In the Western Church we began singing the O antiphons last evening as the antiphon before and after the Magnificat. Tonight we sang: O Adonai and Ruler of the House of Israel, you appeared to Moses in the fire of the burning bush and on Mount Sinai gave him your law. Come and with outstretched arm redeem us.
.I had hoped to have finished this little Jesse Tree (which in the bottom left corner shows Moses and the Burning Bush) by the Fourth Sunday of Advent, but I completed it on the Fouth Sunday, which was just in time to look at it while praying tonight's antiphon.
As always, praying with these images during Advent has given me it me much to ponder. As we approach Christmas I'm grateful to have brought this little Jesse Tree to completion. A good project for this short season, since it is egg tempera on paper, which is much more quickly painted(at least for me) than an icon on a gessoed wooden panel.
(Detail of the center image of the Mother of God and Jesus)
