By exalting the eucharist into an expiatory sacrifice, the partaking of the elements by the people came to be considered quite unessential, and is generally neglected.

They need not understand, nor even hear the language of the officiating priest.

It is enough, if they see and adore.

A bell warns them when to make the needful genuflections and crosses.

Nor can there be a reasonable doubt, that the adoration of the host (which is required on pain of excommunication in the Romish Church) is the grossest species of idolatry.
But there are deadly, as well as venial, sins; and these expose the soul to eternal punishment.