@Escoffier @Snidely_Whiplash @jesuspilled > And yet that is how they did it

Is it? I wasn't there. Neither were you.

The Latin Mass goes back at least to the 300's. Did they really get it all wrong in less than 300 years?

Even Wikipedia, which can hardly be considered Christian friendly, notes that " Hugh Somerville-Knapman, O.S.B., says that they should be separate rites, as the Mass promulgated at the Council of Trent was already the pre-existing liturgy of the Diocese of Rome and has direct continuity with the Mass practiced by the apostles"

You can complain about a lot of things with the modern Church, but if you believe the words of Christ, the Communion service is not one of them.