O 

NOW  - I GET CHRISTMAS

“Ero Cras!”

“Ero” - Latin future tense

for “I will be”.

“Cras” - Latin word

for “tomorrow”.

“ERO  CRAS”:

it's Latin phrase for

“I will be there tomorrow.”

Wait a minute!

Are you saying

the world is going to end

tomorrow, December 21, 2012?

No - I’m saying that Christ

will come again today, 
tomorrow and again 
and again and then at the End.

“ERO CRAS!”

An acrostic, an acronym -

each letter standing for
the first letter of a Latin word
describing “Christ”.

Way back before they

had TV and techy stuff,

that had time to write

things like “O Come,

O Come, Emmanuel” -

listing 7 titles for Jesus - 
with those 7 letters in Latin 
of “ERO CRAS.”

E -  Emmanuel - Jesus God is with us.

R -  Rex - Jesus is King of the Gentiles.

O - Oriens - Jesus is Orient - the morning light.

C - Clavis Jesus is the Key.

R - Radix - Jesus is the Root of Jesse.

A - Adonai - Jesus is Leader.  

S - Sapientia - Jesus is Wisdom.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2012