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All the faithful who enter the church and listen to the scriptures, but do not remain in prayer and holy communion to the end, as they cause disorder in the church, should be excommunicated from church communion. (Trul. 66, 80; Antioch. 2; Serdic. 11). The fellowship of Christians in the early times of the church was expressed mainly in the common participation of all the faithful in the Lord's table (1 Cor. 10:16, 17) and in the unanimous presence of everyone in the church (Acts 2:46; 20:7). This communication, expressed in this way, was, by the way, the basis for the preparation of the rite of the liturgy, so that the catechumens, who could remain in the church with the faithful only until certain prayers, as soon as the rite of the Eucharist itself began, were invited by the deacon to leave the church, so that only the faithful remained in the church, and were participants in the Lord's Table. This expressed the general thought of the church about spiritual unity between the faithful, as well as the fact that, for the sake of this spiritual unity, every faithful can and has the right to participate in the church during all prayers and during the Holy Eucharist and in corporate prayer, after St. communion, thank the Lord for His Great gift. This is how it was at the beginning of the Church of Christ, and all the faithful always came to church, and not only listened to the reading of St. Scriptures, but remained there until the priest, having finished the Divine Liturgy, gave them a blessing to leave the church. Such zeal, however, began to cool among some, and many, after listening only to the reading of Holy Scripture, left the church. For this reason, without a doubt, the deacon’s cry was introduced, as we read in the Apostolic Decrees (VIII, 9), into the rite of the liturgy, after reminding the catechumens to leave the church, that none of those who have the right to remain until the end of the service should leave it. In all likelihood, this did not help; many, even after the deacon’s exclamation, still left the church before the end of the service, thereby offending the reverent feeling of the truly faithful and causing chaos in the church itself. As a result, a real strict rule was issued, requiring excommunication from the church of everyone who comes to church and does not remain in it until the end of the service 145. Some canonists understand this rule to mean that the faithful not only had to remain in the church until the end of the Divine Liturgy, but were also obliged to all partake of the Holy Mysteries 146. It is possible that this interpretation is correct, since this can be confirmed by the passages from Holy Scripture cited above when explaining this rule. However, it cannot be that all the faithful are forced to take communion every time they visit church, since it could easily be that not everyone was always prepared for communion, either by the inspiration of the voice of their own conscience, or due to some other reasons from personal or public life. In order for such to be honored with at least some participation in the shrine, on the one hand, and in order to avoid the severity of the punishment imposed by this rule, on the other, and also in order to oblige those who could not receive communion to still remain until the end of the divine liturgy, the distribution of antidoron was instituted, which everyone had to accept from the hands of the priest for their own consecration 147 . The holy fathers and teachers of the church of the following centuries did not stop speaking and admonishing how one should come and stand in church during St. liturgy. Basil. ad caesar. [Migne, s. g., t. 32, col. 245–268]. – Hieron. apol. adv. Jovin. [Migne, s. l., t. 23, col. 211–338]. – Ambros. de sacram. 4, 6, 5, 4. [Migne, s. l., t. 16, col. 445–446, 450–454]. – Chrysost. hom. 3. in cp ad. Ephes. [Migne, s. g., t. 62, col. 23–30]. – See and note. 1 is right about this. in Pidalion (12 pages). See the interpretations of Zonara and Aristin (Af. Synth., II, 13, 14). In glory Helmsman (ed. 1787, I, 3) this rule reads: “let those who do not remain in the church until the last prayer and who do not receive communion be excommunicated.” Wed. 17 channel Balsamon's answer to Patr. Alexander. Mark in Af. Synth., IV, 461. See interpretation of Balsamon 2 rights. Antiochus. Sob., Af. Synth., III, 128 and Synth. Vlastara, K, 25 (Af. Synth., VI, 335). You might be interested in: