The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 55
Canon 55 No fasting on Saturdays of Lent at Rome
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
Since we have learned that those in the city of the Romans, in the holy fasts of Lent, fast on its Saturdays, contrary to the ecclesiastical order handed down, it seemed good to the holy synod that in the Church of the Romans also the canon be held unshakably which says: If any cleric be found fasting on the holy Sunday, or on the Saturday, except the one and only one, let him be deposed; and if a layman, let him be excommunicated.
Ἐπειδὴ μεμαθήκαμεν, τοὺς ἐν τῇ Ῥωμαίων πόλει, ἐν ταῖς ἁγίαις τῆς Τεσσαρακοστῆς νηστείαις, τοῖς ταύτης σάββασι νηστεύειν, παρὰ τὴν παραδοθεῖσαν ἐκκλησιαστικὴν ἀκολουθίαν· ἔδοξε τῇ ἁγίᾳ συνόδῳ, ὥστε κρατεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ Ῥωμαίων ἐκκλησίᾳ ἀπαρασαλεύτως τὸν κανόνα, τὸν λέγοντα· Εἴ τις κληρικὸς εὑρεθείη τὴν ἁγίαν Κυριακὴν νηστεύων, ἢ τὸ σάββατον, πλὴν τοῦ ἑνὸς καὶ μόνου, καθαιρείσθω· εἰ δὲ λαϊκός, ἀφοριζέσθω.
The Council in Trullo, the canons
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