The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 90
Canon 90 No kneeling from Saturday vespers to Sunday evening
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
We have received canonically from our God-bearing Fathers not to bend the knee on the Lord's days, honouring the resurrection of Christ. So then, that we may not be ignorant of the exactness of this observance, we make it plain to the faithful that after the evening entrance of those in holy orders to the altar on Saturday, according to the prevailing custom, no one is to bend the knee until the following evening, that of the Lord's day, at which, after the entrance at the lamp-lighting, we bend the knees again and so offer our prayers to the Lord. For, taking the night after Saturday as the forerunner of our Saviour's rising, we begin the hymns spiritually from then, bringing the feast out of darkness into light, so that from then, for a whole night and day, we keep the feast of the resurrection.
Ταῖς Κυριακαῖς μὴ γόνυ κλίνειν ἐκ τῶν θεοφόρων ἡμῶν Πατέρων κανονικῶς παρελάβομεν, τὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ τιμῶντες ἀνάστασιν. Ὡς ἂν οὖν μὴ ἀγνοῶμεν τὸ σαφὲς τῆς τούτου παρατηρήσεως, δῆλον τοῖς πιστοῖς καθιστῶμεν, ὥστε μετὰ τὴν ἐν τῷ σαββάτῳ ἑσπερινὴν τῶν ἱερωμένων πρὸς τὸ θυσιαστήριον εἴσοδον, κατὰ τὸ κρατοῦν ἔθος, μηδένα γόνυ κλίνειν μέχρι τῆς ἐφεξῆς κατὰ τὴν Κυριακὴν ἑσπέρας· καθ᾿ ἣν μετὰ τὴν ἐν τῷ λυχνικῷ εἴσοδον αὖθις τὰ γόνατα κάμπτοντες, οὕτω τὰς εὐχὰς τῷ Κυρίῳ προσάγομεν. Τῆς γὰρ τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἐγέρσεως πρόδρομον τὴν μετὰ τὸ σάββατον νύκτα παραλαμβάνοντες, τῶν ὕμνων ἐντεῦθεν πνευματικῶς ἀπαρχόμεθα, εἰς φῶς ἐκ σκότους τὴν ἑορτὴν καταλήγοντες, ὡς ἐν ὁλοκλήρῳ ἐντεῦθεν νυκτὶ καὶ ἡμέρᾳ πανηγυρίζειν ἡμᾶς τὴν ἀνάστασιν.
The Council in Trullo, the canons
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