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The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 29

Canon 29 No breaking the Lenten fast on Holy Thursday

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

The canon of those in Carthage declares that the holy things of the altar are not to be performed except by fasting men, one day of the year being excepted, on which the Lord's Supper is celebrated; those divine Fathers having perhaps used such oikonomia at that time on account of certain local reasons profitable to the Church. Since, therefore, nothing induces us to abandon akribeia, we decree, following the apostolic and patristic traditions, that it is not right in Lent, in the last week, to break the fast on the fifth day, and so to dishonour the whole of Lent.

Ὁ τῶν ἐν Καρθαγένῃ διαγορεύει κανών, ὥστε, ἅγια θυσιαστηρίου, εἰ μὴ ὑπὸ νηστικῶν ἀνθρώπων, μὴ ἐπιτελεῖσθαι, ἐξῃρημένης μιᾶς ἐτησίας ἡμέρας, ἐν ᾗ τὸ Κυριακὸν δεῖπνον ἐπιτελεῖται, ἴσως τηνικαῦτα, διά τινας κατὰ τοὺς τόπους προφάσεις τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ λυσιτελεῖς, τῶν θείων ἐκείνων Πατέρων τοιαύτῃ χρησαμένων οἰκονομίᾳ. Μηδενὸς οὖν ἡμᾶς ἐνάγοντος καταλιπεῖν τὴν ἀκρίβειαν, ὁρίζομεν, ἀποστολικαῖς καὶ πατρικαῖς ἑπόμενοι παραδόσεσι, μὴ δεῖν ἐν Τεσσαρακοστῇ τῇ ὑστέρᾳ ἑβδομάδι τὴν πέμπτην λύειν, καὶ ὅλην τὴν Τεσσαρακοστὴν ἀτιμάζειν.

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