Saturday, 3 January 2026
21 December 2025 on the Old calendar
- Saturday before the Nativity of Christ
- ✚Repose of Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia († 1326)
Liturgical colour: gold
Saints of the day
- Virginmartyr Juliana of Nicomedia, and with her 500 Men and 150 Women († 304)
- Forefeast of the Nativity
- Сщмч. Михаила пресвитера (1918)
- Сщмч. Сергия диакона (1937)
- New Hieromartyr Nikita, Bishop of Belevsk († 1938)
- Сщмч. Леонтия диакона (1940)
- Martyr Themistocles of Myra in Lycia († 251)
- Блгв. кн. Иулиании Вяземской (1406)
- Blessed Procopius of Viatka, Fool-for-Christ († 1627)
- Свт. Филарета, митр. Киевского (1857)
Fasting
With oilPlant food cooked with oil, and wine; no fish.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.