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"Those who have not partaken of Holy Communion for three Sundays [running] are excommunicated."
The c. 8th-century Bigotian Penitential (so-called), as quoted by Fr. Edmond Dublanchy, S.M., citing Die Bussordnungen der abendländischen Kirche, ed. Wasserschleben (Halle: 1851), 448, in "Communion eucharistique. II. Communion fréquente,” in Dictionnaire de théologie catholique 3 (1908), col. 522 (cols. 515-552). For the context, see The Irish penitentials, ed. Bieler, Scriptores Latini Hiberniae 5 (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1963), 219:
9. CONCERNING THE LORD'S DAY
1. If anyone by negligence fasts on the Lord's Day, he must fast for the entire week; if (he does so) a second time, forty days; if, after that, sixty days. 2. Those who have not communicated for three Sundays, are excommunicated.
communicaverit is PAS3P. Cf. Penitential of Theodore I.xii.1, as quoted in the DMLBS, sv communicare: "qui iij Dominicis non [communic]averint, excommunicentur" (excommunicentur being pPS3P).
Presumably that "Qui" would have to be "Worthies who". I.e. presumably in context it would not be directed against those who, say, haven't been able to get to confession.
