The dresser and the ware it held were precious and decorative, highlighting the owner’s status and providing a talking point and a link with past generations. They were prominently shown off to best effect in ways designed to reflect light and avoid dust. The various dishes, plates, bowls and utensils that the dresser held had an important influence on its overall design. More often than not, the dresser was the only item of furniture that the carpenter took extra time to ornament with carved or fretted work, before it was painted. The dresser is unique among the furniture of the Irish kitchen because of its primary role as an aesthetic and decorative focal point, a role simultaneously combined with the functional storage of kitchen ware and utensils. It is easily distinguished from its Welsh and English counterparts because it was traditionally made in one piece, rather than two. Inevitably it is also the most highly sought after by antique dealers. The Irish dresser is the best known of any of the range of kitchen furniture. Think about all this.The 1720s Irish dresser in Robin Muir and Paul Lyon Maris' house is from John Cornall Antiques in Warwick Paul Massey But it will pass, but the Lord is always next to you, he never abandons, never. Jesus has saved me, and I have this difficulty now”. During the washing of the feet – I hope I succeed in doing it because I cannot walk that well – but during the washing of the feet, think about this: “Jesus has washed my feet. Now, I will do the same thing as a memory of what Jesus taught us, to help each other and in this way, life is more beautiful and we can carry on like this. And Jesus wants us like this, and because of this he wanted to wash feet and say: “I came to save you, to serve you”. And this awareness, this certainty that each of us can slip, is what gives us the dignity – listen to the word – the “dignity” of being sinners. “If I am not like that it is because of the grace of God!” Each one of us can slip, every one of us. How many injustices, how many people are without jobs, how many people work and are paid half, how many people have no money to purchase medicine, how many families are destroyed, so many awful things….Īnd none of us can say, “Thanks to God I am not like, you know”. In society, we see how many people take advantage of others how many people are in a corner and can’t get out…. We can all think of it as a gesture that tells us how we should treat each other. I will perform the same deed of the washing of the feet, which is not something folkloric, no. He just wants to accompany us he wants to take us by the hand so that life won’t be so harsh for us. He is never astonished, because he has already paid. Jesus is never shocked at our weaknesses. Each one of us could say: “But if the Pope only knew the things I have inside….” But Jesus knows that, and he loves us just like we are! And he washes each of our feet. And with this celebration today, Jesus wants to teach us this: the nobility of the heart. It is very beautiful to help each other, to give a hand – these are human universal gestures that are born from a noble heart. If we were to listen to these things from Jesus, life would be so beautiful because we would hurry to help each other out instead of getting the best of others, to take advantage of each other, the way con artists teach us. Let us imagine how the disciples were astonished when they saw Jesus beginning to perform this task fit for slaves… He wanted to make them understand the message for the next day when he would die like a slave to pay the debt for all us. But who would wash their feet? The slaves, the slaves – because this was work relegated to slaves. People would come in from outside and, on entering a house, before dining, before gathering, they would wash their feet. Foot washing was customary at that time because the streets were dusty. What attracts our attention is how Jesus, just the day before is crucified, accomplishes this deed.
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