The 1970 rubrics direct the priest to bow slightly while reciting all the words of Jesus and to pronounce them "clearly and distinctly, as the nature of these words requires". The 1962 "Ritus servandus" tells him instead to put his elbows on the altar as he recites, with head bowed, only the words ""Hoc est enim Corpus meum"", referred to as "the words of consecration", and to hold the host with his thumbs and index fingers alone, keeping the other fingers extended and joined together.