December 2005

1 Thursday
- Thursday of the 11th Week
- Nahum the Prophet
- Philaret the Merciful of Amnia
- Ananias the Persian
- Holy Father Theocletus the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Lacedaemonia
- Our Holy Fathers Ananius and Solochon, Archbishops of Ephesus
2 Friday
- Friday of the 11th Week
- Habakkuk the Prophet
- Our Righteous Father Cyril of Phileus
- Myrope the Martyr of Chios
- Joannicos the Monk of Devich
3 Saturday
- Saturday of the 11th Week
- Zephaniah the Prophet
- Our Righteous Father John, Bishop and Hesychast
- Holy Martyrs Agapius and Seleucius
- Theodore, Archbishop of Alexandria
4 Sunday
- 10th Sunday of Luke
- Barbara the Great Martyr
- John the Righteous of Damascus
- New Hieromartyr Seraphim, bishop of the Phanar in Greece
- Juliana the Martyr of Heliopolis
- Alexander Hotovitzky, New Hieromartyr of Russia, Missionary to America
5 Monday
- Savas the Sanctified
- Holy Martyr Diogenes
- Philotheos the Righteous of Mount Athos
- Nektarios the Bulgarian
6 Tuesday
- Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra
- Nicholas the New Martyr of Asia Minor
7 Wednesday
- Wednesday of the 12th Week
- Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
- Athenodoros the Martyr of Mesopotamia
- Righteous Father Gerasimus, Ascetic of Euboia
- Holy Father John of Kronstadt
8 Thursday
- Thursday of the 12th Week
- Forefeast of the Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos
- Patapios the Righteous of Thebes
- Apollo, Tychikos, Sosthenes, Cephas, Epaphroditos, Caesar, & Onesiphoros, Apostles of the 70
9 Friday
- The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos
- Hanna the Prophetess
- Narses the Martyr of Persia
10 Saturday
- Saturday of the 12th Week
- Menas, Hermogenes, & Eugraphos, Martyrs of Alexandria
- Thomas the Righteous of Bithynia
11 Sunday
- 11th Sunday of Luke
- Daniel the Stylite of Constantinople
- Luke the New Stylite of Chalcedon
- Holy Martyrs Ascepsia and Aethal
- Holy Martyrs Miracus and Barsabas
- Leontios the Righteous of Monemvasia
12 Monday
- Spyridon the Wonderworker of Trymithous
- Holy New Martyr Peter the Aleut
13 Tuesday
- Tuesday of the 13th Week
- Herman the Wonderworker of Alaska & First Saint of America
- Auxentios, Eugene, Mardarios, Orestes, & Eustratios, Martyrs of Sebaste
- Lucia the Virgin-martyr
- Gabriel the Hieromartyr, Archbishop of Serbia
14 Wednesday
- Wednesday of the 13th Week
- Thyrsos, Leucius, & Callinicos, Martyrs of Apollonia
15 Thursday
- Eleutherios the Holy Martyr, Bishop Illyria and his mother Anthia
- The Martyr Susannah the Deaconess
16 Friday
- Friday of the 13th Week
- Haggai the Prophet
- Modestos, Archbishop of Jerusalem
- Our Righeous Mother Blessed Empress Theophania
- Nicholas, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Memnonus, Archbishop of Ephesus
17 Saturday
- Saturday before Nativity
- Daniel the Prophet & Ananias, Azarias, & Misail, the Three Holy Youths
- Dionysios of Zakynthos
18 Sunday
- Sunday before Nativity
- Sebastian the Martyr & his Companions
- Our Righteous Father Michael Syngellon the Confessor
19 Monday
- Monday of the 14th Week
- Boniface the Merciful of Tarsus, Eutychios the Martyr of Thessaloniki
- Our Righteous Father Gregentius, Bishop of Ethiopia
- Aglaia the Righteous of Rome
20 Tuesday
- Forefeast of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ
- Ignatius the God-Bearer, Bishop of Antioch
- Our Righteous Father Philogonius, Bishop of Antioch
- John the New Martyr of Thassos
21 Wednesday
- Wednesday of the 14th Week
- Forefeast of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ
- Juliana of Nicomedia & her 630 Companion Martyrs
- Themistocles the Martyr of Myra
- Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow
22 Thursday
- Thursday of the 14th Week
- Anastasia the Great Martyr
- Chrysogonos, Theodota, Evodias, & Eutychianus, the Martyrs
- The opening of the gates of the Great Church of God
- Forefeast of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ
23 Friday
- Friday of the 14th Week
- Ten Martyrs of Crete
- Rememberance of the Founding of the Holy and Great Church of Christ, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
- Naoum the Illuminator of The Bulgarians
- Paul, Archbishop of Neo-Caesarea
- Nicholas & John the New Martyrs
- Forefeast of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ
24 Saturday
- Eve of the Nativity of Christ
- Eugenia the Righteous Nun-martyr of Rome
25 Sunday
- The Nativity of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ
- The Adoration of the Magi: Melchior, Gaspar, & Balthasar
- The Commemoration of the Shepherds in Bethlehem who were watching their flocks and came to see the Lord
26 Monday
- Sunday after Nativity
- Synaxis of the Holy Theotokos
- Euthemios the Confessor, Bishop of Sardis
- The Holy Righteous Ones, Joseph the Betrothed, David the King, and James the Brother of the Lord
- Holy New Hieromartyr Constantine of Russia, Who Struggled in Constantinople (1743)
- Constantius the Holy Martyr
- Barlaam the Righteous of Valaam
- Afterfeast of the Nativity
27 Tuesday
- Tuesday of the 15th Week
- Stephen, Archdeacon & First Martyr
- Theodore the Confessor
- Brothers Theophan and Poietus
- Afterfeast of the Nativity
28 Wednesday
- Wednesday of the 15th Week
- 20,000 Martyrs burned in Nicomedia
- Holy Martyr Glycerus
- Simon the Myrrhbearer, Founder of Simonopetra, Monastery of Mount Athos
- Afterfeast of the Nativity
29 Thursday
- 14,000 infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod in Bethlehem
- Our Righteous Father Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones
- Our Righteous Father Thaddeus the Confessor
- Afterfeast of the Nativity
30 Friday
- Friday of the 15th Week
- Anysia the Virgin-martyr of Thessaloniki
- Gideon the New Martyr of Mount Athos
- Holy Martyr Philetaerus
- Righteous Father Leondus the Archimandrite
- Afterfeast of the Nativity
31 Saturday
- Saturday before Epiphany
- Apodosis of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ
- Melania the Younger, Nun of Rome
- Holy Father Zoticus, the Priest of Orphanotrophus

Strict Fast
Wine and Oil Allowed
Fish Allowed
Dairy, Eggs and Fish Allowed
Fast Free