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Canon 23 No charge for giving Holy Communion

Κανόνες τῆς ἐν Τρούλλῳ Ἁγίας καὶ Οἰκουμενικῆς Πενθέκτης Συνόδου

The Council in Trullo · Constantinople, 691 to 692 · convened by the emperor Justinian II · The Quinisext Council (Trullo, 692) on the map

Concerning this: that none of the bishops, or presbyters, or deacons, when imparting the immaculate communion, should exact from the one who partakes, for the sake of such partaking, obols, or any kind of thing whatever. For grace is not sold, nor do we impart the sanctification of the Spirit for money; but it is to be imparted without guile to those worthy of the gift. And if any of those enrolled in the clergy be seen demanding any kind of thing whatever from him to whom he imparts the immaculate communion, let him be deposed, as a zealot of the error and wickedness of Simon.

Περὶ τοῦ μηδένα τῶν εἴτε ἐπισκόπων, εἴτε πρεσβυτέρων, ἢ διακόνων, τῆς ἀχράντου μεταδιδόντα κοινωνίας, παρὰ τοῦ μετέχοντος εἰσπράττειν, τῆς τοιαύτης μεταλήψεως χάριν, ὀβολούς, ἢ εἶδος τὸ οἱονοῦν. Οὐδὲ γὰρ πεπραμένη ἡ χάρις, οὐδὲ χρήμασι τὸν ἁγιασμὸν τοῦ Πνεύματος μεταδίδομεν, ἀλλὰ τοῖς ἀξίοις τοῦ δώρου ἀπανουργεύτως μεταδοτέον. Εἰ δὲ φανείη τις τῶν ἐν κλήρῳ καταλεγομένων ἀπαιτῶν, ᾧ μεταδίδωσι τῆς ἀχράντου κοινωνίας, τὸ οἱονοῦν εἶδος, καθαιρείσθω, ὡς τῆς Σίμωνος ζηλωτὴς πλάνης καὶ κακουργίας.

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