O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Advent Card

This charming, vintage image embodies the very spirit of the Advent season, welcoming Jesus into your home and heart at Christmas. Here, His manger loaded on a cart pulled by a sprightly white lamb, the Christ Child personally delivers a candle-lit Christmas tree to a home that has prepared for His coming. Where present, the words “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” taken from the popular Advent hymn express a longing for the arrival of the Messiah. + Image Credit: “Gloria in excelsis Deo,” devotional print in gilt chromolithography, late 19th-early 20th century, original publisher (perhaps German) unknown, from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera.