Late Morning - Greater Feria of Advent - Feria III infra Hebdomadam III Adventus - Missa 'Gaudéte' - December 17th, 2013

Local Area TLM's for Christmas Eve & Day, 2013

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> The Rise and Fall of a Prophet. And a warning for us.
• Bill Petro >> Movie Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• Catholic Answers >> Why December 25?  (Jon Sorensen)
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Archbishop Nichols appointed to Congregation for Bishops  (Ed West)
• Catholic Stand >> Catholics Praying for Religious Freedom is Backwards Thinking  (David L. Gray)
• Catholic Stand >> Catholicism & Conspiracies: Christmas  (Foxfier)
• Charlotte was Both (Amy Welborn) >> Monday
• Courageous Priest >> A Eucharistic Flash Mob  (John Quinn)
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> So That Apology is Coming to Santorum...When?
• Crisis Magazine >> Rejoice and Evangelize: He is with Us and We Have Been Loved  (Arland K. Nichols)
• Crisis Magazine >> Common Core Sexualizes American School Children  (Mary Jo Anderson)
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> In the Bleak Midwinter by Gloucester Cathedral Choir
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> G.K. Chesterton on Christmas
• Dymphna's Road >> St. Therese and the Holy Child
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown  (John Murdock)
• First Thoughts >> The Devil at Christmas  (Betsy Childs)
• First Thoughts >> Evil and the Absence of Truth  (Phillip Cary)
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> RORATE CAELI DESUPER
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> VIDEO Islamists Attack Towering Christ Statue in Syria, Bomb Monastery 
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 17: 3rd Tuesday of Advent – The innermost core of the mystery of Christmas
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> 17 Dec: 77th Birthday of His Holiness Pope Francis
• Global Economic Warfare  (Kevin D. Freeman) >> Startling NSA Admission that Economic Warfare is a Serious Threat; So, What Is Your Game Plan to Deal With It?
• Godzdogz (The English Dominican Studentate) >> Advent 2013: 'O Sapientia'   (Oliver James Keenan OP)
• Happy Catholic* (Julie D.) >> O Wisdom
• JimmyAkin.Com >> Did the Emperor Constantine found the Catholic Church
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> I Agree with Mike Voris: It's Irrational...
• New Liturgical Movement >> Reno erat Rudolphus  (Jeffrey Tucker)
• New Liturgical Movement >> Is Pope Francis Really So Down on Sacred Liturgy? I Don't Think So  (David Clayton)
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> SAVE THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE AND SAVE THE CHURCH! 
• The Catholic Thing >> Does Francis Have a Teaching Strategy?  (Hadley Arkes)
• The Chant Café >> What Child Is This?  (Jeffrey Tucker)
• The Chant Café >> Caroling Dominicans at the Columbia Heights Metro Station, Washington, DC  (Kathleen Pluth)
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> US to open first Trappist brewery outside Europe
• With Good Reason (Fr. Thomas V. Berg) >> Third Sunday of Advent: Satisfaction vs. Spiritual Joy
• Word On Fire Blog >> Free Blessings