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

Canon LXXXIX.

faithful spending the days of the Salutatory Passion in fasting, praying and compunction of heart, ought to fast until the midnight of the Great Sabbath:&#160; since the divine Evangelists, Matthew and Luke, have shewn us how late at night it was [that the resurrection took place], the one by using the words &#8000;&#936;&#8050; &#963;&#945;&#946;&#946;&#8049;&#964;&#969;&#957;, and the other by the words &#8004;&#961;&#952;&#961;&#959;&#965; &#946;&#945;&#952;&#8051;&#959;&#962;.

On the Great Sabbath the fast must be continued until midnight.