[nickcarraway]

I know the Eastern Rite tradition is to use leavened bread and supposedly is older, but it doesn't make sense to mer, because the Last Supper was Passover, so unleavened bread was used. I know people are going to beat me up about it.

[Dominick]

If is valid none the less. A more worrisome issue to me, is the sui juris validity of Orthodoxy, yet the regrettable separation from the Church.

Adding things to the bread and wine still allows them to be consecrated and will confect the Body of Christ, although it is an abuse. You can consecrate an unsalted kosher matzoh, since it is indeed wheat and water. I know it is also allowed to use Perrier water in bread.

[Siobhan]

Hon, it is because Jesus is risen that the Eastern Churches and rites use bread that has risen.