Catholic Jesse Tree Readings for Each Day
My DioErie: Jesse Tree Ornaments
The Jesse Tree
This holiday season Faith magazine invites you to savour a retelling of the story of the family tree of Jesus—the Jesse tree.
In the calendar month earlier Christmas, the church anticipates the coming of Jesus through readings that span from the Sometime Testament creation story through Jesus' nativity. Jesse, for whom the tree is named, is the kickoff person in the genealogy of Jesus. At the tiptop of this family tree are Mary and Jesus. Depicted in church windows and artwork for hundreds of years, this visual tree of life may even have been a precursor of today'due south Christmas tree.
All you need for this projection is a homemade drawing of a tree. You can also make a Jesse tree past putting a few tree branches in a pot filled with gravel or sand, or using a tabletop Christmas tree on which to hang Jesse tree ornaments.
Reflect on the readings and symbols of this ancient tradition. You tin can download our symbols on card stock, or print them on paper and glue them to construction paper or felt.
Sharing the Jesse tree story is a great way to help build anticipation for the birth of the Christ child, allowing the roots of faith to take hold and grow.
Download Ornaments
Designed to fit on eight.v x xi paper. If PDF files do not open, download the free Adobe Reader.
- Download 2021 Advent reflections for Jesse Tree
- Download modest ornaments (3.5 " bore)
- Download large ornaments (7.5 " diameter)
Permission/credit
Thanks very much for your interest in using our gratuitous Jesse tree ornaments and the text we wrote to accompany the Scriptures. As always, we are pleased when anyone wants to get them into homes where they can be enjoyed, so in that location is no accuse.
We do ask, however, that you credit equally follows: Illustrations past Carolyn Pikoulas and text by Anne-Marie Welsh for Faith magazine, published by the Diocese of Erie.
PowerPoint instructions
Instructions for copying the ornaments for use in a PowerPoint presentation:
- Select one of the "large ornaments"
- Press the "PrtScn" central on the keyboard (commonly upper right of keyboard)
- Open up PowerPoint
- Click somewhere on a slide
- Hit paste
Note: If you don't get what you want when yous paste, try ALT + PrtScn for step ii instead.
You will have to use the "crop" function in PowerPoint to cleave off the extra stuff that will come up forth with the impress screen.
Thank-you e-mails from around the world!
Maria in Singapore —
Cheers and then much for providing the free materials for the Jesse Tree. The first time my family unit to do this kind of activeness and it makes advent more meaningful to us!
Merrie in Northward Carolina —
Thank you for the ornaments and the reflections. This is the best and most consistent set I have ever used. Concluding twelvemonth, my husband fabricated a set of wooden Jesse Tree ornaments for each of our children. They will be treasured and used for years to come.
The Olivases in Pennsylvania —
I just wanted to thanks for having the Jesse Tree symbols and readings bachelor to us! I used it last year with my family and my kids really enjoyed it! We laminate 
them and hang them on our Christmas Tree during Advent.
Sr. Ann Cassiday in Colorado Springs —
Give thanks YOU for the beautiful ornaments for the Jesse Tree! I will be using them with my 8th grade Faith Formation Form this coming Sunday. The reflections and Scripture references will be a adept source for our Scripture Search!
Thanks for sharing this very special way of helping immature people become familiar with the very human family and true-blue God, that gave us Jesus Christ!
Janet in Virginia —
We truly enjoyed making the Jesse Tree using your illustrations and text. The Christian Formation Committee of Our Lady of Perpetual Assistance in Salem, Virginia sponsored the
Advent Faith Festival and we had 10 families signed upward for it. The Committee provided all the materials. We nerveless tree branches and empty "Pringles" cans and spray-painted them silverish.
We scheduled the event on a Saturday morn and had homemade soup and grilled cheese sandwiches and, of course, dessert for everyone to savor. All had a great fourth dimension! Thanks very much for sharing your Jesse Tree.
Sister Fidelma in Zambia —
I came beyond your symbols final year when working in Republic of zimbabwe. I was delighted with them. This year I am based in Republic of zambia and have started on our Jesse Tree. Cheers for the inspirational symbols. Wishing you a blest Advent.
Rev. David P. Proctor in RI —
Thank you very much for sharing this. I have a variety of devotional books using the Jesse Tree, but they weren't adaptable to my ministry here with 133 long-term care residents and rehabilitation guests. Our residents range in age from forty's to 105.
Nosotros're using a large version for use in our Ecumenical Chapel and making smaller copies that residents can apply in their rooms for their making their way toward Christmas. And I'm having a young adult who is artistic and needs to do customs service create the large Jesse Tree and set the symbols. Blessings for sharing this in the spirit of all true Christian Educators who aid one some other every bit beau members in the Body of Christ. Shalom, Salaam, Peace exist unto you all.
Michelle in TN —
I am the 6th class religion teacher at Our Lady of Perpetual Assistance in Germantown, Tennessee and I wanted to thank you for the cute Jesse Tree images and reflections. I have been looking for a simple Jesse Tree project that my class could practice with their "Kindergarten prayer buddies" and your symbols are perfect.
I take copied the smaller images onto carte du jour stock and nosotros will so mucilage them onto larger circles and each educatee will have a symbol to decorate and then add to our tree. Since we do not accept to draw each image and and then colour and then decorate we now have more than fourth dimension to read the bible stories and discuss Jesus' family tree. Cheers!
Dr. Ruane in Todmorden, Lancs, UK —
Nosotros run an afterschool society called the Parish Pals in a pocket-sized village called Todmorden in the Great britain. We are preparing our Jesse Tree activities for the club which is this evening and have written our own booklet which we're press now.
Nosotros're happy to send a final version if this is of interest. I wanted some pictures to show the children and found your wonderful Jesse Tree ornaments - what a gift. We accept around 26 children every Thursday evening from 3.30 - 4.thirty and they are going to be making symbols for the Jesse Tree which we adorn during a family mass on 16th december. Thank you for your lovely images, nosotros volition take some pictures and perchance we can post them to y'all.
Kristin in Colorado Springs, CO —
We are using the beautiful ornaments as part of an Advent Celebration December 2nd with families from Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME). Each family will have a tree to take home. Attached is a picture of our sample tree.
My husband, Joe, cut information technology out of 1/4" board and nosotros used tiny nails to hold the ornaments. The ornaments themselves were best printed out on cardstock. We used a little foam glue to put them on colored circles of foam and taped a ribbon loop on the back. The ornaments are so beautiful Thank y'all to Ms. Risinger for designing them. We desire the trees and the reflections to exist used by the family yr after twelvemonth. Thanks.
Linda in Trenton, NJ —
Give thanks you and then much for taking the time to create the Jesse Tree Ornaments. I teach 6th form CCD at Holy Cross Church in Trenton, NJ and they are just what I was looking for! I accept been education 6th grade for 10 years now and work a forty hour week at "my real chore." I have ideas of what I would like to do in my class room but run into problems implementing them as it takes time to research each idea. When I discover a website that has "exactly" what I want — I want to tell yous how much I appreciate your effort providing something I exercise not have the time to practice myself. The class volition exist making their ain personal Jesse Tree with your ornaments.
Jennifer in Church of Republic of ireland Lath of Instruction, Rathmines, Dublin —
I am looking at your site and am impressed with the large Jesse Tree decorations you lot have. Nosotros are working on a religious education programme for national schools nether Anglican direction here in Ireland and I accept been searching for suitable images to utilize in the lesson about Appearance. This lesson includes instructions on the making of a Jesse Tree and the stories backside the various images.
Heidi in Madison, SD —
Final year I printed out the smaller ornaments and the family decorated them with glitter glue pens, highlighting some of the drawings. We then gathered nightly around our Jesse tree and took turns placing the daily ornament on equally dad or I read the reflection. The kids looked forrad to it all day.
Kathleen in New York, NY —
My name is Kathleen and I'one thousand the mother of 2 boys (ages eighteen months and 4 years). We live in the Bronx in the Archdiocese of New York. I was looking online for something to exercise during Advent for the boys to begin to teach them about the real meaning of the season and stumbled upon the idea of a Jesse tree. I'd never heard of that earlier and found some of the kits expensive and other ideas time consuming. THEN I found your website where I could download and impress everything we need. Cheers!!! We will tape greenish garland on the wall of the hallway where our bedrooms are and each evening for prayer, we will, as a family unit, do the Jesse Tree. I appreciate your doing this for a busy mom who wants to chatecize her children!
Sharon in Niagara Falls, ON —
I used the small decorations for the bulletin board of the school archway. I will be using the big one for the concert. We are presenting the Jesse tree concert. And then, before each song, the choir will present one character with a vocal, then a class volition sing a song related to the grapheme and and so we will use these decorations on a Christmas. Cheers so much for the cute decorations
Dawn in Defiance, OH —
I haven't used the Jesse Tree still, simply I am so excited, that I just had to write to you. My family is part of a 16-family Catholic habitation schoolhouse group in northwest Ohio. A few families have a tree already, but others do not. Nosotros wanted to assemble and make ornaments for each other's tree, but nosotros simply ran out of fourth dimension. I found your site on the net (via Google Search) and passed it on to the grouping. Your downloads have made it possible for everybody in our group (32 adults, threescore+ kids) to have a Jesse Tree and beautiful readings to go with it each solar day. Thank you and so much for making this available free of accuse. May God richly bless you!
Linda in St. Louis, MO —
I am in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, merely wanted to give thanks you for posting the Appearance reflections. We will be putting up a Christmas tree (with white lights and no ornaments) on the beginning Sun of Appearance, and each day during Advent, putting on the tree one of the Jesse Tree ornaments, reading the accompanying Bible story and reflection. I purchased round wooden disks from a local craft store that our children volition be painting the Jesse Tree figures on. I'thousand really excited to use our Christmas tree in this way, equally we usually practise not put our tree up until a few days earlier Christmas. This way we can enjoy the tree during both Appearance and Christmas.
Jean in St. Robert Bellarmine Parish, Omaha, NE —
Thank you for providing the illustrations of the ornaments for the daily scripture readings. I will exist using this information when our parish gathers on Nov. 25 for the Whole Parish Catechesis Program devoted to Advent...its symbols and ceremonies. I am the volunteer librarian for our parish library. I am making a Jesse tree with the ornaments and a posting of where families might be able to discover your patterns! Thanks!
Maria in Lighthouse Christian Temple Church, San Antonio, TX —
I had my teachers in our children ministry building to nbsp teach well-nigh the generation of god and every child decorated jesse tree after lesson they really enjoy making appearance ornamentation
Sister Cindy, St. Mary's Schoolhouse, Edwardsville, IL — Dianne in Grove City, PA —
Thanks for putting printable Jesse Tree symbols online and too the reflections. I volition be using these with my sixth course homeroom this yr and we will be putting the symbols out in the hallway for all to meet.
Our parish will besides utilize the ornaments to exist laminated and hung on a tree in our new gathering space, thus connecting our whole parish to this wonderful Advent journeying. Nosotros are blest to have this new area for our parish to gather earlier mass and to accept places to display 'visual lessons' in faith! (The reflections will be posted by the tree with encouragement for people to visit your spider web site!) It could very well become a storytelling center for Advent. Thanks for sharing this wonderful souvenir!
Source: https://www.eriercd.org/Jesse-Tree-Ornaments.html
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