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Featured music:

“Star of Hope” by Katey Laurel from the double album “This is Christmas”

Background music:

“Joy to the World” by Mark Bodino from “My Favorite Christmas Guitar Songs All Year Round”

“Star of Hope Instrumental” by Katey Laurel

More information:

Wikipedia has a lot about the history of the Tree of Jesse.

Why Christmas has a bit about how you can incorporate a Jesse Tree into your holiday.

Jesuit ministry the Loyola Press has more ideas about working the Jesse Tree into your Advent.

While we’re at it, I talked about Advent in 2009, and played a great rendition of “People Look East.” It’s at Advent.MyChristmasStocking.net