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	Western Orthodoxy
		Westerners, influenced by the sovereign and monarchical nature of the Roman papacy, are too ready to assume an equivalent authority and power to be vested in one Orthodox figure - i.e., the ecumenical patriarch.
		Orthodoxy, in the words of the psalmist, does not put its trust in princes - even spiritual princes - but in the Lord who, being himself the Truth ("I am the way, the truth, and the life") guards his people from error and falsehood.
		HILARION of ROCOR's sermon on the Western Rite (.mov)
	westernorthodox.blogspot.com (5211 words)

	St. Columba Antiochian Orthodox Church -
		The restoration of a corrected, and truly Orthodox, Western Rite to Holy Orthodoxy in the United States was not originated by laity or by ordinary clergy.
		Western Rite Orthodoxy is now a rapidly growing dimension of the Church's Mission in America.
		The Western Rite Parishes represent a restoration of the legitimate Western Liturgy of the Undivided Church of the first 1,000 years, by Patriarchal authority, for the benefit of all Orthodox people.
	www.stcolumbachurch.org /western_rite.html (463 words)

	Western Rite - OrthodoxWiki
		The Western Rite is a strand of Orthodox Christian worship based on the liturgical traditions of the ancient pre-Schism Orthodox Church of the West.
		Western Rite Orthodox Christians hold in common the full Orthodox faith with their brethren of the Byzantine Rite, and at present, all of the bishops who care for such parishes are themselves followers of the Byzantine Rite.
		On the Western Rite Edict of Metropolitan Anthony (Bashir), by Fr.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Western_Rite (2375 words)

	Anglican Disunity and the Idea of Western Orthodoxy, by H. A. Hodges
		Our western habits in connection with the Eucharist for example, are not necessarily wrong or unhealthy because they originated in a Church which had drifted into schism and on the other hand, for the eastern Orthodox to admit their legitimacy would not imply that they must adopt them themselves.
		True western Orthodoxy is to be found by bodies of western people, members of the western nations, coming with all their western background, their western habits and traditions, into the circle of the Orthodox Faith.
		It is the westerners themselves who must do this; it is the natural heirs of the tradition who must rethink and reshape it; though in doing so they will need the continual stimulus and co-operation of the eastern Orthodox who dwell in their midst.
	anglicanhistory.org /orthodoxy/hodges3.html (5086 words)

	Glossary of Terms --- Western Rite Orthodoxy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A special rank existing in the Western Church since the early 3rd century, to which a Cleric may be elevated by the Bishop in a church rite.
		In the Western Rite more emphasis is placed on the visit of the Wise Men than in the Byzantine Rite, which combines their memory with the Nativity itself.
		Tropes are one of the distinguishing factors of the Western Rite at its zenith in the Orthodox period and before the shrinking process which set in rapidly after 1100 A.D. The tropes on the Gloria, Sanctus, and Agnus are often called "laudes," acclamations.
	www.odox.net /Liturgy-Glossary.htm (5994 words)

	What is Western Rite Orthodoxy? \| Saint Peter's Antiochian Orthodox Church
		In the United States, Orthodoxy, which was first brought to America through Alaska by colonizers from czarist Russia in 1794, has been until the last few years a church primarily of immigrants and their descendants from Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean.
		Perhaps the most obvious difference between the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodoxy, laying aside differences in regard to the role of the Pope in the life of the universal Church and certain other doctrinal disagreements, is the form of worship followed by most Orthodox Christians.
		The Western Rite, when compared to Byzantine liturgical forms, is simpler, obviously shorter, and employs a hymnody (the hymns used) that are familiar to a great many American Christians.
	www.saintpeterorthodox.org /?q=westernrite (1241 words)

	Orthodox-Catholic Church of America -- History
		This continuation of the Tradition of the Apostles was disenfranchised in rooting and reestablishing of the faith in the seventeenth century Western Europe in transplanted Eastern sod, in an atmosphere of careless tribalism.
		While the eleventh century schism which alienated the Western segment of the church from its eastern segment was indeed a great tragedy, surely a parallel tragedy is how readily later Eastern elders seized on outward circumstance to narrow churchly identity and expression to conform to their Byzantine pattern.
		The resuscitation of a long-dormant Western Orthodox Catholic consciousness and its reintegration with that wholeness and balance which is the Orthodox Catholic Tradition was not too different in development from the majority of "Eastern" Orthodox ministries eventually established in the American Mission Territory, as the United States was in the nineteenth century.
	www.orthodoxcatholicchurch.org /history.html (7970 words)

	Western Rite Vicariate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Western Rite is a ministry of the Antiochian Christian Archdiocese of North America, and in full canonical communion and unity of purpose with the several Orthodox jurisdictions of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in America (SCOBA).
		Although still few in numbers, Western Rite Orthodoxy exists throughout the world, and in the United States the work is blessed by His Eminence, Metropolitan P HILIP Saliba through the work Bishop Basil, his Archepiscopal Vicar, and the Very Rev. Paul W. Schneirla, who serves as the Vicar-General of the Vicariate.
		Western Rite Orthodoxy has proven itself to be an excellent missionary out-reach to those who seek the assurance of the Orthodox Catholic Faith and who find themselves better rooted in their own western spiritual ethos than the Byzantine character of the eastern rites.
	www.antiochian.org /1126640750 (891 words)

	Abdul's Lebanese-American Homepage
		Unfortunately, solidarity between the Western church and the Eastern church did not last, and the Second Council of Nicaea, held in 787, was the last council attended by members of the Eastern Orthodox church.
		Orthodoxy asserts that there is no way for finite humans to understand or even to think of God as He actually is because He is infinite.
		Western theological tradition emphasizes the judicial aspect of salvation, asserting that in salvation, God is primarily concerned with the remission of sin [14].
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/5347/orthodox.html (2883 words)

	Conversion of Timothy Ware
		Orthodoxy possesses, not through human merit but by God's grace, a fullness of faith and spiritual life, a fullness within which the elements of dogma and prayer, of theology and spirituality, constitute an integral and organic whole.
		While the period of the seven Ecumenical Councils possesses a preeminent importance for Orthodoxy, we are not for one moment to imagine that the "age of the Fathers" came to a close in the eighth century.
		Orthodoxy, so I recognized in a sudden flash of insight, is not merely a matter of personal belief; it also presupposes outward and visible communion in the sacraments with the bishops who are the divinely-commissioned witnesses to the truth.
	www.geocities.com /trvalentine/orthodox/ware_conversion.html (8510 words)

	Light from the East - Joy in the West
		Gradually these two liturgical families (Eastern and Western) came to be dominated by the rites of Byzantium and Rome - the Byzantine liturgy and the Roman liturgy - two ancient and life-giving ways of worshiping and praying within the same Undivided Church.
		Then in the 1930’s, the Moscow Patriarchate received a Western Rite group in France (this group was later under the jurisdiction of Constantinople in 1953, the Russian Church in Exile in 1960 under the guidance of St. John Maxomovich, and then under the Romanian Church).
		There are a number of small “fringe” groups outside of canonical Orthodoxy which may hold a similar faith and maintain a typically Orthodox liturgical life, but which often lack the stability and security provided by the inter-dependance of the “official” Church.
	hometown.aol.com /frnicholas/history.htm (2039 words)

	A Catholic View of Orthodoxy by Aidan Nichols OP
		The historical reasons for giving preference to Orthodoxy over all other separated communions turn on the fact that the schism between the Roman church and the ancient Chalcedonian churches of the East is the most tragic and burdensome of the splits in historic Christendom if we take up a universal rather than merely regional, perspective.
		Orthodoxy is well placed to stabilise Catholicism in most if not all of these areas.
		It is possible to overrate the theological component of the role of Orthodoxy in the twentieth century Ecumenical Movement by overlooking the fact that the desire of many Orthodox for greater contest with Western communions was in part a pragmatic and even political one.
	christendom-awake.org /pages/anichols/orthodox.html (3273 words)

	Our Lady of Walsingham Oratory \| Home
		Western Rite Orthodox Outreach to the Toronto Region
		This Outreach of the Antiochian Orthodox Western Rite Vicariate is under the Omophorion of His Grace Bishop ALEXANDER of the Diocese of Ottawa, Eastern Canada and Upper State New York
		The restoration of a corrected, and truly Orthodox, Western Rite to Holy Orthodoxy in North America was not originated by laity or by ordinary clergy.
	www.westernorthodox.ca (617 words)

	Western Rite Criticism - OrthodoxWiki
		In the meantime, the Byzantine Rite bishops who oversee Western Rite parishes—and many who oversee no Western Rite parishes—continue to declare their Western flocks to be Orthodox Christians and regard them as fully in communion with the rest of the Church.
		However, unlike the Uniates, Western Rite Orthodox congregations are not the result of large-scale ecclesiastical political machinations and schism but rather of small-scale genuine conversion to Orthodoxy by individuals and congregations.
		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.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Western_Rite_Criticism (1111 words)

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		In approaching Orthodoxy, these western Christians (most of them Anglicans and Old Catholics separated from Rome) met wise and holy Orthodox bishops whose vision of the venerable and valid liturgical heritage of the West had not been dimmed or distorted by centuries of separation.
		Western Christians need to know that, despite the chaos and distress and confusion within their denominations, Christ’s holy Church is alive and well and vigilant in maintaining the true faith once delivered to the Saints.
		In Western Orthodoxy, with its forms, rites, and traditions so familiar to western Christians, Christ’s Orthodox Church, welcoming its prodigal western sons and daughters, can provide them with a sense of truly coming home to their Father’s house.
	www.christminster.org /write.htm (1405 words)

	Western-Rite Orthodox Churches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By far the largest group of these parishes in the United States and Canada is the Western Rite Vicariate, an department of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
		The situation of Western Rite Orthodox differs, in that their communities are all under the local Eastern Orthodox bishops, and they share Eastern Orthodox theology, though they retain the rituals, culture, language, ethos and ornaments of Western civilization.
		"Western Orthodox" is a description taken by several Church bodies that follow claim to be Orthodox or have the word "Orthodox" in their names, but are unconnected to the worldwide Eastern Orthodox Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Orthodox_Church (641 words)

	Saint Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church
		WESTERN RITE ORTHODOXY is the use of the traditional Roman Catholic or Episcopalian
		Orthodoxy is not a cultic rejection of the world nor is it a charismatic experience.
		The faith of the western rite is the Faith of the Holy Orthodox Church.
	spokaneorthodox.com /WRite.htm (2350 words)

	Western Rite Orthodox in our midst: Ad Fontes!
		Interest in Orthodoxy by Western Christians is undoubtedly fuelled by an interest in the old Western Rites of pre-Schism Europe which fell into disuse through Latin church domination.
		In all cases, Western Christians often see in Orthodoxy a return to the sources (ad fontes) of Christianity, the Scripture and Patristic Tradition, which is what ultimately led the great Eastern scholar, Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan to become an Orthodox Christian.
		This is why Western Rite Orthodox often continue to venerate "St Charles, King and Martyr" privately and, in some cases, liturgically in public.
	www.unicorne.org /orthodoxy/janfeb/westernrites.htm (1302 words)

	Catholic Orthodoxy and Anglo-Catholicism: A Word About Intercommunion
		If we are Western Orthodox, we are the TRUE CATHOLIC CHURCH; and we have no need to nod the head to Rome or Canterbury in their fallen state today, for they have abandoned Orthodoxy, but only to our Fathers and Saints and those who taught our beloved Orthodox traditions.
		Still he remained a Western Churchman, guided by the true idea that both Churches are fully entitled to have their own way and subsistence, only linked by the bond of common Catholic truth and Catholic Constitution.
		We rejoice at the traces of Orthodoxy which are still left in the Church of Rome, and consider them the stepping-stones which mark the way back to the primitive purity which the East so providentially preserved.
	www.stormloader.com /members/apologetika/overbeck.html (17562 words)

	Anglican Options: Rome or Orthodoxy?
		Orthodoxy is the best of classical Anglicanism preserved in our day, with an unquestioned link to the Apostolic Church7.
		In Orthodoxy I no longer worry about what my children will experience or be taught when they attend a church function away from their own parish.
		The movement to orthodoxy is already set in place, as the large bulk of the younger faculty are charter memberes of the Ratzinger Fan Club.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-religion/1592733/posts (5176 words)

	Western Orthodoxy: A New Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Thus for thirty years it has struggled with the apathy of the religious public at large, which often views Christian origins as matters of mere curiousity, and with its own uncertain status which has deprived it of the recognition and moral support of the ancient eastern churches.
		The rank of mitred archpriest was graciously conferred upon Mgr Alexander as Superior of the Society, and Vicar-General of the Rite.
		But the Western Rite Vicariate is the first time that an ancient patriarchal see of the Church has extended to non-Orthodox occidentals an evidence of our professed catholicity and demonstrated conclusively that Christ's Church is not peculiar to certain areas.
	homepage.mac.com /gthurman/iblog/C931234280/E20051012113941/index.html (574 words)

	The Difference Between Orthodoxy and Western Confessions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is most clearly seen in the fact that all European theologians friendly to Orthodoxy speak of her in Khomiakov's terms, using precisely his formulations of the confessional differences.
		This, of course, is not foreign to the Western denominations either; but they understand salvation as an external reward given either for a certain amount of good deeds (also external), or for an unflinching faith in the divinity of Jesus Christ.
		Disregarded by the Western denominations, it is still at the center of all Orthodox theology which interprets the entire Divine revelation, all events and proverbs of the Bible, in the context of these stages of spiritual perfection.
	www.stxenia.org /wayapart/index.html (2485 words)

	Western Rite Orthodoxy: Its history, its validity, and its opportunity.
		Western Rite Orthodoxy is valid historically, because prior to the Great Schism of 1054, Eastern and Western Christianity enjoyed full unity and hared a common Christian faith while differing in liturgies.
		In Orthodoxy (and this is the important point) all Divine actions are understood to be the dual operations of "the two hands of God, the Son "attracting" and the Holy Spirit "enabling." By His two hands, the Father raises us into His Eternal Embrace.
		The members of the Western Rite Commission are at present in dialogue with the Polish Na-tional Church.
	www.saintpeterorthodox.org /write.htm (1499 words)

	Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann: The Western Rite
		The mode of reception of groups desiring to employ the western rite and the character of the rites to be used, as well as the authorization of official liturgical texts, either in Latin or a vernacular, or customs, shall be determined in each instance by a commission of Orthodox Theologians familiar with this field.
		Last but not least, it is obvious that in case of an eventual return of the West to Orthodoxy, the western Church will have her own Western Liturgy and this will mean a tremendous enrichment of the Church Universal.
		It is a unique synthesis of the doctrinal, ethical and canonical teachings of Orthodoxy and I do not see how a real integration into the Orthodox Church, a genuine communion of faith and life may be achieved without an integration in the Orthodox worship.
	www.schmemann.org /byhim/westernrite.html (993 words)

	Pontifications » Blog Archive » Bad, bad Augustine. Go to your room and don’t make a peep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In his 1997 Georgetown University address, Ecumenical Patriarch Barthlomew asserted that Orthodoxy and Catholicism has become “ontologically different,” with the clear implication that ecumenical unity is impracticable because of the heretical mind and heart of the West.
		The various disconnects which exist within Orthodoxy (the sort, for example, that keep them from cooperating in Western missions or resolving disputes between Kiev and Moscow or Athens and Constantinople) put the lie to the very attractive fiction that Orthodoxy is one and undivided, unreformed becasue uncorrupted, unchanged because unchanging.
		For Orthodoxy, what persons are or their ability or inability to sin doesn’t depend on if they are composite or simple but on the personal employment of their will and the presence or absence of virtue.
	catholica.pontifications.net /?p=214 (17217 words)

	Introduction to the Orthodox Western Rite
		In the years following, blessed Tikhon was himself elevated to Patriarch of Moscow, martyred by the communists in 1925, since declared a Saint of the Church, and thus known to Orthodox faithful throughout the world as St.
		Western Rite Vicariate for the creation of Western Rite Missions and Parishes in the Archdiocese.
		The purpose of the Society of Our Lady of Walsingham is to encourage devotion to the Theotokos, the Blessed Virgin Mary, under this, one of her most ancient Western titles, and to work for the upbuilding of the Orthodox Christian Church.
	www.westernorthodox.com /western-rite (1012 words)

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