Fast day.
Commemorated today
- Eve of the Nativity of Christ
- Holy Virgin and Martyr Eugenia and her companions (c. 190)Martyr · d. c. 190
Appointed readings
- Genesis 1:1–13
- Numbers 24:2–3, 5–9, 17–18
- Micah 4:6–7; 5:2–4
- Isaiah 11:1–10
- Jeremiah (Baruch 3:35–4:4)
- Daniel 2:31–36, 44–45
- Isaiah 9:6–7
- Isaiah 7:10–16; 8:1–4, 9–10
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on December 24 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 6 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.