So the priest faces away until it’s time for the congregation to come and get their bread/cracker/wafer thing?

Uh

You mean the bread and wine

The *literal* Body and Blood of Christ

Oh lord...

That's why we kneel at the consecration

Yes I know it’s the body and blood of Christ.

But it’s bread that we see 🤣

Or a cracker or whatever it is. I’ve seen several kinds of things used.

Pinch off a piece from a loaf

Yeah that's when we all line up

Then I’ve seen a circular cracker looking thing.

It's wheat

I think the idea behind it is there's no crumbs

Oh I see

So what does your parish church do?

It has to be new, and for Latins it has to be unleavened

We do Novus Ordo

Appearance of the bread

Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox use leavened bread

It looks like a little round disk, very thin

*BODY OF CHRIST* I mean

It looks almost like something made in a machine or artificial but they're actually really easy to make at home

Ah ok. So like a cracker then? Or is it soft like bread?

Like something in between

It won't *crunch* like a cracker, and there's very few crumbs

Also... why the requirement of being leavened or unleavened?

Oh. So probably more like a cookie? 🤔

From Catholic-Orthodox perspective it's literally the body of Christ, so that would be really shitty of us if we had crumbs everywhere and swept them on the floor and vacuumed them up and threw in the trash

I assume the leavening is related to the verses Remus sperged out on a few weeks ago.

No crumbs makes sense lol

In a technical sense, Mass, especially Easter, is a continuance of the Passover, and on Passover the Jews were to only eat unleavened bread

For the East, leavened bread symbolizes the resurrection

And deliberately *not* using the same type as the Passover is showing that we are part of the new covenant instead of the old one

Oh I see.

So I guess the eastern Catholics use unleavened bread then though? Because aren’t they a little different?

Or maybe I got that backwards....

Eastern Catholics use leavened bread like the Orthodox. 20 of the 23 ECs used to actually be Eastern or Oriental Orthodox

So they maintain the same rites

Yeah I remember you saying that.

I don’t really know the extent of what that means though 🤣