Yes to fascimile in this sense! Orthodox liturgical spirituality begins and ends in obedience, in the open-hearted reception of what is given. As St Pavel Florensky says: the Liturgy was not made, it was given. Western Liturgy currently begins and ends with constant tinkering, editing, etc....
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I'm stuck on the Act of Contrition. There *is* no precise form for it in Catholicism, just some bullet points that have to be expressed somewhere. Most Catholics have an example memorized, but like there's no official one.
just.
what.
If the East protects themselves from history through mythology, certainly the West protects itself from revelation through... criticism.