“1. The bishop, priest, or even deacon taking a wife, or even retaining one taken, is to be deprived of office and benefice.
Such ministers (Dist. 81) of the altar, priests as even deacons, are to be chosen to the Divine offices who observe continence [such as putting away their former wives]. But if after their ordinations the bed of one’s own proper wife comes invasively in contact with the [same] ministers, they are not to enter the threshhold of sacristan, nor become porters of the sacristan, nor come in contact with the altar, neither may they receive the oblation from the offerings of the holocaust [the eucharist], nor approach a portion of the Lord’s body, nor come close, nor without elder greater authority bear offices, and may not rightly carry the cruet to the altar or even the chalice. Pope St. Lucius, Decretal: [ translation of the original Latin: Ministri (Dist. 81) altaris, presbyteri sive diaconi, ad dominica tales eligantur officia, qui continentiam servent. Si vero post ordinationem suam ministros contigerit propriae uxoris invadere cubile, sacrarii non inirent limina, neque sacrarii portitores fiant, neque altare contingant, neque ab offerentibus holocausti oblationem suscipiant, neque ad Dominica corporis portionem accedant, neque propinquent, neque sine majoris natu auctoritate majora gerant officia, urceum sane ad altare vel calicem non sufferant.]” ( Decretal of Pope Lucius Taken from Gratian, cited in Migne’s Patrologia Latina)
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