December 2024

1. Sun
2. Mon
3. Tue
4. Wed
5. Thu
6. Fri
7. Sat
8. 1 SundayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedSunday. 14th Sunday of Luke
9. 2 MondayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedMonday. Holy Prophet Habbakuk (Abbacum) (7th c. BC).; Holy Martyr Myrope (Myropea) of Chios (251); Our Holy Father Athanasius "the Resurrected," Recluse of the Kiev Caves (1176)
10. 3 TuesdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedTuesday. Prophet Zephaniah; Ven. Savva of Zvenigorod; Our Venerable Father John the Silent, Bishop of Colonia (558)
11. 4 WednesdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedWednesday. Holy Great Martyr Barbara (290); Our Righteous Father John of Damascus (760); Saint Gennadius, Archbishop of Novgorod (1505)
12. 5 ThursdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedThursday. Ven. Sabbas the Sanctified
13. 6 FridayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedFriday. St Nicholas the Wonderworker, Abp. of Myra in Lycia
14. 7 SaturdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedSaturday. St Ambrose, Bishop of Milan; Ven. Nilus of Stolobensk; The Martyrs of Africa, who suffered during the Vandal persecution (429 and following)
15. 8 SundayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedSunday. 10th Sunday of Luke Forefeast of the Conception by St Anna of the Theotokos
16. 9 MondayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedMonday. Conception by St Anna of the Theotokos
17. 10 TuesdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedTuesday. Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, Eugraphus; Thomas the Righteous of Bithynia
18. 11 WednesdayNativity Fast: strictWednesday. Ven. Daniel the Stylite; Saint Nikon the Dry of the Kiev Caves (1101); Our Venerable Father Luke the New Stylite (979)
19. 12 ThursdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedThursday. St Spyridon the Wonderworker; St Finian of Clonard (549); John (or Joachim), Bishop of Zichni
20. 13 FridayNativity Fast: strictFriday. Repose Ven. Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America; Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes at Sebaste; Hieromartyr Juvenaly, Protomartyr of America
21. 14 SaturdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSaturday. Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucis, Callinicus; Holy Martyrs Philemon, Apollonius, Arian and those with them (3rd c.)
22. 15 SundayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSunday. 11th Sunday of Luke Sunday of the Forefathers
23. 16 MondayNativity Fast: strictMonday. Prophet Haggai; Holy Empress and Wonderworker Theophano (893); Modestos, Archbishop of Jerusalem
24. 17 TuesdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedTuesday. Holy Prophet Daniel and Three Holy Youths; Our Holy Father Dionysius the New of Zakinthos (1624)
25. 18 WednesdayNativity Fast: strictWednesday. Martyr Sebastian and Companions at Rome; Holy Hieromartyr Modestus I, Archbishop of Jerusalem (634); St Michael Syngellos the Confessor
26. 19 ThursdayNativity Fast: strictThursday. Martyr Boniface and Righteous Aglaida; Martyrs Boniface, Probus, Ares, Timothy, Polyeuktos, Eutychios and Thessaloniki; Our Righteous Father Gregentius, Bishop of Ethiopia
27. 20 FridayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedFriday. Forefeast of Nativity; Hieromartyr Ignatius the Godbearer; Repose of Our Holy Father John of Kronstadt (1908)
28. 21 SaturdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSaturday. Saturday before Nativity; Forefeast of Nativity Saturday before Nativity
29. 22 SundayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSunday. Sunday before Nativity Forefeast of Nativity
30. 23 MondayNativity Fast: strictMonday. Forefeast of Nativity
31. 24 TuesdayNativity Fast: strictTuesday. Eve of Nativity
32. 25 WednesdayWednesday. Nativity of Christ
33. 26 ThursdayThursday. Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos
34. 27 FridayFriday. Protomartyr Stephen
35. 28 SaturdaySaturday. Saturday after Nativity
36. 29 SundaySunday. Sunday after Nativity
37. 30 MondayMonday. Virgin Martyr Anysia at Thessalonica; Our Holy Father Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1563); Gideon the New Martyr of Mount Athos
38. 31 TuesdayTuesday. Leavetaking of the Nativity

Strict fast Fast, with some foods allowed. Open a day to see what is allowed.