In the 1962 Canon, the priest, immediately after pronouncing "the words of consecration", genuflects in adoration of the consecrated host, rises and "shows it to the people" (""ostendit populo"") − the action commonly called the elevation, since the "Ritus servandus" tells the priest to raise it as high as he comfortably can − after which he replaces it on the corporal, keeps his thumbs and index fingers joined, and then genuflects again. From this point until his hands are ritually washed at the ablutions after communion, he keeps thumbs and index fingers joined except when handling the host.