 One of these variations is the adoption of the orans position by all of the clergy and the entire congregation during the praying of the Our Father.The other relates to the Rite of Preparation and the Fraction, during which the original version of the Liturgy of St Germanus heavily mirrors the elaborate Byzantine ceremonial involving the cutting the bread in a prescribed way with a liturgical knife known as the spear, both during the Preparation and at the Fraction.The rubrics of this Liturgy as in the call for no cutting at all during the Rite of Preparation, when the loaf is blessed and left intact.