The older Brothers told us that when they began to work in the kitchen or in the bakery, they would make the humble gesture — they would get down on their knees and kiss the floor and dedicate their day to the work at hand. We were considered somewhat more modern and began our day in the bakery by kissing the ties of our aprons as we put them over our necks, and dedicating our work to the Lord while we labored putting out the meal or in the bakery with this prayer: Lord, make me a new man as I clothe myself with the apron of your love. It was a small ritual that led us to believe that the work we were doing was sacred and that the space that we were working in was a sacred space.
— Brother Rick Curry, The Secrets of Jesuit Breadmaking