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

Canon 83

About the prohibition of teaching the Holy Gifts to dead bodies.
Let no one give the Eucharist to the bodies of the dead (τελευτώντων), for it is written: Take, eat (Matthew 26:26), but the bodies of the dead can neither receive nor eat.
Greek original
Μηδεὶς τοῖς σώμασι τῶν τελευτησάντων τῆς εὐχαριστίας μεταδιδότω. Γέγραπται γάρ· Λάβετε, φάγετε· τὰ δὲ τῶν νεκρῶν σώματα, οὐδὲ λαβεῖν δύναται, οὐδὲ φαγεῖν.
Parallel canons
IВс.13Карф.718Григ.Нисск.2Тимоф.316
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