Nativity Fast 2019
Friday 15 November 2019 – Tuesday 24 December 2019
The forty-day fast (15 November – 24 December) preparing for the Nativity of Christ.
Key days
- Sat 16 Nov Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mathew
- Sun 17 Nov 22nd Sunday after Pentecost
- Thu 21 Nov Entry of the Most-Holy Theotokos into the Temple
- Sun 24 Nov 23rd Sunday after Pentecost
- Sat 30 Nov Holy Apostle Andrew the First Called
- Sun 1 Dec 24th Sunday after Pentecost
- Thu 5 Dec Ven. Sabbas the Sanctified
- Fri 6 Dec St Nicholas the Wonderworker, Abp. of Myra in Lycia
- Sun 8 Dec 25th Sunday after Pentecost
- Fri 13 Dec Repose Ven. Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America
- Sun 15 Dec 26th Sunday after Pentecost
- Fri 20 Dec Repose of St. John of Kronstadt
- Sun 22 Dec 27th Sunday after Pentecost