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A reader, even if before marriage he marries his betrothed, after being removed from service for one year, will be accepted as a reader, but let him remain without production to the highest degree. If, without betrothal, he secretly mixes, let him come to serve. So is the subdeacon. (Ap. 26; IV Om. 14; Trul. 6, 13, 30; Carth. 16; Basil the Great. 3, 6, 32, 51, 70). A reader who had sexual intercourse with his bride, moreover, with her consent, cannot be considered a fornicator in the strict sense of the word, for he did not fall into sin with a woman completely alien to him; however, in view of the fact that he did not want to wait for the wedding with his bride, he should be punished with one-year penance and removed from service. After undergoing penance, he can again take his place in the service, but he cannot be allowed to be promoted to the highest levels, because by this act he showed that he is not firm in moral principles. If any reader has entered into sexual intercourse with a woman who is not a bride, in this case he can no longer remain in the church service, but must be removed from it immediately, even if he subsequently entered into a legal marriage with the said woman. To this the rule adds that all this also applies to the subdeacon (υπηρέτης), although since the Council of Trullo (Rule 6) a different turn has come for subdeacons on this issue, namely: they were forbidden to marry, and therefore, to become engaged after entering the subdeaconal rank. The present rule mentions one special punishment for members of the clergy who have committed a known crime, namely, that the cleric must remain, after suffering the punishment, at the same level in which he was when he committed the crime, without the right to proceed to higher degrees. The rule applies this punishment to criminal readers and subdeacons. Meanwhile, the 3rd rule of the Council of Trula for such crimes subjects both deacons and presbyters to the same punishment, and prescribes that such, “after being removed from the priesthood for a certain short time and due to penance, should be restored to their proper degrees, with the prohibition of elevating them to another higher degree.” A similar punishment is prescribed in one of Justinian’s short stories 106, which was included in the canonical collections of the Eastern Church, but this punishment is apparently forgotten in the judicial practice of this church. You might be interested in: