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[quote=Anonymous]From the catechism:

"279. What are the essential and necessary elements for celebrating the Eucharist?

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The essential elements are wheat bread and grape wine."

The author of the Gospel of John says the death of Christ was the day before Passover, but the authors of the other gospels say the last supper was Passover, so it could have been either kind of bread, but the Catholic Church says it most probably was unleavened. (three against one, I guess).

https://uscatholic.org/articles/201306/can-we-use-real-bread-at-mass/

Our hippie Catholic church in the 70s used regular bread sometimes (and folk music), but they really weren't supposed to (unless there was a shortage, which is possible given that this was the era of long lines at the gas pump and shortages of everything else).

The Magesterium does say it should be unleavened bread. However, the Magisterium also states that while wheat is essential, unleavened is not, if you don't have it:

"Unleavened Bread Not Essential
This quality of the bread, however, is not to be deemed so essential that, if it be wanting, the Sacrament cannot exist; for both kinds are called by the one name and have the true and proper nature of bread. No one, however, is at liberty on his own private authority, or rather presumption, to transgress the laudable rite of his Church. And such departure is the less warrantable in priests of the Latin Church, expressly obliged as they are by the supreme Pontiffs, to consecrate the sacred mysteries with unleavened bread only."
https://catholiclibrary.org/library/view?docId=/Magisterium-EN/XCT.290.html&chunk.id=00000669

The tradition of wafter hosts was started by French monks in the 7th Century. That is tradition, not essential either.[/quote]

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