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By Diogenes ( articles ) | Apr 23, 2004

Redemptionis Sacramentum in a nutshell:

• No pita or Wonder bread.
• No consecration of carafes of wine.
• No breaking of the host at the consecration
• No intinction (dipping of the host into the chalice) by the communicant
• No jacking around with the words of the Mass
• No substitution of non-Biblical texts for the readings
• No lay homilies
• No splitting up bits of the Eucharist Prayers among non-priests
• Communion on the tongue always to be possible
• Communion in the hand is possible unless there is risk of profanation
• No coffee table liturgies
• Celebrant not to leave the sanctuary during the Sign of Peace
• Celebrant may not wear pocketless trousers and Italian cologne

OK, I made the last one up. But if it were promulated and enforced, it would render the other corrections superfluous. Power to your right arm, Eminenza.