When he says Benedictus, etc., he signs himself with the cross.
The following Preface is said on every Sunday in the year that has no special preface of its own.
IT IS truly meet and just, right and available to salvation, that we should always and in all places give thanks to Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty, eternal God. Who, together with Thy only begotten Son and the Holy Ghost, art one God, one Lord: not in the singleness of one Person, but in the Trinity of one substance. For what we believe of Thy glory, as Thou hast revealed the same, we believe of Thy Son, and of the Holy Ghost, without any difference or distinction. So that in the confession of the true and eternal Godhead, we adore a distinction in the Persons, unity in Essence, and equality in Majesty. Whom the angels and archangels, the cherubim also and seraphim, do praise; who cease not, day by day with one voice crying out, to repeat:
