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The sign of peace does not come in the middle of the consecration. The Consecration happens when the priest repeats the words of Christ at the Last Supper. And the Consecration is not 'straight out of the Anglican service,' since it dates from the 4th century, before there was Anglicanism. In other rites of the Church the kiss of peace took on different forms. Joseph Jungmann explains in The Mass of the Roman Rite how, “Among the East Syrians it is customary for each one to clasp the hands of his neighbor and kiss them. Among the Maronites the faithful clasp the neighbor’s fingers with their own, then kiss the latter. Even more reserved are the Copts, who merely bow to their neighbor and then touch his hand.” The Apostolic Constitutions, a document written in the 4th century, instructs that after the Prayer of the Faithful, “let the bishop salute the church, and say, The peace of God be with you all. And let the people answer, And with your spirit; and let the deacon say to all, Salute one another with the holy kiss.” This is BIBLICAL: St Paul instructed the Corinthians to 'greet one another with a holy kiss' (2 Cor 13:12). Furthermore, the Eucharist is the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity no matter WHO passes it to you - priest or Eucharistic minister. (I by no means approve of armies of 'extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist' being the norm, or ordinary.) Shunning Christ in the Eucharist because of the person who is offering it to you, is still shunning Christ in the Eucharist. It doesn't make you holier to receive from the hands of a priest; the Host is still 100% Christ whether a priest or Eucharistic minister is distributing the Host. You have some mixed up ideas and probably could use some good, solid, Catholic teaching. Flowers, holy water, incense, vestments, candles, etc., should not be more important than charity and love of neighbor - or indeed, obedience to the rubrics of the Mass and the instruction of the priest to 'offer one another the sign of peace.'

A Communion service, not a Eucharistic service, looks very much like a Mass but is presided over by a deacon or layperson rather than a priest, because it does not have a moment of consecration, which only the priest can perform. At a Communion service, you will not hear the words, "This is my body. … This is my blood. … " Instead, the deacon or layperson distributes hosts that have been consecrated at a Mass, then stored in the tabernacle until needed. Communion services are very common in areas where there are few priests. Even in the U.S., Communion services may occur on Sundays and weekdays in rural and mountain states such as Idaho, where there is a shortage of priests and Catholics are widely dispersed.

I would suggest there was a significant amount of heresy that went unchallenged.