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| Chapter XI. An inquiry why in Egypt they do not fast during all the fifty days (of Easter) nor bend their knees in prayer.
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Chapter XI.
An inquiry why in Egypt they do not fast during all the
fifty days (of Easter) nor bend their knees in prayer.
But it is now time to
follow out the plan of the promised discourse. So then when Abbot
Theonas had come to visit us in our cell during Eastertide2185
after Evensong was over we sat for a
little while on the ground and began diligently to consider why they
were so very careful that no one should during the whole fifty days
either bend his knees in prayer2186
| 2186 The 20th Canon of
the Council of Nicæa (a.d. 325)
alludes to diversities of custom with regard to posture for prayer on
Sundays and from Easter to Pentecost, and ordered that for the future
prayer should be made standing at these times. Cassian’s language
in the text would seem to show that in his day the Canon in question,
though kept in Egypt, was not strictly observed in Palestine but that
the ancient diversity of customs still to some extent
prevailed. | or
venture to fast till the ninth hour, and we made our inquiry the more
earnestly because we had never seen this custom so carefully observed
in the monasteries of Syria.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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