Catholic Devotion and Young Earth Creationism

The Jesse Tree
An Advent Devotion
by Eric Sammons, Suzan M. Sammons
https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/the-jesse-tree

This Advent, lead your family closer to Christ as you prepare for the Lord’s coming at Christmas. Engage with the Old Testament patriarchs and prophets who are the branches in Jesus’ family tree and come to understand fully how, in Christ, this family history becomes the history of our salvation.

As you explore Jesus’ fascinating ancestry, you’ll see how God’s plan of salvation unfolds from Adam and Eve, through the Old Testament prophets, to the birth of Christ, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and the sacraments of the Church. Marvel at the parallels between Adam and Christ, the New Adam; Eve and Mary, the New Eve; the patriarch Joseph and St. Joseph, guardian of the Redeemer; and others.

I have no beef with any of this obviously.

But perhaps the American Conference of Bishops has? You see, the Jesse Tree is based on Biblical genealogies, like Genesis 5 and 11 and the later generations over Genesis to the end, like Ruth, Paralipomena (or Chronicles), and obviously a resumé in Matthew 1 and Luke 3.

The people who started the devotion were, unlike American ... I'll look up the official name: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ... unlike these guys, the people who started the devotion were very obviously Young Earth Creationist. Oh, feel free to get this devotion!/HGL