Morning Roundup - Greater Feria of Advent - Feria V infra Hebdomadam III Adventus - Missa 'Gaudéte' - December 20th, 2012

• Accepting Abundance (Stacy Trasancos) >> Mary and Ecumenism: The Catholic Circle
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> On the Virtue of Holy Silence Before the Mysteries of God. A Meditation on the Silence Imposed on Zechariah
• Catholic In The Ozarks (Shane Schaetzel) >> Why I Don't Believe In The Rapture
• Catholicseeking (Helen Gonsalves) >> Mayan calendar: new excuse for aficionados to predict end of the world 
• Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture >> Brief Thoughts on a Justice Bork  (Scott P. Richert)
• Creative Minority Report >> Les Miz or Django Unchained?
• Crisis Magazine >> Cultural Amnesia and the Separation of Church and State  (Bruce Frohnen)
• Crisis Magazine >> The Defense of Marriage Requires Honesty About Homosexuality  (Dale O'Leary)
• Dymphna's Road >> The Visitation
• Godzdogz >> A Virgin will Conceive ...
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> O Key of David! Turned with Absolution! “Bless me Father, for I have sinned…”
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> SWAT Teams for the threatened Sandy Hook Priests of Newtown CT — Show your solidarity right here right now
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog >> The Two Sides of China’s Party
• JIMMY AKIN.ORG >> Mayan apocalypse about to occur!
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Advent: The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns
• New Liturgical Movement >> Rorate Mass in Cincinnati
• Roma locuta est >> George Bailey and Saint Joseph
• RORATE CÆLI >> Congratulations to the great nation of Colombia!
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT MY ATTITUDES TOWARD VATICAN II AND SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM
• Streets Of Gold (Olivia) >> The virgin shall conceive and bear a son (Isaiah 7:14)
• The Catholic Thing >> The Key That Fits the Lock, Part Eleven  (Anthony Esolen)
• The Liturgical Day >> Dec. 20, 2012 
• Transalpine Redemptorists at home >> Thursday, III Week of Advent
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 19: Thursday of the 3rd Week of Advent
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> John Rist: ‘You can’t pick and choose in Catholic moral teaching’ 
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Decree on “heroic virtues” of Ven. Paul VI promulgated
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> "To Engage the World," B16 Takes Christmas to the Financial Times
• Word On Fire Blog >> Advent: The Crib and the Cross