--- title: "December 6, 2022 — St Mitrophan (in schema Macarius), Bishop of…" description: "Tuesday, December 6, 2022. 23 November (Old Style). St Mitrophan (in schema Macarius), Bishop of Voronezh. Fast day" url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-12-06" language: "en" --- Tuesday # December 6, 2022 23 November (Old Style) · 26th week after Pentecost Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar) [Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-12-06) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-12-06) [Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-12) [← December 5](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-12-05) [December 7 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-12-07) ## Events of the day - St Mitrophan (in schema Macarius), Bishop of Voronezh Polyeleos rank - Holy Right-believing Great Prince Alexander Nevsky Polyeleos rank - Afterfeast: Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple ## Fasting Fast day · Nativity Fast Nativity Fast, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday: fish is allowed. - Meat: not allowed - Dairy & eggs: not allowed - Fish: allowed - Oil: allowed - Wine: allowed By the Typikon (ch. 33) Tuesday and Thursday of the Apostles' and Nativity Fasts call for oil and wine only, fish only for a saint with a polyeleos; lay practice per the ROC calendar allows fish. Food rules are reference church information. Agree your personal measure of fasting with a priest; consult a doctor if you are ill. ## Readings of the day - Epistle 1 Timothy 1:8–14 **Show the text** 8 But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully, 9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine, 11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. 12 I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service; 13 although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. 14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. - Epistle · St Alexander Galatians 5:22–6:2 **Show the text** 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit. 26 Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another. 1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. - Gospel Luke 17:26–37 - Gospel · St Alexander Matthew 11:27–30 **Show the text** 27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him. 28 “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible. ## Saints and icons - [Holy Right-believing Great Prince Alexander Nevsky](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/history/saints/alexander-nevsky) - Prayer of the day: [The Jesus Prayer](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/jesus-prayer)