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In contrast Another response to this claim, others note that it such criticisms 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 vast majority of the [[typikon]] when it first came into the form we now know it. Even then, the rites being used by Western Rite Orthodox Christians are not new, but mainly predate the [[Great Schism]]. The most notable exception to this rule is ordinary of the [[Liturgy of St. Tikhon of MoscowGregory]], which is commonly accepted to be an adaptation of for example, predates the Communion service from schism. (Many devotions developed after the 1928 Anglican Book of Common Prayer and The Anglican Missal schism with which critics take issue are in the American Editionfact 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]] identical to that , a local use of the Byzantine [[Roman rite with ]] from the ancient Gregorian canon in its placepre-schismatic period[http://books.google.com/books?as_brr=1&id=cyUBAAAAQAAJ&dq=Rouen+Missal&jtp=615#PRA1-PR23, never fell out of use within OrthodoxyM1]. (The Old Believers and others celebrated historicity of thisclaim is disputed by modern Anglican scholars, explicitly endorsing however.[http://anglicansociety.org/corner/sarum_use.html]) Translations of the validity Sarum rite are currently utilized in [[ROCOR]] as well as the [[Old Calendarists|Old Calendarist]] [[Holy Synod of Milan|Milan Synod]], the Western canonlatter also having some Mozarabic rite communities. At presentAs well, the historicity Celtic and Ambrosian rites have been used on occasion by the [[Church of this assertion is not universally acceptedRussia|Moscow Patriarchate]].
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The Western Rite in the Orthodox Church is not without its critics. Objections are made in regards to desire for liturgical uniformity within Orthodoxy and fears that the Western Rite would produce division within the Church. Some question the sincerity of Western Rite converts, just as some question the conversions [[conversion]]s of those within the Byzantine Rite. Finally, some complain about a lack of organic liturgical continuity, or will not attend a Western Rite Eucharist. However, no Orthodox [[parish ]] may deny the [[Eucharist ]] to visiting faithful of the canonical Western Rite, regardless of their feelings about the concept of Western Rite Orthodoxy. There have been no schisms [[schism]]s within the episcopacy of the Orthodox Church regarding the issue of Western Rite parishes.
==Overview==
Whether the Western Rite will grow in its acceptance by Orthodox Christians who follow the [[Byzantine ]] Rite remains to be seen. In the meantime, the Orthodox bishops who oversee Western Rite parishes—and many who oversee no Western Rite parishes—continue to declare their Western flocks to be true Orthodox Christians and regard them as fully in communion with the rest of the Church.
==Byzantine only==
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]].
Also special form of Roman Rite Divine Liturgy, the [[Liturgy Of St. Peter the Apostle]] was used with continuity in Holy [[Mount Athos]], and by some Russian [[Old Believers]].
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