Evening Roundup - Feria of Advent - Sabbato infra Hebdomadam II Adventus - Missa 'Pópulus Sion' - December 15th, 2012

• Bonfire of the Vanities (Fr. Martin Fox) >> 'Baptized in the Holy Spirit' (Sunday homily)
• Canterbury Tales (Dr. Taylor Marshall) >> The Chain from Catholicism to Atheism
• chantblog >> The Advent III Gradual: Qui Sedes, Domine
• Coming Home (Gerard M. Nadal) >> Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes for Healing the Wounds of Newtown and Sandy Hook (Day 1)
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP) >> Ministering to the traumatized
• Dymphna's Road >> massacre of the innocents....there's something happening here
• First Thoughts >> The New Hobbit  (David Mills)
• First Thoughts >> Deterring, Not Preventing, Evil  (David T. Koyzis)
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> In times of persecution, what are priests to do? Hide? Be in-your-face? On traditionalist Catholics who condemn Pius XII as a Marxist homosexualist
• IDLE SPECULATIONS (Terry Prest) >> Saint Catherine of Siena before Pope Gregory XI 
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog >> Joy! Anticipation! Fire?
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog >> America Still Has Half a Soul. For Now.
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> God Bless Those Sidewalk Counselors...
• RORATE CÆLI >> A Must-Read for Parents: Restoring Tradition in Christmas 
• The Chant Café >> What Chant? Fr. Fessio Speaks
• The Chant Café >> A Future of Tradition
• The Chant Café >> Iterum dico, gaudete!
• The Curt Jester (Jeff Miller) >> Liturgical Referees
• The hermeneutic of continuity (Fr. Tim Finigan) >> Solid good sense from Bishop Egan 
• Transalpine Redemptorists at home >> He turned the Storm into a Breeze
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Benedictine nuns’ Advent music CD: the back story
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> REVIEW: St. Thomas Aquinas – Commentaries on St. Paul in Latin and English (not to mention the Summa Theologiae)
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Congregation for Saints issued decree on the “heroic virtues” of Pope Paul VI
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> The Holy Father’s message after the Connecticut murders