where would I even go (besides here, of course--thanks in advance!) to find out such a thing?
It's a blessing, so you'd go to the Rituale Romanum, but it's excerpted in most altar missals I believe. The rubrical facts here are also laid out in any of the major commentaries, e.g. Fortescue.
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