Morning Roundup - St. Thomas, Apostle - S. Thomae Apostoli - Missa 'Mihi Autem' - Commemoration: Ember Friday - December 21st, 2012

• Accepting Abundance (Stacy Trasancos) >> Mary and Ecumenism: The Christian Circle
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Rude and Uninformed. A reflection on a recent billboard campaign by Atheist Humanists
• Ask Sister Mary Martha >> A Little Christmas Cheer
• Bill Petro >> History of the End of the World
• Catholicseeking (Helen Gonsalves) >> Pope takes anti-gay marriage stance to new level 
• Chiesa.expressonline.it (Sandro Magister) >> The Pope and the Rabbi Against the Philosophy of "Gender"
• Creative Minority Report >> Republicans Are The Most Inept Species Ever
• Crisis Magazine >> Can You See the Baby?  (Christopher Manion)
• Crisis Magazine >> C.S. Lewis on Christmas  (Jon Kennedy)
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP) >> Apocalypse Yawn 
• Dymphna's Road >> What not to wear
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> O Antiphons — O Oriens — Welcome to ad ORIENtem par excellence!
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> Spielberg’s Lincoln: Politics as Mathematics
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Jesus is Nigh
• On This Rock (Father John Hollowell) >> A Review of Hobbit Reviews
• Ordo recitandi: The Saint Lawrence Press Blog (Rubricarius) >> St. Thomas the Apostle 
• Roma locuta est >> The Angelus and the Liturgy: A Tale of Catholic Identity
• RORATE CÆLI >> Pope's Christmas Address: "Gender theory" is nonsense; Dialogue: the Christian is confident because he is possessed by the Truth
• SHIRT OF FLAME (Heather King) >> GOLD, FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRH
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> UNLESS THE WORLD WAS RAPTURED AND I WAS LEFT BEHIND ON MY 59TH, I WILL CONTINUE TO BLOG FOR THE INDEFINITE FUTURE
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> LIKE THE CHURCH'S FIGHT AGAINST THE LEGALIZATION OF DIVORCE, THE CHURCH'S FIGHT AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE MAY WELL BE DOOMED TO THE SAME FATE
• Streets Of Gold (Olivia) >> And blessed is the fruit of your womb (Luke 1:42)
• The Catholic Thing >> Sandy Hook, Huckabee, and the Inscrutability of Evil  (Francis J. Beckwith) 
• The Chant Café >> More Dominican Student Brothers Public Singing Christmas Wonderfulness
• The Curt Jester (Jeff Miller) >> Giving and Receiving
• The Liturgical Day (Jimmy Akin) >> Dec. 21, 2012
• The New Theological Movement (Father Ryan Erlenbush) >> The first novena was nine months long
• TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS PROPERS IN ENGLISH (Deacon John Giglio Jr.) >> Saint Thomas the Apostle, Ember Friday in Advent
• Transalpine Redemptorists at home >> Friday, III Week of Advent
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> December 21, O ORIENS
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 20: Friday of the 3rd Week of Advent
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> O Oriens....