Nativity of Christ
Great Feast. One of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Church year.
Commemorated today
- The Nativity according to the Flesh of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ
- The Shepherds who saw the Lord
- The Veneration of the Magi
Appointed readings
- Matthew 1:18–25
- Galatians 4:4–7
- Matthew 2:1–12
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on December 25 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 7 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.