Afternoon Roundup - 5th Day in the Octave of Christmas - Commemoration: St. Thomas Becket, Martyr - December 29th, 2011

• A Priest Life >> Vocation Thursdays: Father Ron Gillis
• Archdiocese of Washington >> Orthodox Priests Fighting In Church of the Nativity – A Personal Reflection (Msgr. Charles Pope)
• Chiesa.expressonline.it (by***) >> Vatican Diary / Sant'Egidio in supervised freedom
• Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture >> Loom of the Jackboot: Obama Gives Military Extreme Powers (Alexander Cockburn)
• Creative Minority Report >> Byron York: Santorum's Time
• Crisis Magazine >> What Happened to Us in 2011? (Alfred A. Lagan)
• Crisis Magazine >> Warnings of the End (John C. Chalberg)
• First Thoughts >> Psychiatry’s Flawed Tool (Joe Carter)
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> 21 Exorcism tips from Holy Souls Hermitage – Mind games with the devil!
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog >> "Failure makes people bitter and cruel."
• JIMMY AKIN.ORG >> The TWENTY-PLUS Days of Christmas???
  
• Liturgia Latina >> 29th December, St Thomas of Canterbury, Bishop and Martyr
• New Liturgical Movement >> The Pontifical Vesting Prayers of the Usus Antiquior
• Ordo recitandi >> St. Thomas of Canterbury
• RORATE CÆLI >> This is the sign of the Church always, the Sign of Blood
• Streets Of Gold >> A Light to enlighten the pagans (Luke 2:32)
• The Chant Café >> Mary, Mother of God, Simple English propers
• The Chant Café >> Top Ten Things I’ve Learned about Sacred Music
• The Narthex >> Bethlehem Brawl: So much for ‘peace on Earth, goodwill toward men’
• The Path Less Taken >> Of all the soaps in all of London… St Anthony found this one for me…
• Vultus Christi >> Holiness Through Adoration
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? >> “The rediscovery of Gregorian chant is a sine qua non condition to give back dignity to the liturgical music.”
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? >> More on Card. George’s comparison of the homosexual parade to a KKK demonstration.
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? >> QUAERITUR: About negative judgments for “annulments”
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? >> Detroit: New orchestral Mass premiered at Assumption Grotto, composed by the parish priest!
• Word On Fire Blog >> News: Additional commentary from Fr. Barron on Hitchens