Christmas Novena, Day 8
Today we finish the 7 "O" antiphons. The final one is Emmanuel, God with us!
Here's an interesting tidbit about the O antiphons. If you take the first letter of each antiphon in Latin and put them in reverse order, you get ERO CRAS. In Latin, it means "tomorrow I will be." (ero = I will be; cras = tomorrow, from which we get the word procrastinate)
E Emmanuel
R Rex (king)
O Orient (radiant dawn)
C Key of David (clavis)
R Root of Jesse (radix)
A Lord (adonai)
S Wisdom (sapientia)
Come, Lord, do not delay!
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
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