Moravian Food Blessing

* Old Woman in Prayer, known as ‘Prayer without end’

By Nicolaes Maes

Current Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Dated to 1656

Moravian Table Blessing

Come, Lord Jesus, our guest to be

And bless these gifts

Bestowed by Thee,

And bless our loved ones everywhere,

And keep them in Your loving care. 
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*Old woman in prayer, known as ‘Prayer without end’. An old woman is praying with folded hands while sitting at a table laid with bread, cheese, a jug, a bowl and a fish on a plate. To the right a cat pulls the tablecloth. On the wall a bunch of keys are hanging. In a niche in the same wall stand a funnel and an hourglass.