December 19th.
"O Root of Jesse! Who standest as the ensign of the people,
before Whom Kings shall keep silence and unto Whom the
nations shall make their supplication, come and set us free,
tarry now no longer."
(Vide Is. XI. 10 and Apoc. XXII. 16).
_1st. Prelude._ The Tree of Jesse so often seen carved on cathedral
porches and painted on windows, and in Missals.
_2nd. Prelude._ Grace to rally under the Standard of the Tree of Jesse.