Nativity Fast 2028

15 November 2028 to 24 December 2028 (40 days)

Date	Rule	Feast
15 NovemberWednesday	Strict fastMonastic rule: strict fast
16 NovemberThursday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: fish allowed	Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew († 60)
17 NovemberFriday	Strict fastMonastic rule: strict fast
18 NovemberSaturday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: fish allowed
19 NovemberSunday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: fish allowed	24th Sunday after Pentecost
20 NovemberMonday	Strict fastMonastic rule: strict fast
21 NovemberTuesday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: fish allowed	Entry into the Temple of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary
22 NovemberWednesday	Strict fastMonastic rule: strict fast
23 NovemberThursday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: with oil	Holy Hieararch Mitrophan, in monastic-schema Macarius, Bishop of Voronezh († 1703)
24 NovemberFriday	Strict fastMonastic rule: strict fast
25 NovemberSaturday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: fish allowed
26 NovemberSunday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: fish allowed	25th Sunday after Pentecost
27 NovemberMonday	Strict fastMonastic rule: strict fast	Icons of the Mother of God: “Znamenie” of Novgorod and “Znamenie”, the Kursk-Root
28 NovemberTuesday	With oilMonastic rule: with oil
29 NovemberWednesday	Strict fastMonastic rule: strict fast
30 NovemberThursday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: fish allowed	Holy and All-priased Apostle Andrew the First-Called († 62)
1 DecemberFriday	Strict fastMonastic rule: strict fast
2 DecemberSaturday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: fish allowed
3 DecemberSunday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: fish allowed	26th Sunday after Pentecost
4 DecemberMonday	Strict fastMonastic rule: with oil
5 DecemberTuesday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: fish allowed	Venerable Sabbas the Sanctified († 532)
6 DecemberWednesday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: with oil	Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia († c
7 DecemberThursday	With oilMonastic rule: with oil
8 DecemberFriday	Strict fastMonastic rule: strict fast
9 DecemberSaturday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: fish allowed
10 DecemberSunday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: fish allowed	27th Sunday after Pentecost
11 DecemberMonday	Strict fastMonastic rule: strict fast
12 DecemberTuesday	With oilMonastic rule: with oil	Venerable Herman, Wonderworker of Alaska († 1837) [ROCOR]
13 DecemberWednesday	Strict fastMonastic rule: strict fast	Martyrs Eustratios, Auxentios, Eugene, Mardarius and Orestes at Sebaste († c
14 DecemberThursday	With oilMonastic rule: with oil
15 DecemberFriday	Strict fastMonastic rule: strict fast
16 DecemberSaturday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: fish allowed
17 DecemberSunday	Fish allowedMonastic rule: fish allowed	28th Sunday after Pentecost
18 DecemberMonday	Strict fastMonastic rule: strict fast
19 DecemberTuesday	With oilMonastic rule: with oil
20 DecemberWednesday	Strict fastMonastic rule: with oil	Holy Righteous John, Wonderworker of Kronstadt and All Russia (ROCOR)
21 DecemberThursday	Strict fastMonastic rule: with oil	Repose of Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia († 1326)
22 DecemberFriday	Strict fastMonastic rule: strict fast
23 DecemberSaturday	With oilMonastic rule: with oil	Saturday before the Nativity of Christ
24 DecemberSunday	Strict fastMonastic rule: with oil	Sunday before the Nativity of Christ, of the Fathers

All fasts of 2028

Fasting is personal; ask your priest.