Canon 69 Fasting in Lent and on Wednesday and Friday

Ἱεροὶ Κανόνες τῶν Ἁγίων καὶ Πανσέπτων Ἀποστόλων

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If any bishop, or presbyter, or deacon, or subdeacon, or reader, or cantor does not fast the holy Forty Days of Pascha, or Wednesday, or Friday, let him be deposed, unless he is hindered by bodily weakness; and if he is a layman, let him be excommunicated.

Εἴ τις ἐπίσκοπος, ἢ πρεσβύτερος, ἢ διάκονος, ἢ ὑποδιάκονος, ἢ ἀναγνώστης, ἢ ψάλτης, τὴν ἁγίαν Τεσσαρακοστὴν τοῦ Πάσχα οὐ νηστεύει, ἢ τετράδα, ἢ παρασκευήν, καθαιρείσθω, ἐκτὸς εἰ μὴ δι᾿ ἀσθένειαν σωματικὴν ἐμποδίζοιτο· εἰ δὲ λαϊκὸς εἴη, ἀφοριζέσθω.

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