Orthodox Readings

December 2027

  1. 1 WednesdayNativity Fast: strictWednesday. Prophet Nahum; Saint Philaret the Merciful of Constantinople (762); Our Venerable Father Eligius (Eloi), Bishop of Noyon (660)
  2. 2 ThursdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedThursday. 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)
  3. 3 FridayNativity Fast: strictFriday. Prophet Zephaniah; Ven. Savva of Zvenigorod; Our Venerable Father John the Silent, Bishop of Colonia (558)
  4. 4 SaturdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedSaturday. Holy Great Martyr Barbara (290); Our Righteous Father John of Damascus (760); Saint Gennadius, Archbishop of Novgorod (1505)
  5. 5 SundayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedSunday. 10th Sunday of Luke Ven. Sabbas the Sanctified
  6. 6 MondayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedMonday. St Nicholas the Wonderworker, Abp. of Myra in Lycia
  7. 7 TuesdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedTuesday. St Ambrose, Bishop of Milan; Ven. Nilus of Stolobensk; The Martyrs of Africa, who suffered during the Vandal persecution (429 and following)
  8. 8 WednesdayNativity Fast: strictWednesday. Forefeast of the Conception by St Anna of the Theotokos
  9. 9 ThursdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedThursday. Conception by St Anna of the Theotokos
  10. 10 FridayNativity Fast: strictFriday. Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, Eugraphus; Thomas the Righteous of Bithynia
  11. 11 SaturdayNativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowedSaturday. Ven. Daniel the Stylite; Saint Nikon the Dry of the Kiev Caves (1101); Our Venerable Father Luke the New Stylite (979)
  12. 12 SundayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSunday. 11th Sunday of Luke Sunday of the Forefathers
  13. 13 MondayNativity Fast: strictMonday. Repose Ven. Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America; Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes at Sebaste; Hieromartyr Juvenaly, Protomartyr of America
  14. 14 TuesdayNativity Fast: strictTuesday. Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucis, Callinicus; Holy Martyrs Philemon, Apollonius, Arian and those with them (3rd c.)
  15. 15 WednesdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedWednesday. Hieromartyr Eleutherius of Illyria and his mother, Martyr Evanthia; St Stephen of Surozh; Holy Martyr Eleutherius the Cubicularius (4th c.)
  16. 16 ThursdayNativity Fast: strictThursday. Prophet Haggai; Holy Empress and Wonderworker Theophano (893); Modestos, Archbishop of Jerusalem
  17. 17 FridayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedFriday. Holy Prophet Daniel and Three Holy Youths; Our Holy Father Dionysius the New of Zakinthos (1624)
  18. 18 SaturdayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSaturday. Saturday before Nativity
  19. 19 SundayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedSunday. Sunday before Nativity
  20. 20 MondayNativity Fast: wine and oil allowedMonday. Forefeast of Nativity; Hieromartyr Ignatius the Godbearer; Repose of Our Holy Father John of Kronstadt (1908)
  21. 21 TuesdayNativity Fast: strictTuesday. Forefeast of Nativity
  22. 22 WednesdayNativity Fast: strictWednesday. Forefeast of Nativity
  23. 23 ThursdayNativity Fast: strictThursday. Forefeast of Nativity
  24. 24 FridayNativity Fast: strictFriday. Eve of Nativity
  25. 25 SaturdaySaturday. Nativity of Christ
  26. 26 SundaySunday. Sunday after Nativity Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos
  27. 27 MondayMonday. Protomartyr Stephen
  28. 28 TuesdayTuesday. 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia; Our Holy Father Simon the Outpourer of Myrrh, Founder of Simonopetra Monastery, Mt Athos (1287); Holy Martyr Glycerus
  29. 29 WednesdayWednesday. Holy Innocents Slain by Herod; Our Venerable Father Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (485); Our Righteous Father Thaddeus the Confessor
  30. 30 ThursdayThursday. Virgin Martyr Anysia at Thessalonica; Our Holy Father Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1563); Gideon the New Martyr of Mount Athos
  31. 31 FridayFriday. Leavetaking of the Nativity

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