Morning Roundup - Ember Wednesday in Advent - Missa 'Rorate Coeli' - December 14th, 2011

• A Trail of Flowers >> The Tree of Life
• A Priest Life >> President Nominates Catholic Air Force Chaplain Richard Erikson for Promotion
• Archdiocese of Washington >> Those Were the Days of Giants! A Brief Reflection on the Fasting and Abstinence that were once common in Advent and Lent (Msgr. Charles Pope)
• chantblog >> Te Deum in C (Stanford) - Westminster Abbey - YouTube
  
• Coming Home >> Coming Home is Two Years Old Today
• Creative Minority Report >> Longfellow's Lament "Christmas Bells"
• Crisis Magazine >> Coercing Consciences (George Weigel)
• First Thoughts >> Anno Domini 2012 (Joe Carter)
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> Help these great cloistered nuns pray for martyr priests, please!
• In Caritate Non Ficta >> Possibly Unpopular Opinion of the Year
• JIMMY AKIN.ORG >> Should We Chuck Christ out of Christmas?
• Liturgia Latina >> Wednesday in Ember Week of Advent
• New Liturgical Movement >> Quatuor Tempora: Advent Ember Days
• RORATE CÆLI >> Ongoing series: The crisis of the Church is a crisis of Bishops 1- Overturning faithful school decisions in Australia
• Standing on My Head >> Anniversary (Ad multos annos!)
• Streets Of Gold >> Canticle of St John of the Cross
• Te Deum laudamus! >> St. John of the Cross - Carmelite, Confessor, and Doctor of Mystical Theology
• The hermeneutic of continuity >> Recording of responses for Low Mass (Bookmark this link!)
• The Recovering Choir Director >> Christmas Proclamation (Traditional Melody, 2011 ICEL English Text) [FREE PDF]
• These Stone Walls >> Down the Nights and Down the Days: Advent for a Prisoner Priest
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? >> Learning Latin responses for the TLM (Bookmark this link too!)
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? >> Archbp. Martin: “Irish Catholics are very weak, and that’s the fault of generations of the Church…”