January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

January

  1. No fasting. Basil the Great, archbishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia; The Circumcision in the flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  2. No fasting.
  3. No fasting.
  4. No fasting.
  5. Strict fast. Paramon of Theophany.
  6. No fasting. The Theophany of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  7. Fish, Wine & Oil. Synaxis of the honorable, glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John.
  8. No fasting.
  9. Strict fast.
  10. No fasting.
  11. No fasting. Theodosios the Great, head of monasteries in Palestine.
  12. No fasting.
  13. No fasting.
  14. Strict fast.
  15. No fasting.
  16. Wine & Oil. The veneration of the precious chains of the Apostle Peter.
  17. No fasting. Venerable Antony the Great.
  18. No fasting. Athanasios and Cyril, patriarchs of Alexandria.
  19. No fasting.
  20. No fasting. Venerable Euthymios the Great.
  21. Strict fast.
  22. No fasting.
  23. Strict fast.
  24. No fasting.
  25. No fasting. Gregory the Theologian, archbishop of Constantinople.
  26. No fasting.
  27. No fasting. The translation of the relics of St John Chrysostom.
  28. Strict fast.
  29. No fasting.
  30. Wine & Oil. The three great hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom.
  31. No fasting. Unmercenaries Cyros and John.

February

  1. No fasting. Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee.
  2. No fasting. Meeting of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple.
  3. No fasting. Holy and Righteous Symeon the God-receiver and Anna the Prophetess.
  4. No fasting.
  5. No fasting.
  6. No fasting.
  7. No fasting.
  8. No fasting. Sunday of the Prodigal Son.
  9. No fasting. Meat Fare Begins.
  10. No fasting. Hieromartyr Haralampos the wonder-worker, bishop of Magnesia.
  11. Strict fast.
  12. No fasting.
  13. Strict fast.
  14. No fasting. Saturday of Souls.
  15. No fasting. Meat Fare Sunday: The Last Judgment.
  16. Dairy, Fish, Wine & Oil.
  17. Dairy, Fish, Wine & Oil.
  18. Dairy, Fish, Wine & Oil.
  19. Dairy, Fish, Wine & Oil.
  20. Dairy, Fish, Wine & Oil.
  21. Dairy, Fish, Wine & Oil.
  22. Dairy, Fish, Wine & Oil. Sunday of Cheese Fare.
  23. Strict fast.
  24. Wine & Oil. The first and second findings of the honorable head of the Forerunner.
  25. Strict fast.
  26. Strict fast.
  27. Strict fast.
  28. Wine & Oil.
  29. Wine & Oil. Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy.

March

  1. Strict fast.
  2. Strict fast.
  3. Strict fast.
  4. Strict fast.
  5. Strict fast.
  6. Wine & Oil.
  7. Wine & Oil. Sunday of St Gregory Palamas, bishop of Thessalonica.
  8. Strict fast.
  9. Wine & Oil. The forty holy martyrs of Sebaste.
  10. Strict fast.
  11. Strict fast.
  12. Strict fast.
  13. Wine & Oil.
  14. Wine & Oil. Sunday of the Adoration of the Precious and Lifegiving Cross.
  15. Strict fast.
  16. Strict fast.
  17. Strict fast.
  18. Strict fast.
  19. Strict fast.
  20. Wine & Oil.
  21. Wine & Oil. Sunday of St John Klimakos.
  22. Strict fast.
  23. Strict fast.
  24. Wine & Oil.
  25. Fish, Wine & Oil. Annunciation of the Theotokos.
  26. Wine & Oil. Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel.
  27. Wine & Oil. Saturday of the Akathist.
  28. Wine & Oil. Sunday of St Mary of Egypt.
  29. Strict fast.
  30. Strict fast.
  31. Strict fast.

April

  1. Strict fast.
  2. Strict fast.
  3. Wine & Oil. Lazarus Saturday.
  4. Fish, Wine & Oil. Palm Sunday.
  5. Strict fast. Great and Holy Monday.
  6. Strict fast. Great and Holy Tuesday.
  7. Strict fast. Great and Holy Wednesday.
  8. Wine & Oil. Great and Holy Thursday: Institution of the Last Supper.
  9. Strict fast. Great and Holy Friday: The Crucifixion.
  10. Strict fast. Great and Holy Saturday: The Harrowing of Hades.
  11. No fasting. Holy Pascha: The Resurrection of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
  12. No fasting. Monday of Renewal Week.
  13. No fasting. Tuesday of Renewal Week: Newly-revealed martyrs Raphael, Nicholas, Irene and their companions of Lesvos.
  14. No fasting. Wednesday of Renewal Week.
  15. No fasting. Thursday of Renewal Week.
  16. No fasting. Friday of Renewal Week: the Theotokos, the Life-giving Spring.
  17. No fasting. Saturday of Renewal Week.
  18. No fasting. Sunday of Thomas (Antipascha).
  19. No fasting.
  20. No fasting.
  21. No fasting.
  22. No fasting.
  23. No fasting. Great-martyr George the Trophy-bearer.
  24. No fasting.
  25. No fasting. Sunday of the Myrrh-bearers, Joseph of Arimathea and Nikodemos; Apostle and Evangelist Mark.
  26. No fasting.
  27. No fasting.
  28. No fasting.
  29. No fasting.
  30. No fasting. Apostle James, brother of John the Theologian.

May

  1. No fasting.
  2. No fasting. Sunday of the Paralytic; Athanasios the Great, patriarch of Alexandria.
  3. No fasting.
  4. No fasting.
  5. No fasting. Wednesday of Mid-Pentecost.
  6. No fasting.
  7. No fasting.
  8. No fasting. Miracle of the manna at the grave of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian.
  9. No fasting. Sunday of the Samaritan Woman.
  10. No fasting.
  11. No fasting.
  12. No fasting.
  13. No fasting.
  14. No fasting.
  15. No fasting.
  16. No fasting. Sunday of the Blind Man.
  17. No fasting.
  18. No fasting.
  19. No fasting. Apodosis (Leave-taking) of Pascha.
  20. No fasting. Ascension of our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
  21. Wine & Oil. Emperor Constantine and his mother Helena, Equals-to-the-Apostles.
  22. No fasting.
  23. No fasting. Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council.
  24. No fasting.
  25. No fasting. The third discovery of the honorable head of the Forerunner.
  26. Strict fast.
  27. No fasting.
  28. Strict fast.
  29. No fasting. Saturday of Souls.
  30. No fasting. Sunday of Pentecost.
  31. No fasting. Monday of the Holy Spirit.

June

  1. No fasting.
  2. No fasting.
  3. No fasting.
  4. No fasting.
  5. No fasting.
  6. No fasting. Sunday of All Saints.
  7. Strict fast.
  8. Wine & Oil. The translation of the relics of Great-martyr Theodore the General ("Stratelates").
  9. Strict fast.
  10. Wine & Oil.
  11. Wine & Oil. Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas.
  12. Fish, Wine & Oil.
  13. Fish, Wine & Oil.
  14. Strict fast.
  15. Wine & Oil.
  16. Strict fast.
  17. Wine & Oil.
  18. Strict fast.
  19. Fish, Wine & Oil.
  20. Fish, Wine & Oil.
  21. Strict fast.
  22. Wine & Oil.
  23. Strict fast.
  24. Fish, Wine & Oil. The Nativity of the Forerunner.
  25. Strict fast.
  26. Fish, Wine & Oil.
  27. Fish, Wine & Oil.
  28. Strict fast.
  29. No fasting. Apostles Peter and Paul.
  30. Wine & Oil. The Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles.

July

  1. No fasting. Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, martyrs in Rome.
  2. Wine & Oil. The commemoration of the placing of the robe of the Theotokos in Blachernæ.
  3. No fasting.
  4. No fasting.
  5. No fasting. Venerable Athanasios the Athonite, founder of the Great Lavra on Athos.
  6. No fasting.
  7. Strict fast.
  8. No fasting.
  9. Strict fast.
  10. No fasting.
  11. No fasting. Great-martyr Euphemia the all-praised.
  12. No fasting.
  13. No fasting.
  14. Strict fast.
  15. No fasting.
  16. Strict fast.
  17. No fasting. Great-martyr Marina of Antioch in Pisidia.
  18. No fasting. Sunday of the holy fathers of the first six Ecumenical Councils.
  19. No fasting.
  20. No fasting. Glorious Prophet Elijah (Elias).
  21. Strict fast.
  22. No fasting.
  23. Strict fast.
  24. No fasting.
  25. No fasting. The dormition of righteous Anna, the mother of the Theotokos.
  26. No fasting.
  27. No fasting. Great-martyr and healer Panteleimon.
  28. Strict fast.
  29. No fasting.
  30. Strict fast.
  31. No fasting.

August

  1. Wine & Oil. The Procession of the Holy Cross.
  2. Strict fast.
  3. Strict fast.
  4. Strict fast.
  5. Strict fast.
  6. Fish, Wine & Oil. Holy Transfiguration of Christ.
  7. Wine & Oil.
  8. Wine & Oil.
  9. Strict fast.
  10. Strict fast.
  11. Strict fast.
  12. Strict fast.
  13. Strict fast.
  14. Wine & Oil.
  15. No fasting. The Dormition of the Theotokos.
  16. No fasting.
  17. No fasting.
  18. Strict fast.
  19. No fasting.
  20. Strict fast.
  21. No fasting.
  22. No fasting.
  23. No fasting.
  24. No fasting.
  25. Strict fast.
  26. No fasting.
  27. Strict fast.
  28. No fasting.
  29. Wine & Oil. The beheading of the Forerunner and Prophet John the Baptist.
  30. No fasting.
  31. No fasting. Placing of the Belt of the Theotokos in Church of the Virgin in Halkoprateia-Constantinople.

September

  1. Wine & Oil. Indiction of the New Year.
  2. No fasting.
  3. Strict fast.
  4. No fasting.
  5. No fasting.
  6. No fasting. Miracle of Archangel Michael at Chonæ (Colossæ).
  7. No fasting.
  8. Fish, Wine & Oil. Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.
  9. No fasting. Righteous Joachim and Anna, the grandparents of God.
  10. Strict fast.
  11. No fasting.
  12. No fasting.
  13. No fasting.
  14. Strict fast. Exaltation of the precious and life-giving Cross.
  15. Strict fast.
  16. No fasting. Great-martyr Euphemia the All-Praised.
  17. Strict fast.
  18. No fasting.
  19. No fasting.
  20. No fasting. Great-martyr Efstathios, his wife, and their sons Agapios and Theopistos.
  21. No fasting.
  22. Strict fast.
  23. No fasting. Conception of the Prophet and Forerunner John the Baptist.
  24. Strict fast.
  25. No fasting.
  26. No fasting. Repose of Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian.
  27. No fasting.
  28. No fasting. Venerable Chariton the Confessor of Palestine.
  29. Strict fast.
  30. No fasting.

October

  1. Wine & Oil. The Protection of the Theotokos.
  2. No fasting.
  3. No fasting.
  4. No fasting.
  5. No fasting.
  6. Wine & Oil. Apostle Thomas.
  7. No fasting.
  8. Strict fast.
  9. No fasting. Apostle James, son of Alpheos.
  10. No fasting.
  11. No fasting.
  12. No fasting.
  13. Strict fast.
  14. No fasting.
  15. Strict fast.
  16. No fasting.
  17. No fasting. Sunday of the holy fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council.
  18. No fasting. Apostle Luke the Evangelist.
  19. No fasting.
  20. Strict fast.
  21. No fasting.
  22. Strict fast.
  23. No fasting. Apostle James, brother of the Lord.
  24. No fasting.
  25. No fasting.
  26. No fasting. Great-martyr Demetrios the myrrh-streaming of Thessalonika.
  27. Strict fast.
  28. No fasting.
  29. Strict fast.
  30. No fasting.
  31. No fasting.

November

  1. No fasting. The holy and wonderworking unmercenaries Kosmas and Damian of Mesopotamia and their mother Theodota.
  2. No fasting.
  3. Strict fast.
  4. No fasting.
  5. Strict fast.
  6. No fasting. Raphael Hawaweeny, bishop of Brooklyn.
  7. No fasting.
  8. No fasting. Synaxis of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel and all the bodiless powers of heaven.
  9. No fasting.
  10. Strict fast.
  11. No fasting.
  12. Strict fast.
  13. No fasting. John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople.
  14. No fasting. Apostle Philip.
  15. Strict fast.
  16. Wine & Oil. Apostle Matthew the Evangelist.
  17. Strict fast.
  18. Wine & Oil.
  19. Strict fast.
  20. Fish, Wine & Oil.
  21. Fish, Wine & Oil. Entrance of the Theotokos into the temple.
  22. Strict fast.
  23. Wine & Oil.
  24. Strict fast.
  25. Wine & Oil. Great-martyr Katherine the all-wise of Alexandria; Great-martyr Merkourios of Cæsarea in Cappadocia.
  26. Strict fast.
  27. Fish, Wine & Oil.
  28. Fish, Wine & Oil.
  29. Strict fast.
  30. Wine & Oil. Apostle Andrew the First-Called.

December

  1. Strict fast.
  2. Wine & Oil.
  3. Strict fast.
  4. Fish, Wine & Oil. Great-martyr Barbara of Heliopolis in Syria; Venerable John of Damascus.
  5. Fish, Wine & Oil. Venerable Sabbas the Sanctified.
  6. Wine & Oil. Nicholas the wonder-worker, bishop of Myra in Lycia.
  7. Wine & Oil.
  8. Strict fast.
  9. Wine & Oil. Conception of the Theotokos by Righeous Anna.
  10. Strict fast.
  11. Fish, Wine & Oil.
  12. Fish, Wine & Oil. Spyridon the wonder-worker, bishop of Trimythous; Sunday of the holy forefathers of Christ.
  13. Wine & Oil. Repose of venerable Herman the wonder-worker of Alaska.
  14. Wine & Oil.
  15. Wine & Oil. Hieromartyr Eleftherios, bishop of Illyria, and his mother, Martyr Anthia.
  16. Wine & Oil.
  17. Wine & Oil. Prophet Daniel and the Three Holy Youths: Ananias, Azarias and Misael.
  18. Fish, Wine & Oil.
  19. Fish, Wine & Oil. Sunday of the genealogy of Christ.
  20. Wine & Oil. Hieromartyr Ignatios the God-seer, bishop of Antioch.
  21. Strict fast.
  22. Strict fast.
  23. Strict fast.
  24. Strict fast.
  25. No fasting. The Nativity in the flesh of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
  26. No fasting. Synaxis of the Theotokos; Sunday following the Nativity: Joseph the betrothed, David the prophet and king, and James the brother of the Lord..
  27. No fasting. Proto-martyr Stephen the deacon.
  28. No fasting.
  29. No fasting.
  30. No fasting.
  31. No fasting.

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