December 6, 2035

Events of the day

• St Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia

  Polyeleos rank

Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Tuesday and Thursday (Typikon ch. 33): wine and oil, no fish.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: not allowed
• Oil: allowed
• Wine: allowed

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

• Vespers

  Composite reading — Proverbs 10, 3, 8

• Vespers

  Proverbs 10:31–11:12

• Vespers

  Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15

• Matins Gospel

  John 10:9–16

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  ⁹I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

  ¹⁰The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

  ¹¹I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

  ¹²He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

  ¹³The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.

  ¹⁴I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

  ¹⁵even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

  ¹⁶I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

• Epistle

  2 Thessalonians 2:13–3:5

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  ¹³But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

  ¹⁴to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  ¹⁵So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

  ¹⁶Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

  ¹⁷comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

  ¹Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

  ²and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.

  ³But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

  ⁴We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.

  ⁵May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.

• Epistle · St Nicholas

  Hebrews 13:17–21

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  ¹⁷Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

  ¹⁸Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

  ¹⁹I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.

  ²⁰Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

  ²¹make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

• Gospel

  Luke 21:28–33

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  ²⁸But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

  ²⁹He told them a parable. “See the fig tree and all the trees.

  ³⁰When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.

  ³¹Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that God’s Kingdom is near.

  ³²Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished.

  ³³Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

• Gospel · St Nicholas

  Luke 6:17–23

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  ¹⁷He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

  ¹⁸as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed.

  ¹⁹All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.

  ²⁰He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

  ²¹Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

  ²²Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

  ²³Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• St Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia
• Prayer of the day: Troparion of St Nicholas