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  1 Intro  |               even for churchmen and monks having little education.
  2   1”,3 | unsuspectable. Another thing is that monks ought not to live with unsuspectable
  3   4”,4 |         Bishop of the city; and that Monks in every city and country
  4   4”,4 |              region in question.[89] Monks living in any city or village
  5   4”,4 |            lest other men seeing the monks engaged in worldly affairs,
  6   4”,4 |           blaspheme the order of the monks, and hence through them
  7   4”,4 |         excommunicated. Yet, just as monks ought to confine their activities
  8   4”,4 |             the works that belong to monks, so ought also bishops to
  9   4”,4 |       monasteries, by protecting the monks and bestowing alms in exigencies
 10   4”,4 |        reasons: 1) in order that the monks may remain quiet and free
 11   4”,4 |            the bishop shall prohibit monks from leaving their monasteries,
 12   4”,7 |            Clergy or who have become Monks shall not join the army
 13   4”,7 |        prescribes that clergymen and monks must not become soldiers,
 14   4”,8 |              Canons, but if they are monks or laymen, let them be excluded
 15   4”,8 |            question; but if they are monks or laymen, they are to be
 16   4”,8 |             above only clergymen and monks, say also laymen further
 17   4”,8 |         protection the clergymen and monks rely in showing disrespectfulness
 18   4”,16|             men likewise have become monks, let them not be permitted
 19   4”,16|              virgins, and equally so monks in particular, who either
 20   4”,18|              So if some clergymen or monks be found to be engaged in
 21   4”,23|              that some clergymen and monks, notwithstanding that they
 22   4”,24|      excommunicates those laymen and monks who have seized monasteries
 23   7”,23|             sacerdotal list, nor any Monks, attend horse races or become
 24   7”,33|             that if any Clergymen or Monks be found either conspiring
 25   7”,39|             Those who wish to become monks or nuns ought not, according
 26   7”,39|           the spiritual struggles of monks, as a seal, the blessing
 27   7”,41|             habit (or garb) of other Monks, that they be installed
 28   7”,41|         their hair, like the rest of monks who live in monasteries,[
 29   7”,42|              inasmuch as the life of monks is a picture of repentance,
 30   7”,45|             any case whatsoever. But monks, too, when similarly compelled
 31   7”,45|         visiting their relatives may monks depart from their brethren,
 32   7”,45|           care of the bishop neither monks nor nuns ought to go away
 33   7”,46|            night in the monastery of monks, nor may any man in general
 34   7”,46|            Lord. But much more ought monks to guard themselves against
 35   7”,46|           sleeping in a monastery of monks, and conversely for men
 36   7”,68|      Patriarch Nicholas allows those monks to enter the Holy Bema who
 37   7”,76|        admitted to the Holy Bema, or monks and ascetics, or in general
 38   8    |         Elias of Jerusalem.[260] The monks also exercised great influence
 39   8”,4 |            bishops, or clergymen, or monks serving under him demand
 40   8”,4 |            bishops, or clergymen, or monks that are subject to his
 41   8”,13|          from office, or, if they be monks or laymen, that they be
 42   8”,13|            and metropoleis, and many monks were ousted from their monasteries.
 43   8”,13|         office, but in case they are monks or laymen let them be excommunicated,
 44   8”,14|      observed also with reference to Monks. As for the appointment
 45   8”,14|            bishop’s seal, but so are monks too. But it is permissible
 46   8”,16|           why they were wont to call monks “darkies,” that is to say,
 47   8”,17|                     17.~ Some of the monks, after leaving their monasteries,
 48   8”,17|           Seeing that some ambitious monks inclined to rule and not
 49   8”,18|          discredit upon prelates and monks both among secular Christians
 50   8”,20|            be so formulated. Let not monks and nuns dwell in a single
 51   8”,20|              another, wish to become monks or nuns, as the case may
 52   8”,20|             follows, that is to say: monks and nuns are not to be allowed
 53   8”,20|             eat with a nun. And when monks from a monastery are conveying
 54   8”,20|             Novels also decrees that monks and nuns must not remain
 55   8”,20|              at the mournful life of monks and nuns, and by means of
 56   8”,21|         family. For in that case the monks and those admitting him
 57   8”,21|              of the 4th decrees that monks must not leave their monasteries
 58   8”,22|            his monastery his escaped monks.[289]~ ~ ~
 59   8”,23|            as laymen, and especially monks and nuns; since nuns have
 60   8”,23|           trouble in fighting shy of monks, as monks have in fighting
 61   8”,23|            fighting shy of monks, as monks have in fighting shy of
 62   8”,23|            canonic” is also given to monks, as may be seen in many
 63   8”,23|       episkopike) and the tonsure of monks, monachal tonsurate (epikouris
 64   8”,23|             Canon allows bishops and monks to become guardians and
 65   8”,23|           the Chartophylax says that monks must not become godfathers
 66   8”,23|              of monasteries that the monks are not to be allowed to
 67   8”,23|              this Canon those called monks must neither be ordained
 68   8”,23|            the meaning of their name monks they are lone men, or solitaries (
 69   8”,23|         priests, and not by (sacred) monks. The (sacred) monks are
 70   8”,23|          sacred) monks. The (sacred) monks are to keep within their
 71   8”,23|              Canons when they ordain monks in cities or towns; and
 72   8”,23|             the evils and sins these monks do in the world and in associating
 73   8”,23|        According to this Canon those monks are not doing right who
 74   8”,23|           Basil the Great does allow monks to leave the monastery and
 75   8”,23|           command that clergymen and monks who change their habit and
 76   8”,23|           the habit of the clergy or monks again even against their
 77   8”,23|            decree that clergymen and monks who discard their habit (
 78   8”,23|            more explicitly speaking, monks, for the prelacy; it does
 79   8”,23|               would have them become monks beginning with the tenth
 80   8”,23|              those wishing to become monks or nuns should try it out
 81   8”,23|            and beardless men” became monks as soon as they passed the
 82   8”,23|              who are going to become monks, in order that the judgment
 83   8”,23|  scandalization and perdition to the monks dwelling with them, as a
 84   8”,23|          from the present Canon that monks living in monasteries and
 85   8”,23|   symmetrically; for it appears that monks affect a symmetrical haircut
 86   8”,23|             a time of mourning among monks, according to divine Chrysostom (
 87   8”,23|              C.), how much more ugly monks are who grow hair! But if
 88   8”,23|            who grow hair! But if all monks in general ought to cut
 89   8”,23|            how much more ought young monks living in monasteries or
 90   8”,23|              originally the habit of monks was but one, to wit, the “
 91   8”,23|           know of no little habit of monks, though some of the later
 92   8”,23|               so too is the habit of monks. For the little habit is
 93   8”,23|           the black garb affected by monks in general) can no longer
 94   8”,23|             and modest profession of monks, and begs Him to accept
 95   8”,23|           the fact that the habit of monks is a singular one and unique,
 96   8”,23|             says that a plurality of monks or nuns cannot be solemnized
 97   8”,23|              at a time. The habit of monks is called the angelic habit
 98   8”,23|           most perfect philosophy of monks as put into practice scientifically
 99   8”,23|          concession is made to those monks who of their own accord
100   8”,23|              and that in those times monks and nuns were wont to undergo
101   8”,23|      Dionysius, the black garment of monks denotes that they are leading
102   8”,23|       clothing, however, that befits monks and nuns, but also gray
103   8”,23|       speaking about the garments of monks and nuns, it is convenient
104   8”,23|              a coat, and not, as the monks nowadays discard the pallium,
105   8”,23|           the fact that the habit of monks is called the angelic habit.
106   8”,23|        caloyers (the common name for monks in the Greek vernacular),
107   8”,23|              better style of life of monks and nuns, be divorced and
108   8”,23|            married couples to become monks and nuns by mutual agreement.~ ~  [
109   8”,23|            but only to clergymen and monks. For things that are sacred
110   8”,23|           persons in holy orders, or monks, whatsoever ought to be
111   8”,23|             unless they cease, while monks guilty of the same misconduct
112   8”,23|          doing better.~ ~  [182] But monks who happen to be in deserts
113   8”,23|             those in holy orders and monks who have vowed virginity;
114   8”,23|               Ambrose, the father of monks Benedict, Gregory Dialogus,
115   8”,23|             Canons. Men unsacred and monks ought not to confess, nor
116   8”,23|        charto-phylax, too, says that monks who are not priests, and
117   8”,23|       orations which the bishops and monks made in connection with
118   8”,23|             of Devouts (i.e., devout monks), and exploits of Martyrs,
119   8”,23|              one whom either all the monks themselves, or at least
120   8”,23|            well fitted to govern the monks and the monasteries well.
121   8”,23|           more they are forbidden to monks and caloyers, all of whom
122   8”,23|            the garments worn by some monks today, which are embellished
123   8”,23|              the conversations which monks have to have with nuns,
124   8”,23|               so far as respects the monks, ought to be the oldest
125   8”,23|              conversing two or three monks as well as two or three
126   8”,23|            aged ones; and let chosen monks offer those things which
127   8”,23|           with. Moreover, even those monks who take the necessities
128   8”,23|           reference to the more aged monks who have to render services
129   8”,23|           previous to their becoming monks (or nuns). Read also the
130   8”,23|        prelate may transfer virtuous monks, according to c. IV of the