Noon Roundup - St. Nicholas, Bishop & Confessor - Missa 'Statuit' Or Sacred Heart of Jesus - Missa 'Cogitatiónes Cordis' - December 6th, 2013

• ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP >> WHAT ARE THE WORST PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD TODAY? MILITANT ISLAMISM, SECULARISM, CULTURE OF DEATH, TOTALITARIANISM, NOT ECONOMICS
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> A Brief Explanation of the Nuptial Meaning of the Body.
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Without repentance during Advent the Christmas we prepare for is mere tinsel  (Bishop David McGough)
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >>  The ordinariate liturgy is even more splendid in action than it seemed on the page; the Church has absorbed elements of the Anglican patrimony I hadn’t anticipated  (William Oddie)
• Catholic Stand >> NYC Cabbie: Sees Miracle of Rumpled Old Blind and Deaf Man  (Jamey Brown)
• Catholic Stand >> Defending the Catholic Faith  (Robbe Lyn Sebesta)
• Catholic World Report - Blog >> St. Nicholas the Wonderworker—bringing presents, punching heretics   (Catherine Harmon)
• Catholic World Report - Blog >> Warming the Coldest Hearts  (Nick Olszyk)
• Charlotte was Both (Amy Welborn) >> Nice Try
• Charlotte was Both (Amy Welborn) >> 7 Quick Takes
• Chiesa.expressonline.it (Sandro Magister) >> Masterpieces of Gregorian Chant / "Populus Sion"
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> The Benefits and Dangers of Daily Morning Mass
• Crisis Magazine >> The Global War on Christians  (Rev. Dwight Longenecker)
• Crisis Magazine >> Resistance to Porn from an Unlikely Place  (Austin Ruse)
• First Thoughts >> Male and Female  (Phillip Cary)
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Whatever happened to Genesis? (2)
• Fr Ray Blake's Blog >> Trent: a renewal
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Andrew Napolitano reacts to Pope Francis comments on economics
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 06: 1st Friday of Advent – “boogeymen”
• Godzdogz (The English Dominican Studentate) >> First Friday of Advent: Curing the blind men  (Luke Doherty OP)
• Happy Catholic* (Julie D.) >> 10 Books That Have Stayed With You Meme
• JimmyAkin.Com >> St. Ambrose: Strangest Life Story Ever? (8 things to know and share)
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Beauty in the Midst of Horror: Hope Overcoming Despair (Mary Ann Kreitzer)
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> "The Lie of Integralism"
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> "Is Your Liturgy Like What Vatican II Intended?"
• Patrick Archbold (NC Register) >> The Benefits and Dangers of Daily Mass
• Psallam Domino (Kate Edwards) >> The Septuagint and the contest between Judaism and Christianity in the early years of the Church
• Regina Magazine >> The Real Santa Claus  (Beverly Stevens)
• RORATE CÆLI >> FIUV PP: The Reception of the Host Alone by the Faithful   (Joseph Shaw)
• SHIRT OF FLAME (Heather King) >> HEARSAY OF THE SOUL: WERNER HERZOG AT THE GETTY
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> POPE TO THEOLOGIANS BOMBSHELL! SENSUS FIDELIUM IS NOT, IS NOT, IS NOT MAJORITY OPINION!!!!
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> CELEBRATING OR COMMEMORATING OR LAMENTING THE 50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM  ("Finally, a hope for the future of the Mass comes from the Anglican Ordinariate.  The options of the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar, the traditional offertory Prayers, the EF rubrics for the Roman Canon and the Last Gospel after the dismissal will show the great continuity between the post-Vatican II Mass (Ordinary Form) and the Mass from which it developed, the pre-Vatican II Mass now called the Extraordinary Form. There will be an authentic organic development rather than a breach to something altogether different.")
• Standing on  My Head (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> For Advent – The Four First Things
• Te Deum laudamus! (Diane M. Korzeniewski, OCDS) >> This Sunday: Solemn High Mass for Immaculate Conception with Mozart's Coronation Mass
• The Catholic Thing >> The Supremes and Us  (Gerald J. Russello)
• V for Victory! (Anita Moore, O.P., Esq.) >> December 5, 1933: A Toast to a Well-Deserved Failure
• Views From the Choir Loft >> Chris Mueller's Unique Voice in the Propers