That must be why Christ Himself, at the Last Supper, said "Take and eat," not "stick out your tongue..."
You think it is sacreligious for a mere layman to touch the Body of Christ. I don't, and the Church doesn't either.
Um, the men present at the Last Supper were all just ordained priests, with consecrated hands, and therefore they weren't laymen. Pretty well known fact for anyone who has picked up a basic text on Church discipline. The priesthood was established at that very moment. Where did you go to school, Rembert Weakland Academy?
St. Thomas Aquinas(the Doctor of the Blessed Sacrament)and St. Alphonse Ligouri, both Doctors of the Church, say that only the priest can handle the Sacred Species and it is a profanation for anyone else to do so. This wasn't even disputed until the 1960's, when Communion in the Hand was introduced in Holland as a defiance of the Holy See. Even Paul VI was against the practice, but weak Pope that he was, gave in(as he did on so many other things). There is much less reverence and even belief in the Blessed Sacrament today, and practices like Communion in the Hand are a big part of the reason.