Morning Roundup - St. John, Apostle & Evangelist - Comm.: Day in the Octave of Christmas - December 27th, 2012

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> A Meditation on the Bloody Octave of Christmas
• Catholicseeking (Helen Gonsalves) >> The Third Day of Christmas - Feast of Saint John 
• chantblog >> December 27: The Feast of St. John Evangelist
• Charlotte was Both (Amy Welborn) >> On painting Popes and Saints 
• Creative Minority Report >> Reality Modifiers to Life, Marriage, and Family
• Crisis Magazine >> What the Thunder Said  (Ben Akers)
• Crisis Magazine >> Leo XIII: “Without Faith, Liberty Degenerates into License”  (Anthony Esolen)
• Dymphna's Road >> My King, My Little King
• Eclectic Orthodoxy (Fr Aidan Kimel) >> “Blessed is He Who made our body a Tabernacle for His hiddenness”
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >>  It’s a Destructive Life  (Patrick J. Deneen)
• First Thoughts >> “Even Cupid Wants to Know Your Credit Score”: NYT  (Eve Tushnet)
• First Thoughts >> Ghosts and Miracles  (David Mills)
• First Thoughts >> Grammar Lesson of the Day: Firstly  (Anthony Esolen)
• Grace Before Meals (Fr. Leo) >> Dinner Discussions: Holy (Not Perfect) Family
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> Death near Holy Souls Mountain: Do not ask for whom the bell tolls…
• New Liturgical Movement >> Mutual Enrichment, Anglican Patrimony, and the Ordinariate  (Matthew Alderman)
• SHIRT OF FLAME (Heather King) >> IT'S EASY TO REMEMBER
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> SHOULD THE PRIEST BE PRE-OCCUPIED BY WHAT THE CONGREGATION IS OR ISN'T DOING? 
• Streets Of Gold (Olivia) >> We have seen it and testify to it (1 John 1:2) 
• The Catholic Thing >> Joseph, Model Father  (Randall Smith)
• The Curt Jester (Jeff Miller) >> Two Mass-going experiences
• The Integrated Catholic Life >> “I will honor Christ in my heart and try to be authentically Catholic all the year.”  (Randy Hain)
• The Liturgical Day (Jimmy Akin) >> Dec. 27, 2012
• The New Theological Movement (Father Ryan Erlenbush) >> What we know of Jesus' life from St. John alone, and what we would not know if we only had the Fourth Gospel 
• Transalpine Redemptorists at home >> Christmas Night Mass. + Et lux in tenebris lucet... And the light shineth in darkness...
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Drink to the Love of Saint John! 
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> With Saint John: into the love of things invisible
• Word On Fire Blog >> Christmas: The Prologue of the Gospel of John