While Western Rite Orthodoxy has considerably more published literature than might be presumed at first, it is important to go beyond the secondary literature about the subject and into the primary material concerned with the subject’s most distinctive aspect: the liturgy. Western Rite Orthodox use modified versions of liturgies which were in use in the West prior to the liturgical revisions that took place after Vatican II or medieval liturgies based on the reconstructions made by their compilers. The primary focus of previous studies on Western Rite Orthodoxy has been the eucharistic liturgies, specifically the text of the liturgies used in the AWRV and the RWRV, or some theological aspect of the text itself. However, each liturgical text itself presents a slightly different rendering of the liturgy, even when the liturgy is entitled the same.