Wednesday Mass Edition - 7th Day in the Octave of Christmas - Missa 'Puer Natus Est' - Commemoration: St. Sylvester I, Pope & Confessor - December 31st, 2025

†          7th Day in the Octave of Christmas, Die Septima post Nativitatem, Missa 'Puer Natus Est', Commemoration: St. Sylvester I, Pope & Confessor - December 31st, 2025 - Propers
      
†          Traditional Latin Mass Calendar With Hyperlinks - December 29, 2025 to January 4th, 2025 - Propers for the Week | Octave of the Nativity | Holy Name of Jesus

• LITURGICAL
• Extraordinary Form >> 12/31 Day VII in the Octave
• Per Ipsum (TLM Gospel of the Day) >>  Feria (within the Octave of the Nativity of Our Lord)
• The +Ecu-Men+ >> December 31 – St Sylvester, Pope & Confessor
• Lives of the Saints >> December 31 - Saint Sylvester, Pope and Confessor  (280-335)
• CatholicSaints.Info: Saints of the Day: December 31
• Boston Catholic Journal, Roman Martyrology >> December 31st
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• BLOGS, NEWS, OPINION AND COMMENTARY
• Aleteia (Daniel Esparza) >> Inside the cave where Revelation was written
• American Thinker (Julio Rivera) >> The Front Line of the Code War
• American Thinker (Jerome R. Corsi) >> How Trump Can End the Ukraine War by Distancing from Zelensky and the EU
• A Pilgrim's Journey (Fr. Christopher George Phillips) >> The Sixth Day of Christmas
• A Priest Life (Fr. Kevin Cusick) >> Trump Administration Has Found 62,000 Children, Some Victims of Sex Trafficking and Forced Labor, Tom Homan Reports
• Ascension Presents >> We’re Coming to the End… (w/ Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
• Catholic Daily Reflections >> Contemplative Prayer
• Catholic Exchange (Phillip Campbell) >> What Marx Got Right—and Terribly Wrong—About Human Nature
• Catholic Exchange (Fr. Nnamdi Moneme, OMV) >> Cultivate Virtues through Relationships
• Catholic Exchange (Bill Renje) >> Practice Gratitude in Adoration
• Catholic Journal (Fr. Joseph Esper) >> Our Most Important Choice
• Catholic Stand (Haile haile) >> The Vatican’s Muslim Prayer Room Tests Doctrine and Diplomacy
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Casey Chalk) >> What It Means To Be Protestant is mostly about not being Catholic
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Paradoxes of Christmas
• Crisis Magazine (Luke J. Ayers) >> The Myth of “Vibes” Conversions: Why Gen Z Is Actually Starving for the Hard Pills of Dogma
• Crisis Magazine (James Baresel) >> Improving How Society Dresses—Dress Well, Don’t Moralize
• Dominicana  (Br. Sean Piwowar, O.P.) >> My Eyes Have Seen the King!
• Dymphna's Road >> Wedding notes
• Excerpta Catechismi >> The Christmas Prophecy Most Catholics Never Hear(Sunday within the Octave of Christmas Explained)
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> It’s time to stop being “inappropriate”!
• IN LUMINE FIDEI (Rita Bogna) >> 31 DECEMBER – SAINT SYLVESTER (Pope and Confessor)
• InPrincipio Podcast >> Pope St. Sylvester (December 31st) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
• Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World >> How Many Souls Do Twins Have? And More Weird Questions – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> My New Year's Resolution: I CHOOSE GRATITUDE!
• Meeting Christ in the Liturgy (Fr. Kevin Cusick) >> Dominica Infra Octavam Nativitatis ~ Semiduplex Dominica minor
• National Catholic Register (Jonah McKeown) >> Looking Back at 2025: Hope Shines Brightly Amid a Year of Transition and Turmoil
• OnePeterFive (Robert Lazu Kmita, PhD) >> Converting to Rome “in order to Become More Orthodox”
• Public Discourse (William H. Pryor, Jr.) >> The Judicial Oath and the Judgment of History
• Taylor Marshall, Ph.D. Video >> 1279: Pope Leo's Christmas Message on Immigration: Is He Right? Dr. Taylor Marshall
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >> Been Waiting a Very Long Time for This
• The Catholic Gentleman (Devin Schadt) >> BIBLICAL MASCULINITY: WHY A HUSBAND MUST PROTECT HIS WIFE AND FAMILY
• The Catholic Thing (Randall Smith) >> Incarnation Wonder
• The Pillar (Jack Figge) >> Keeping the heat on - Finances in the Diocese of Fairbanks