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The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 56

Canon 56 No eggs or cheese on Lenten Saturdays and Sundays

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

Likewise we have learned that in the country of the Armenians and in other places, on the Saturdays and on the Sundays of holy Lent, some eat eggs and cheese. This too, therefore, has seemed good: that the Church of God throughout the whole inhabited world, following one order, keep the fast, and abstain, as from every kind of thing slaughtered, so also from egg and cheese, which are the fruit and the produce of those things from which we abstain. And if they do not observe this, if they be clerics, let them be deposed; and if laymen, let them be excommunicated.

Ὡσαύτως μεμαθήκαμεν ἔν τε τῇ Ἀρμενίων χώρᾳ, καὶ ἐν ἑτέροις τόποις, ἐν τοῖς σάββασι, καὶ ἐν ταῖς Κυριακαῖς τῆς ἁγίας Τεσσαρακοστῆς, ᾠὰ καὶ τυρὸν ἐσθίειν τινάς. Ἔδοξε τοίνυν καὶ τοῦτο, ὥστε τὴν κατὰ πᾶσαν τὴν οἰκουμένην τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐκκλησίαν, μιᾷ κατακολουθοῦσαν τάξει, τὴν νηστείαν ἐπιτελεῖν, καὶ ἀπέχεσθαι, ὥσπερ θυτοῦ παντοίου, οὕτω δὴ ᾠοῦ, καὶ τυροῦ, ἃ καρπός εἰσι, καὶ γεννήματα, ὧν ἀπεχόμεθα. Εἰ δὲ μὴ τοῦτο παραφυλάττοιεν, εἰ μὲν κληρικοὶ εἶεν, καθαιρείσθωσαν· εἰ δὲ λαϊκοί, ἀφοριζέσθωσαν.

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