LVI. The intentional homicide, who has
afterwards repented, will be excommunicated from the
sacrament ἁγιάσμασι.
The Ben. Ed. render Sacramento. In the Sept.
(e.g. Amos
vii. 13) the
word=sanctuary. In patristic usage both S. and P. are found
for the Lord’s Supper, or the consecrated elements;
e.g. ἁγίασμα in Greg. Nyss.,
Ep. Canon. Can. v. The plural as in this place
“frequentius.” (Suicer
s.v.) for twenty
years. The twenty years will be appointed for him as
follows: for four he ought to weep, standing outside the door
of the house of prayer, beseeching the faithful as they enter in to
offer prayer in his behalf, and confessing his own sin. After
four years he will be admitted among the hearers, and during five
years will go out with them. During seven years he will go out
with the kneelers, μετὰ τῶν
ἐν
ὑποπτώσει.
The ὑποπίπτοντες
or substrati constituted the third and chief station in
the oriental system of penance, the first and second being the
προσκλαίοντες,
flentes or weepers, and the
ἀκροώμενος,
audientes, or hearers. In the Western
Church it is the substrati who are commonly referred to as being
in penitence, and the Latin versions of the Canons of Ancyra by
Dionysius Exiguus and Martin of Braga render ὑποπίπτοντες
and ὑποπτῶσις by
pœnitentis and pœnitentia. In
Basil’s Canon xxii. p. 238, this station is specially
styled μετάνοια.
cf. D.C.A. ii. 1593.
“Μετάνοια
notat pœnitentiam eorum qui ob delicta sua in
ecclesia ἐπιτιμίοις
ἐσωφρονίζοντο
(Zonaras, Ad. Can. v. Conc. Antioch, p. 327),
quique dicebantur οἰ ἐν
μετανοιᾳ
ὄντες. Chrysostom,
Hom. iii. in Epist. ad Eph. in S.
Cœnæ communione clamabat κήρυξ,
ὅσοι ἐν
μετανοί& 139·
ἀπέλθετε
πάντες.” Suicer
s.v. praying.
During four years he will only stand with the faithful, and will not
take part in the oblation. On the completion of this period he
will be admitted to participation of the sacrament.