My Daily Domestic Clips 11/30/2010 (a.m.)

• Catholic Fire: 12 Tips to a Holier Advent Season plus Advent Resources tags: Catholic advent
• Catholic Cuisine: Scones for St. Andrew’s Day tags: Catholic advent st.andrew
• Sweetness and Light – A Celebration of Saints Tree Craft: Advent to Epiphany (or The Presentation) tags: Catholic advent
• O Night Divine: Advent Cubes tags: Catholic advent artsandcrafts jessetree
• In These Hills: Making Lanterns for Martinmas tags: Catholic advent martinmas artsandcrafts
• Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : Jesse Tree Instructions (Activity) – Annotated tags: Catholic advent jessetree
  • JESSE TREE SCRIPTURES (The symbols are only
    suggestions)
    December 1 Creation: Gen. 1:1-31; 2:1-4
    Symbols: sun, moon, stars, animals, earth
    December 2 Adam and Eve: Gen. 2:7-9,
    18-24 Symbols: tree, man, woman
    December 3 Fall of Man: Gen. 3:1-7 and
    23-24 Symbols: tree, serpent, apple with bite
    December 4 Noah: Gen. 6:5-8,
    13-22; 7:17, 23, 24; 8:1, 6-22 Symbols: ark, animals, dove, rainbow
    December 5 Abraham: Gen.
    12:1-3 Symbols: torch, sword, mountain
    December 6 Isaac: Gen. 22:1-14 Symbols:
    bundle of wood, altar, ram in bush
    December 7 Jacob: Gen. 25:1-34; 28:10-15
    Symbols: kettle, ladder
    December 8 Joseph: Gen. 37:23-28; 45:3-15
    Symbols: bucket, well, silver coins, tunic
    December 9 Moses: Ex. 2:1-10 Symbols: baby in basket, river and rushes
    December 10 Samuel: 1 Sam. 3:1-18 Symbols: lamp, temple
    December 11 Jesse: 1 Sam. 16:1-13 Symbols: crimson robe,
    shepherd’s staff
    December 12 David: 1 Sam. 17:12-51 Symbols: slingshot,
    6-pointed star
    December 13 Solomon: 1 Kings 3:5-14, 16-28 Symbols:
    scales of justice, temple, two babies and sword
    December 14 Joseph: Matt. 1:18-25 Symbols: hammer, saw,
    chisel, angle
    December 15 Mary: Matt. 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-38 Symbols:
    lily, crown of stars, pierced heart
    December 16 John the Baptist: Mark 1:1-8 Symbols: shell
    with water, river
    On December 17, the Church begins to intensify the preparation for Christmas
    with the use of the “O” Antiphons during the Liturgy of the Hours. The symbols
    for the Jesse Tree from December 17 to 23 are based on the “O” Antiphons.
    December 17 Jesus is Wisdom: Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus in old
    Bibles) 24:2; Wisdom 8:1 Symbols: oil lamp, open book
    December 18 Jesus is Lord: Ex. 3:2; 20:1 Symbols:
    burning bush, stone tablets
    December 19 Jesus is Flower of Jesse: Isaiah 11:1-3
    Symbols: flower, plant with flower
    December 20 Jesus is Key of David: Isaiah 22:22 Symbols:
    key, broken chains
    December 21 Jesus is the Radiant Dawn: Psalm 19:6-7
    (in older Bibles this will be Psalm 18) Symbols: sun rising or
    high in sky
    December 22 Jesus is King of the
    Gentiles: Psalm 2:7-8; Ephesians 2:14-20 Symbols: crown, scepter
    December 23 Jesus is Emmanuel: Isaiah
    7:14; 33:22 Symbols: tablets of stone, chalice and host
    December 24 Jesus is Light of the World:
    John 1:1-14 Symbols: candle, flame, sun

    Activity Source: Jesse Tree
    Kit, A by Betsy Walter, Pauline Books and Media, Boston, MA, 1983

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