[Salvation]

**Also, I knew that the EMs were not supposed to touch the host at the altar, that the priest is supposed to hand them their tray. Our EMs would crowd around the priest, pour the wine, split the hosts, and I was getting quite irritated. That was put to an end (Thanks be to God!).**

The priest prepares all the wine and hosts for Eucharistic Ministers at our church, take that back, he does the hosts and the Minister of Ceremonies does the wine.

[NYer]

I also found the following both interesting and pertinent. While this has not yet spread too far in my parish, I have attended masses where people hold hands during the Our Father.

Holding hands during the Our Father has become commonplace, but it is an illicit addition to the Liturgy. Clarifications and Interpretations of the GIRM ["Notitiae" Vol. XI (1975) p. 226] explains:

". . .holding hands is a sign of intimacy and not reconciliation, and as such disrupts the flow of the Sacramental signs in the Mass which leads to the Sacramental sign of intimacy with Christ and our neighbor, Holy Communion."