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In contrast to this claim, others note that it is not a dogmatic principle of the Church that liturgical traditions can neither be revived nor created. After all, there are whole services even within the Byzantine Rite which are not universally practiced (e.g., the [[molieben]]), so they must have been invented somewhere along the way rather than being part of the [[typikon]] when it first came into the form we now know it. Another response to such criticisms is that the the many vast majority of the rites being used by Western Rite Orthodox Christians are not new, but mainly predate the [[Great Schism]]. The ordinary of the [[Liturgy of St. Gregory]], for example, predates the schism. (Many devotions developed after the schism with which critics take issue are in fact paraliturgical.)
Bishop [[Jerome (Shaw) Further, a number of Manhattan]] the pre-schism texts (ROCORnot simply the ordinary but the propers) also argues have been fully restored and translated, such as the little-known Liturgy of St. Peter, a [[liturgySarum Rite]] outwardly identical to that , a local use of the Byzantine [[Roman rite with ]] from the ancient Gregorian canon in its place, never fell out of use within Orthodoxypre-schismatic period. (The Old Believers and others celebrated historicity of thisclaim is disputed by modern Anglican scholars, explicitly endorsing however.) Translations of the Sarum rite are currently utilized in [[ROCOR]] as well as the validity [[Old Calendarists|Old Calendarist]] [[Holy Synod of the Western canonMilan|Milan Synod]]. At presentAs well, the historicity Ambrosian rite has been used on occasion by the [[Church of this assertion is not universally acceptedRussia|Moscow Patriarchate]].
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Finally, more historically minded criticisms of the Western Rite usually center around the idea that it is untenable to try to revive a liturgical tradition which was lost centuries ago when the West fell away from the [[Orthodox Church]]. This argument essentially states that, because the Western Rite died out in the Church, and because a continuous living tradition is a necessary element of liturgical practice, the Western Rite ought to be abandoned and only developments from the Byzantine Rite ought to be pursued.
Further, the now fairly well-known [[Liturgy of St. James]] once fell out of use throughout most of the Church and has now been revived in many places to be celebrated on [[October 23]].