Canon 19 No payment for admission to clergy or monastery

So far has the defilement of the love of money spread among the leaders of the churches, that even some of those called devout, both men and women, forgetting the commandment of the Lord, have been deceived, and make for gold the admissions of those who come to the priestly order and to the monastic life. And it comes to pass that where the beginning is unapproved, the whole is also to be rejected, as the great Basil says; for it is not permitted to serve God and mammon. If anyone, then, is found doing this: if he is a bishop, or an abbot, or anyone of the priestly order, let him either cease or be deposed, according to the second canon of the holy synod in Chalcedon; and if an abbess, let her be driven out of the monastery and handed over to another monastery for subjection; likewise also an abbot who does not have ordination as presbyter. And in the case of the things given over by parents to their children in the manner of dowry goods, or of their own possessions, that are offered, those who offer them confessing that these are dedicated to God, we have decreed that, whether he remains or whether he departs, they remain in the monastery according to his promise, unless the fault be the superior's.