Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

December 06

Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,

Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics


Nativity Fast.
  1. St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia
    Readings
    • VESPERS: (1) Prov 10:7, 6; 3:13 16; 8:6, 32, 34, 4, 12, 14, 17, 5 9; 1:23; (2) Prov 10:31 11:12; (3) Wis 4:7 15.
    • MATINS: Jn 10:9 16.
    • LITURGY: Heb 13:17 21; Lk 6:17 23.
  2. Blessed Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev.
  3. New Martyr Nicholas of Karamania in Asia Minor.
  4. Namesday of Royal Martyr Tsar Nicholas II (1918).



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