{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140474.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140474.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140474.htm","text":"We have received from our divine Fathers the canon law that in honour of Christ\u2019s resurrection, we are not to kneel on Sundays. Lest therefore we should ignore the fulness of this observance we make it plain to the faithful that after the priests have gone to the Altar for Vespers on Saturdays (according to the prevailing custom) no one shall kneel in prayer until the evening of Sunday, at which time after the entrance for compline, again with bended knees we offer our prayers to the Lord. For taking the night after the Sabbath, which was the forerunner of our Lord\u2019s resurrection, we begin from it to sing in the spirit hymns to God, leading our feast out of darkness into light, and thus during an entire day and night, we celebrate the Resurrection.\nFrom the evening entrance of the Sabbath until the evening entrance of the Lord\u2019s day there must be no kneeling.\nNo doubt the synod by the words \u201cwe have received from the divine Fathers,\u201d referred to canon xx. of the Council of Nice.\np. 404 For many centuries this custom was preserved even in the Latin Church; and the custom of keeping feasts and whole days generally from evening to evening is believed to have been an Apostolic tradition, received by them from the Jews. At the end of the VIIIth Century the Synod of Frankfort declared in its xxj. canon, that \u201cthe Lord\u2019s day should be kept from evening to evening.\u201d 385\n\u201cThe evening and the morning were the first day.\u201d\u2014Gen. i. 5.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Canons of the Council in Trullo; Often Called The Quinisext Council.: Canon XC","type":"page"}