While the 1962 and 1970 texts are identical, the 1962 rubrics indicate that the priest, who has joined his hands at the "Sanctus", extends them, raises them a little and again joins them. Then, bowing profoundly before the altar, he speaks the words of the prayer as far as ""rogamus et petimus"", at which point he kisses the altar and joins his hands in preparation for making the sign of the cross three times over host and chalice together at the words ""haec dona, haec munera, haec sancta sacrificia illibata"". He says the rest of the prayer with hands extended within the limits then indicated for that posture: neither higher nor wider than the shoulders, with fingers joined and palms facing each other. According to the 1970 rubrics, the priest simply begins the prayer with hands extended in an unspecified way and at the word ""benedicas"" makes a single sign of the cross over host and chalice, the only time in the whole course of the Roman Canon that he makes the sign of the cross over either, in contrast to the 1962 rules, which have the priest do so 25 times within the Canon, 15 of them after the consecration.