Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XIV/Additional Canons 2/Canons/Canon LXXX

Canon LXXX.

any bishop, or presbyter, or deacon, or any of those who are enumerated in the list of the clergy, or a layman, has no very grave necessity nor difficult business so as to keep him from church for a very long time, but being in town does not go to church on three consecutive Sundays&#8212;three weeks&#8212;if he is a cleric let him be deposed, but if a layman let him be cut off.

Notes.

If anyone without the constraint of necessity leaves his church for three Lord&#8217;s days, he shall be deprived of communion.

This is a renewal of canon xi. of Sardica (xiv. according to the numbering of Dionysius Exiguus.)