The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 66
Canon 66 Paschal week spent in church without spectacles
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
From the holy day of the resurrection of Christ our God until New Sunday, for the whole week the faithful must without fail give themselves in the holy churches to psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, rejoicing in Christ and keeping festival, and attending to the reading of the divine Scriptures, and delighting in the holy mysteries. For thus shall we be both risen together with Christ and exalted together with him. Let there therefore in no way be horse races or any other public spectacle held on the aforesaid days.
Ἀπὸ τῆς ἁγίας ἀναστασίμου Χριστοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν ἡμέρας, μέχρι τῆς καινῆς Κυριακῆς, τὴν ὅλην ἑβδομάδα ἐν ταῖς ἁγίαις ἐκκλησίαις σχολάζειν δεῖ ἀπαραλείπτως τοὺς πιστοὺς ἐν ψαλμοῖς, καὶ ὕμνοις, καὶ ᾠδαῖς πνευματικαῖς, εὐφραινομένους ἐν Χριστῷ, καὶ ἑορτάζοντας, καὶ τῇ τῶν θείων Γραφῶν ἀναγνώσει προσέχοντας, καὶ τῶν ἁγίων μυστηρίων κατατρυφῶντας. Ἐσόμεθα γὰρ οὕτω Χριστῷ συνανιστάμενοί τε, καὶ συνανυψούμενοι. Μηδαμῶς οὖν ἐν ταῖς προκειμέναις ἡμέραις ἱπποδρόμια, ἢ ἑτέρα δημώδης θέα ἐπιτελείσθω.
The Council in Trullo, the canons
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