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Unmercenaries and Wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian · St Theodota, Mother of Cosmas and Damian

Canon 58

That the Divine Liturgy should be celebrated on an empty stomach.
We have heard about the study of faith in Nicaea: as for the Holy Mysteries, which are not performed after eating food, it is true that they should be offered, as they should, by those who have not eaten food. It was approved then.
Greek original
Τούτων δὲ ἐναρχθέντων, Ὁνωράτος καὶ Οὐρβανός, οἱ ἐπίσκοποι τῆς Μαυριτανίας Σιτιφένσης χώρας, εἶπον· Ἐκ πολλοῦ, ὅτε πρὸς τὴν ὑμετέραν ἁγιωσύνην ἀπεστελλόμεθα, τὰ γραφέντα ὑπερεθέμεθα ταύτῃ τῇ κατανοήσει, ὅτι προσεδοκῶμεν ἀδελφοὺς ἡμῶν παραγενέσθαι τοποτηρητὰς Νουμιδίας· ἀλλ᾽ ἐπειδὴ οὐκ ὀλίγαι ἡμέραι εἰσίν, ἀφοῦ οἱ προσδοκώμενοι οὐδαμῶς κατέλαβον, περαιτέρω παριδεῖν τὰ ἐνταλέντα ἡμῖν ἀπὸ τῶν συνεπισκόπων οὐ δεῖ· καὶ διὰ τοῦτο, ἀδελφοί, τὴν ἀναφορὰν ἡμῶν προθύμως εἰσδέξασθε· περὶ τῆς πίστεως γὰρ τοῦ ἐν Νίκαιᾳ τρακτάτου ἠκούσαμεν· ἀληθές ἐστι περὶ τῶν γινομένων μετὰ τὸ ἄριστον ἁγίων, ἵνα ἀπὸ νηστικῶν, ὡς ἐστὶν ἄξιον, προσφέρωνται, καὶ τότε ἐβεβαιώθη.[1]
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