Afternoon Roundup - Octave Day of Christmas - Die Octavae Nativitatis Domini - Missa 'Puer Natus Est' - January 1st, 2013

• Accepting Abundance (Stacy Trasancos) >> Holy Mother of God: A Litany for Women
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> A Four-Point Plan for the New Year from St. Paul
• Ask Sister Mary Martha >> Our Slogan for 2013 
• Canterbury Tales (Dr. Taylor Marshall) >> New Year's Day is a Holy Day of Obligation (and the Circumcision of Christ)
• chantblog >> January 1: The Feast of the Circumcision 
• Creative Minority Report >> The Solemnity of Mary
• Crisis Magazine >> How Same-Sex Marriage Sufficates Freedom (Part I)  (Bryce J. Christensen)
• Crisis Magazine >> The Causes of Violence in America  (Stephen M. Krason)
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP) >> Defining "Mary, Mother of God"
• Eclectic Orthodoxy (Fr Aidan Kimel) >> “He alone of all that are born of woman is Holy”
• First Thoughts >> Progressives Ditch the Disguise  (Robert P. George)
• First Thoughts >> Giving Up on the Constitution?  (David T. Koyzis)
• Godzdogz (The English Dominican Studentate) >> Mother of God  (Graham Hunt OP)
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> The Wife of Adam and the Mother of the Redeemer on the Octave of Christmas. A most extraordinary painting.
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Ghandi's Take on British Gun Control in India
• New Liturgical Movement >> Octave Day of the Nativity
• Ordo recitandi: The Saint Lawrence Press Blog (Rubricarius) >> The Circumcision of the LORD and Octave Day of the Nativity 
• Pundit & Pundette >> About The Hobbit
• SHIRT OF FLAME (Heather King) >> ON THE 23RD ANNIVERSARY OF MOVING TO L.A.
• Sic Semper Tyrannis >> What Did We Expect?
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> MORE LITURGICAL MUSINGS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR IN OUR LORD, 2013 AND A BIT OF A GOOD RIDDANCE TO 2012!
• Streets Of Gold (Olivia) >> Mary, Mother of God
• The Catholic Thing >> Bob Bork: The Lingering Presence     (Hadley Arkes)
• The Chant Café >> Missa in Gallicantu- Tallis Scholars 
• The Foundry >> Beware Obamacare’s Looming Conscience Cliff (VIDEO)  (Sarah Torre)
• The hermeneutic of continuity (Fr. Tim Finigan) >> 10 things that will not happen in 2013 
• The New Theological Movement (Father Ryan Erlenbush) >> What we say about Jesus, when we call Mary the "Mother of God"
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Fr. Z’s 2013 New Year’s Resolutions
• Word On Fire Blog >> Spirituality: Resolving to Be Better