ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Antiochene Rite

So imagine you and your friends like to play games. One day, one of your friends makes up a new game that they like to play and they teach it to you. You really like the game and you start playing it all the time.

Now imagine this happened a long, long time ago with grown-ups who liked to pray together in a special way called a rite. One group of grown-ups made up a new way to pray called the Antiochene Rite and they liked it so much that they started using it all the time.

The Antiochene Rite has special prayers and ceremonies that are done in a certain order. It was created in Antioch, which was a city a long time ago that doesn’t exist anymore. But even though Antioch is gone, the rite is still used by some groups of people who like to pray in that way.

Basically, the Antiochene Rite is a special way of praying that was made up a long time ago by grown-ups and is still used by some people today.