Morning Roundup - St. Stephen, Protomartyr - Comm.: Day in the Octave of Christmas - December 26th, 2012

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Some Paradoxes of Christmas
• Catholicseeking (Helen Gonsalves) >> The Second Day of Christmas - Feast of St. Stephen, first martyr 
• chantblog >> December 26: The Feast of St. Stephen
• Creative Minority Report >> Thank God my Kids are in Catholic School
• Crisis Magazine >> The 2012 Christmas Eve Homily of Pope Benedict XVI  (Pope Benedict XVI)
• Crisis Magazine >> Benedict Defends Traditional Family in Christmas Address to Roman Curia  (Pope Benedict XVI)
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP) >> Rain, wind, snow. . .home at last!
• Eclectic Orthodoxy (Fr Aidan Kimel) >> “He, equal to the Father in the form of God, became like to us in the form of a servant”
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >>  A Pastoral Opportunity Lost?  (George Weigel)
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >>  Far As the Curse is Found  (J. Augustine Di Noia, O.P.)
• First Thoughts >> The Word of the Day: slack  (Anthony Esolen)
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog >> Seeing the Face of Christ at Christmas
• Ordo recitandi: The Saint Lawrence Press Blog (Rubricarius) >> St. Stephen the Protomartyr
• RORATE CÆLI >> Christmas Octave: Devotion to the Child Jesus  First part
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> GUESS WHO WAS FIRST TO CHANT THE GRADUAL AT AN ORDINARY FORM MASS AS WELL AS THE TRACT AS THE GOSPEL ACCLAMATION? NO NOT THE VATICAN, AS THEY ARE JOHNNYS COME LATELY, IT WAS SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH IN MACON, GEORGIA ON MARCH 19, 2012 IN AN ORDINARY FORM MASS SUNG IN AN EXTRAORDINARY FORM SORT OF WAY!
• Streets Of Gold (Olivia) >> You will be hated by all because of my name (Matthew 10:22)
• The Black Biretta (Padre Giovanni Trigilio) >> Christmas 2012 in my two parishes
• The Catholic Thing >> On Christmas Day     (James V. Schall, S.J.)
• The Integrated Catholic Life >> Holiness and the Family  (Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.)
• The Liturgical Day (Jimmy Akin) >> Dec. 26, 2012
• These Stone Walls (Fr. Gordon MacRae) >> These Stone Walls at Year’s End: The Hits and Misses of 2012 
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Domine Jesu, suscipe spiritum meum
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Christmas at Silverstream Priory 
• Word On Fire Blog >> Saints: The Feast of St. Stephen