December 2025

1. Sun
2. Mon
3. Tue
4. Wed
5. Thu
6. Fri
7. Sat
9. 1 MondayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedMonday. Prophet Nahum; Saint Philaret the Merciful of Constantinople (762); Our Venerable Father Eligius (Eloi), Bishop of Noyon (660)
10. 2 TuesdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedTuesday. 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)
11. 3 WednesdayNativity Fast: strictWednesday. Prophet Zephaniah; Ven. Savva of Zvenigorod; Our Venerable Father John the Silent, Bishop of Colonia (558)
12. 4 ThursdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedThursday. Holy Great Martyr Barbara (290); Our Righteous Father John of Damascus (760); Saint Gennadius, Archbishop of Novgorod (1505)
13. 5 FridayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedFriday. Ven. Sabbas the Sanctified
14. 6 SaturdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedSaturday. St Nicholas the Wonderworker, Abp. of Myra in Lycia
15. 7 SundayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedSunday. 10th Sunday of Luke
16. 8 MondayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedMonday. Forefeast of the Conception by St Anna of the Theotokos
17. 9 TuesdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedTuesday. Conception by St Anna of the Theotokos
18. 10 WednesdayNativity Fast: strictWednesday. Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, Eugraphus; Thomas the Righteous of Bithynia
19. 11 ThursdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedThursday. Ven. Daniel the Stylite; Saint Nikon the Dry of the Kiev Caves (1101); Our Venerable Father Luke the New Stylite (979)
20. 12 FridayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedFriday. St Spyridon the Wonderworker; St Finian of Clonard (549); John (or Joachim), Bishop of Zichni
21. 13 SaturdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSaturday. Repose Ven. Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America; Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes at Sebaste; Hieromartyr Juvenaly, Protomartyr of America
22. 14 SundayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSunday. 11th Sunday of Luke Sunday of the Forefathers
23. 15 MondayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedMonday. Hieromartyr Eleutherius of Illyria and his mother, Martyr Evanthia; St Stephen of Surozh; Holy Martyr Eleutherius the Cubicularius (4th c.)
24. 16 TuesdayNativity Fast: strictTuesday. Prophet Haggai; Holy Empress and Wonderworker Theophano (893); Modestos, Archbishop of Jerusalem
25. 17 WednesdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedWednesday. Holy Prophet Daniel and Three Holy Youths; Our Holy Father Dionysius the New of Zakinthos (1624)
26. 18 ThursdayNativity Fast: strictThursday. Martyr Sebastian and Companions at Rome; Holy Hieromartyr Modestus I, Archbishop of Jerusalem (634); St Michael Syngellos the Confessor
27. 19 FridayNativity Fast: strictFriday. Martyr Boniface and Righteous Aglaida; Martyrs Boniface, Probus, Ares, Timothy, Polyeuktos, Eutychios and Thessaloniki; Our Righteous Father Gregentius, Bishop of Ethiopia
28. 20 SaturdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSaturday. Saturday before Nativity
29. 21 SundayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSunday. Sunday before Nativity Forefeast of Nativity
30. 22 MondayNativity Fast: strictMonday. Forefeast of Nativity
31. 23 TuesdayNativity Fast: strictTuesday. Forefeast of Nativity
32. 24 WednesdayNativity Fast: strictWednesday. Eve of Nativity
33. 25 ThursdayThursday. Nativity of Christ
34. 26 FridayFriday. Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos
35. 27 SaturdaySaturday. Saturday after Nativity; Protomartyr Stephen Saturday after Nativity
36. 28 SundaySunday. Sunday after Nativity
37. 29 MondayMonday. Holy Innocents Slain by Herod; Our Venerable Father Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (485); Our Righteous Father Thaddeus the Confessor
38. 30 TuesdayTuesday. Virgin Martyr Anysia at Thessalonica; Our Holy Father Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1563); Gideon the New Martyr of Mount Athos
39. 31 WednesdayWednesday. Leavetaking of the Nativity

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