"Take and Eat," "Take" Being the Operative Word?

You learn something new, or rather, old, every day.

Officially,

it is permissible to adopt a simpler procedure, namely, allowing the faithful themselves to take the host from the ciborium or paten. The faithful should consume the host before returning to their place; the minister's part will be brought out by use of the usual formulary, The body of Christ, to which the communicant replies: Amen.

Yes, it may be that -

[Note: Rome later forbid the Communicant to take the Host themselves.]

But still.... 
(I'm aware that neither EWTN nor Colin Donovan have any authority in and of themselves, but I have found EWTN almost unimpeachable in their quoting of authoritative sources, and until I find Notitiae, et al. officially translated, and freely available online....)