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title: "December 25, 2026 — St Spyridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of…"
description: "Friday, December 25, 2026. 12 December (Old Style). St Spyridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tremithus. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-12-25"
language: "en"
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Friday

# December 25, 2026

12 December (Old Style) · 30th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-12-25) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-12-25)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-12)

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## Events of the day

- St Spyridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tremithus

  Polyeleos rank

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Wednesday and Friday: xerophagy.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- Oil: not allowed
- Wine: not allowed
- Xerophagy

Food rules are reference church information. Agree your personal measure of fasting with a priest; consult a doctor if you are ill.

## Readings of the day

- Epistle

  Hebrews 11:8, 11–16

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  8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

  11 By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

  12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

  13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

  14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

  15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

  16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

- Gospel

  Luke 21:37–22:8

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  37 Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.

  38 All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.

  1 Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.

  2 The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

  3 Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.

  4 He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

  5 They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

  6 He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude.

  7 The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.

  8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)