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");
}
?>
[248] Wis 2:1a, 12-22;Ps 34:17-18, 19-20, 21+23; John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
Hours of the day.
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St Vincent Ferrer, priest Common of Pastors: For Missionaries Readings from the Common of Saints: [548] 2 Tim 4:1-5 (#722.12); Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10,11 (#721.3); Luke 12:35-40 (#742.22).
Commemoration
Anniversary:
96th anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Morley (44) d. 1923 at Kutama, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
69th anniversary of the death of F. Stephen Buran (49) d. 1950 at Kabwe, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
36th anniversary of the death of P. Bernard Latchford (77) d. 1983 at London, England.
Anniversary:
7th anniversary of the death of P. Bernard Parkin (90) d. 2012 at London, England.
Birthday:
38th birthday of P. Edson HAMBAYI (born this day in 1981).