O Root of Jesse, which standest for an ensign of the people, at whom kings shall shut their mouths, to whom the Gentiles shall seek: come and deliver us, and tarry not.
The Root of Jesse springs into life for the purpose of hanging on the Tree for all to see only to rise again in equal exhibition to confound the rulers of this world and their desire to hold earthly power.
Right at the beginning, the Tree of Life is present with fruit to eat which we may not consume on account of our broken nature and our fall into sin, for, were we to eat this most excellent fruit in a fallen state, our brokenness and sinfulness would be eternal and thus irredeemable.
And yet Jesus is the Life and the Root of Jesse. He is the True Vine stretching backwards and forwards in Time and Space from His birth in Bethlehem so that we might all be redeemed and all have available to us the fruit of the Tree of Life once more.
Our Eucharistic sacrifice is the means by which we take the Root of Jesse into ourselves in order to draw living water and gain the substance of God Himself to repair that which we have broken by sin and gain Eternity enjoying the fruits of pure Love.
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