December 2026

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2. Mon
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10. 1 TuesdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedTuesday. Prophet Nahum; Saint Philaret the Merciful of Constantinople (762); Our Venerable Father Eligius (Eloi), Bishop of Noyon (660)
11. 2 WednesdayNativity Fast: strictWednesday. 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)
12. 3 ThursdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedThursday. Prophet Zephaniah; Ven. Savva of Zvenigorod; Our Venerable Father John the Silent, Bishop of Colonia (558)
13. 4 FridayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedFriday. Holy Great Martyr Barbara (290); Our Righteous Father John of Damascus (760); Saint Gennadius, Archbishop of Novgorod (1505)
14. 5 SaturdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedSaturday. Ven. Sabbas the Sanctified
15. 6 SundayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedSunday. 10th Sunday of Luke St Nicholas the Wonderworker, Abp. of Myra in Lycia
16. 7 MondayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedMonday. St Ambrose, Bishop of Milan; Ven. Nilus of Stolobensk; The Martyrs of Africa, who suffered during the Vandal persecution (429 and following)
17. 8 TuesdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedTuesday. Forefeast of the Conception by St Anna of the Theotokos
18. 9 WednesdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedWednesday. Conception by St Anna of the Theotokos
19. 10 ThursdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedThursday. Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, Eugraphus; Thomas the Righteous of Bithynia
20. 11 FridayNativity Fast: strictFriday. Ven. Daniel the Stylite; Saint Nikon the Dry of the Kiev Caves (1101); Our Venerable Father Luke the New Stylite (979)
21. 12 SaturdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSaturday. St Spyridon the Wonderworker; St Finian of Clonard (549); John (or Joachim), Bishop of Zichni
22. 13 SundayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSunday. 11th Sunday of Luke Sunday of the Forefathers
23. 14 MondayNativity Fast: strictMonday. Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucis, Callinicus; Holy Martyrs Philemon, Apollonius, Arian and those with them (3rd c.)
24. 15 TuesdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedTuesday. Hieromartyr Eleutherius of Illyria and his mother, Martyr Evanthia; St Stephen of Surozh; Holy Martyr Eleutherius the Cubicularius (4th c.)
25. 16 WednesdayNativity Fast: strictWednesday. Prophet Haggai; Holy Empress and Wonderworker Theophano (893); Modestos, Archbishop of Jerusalem
26. 17 ThursdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedThursday. Holy Prophet Daniel and Three Holy Youths; Our Holy Father Dionysius the New of Zakinthos (1624)
27. 18 FridayNativity Fast: strictFriday. Martyr Sebastian and Companions at Rome; Holy Hieromartyr Modestus I, Archbishop of Jerusalem (634); St Michael Syngellos the Confessor
28. 19 SaturdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSaturday. Saturday before Nativity
29. 20 SundayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSunday. Sunday before Nativity
30. 21 MondayNativity Fast: strictMonday. Forefeast of Nativity
31. 22 TuesdayNativity Fast: strictTuesday. Forefeast of Nativity
32. 23 WednesdayNativity Fast: strictWednesday. Forefeast of Nativity
33. 24 ThursdayNativity Fast: strictThursday. Eve of Nativity
34. 25 FridayFriday. Nativity of Christ
35. 26 SaturdaySaturday. Saturday after Nativity; Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos Saturday after Nativity
36. 27 SundaySunday. Sunday after Nativity Protomartyr Stephen
37. 28 MondayMonday. 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia; Our Holy Father Simon the Outpourer of Myrrh, Founder of Simonopetra Monastery, Mt Athos (1287); Holy Martyr Glycerus
38. 29 TuesdayTuesday. Holy Innocents Slain by Herod; Our Venerable Father Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (485); Our Righteous Father Thaddeus the Confessor
39. 30 WednesdayWednesday. Virgin Martyr Anysia at Thessalonica; Our Holy Father Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1563); Gideon the New Martyr of Mount Athos
40. 31 ThursdayThursday. Leavetaking of the Nativity

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