Canon 75 Orderly and reverent chanting in church

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

Those who come to chant in the churches we wish neither to use disorderly cries and force nature to shouting, nor to add anything that is not fitting and proper to the church; but with much attention and compunction to offer the psalmodies to God, the overseer of hidden things. For the sacred oracle has taught that the sons of Israel shall be reverent.

Τοὺς ἐπὶ τῷ ψάλλειν ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις παραγινομένους, βουλόμεθα μήτε βοαῖς ἀτάκτοις κεχρῆσθαι, καὶ τὴν φύσιν πρὸς κραυγὴν ἐκβιάζεσθαι, μήτε τι ἐπιλέγειν τῶν μὴ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἁρμοδίων τε καὶ οἰκείων· ἀλλὰ μετὰ πολλῆς προσοχῆς καὶ κατανύξεως, τὰς ψαλμῳδίας προσάγειν τῷ τῶν κρυπτῶν ἐφόρῳ Θεῷ. Εὐλαβεῖς γὰρ ἔσεσθαι τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραὴλ τὸ ἱερὸν ἐδίδαξε λόγιον.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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