¶ Excommunicate persons are to be auoided.
Avoiding the Excommunicated
A person rightly excommunicated by the church is to be treated by all the faithful as a heathen and tax collector until he is openly reconciled through penance and readmitted by proper authority.
That person who, by the church's open denunciation, is rightly cut off from the unity of the Church and excommunicated ought to be treated by the whole multitude of the faithful as a heathen and a tax collector, until he is openly reconciled by penance and received into the church by a judge who has authority to do so.✦12
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THat personne, whiche by open denunciacion of the church, is rightly cut of from the v…ti of the Churche, and excōmunicat…, oughte to bee taken of the whole multitude of the faythfull, as an Heathen, and publicane: vntill he be openly reconciled bipenance & receiued into y• church by a iudge that hathe authorytye thereto.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Matt.18.17 — And if they refuse to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if they refuse even to listen to the church, let them be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Notes
John Ponet's Short Catechisme (1553) companion
Rule yourself daily, not just on retreat
Chosen Portion turns the mirror into a daily practice — a short reading and examining question each morning before you lead anyone.
Chosen Portion makes the mirror daily: the ruler-formation questions this collection preserves become a two-minute morning examination in the app.
- A daily formation reading drawn from centuries of counsel to those in authority
- One pointed examination question a day — two minutes, before the meetings start
- Track your practice over weeks and watch the examined life become a habit