November 2020 - Day 20

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May the magic be with us all!

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What is a Jesse Tree?

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It is a very old English tradition - there are records of a Jesse tree going back about 1,000 years,

It comes from the the prophecy in Isiah ‘A shoot will spring forth from the stump of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots'. It was a way of teaching because at that time the Bible and the services were in Latin. So there was carving or a painting of a figure of Jesse, from which grew a tree or vine bearing David and Jesus - basically showing the genealogy of Christ as per Matthew in simple terms.

Over time more figures became part of the pattern, and apart from the permanent ones in old churches, some churches began to 'build' them in the season of Advent as a teaching aid.

We thought we would do one this year - in a very simple way way. And I knew I had a link somewhere to simple pictures we could adapt for the children to colour - but I couldn't find it for ages!