they place their own charisms at the service of the world’s needs."
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Thursday in the Fourth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[282] Acts 13:13-25;Ps 89:2-3, 21-22, 25+27; John 13:16-20.
(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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84th anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Puff (78) d. 1939 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
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70th anniversary of the death of P. Richard Corish (65) d. 1953 at Leeds, England.
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18th anniversary of the death of P. Norman MacDonald (79) d. 2005 at Lusaka, Zambia.
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17th anniversary of the death of P. George Orr (87) d. 2006 at Pontypool, Cardiff, Wales.
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11th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Kelly (HIB) (92) d. 2012 at Dublin, Ireland.