COUNCIL IN TRULLO
Canon 74, 692 AD
(aka: The Quinisext Council or Trullan Synod)
Apparently, lots of the agape love-feasts (beds in churches) went on anyway, until this final threat:
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf214.xiv.iii.lxxv.html, The Canons of the Council in Trullo; Often Called The Quinisext Council:
Canon LXXIV.
IT is not permitted to hold what are called Agapć, that is love-feasts, in the Lord’s houses or churches, nor to eat within the house, nor to spread couches. If any dare to do so let him cease therefrom or be cut off (excommunicated).
Notes.
ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON LXXIV.
Agapć are not to be held in the churches, nor shall beds be put up. Whoso refuse to give up these, let them be cut off.
This is a renewal of canon xxviij., of Laodicea, on which canon see the notes.
So “beds” is concisely what the early (“ancient”) Christians deemed of these kinds of “couches.”
Rejection my several Popes:
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf214.xiv.ii.html, The Canons of the Council in Trullo; Often Called The Quinisext Council, “Introductory Note”:
It is true that it claimed at the time an ecumenical character, and styled itself such in several of its canons, it is true that in the mind of the Emperor Justinian II., who summoned it, it was intended to have been ecumenical. It is true that the Greeks at first declared it to be a continuation of the Sixth Synod and that by this name they frequently denominate and quote its canons. But it is also true that the West was not really represented at it at all (as we shall see presently); that when the Emperor afterwards sent the canons to the Pope to receive his signature, he absolutely refused to have anything to do with them; and it is further true that they were never practically observed by the West at all, and that even in the East their authority was rather theoretical than real.
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Pope Sergius (was Pope 687-701) refused to sign the decrees when they were sent to him, rejected them as “lacking authority” (invalidi) and described them as containing “novel errors.” With the efforts to extort his signature we have no concern further than to state that they signally failed. Later on, in the time of Pope Constantine (was Pope 708-715), a middle course seems to have been adopted, a course subsequently in the ninth century thus expressed by Pope John VIII. (was Pope 872-882), “he accepted all those canons which did not contradict the true faith, good morals, and the decrees of Rome,” a truly notable statement!
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12272b.htm (Catholic Encyclopedia), The List of Popes:
84. St. Sergius I (687-701)
85. John VI (701-05)
86. John VII (705-07)
87. Sisinnius (708)
88. Constantine (708-15)
89. St. Gregory II (715-31)
90. St. Gregory III (731-41)
91. St. Zachary (741-52)
92. Stephen II (752) -- Because he died before being consecrated, some lists (including the Vatican's official list) omit him.
93. Stephen III (752-57)
94. St. Paul I (757-67)
95. Stephen IV (767-72)
96. Adrian I (772-95)
97. St. Leo III (795-816)
98. Stephen V (816-17)
99. St. Paschal I (817-24)
100. Eugene II (824-27)
101. Valentine (827)
102. Gregory IV (827-44)
103. Sergius II (844-47)
104. St. Leo IV (847-55)
105. Benedict III (855-58)
106. St. Nicholas I (the Great) (858-67)
107. Adrian II (867-72)
108. John VIII (872-82)
It looks like it took 25 Popes, and nearly 200 years, before the secular “Emperor” took control of the Church.
And there’s another thing or two that must be stopped:
A History of the Councils of the Church, by Charles Joseph Hefele, 1896, vol. 5, p. 232, “THE QUINISEXT OR TRULLAN SYNOD, A.D. 692,” Canon 97:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/trullo.html, The Quinsext Council, (or the Council in Trullo), 692, Canon 100:
CANON C.
"LET thine eyes behold the thing which is right," orders Wisdom, "and keep thine heart with all care." For the bodily senses easily bring their own impressions into the soul. Therefore we order that henceforth there shall in no way be made pictures, whether they are in paintings or in what way so ever, which attract the eye and corrupt the mind, and incite it to the enkindling of base pleasures.And if any one shall attempt to do this he is to be cut off.
Can’t even have any porn. What’s the future hold?