{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140187.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140187.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140187.htm","text":"p. 136 Canon XIX.\nAfter the sermons of the Bishops, the prayer for the catechumens is to be made first by itself; and after the catechumens have gone out, the prayer for those who are under penance; and, after these have passed under the hand [of the Bishop] and departed, there should then be offered the three prayers of the faithful, the first to be said entirely in silence, the second and third aloud, and then the [kiss of] peace is to be given. And, after the presbyters have given the [kiss of] peace to the Bishop, then the laity are to give it [to one another], and so the Holy Oblation is to be completed. And it is lawful to the priesthood alone to go to the Altar and [there] communicate.\nAfter the prayers of the catechumens shall be said those of the Penitents, and afterwards those of the faithful. And after the peace, or embrace, has been given, the offering shall be made. Only priests shall enter the sanctuary and make there their communion.\nThe Greek commentators throw but little if any light upon this canon. A question has been raised as to who said the prayers mentioned. Van Espen, following Isidore\u2019s translation \u201cthey also pray who are doing penance,\u201d thinks the prayer of the penitents, said by themselves, is intended, and not the prayer said by the Bishop. But Hefele, following Dionysius\u2019s version\u2014\u201cthe prayers over the catechumens,\u201d \u201cover those who are doing penance\u201d\u2014thinks that the liturgical prayers are intended, which after the sermon were wont to be said \u201cover\u201d the different classes. Dionysius does not say \u201cover\u201d the faithful, but describes them as \u201cthe prayers of the faithful,\u201d which Hefele thinks means that the faithful joined in reciting them.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Canons of the Councils of Ancyra, Gangra, Neoc\u00e6sarea, Antioch and Laodicea, which Canons were Accepted and Received by the Ecumenical Synods.: Canon XIX","type":"page"}