Afternoon Roundup - 7th Day in the Octave of Christmas - Missa 'Puer Natus Est' - Comm.: St. Sylvester I, Pope & Confess. - December 31st, 2013

Local Area Traditional Latin Catholic Masses (Extraordinary Form), Octave Day of the Nativity, January 1st, 2014 & The Epiphany, January 6th, 2014

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> On Time Warps and Missing Feasts – A Critique of the Puzzling Cycle of Christmas Feast  (Marvelous post!)
• Ask Sister Mary Martha >> Out of Limbo
• Bill Petro >> History of New Year’s Day: Why on January 1?
• Catholic Stand >> The Cholera Cross: A Monument of Faith  (Deacon Jim Russell)
• Catholic Stand >> A New Year and A New Hope  (Donald R. McClarey)
• Courageous Priest >> Why Is There A Famine Of Love And Family Life In Our Country?
• Creative Minority Report (Patrick Archbold) >> No More Mr. Nice Gay
• Crisis Magazine >> Why “Person of the Year”?  (Kenneth D. Whitehead)
• Crisis Magazine >> Sacrificing Religious Life on the Altar of Egalitarianism   (Br. Justin Hannegan)
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> New Year's Resolutions for Catholics
• Eye of the Tiber >> Eye Of The Tiber 2013 Year In Review  ("...Behold, another few minutes of your life has passed and you’ve chosen to waste it on a stupid little satirical recap of the news rather than spending that time praying for the holy souls in Purgatory. For shame. Now go on and say three Hail Marys and three Our Fathers. See you next week...")
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Death, Our Enemy  (Joshua John Mackin)
• First Thoughts >> Justice and Helplessness  (Phillip Cary)
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Of the Father's Heart Begotten
• Fr Ray Blake's Blog >> Fleeing from the wolves
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> A Christmas gift I didn’t get!
• Happy Catholic* (Julie D.) >> My Top 2013 Movies
• Having Left The Altar (Katherine) >> Art & Poetry, I
• Jimmy Akin (NC Register) >> 9 Things You Should Know About How the Church Celebrates January 1
• New Liturgical Movement >> Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship  (Charles Cole)
• Pundit & Pundette >> Ella's New Year's Eve
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> COCA-COLA PRO-LIFE, WHO KNEW?
• The Catholic Thing >> A Dickensian Close for 2013  (Hadley Arkes)
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Former Anglican celebrates his first Christmas as a Catholic priest
• The Sensible Bond >> A fear, a hope and a prayer for 2014
• The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) >> Time Out
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> (Translation.) Mary, Virgin and Mother,you who,...
• Word On Fire Blog >> Our Favorite Books of 2013