{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140464.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140464.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140464.htm","text":"If any bishop, or presbyter, or deacon, or any of those who are enumerated in the list of the clergy, or a layman, has no very grave necessity nor difficult business so as to keep him from church for a very long time, but being in town does not go to church on three consecutive Sundays\u2014three weeks\u2014if he is a cleric let him be deposed, but if a layman let him be cut off.\nAncient Epitome of Canon LXXX.\nIf anyone without the constraint of necessity leaves his church for three Lord\u2019s days, he shall be deprived of communion.\nThis is a renewal of canon xi. of Sardica (xiv. according to the numbering of Dionysius Exiguus.)","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Canons of the Council in Trullo; Often Called The Quinisext Council.: Canon LXXX","type":"page"}