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 the pastoral care of the sick (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick grant the Lord’s strength to those who receive it and to their loved ones, and that it may become for everyone an ever more visible sign of compassion and hope."
8 Monday
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Monday of the fourteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[383] Hos 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22;Ps 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Matt 9:18-26.
Hours of the day.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Aquila and Priscilla (cf. Acts 18:1-2a) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
37th anniversary of the death of P. Thaddeus Walczek (81) d. 1987 at Johannesburg, RSA.
Anniversary:
16th anniversary of the death of P. Joaquim Barata (83) d. 2008 at PĂłvoa de Varzim, Portugal.
Anniversary:
13th anniversary of the death of P. Kevin McElhatton (77) d. 2011 at Boscombe, England.