{"id":2851,"date":"2018-12-19T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:04","slug":"dec-19-antiphon-3-o-root-of-jesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/12\/19\/dec-19-antiphon-3-o-root-of-jesse\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 19 – Antiphon # 3 “O Root of Jesse”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, \u00a0December 19<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Antiphon, \u201cO Root of Jesse,\u201d grew out of two Biblical texts recounting the genealogy of Jesus (Luke 3:23 and Matthew 1:1). \u00a0Both versions locate the new born baby as Jesus, a human being, more than as The Christ, the Divine Lord of the all reality. \u00a0The human Jesus had ancestors who were heroes and ancestors who were criminals (just like the long stories of ancestors for each reader of this post). \u00a0That, I take it, is the teaching embedded in the visual depictions of the \u201cJesse Tree.\u201d \u00a0When teaching courses in the history of U.S. technological practice, I sometimes began a semester inviting students to write one story about one of their ancestors. \u00a0I\u2019ve forgotten which student wrote about a long-ago great (great-great?) grandmother who lived with her husband on the then mostly unsettled shore of Big Bay de Noc at the northern edge of Lake Michigan. \u00a0He had a habit, it was said, of taking his boat out on Big Bay in the night to visit and have sex with another woman. \u00a0 The student\u2019s grandmother, one dark night, turned off all the lights so that her unfaithful husband got lost in the dark and, if I remember the story accurately, drowned.<\/p>\n

Ancestries, if one traces back far enough, carry the nobility and the venality of human beings. \u00a0So too with the tree of Jesse announced in Luke and Matthew to locate the new born Jesus deep within the human condition.<\/p>\n

Our university has taken on the stillness of\u00a0mostly empty parking lots as students and most faculty settling into a time for rest, naps, and kinship times. \u00a0I\u2019m getting ready to head out tomorrow afternoon to drive I-80 across northern Ohio to visit kinswomen of 45 years, Sisters of St Joseph who live mostly down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh \u2013 \u00a0good cooking, even better story telling. \u00a0 These late Advent posts will keep on coming.<\/p>\n

Have a blest day.<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Post:\u00a0 O Antiphon #3\u00a0 \u00a0O Radix Jesse \u2013 O Root of Jesse<\/strong>
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A 17th-century oak carving of the Tree of Jesse
\nfrom\u00a0St Andrews Castle<\/a>,\u00a0Royal Scottish Museum<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cO Root of Jesse\u2019s,
\nWho stands as sign to the peoples
\nin whose presence rulers close their mouths
\nto whom the Gentiles send their prayers
\ncome to set us free, hurry.\u201d<\/p>\n

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To listen to the Antiphon sung in Gregorian Chant:
\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l8Z3nwkExUQ<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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p.s. A note from Wikipedia for more background
\nDepictions of the Jesse Tree are based on a passage from the\u00a0Book of Isaiah<\/a>.
\n\u201cAnd there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots\u201d (King James Version<\/a>).
\nIn the\u00a0New Testament<\/a>\u00a0the lineage of Jesus is traced by two of the\u00a0Gospel<\/a>\u00a0writers,\u00a0Matthew<\/a>\u00a0in descending order, and\u00a0Luke<\/a>\u00a0in ascending order.\u00a0Luke\u2019s Gospel\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0description in chapter 3 begins with Jesus himself and is traced all the way back, via\u00a0Nathan<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0David<\/a>\u00a0and then on to \u201cAdam<\/a>, which was\u00a0[the son]\u00a0of God.\u201d. (Luke 3:23-38<\/a>)\u00a0Matthew\u2019s Gospel<\/a>\u00a0opens with the words: \u201cThe book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.\u201d (Matthew 1:1<\/a>) With this beginning, Matthew shows the Abrahamic and royal descent, passing through\u00a0David<\/a>, but then through\u00a0Solomon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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