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Sundays when we venerate Holy Cross reminds me of a story my brother in priesthood (and classmate) told me a few years ago.
Parish otpust (i.e. patronal feast) is a big thing among Byzantine Catholics in Slovakia. It can happen, especially in big parishes, that you invite not only a festal celebrant and a festal homilist (sometimes it is one and the same priest, more usually you will invite 2 priests) and then you can invite also other priests who are helping you time-to-time with pastoral matters in your parish. Yes, it can happen that you have easily 10 priests surrounding the altar. My classmate was then a newly ordained assistant priest in such a big parish dedicated to the Holy Cross.
In the homily, the festal homilist brought the attention of the people to the significance of the cross. And then, when the homily was almost over, the homilist decided to come back and do one more thing: he explained to the people the way how we are making the sign of the cross. Since priests were sitting in the back of the sanctuary, the murmur was heard: "why he is explaining it, everybody knows it."
My classmate felt the same way. To his great surprise, this explanation was met with a lot of positive feedback from people. It was illustrative, it was explanatory and it was catechetical. People loved it. It was a valuable lesson for my brother to always cover the basics. Therefore as a reminder, this is how we, Byzantines, are doing the sign of the cross:
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