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Saturday, December 5, 1953

Feast of the day

Black cross feast

Sfântul Cuvios Sava cel Sfințit

Acatistul Sfântului Cuvios Sava cel Sfințit (opens in a new tab)

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From the Synaxarion

Fasting today

Fish allowed

Lenten food, with fish, oil and wine.

Nativity Fast · Saturdays and Sundays of the fast

No weddings

No weddings

The Mystery of Marriage is not celebrated on fasting days (Wednesdays, Fridays and the four fasts), from Meatfare Sunday to Thomas Sunday, between Christmas and Theophany, on the Beheading of St. John the Baptist and on the eve and the day of the Great Feasts.

Source: Calendar of the Romanian Patriarchate, “No weddings” (opens in a new tab)

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