Raymond Winch (–2000)

The premise of this work is that the ancient Latin order of Mass - not the Tridentine Rite, but the much older liturgy authorized by Pope Gregory, Patriarch of Rome and the West - is the canonically appropriate rite for English members of the Orthodox Church. The rites of the Greek, Russian, and other Eastern churches are foreign to the national and cultural heritage of England, which was a part of the Orthodox world before the split between Rome and Constantinople. Since the Latin rite was accepted as fully Orthodox in the centuries before the Great Schism, there is no need to adapt it to conform to the pattern of Byzantine services. Dr Winch offers the English text of a simple and dignified rite for the Divine Liturgy, with historical notes. MB 15-iii-07… (altro)