Nativity Fast 2025
Saturday 15 November 2025 – Wednesday 24 December 2025
The forty-day fast (15 November – 24 December) preparing for the Nativity of Christ.
Key days
- Sun 16 Nov 23rd Sunday after Pentecost
- Fri 21 Nov Entry of the Most-Holy Theotokos into the Temple
- Sun 23 Nov 24th Sunday after Pentecost
- Sun 30 Nov 25th Sunday after Pentecost
- Fri 5 Dec Ven. Sabbas the Sanctified
- Sat 6 Dec St Nicholas the Wonderworker, Abp. of Myra in Lycia
- Sun 7 Dec 26th Sunday after Pentecost
- Sat 13 Dec Repose Ven. Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America
- Sun 14 Dec 27th Sunday after Pentecost
- Sat 20 Dec Saturday before Nativity; Repose of St. John of Kronstadt
- Sun 21 Dec 28th Sunday after Pentecost