[Bigg Red]

...one is free to receive under one kind only.

&&

I realize that, but what is the point now? Was the Mass dimished for all those hundreds of years that only one form was offered?

[sinkspur]

Was the Mass dimished for all those hundreds of years that only one form was offered?

Of course not. But the practice of the early Church was restored. The laity participates, along with the priest, in receiving under both kinds.