Morning Roundup - Feria of Advent - Feria III infra Hebdomadam II Adventus - Missa 'Populus Sion' - December 9th, 2014

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> The “Great Gettin’ Up Morning” as Described in an Unlikely Advent Hymn
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Francis sends message of support to Iraqi Christians
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Cindy Wooden) >> Pope Francis: ‘People should spend time in silence this Christmas’
• Courageous Priest (John Quinn) >> Father, You’re Off-putting and Mean
• Crisis Magazine (William Kilpatrick) >> Chesterton’s Islamic England
• Crisis Magazine (Joe Bissonnette) >> The Return of the Prayer to St. Michael
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Saint of the Day: Juan Diego
• Dominicana Blog (Br. Aquinas Beale, O.P.) >> Guilty Pleasure and Peaceful Leisure
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Marbles (3)
• Fr Ray Blake's Blog >> The Immaculate on the streets of Brighton.
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Pontifical Mass in Madison for the Immaculate Conception
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 10: “The first born is not necessarily the first in a series…” 
• Godzdogz (Jean-Baptiste Régis OP) >> Second Tuesday of Advent: Jesus is to come
• Happy Catholic* (Julie D.) >> He was just a humble student in Hobbit Studies at the University of Chicago ...
• Human Exceptionalism (National Review Online; Wesley J. Smith) >> China Promises to End Harvesting the Executed
• In the Light of the Law (Dr. Edward Peters) >> A question on Mass-start times that warrants attention  (Good point!)
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> THE NEW EVANGELIZATION VS. SINFUL CIVILIZATION
• National Catholic Register Daily Blog >> Unraveling the ‘Francis Enigma’
• OnePeterFive (Father Richard Heilman) >> 1916 Military Rosary Inspires New Combat Rosary
• Orbis Catholicus Travel Blog (John Sonnen) >> Immaculate Conception Mass in USA
• SANCTE PATER  (Vincenzo) >> This 29-year-old was a waitress — then she got a cat with dwarfism, quit her job, and became a multi-millionaire
• SANCTE PATER  (Vincenzo) >> Mass with Fr. Z in Rome
• Standing on  My Head (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> Mother Mary and Calvinist Me
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Phoenix hosts massive celebration in honor of Mary 
• The Imaginative Conservative (L. Scott Smith) >> America’s Sense of Community
• The Imaginative Conservative (John Goerke) >> Facebook and the End of Civilization
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> St. Peter Fourier Dec. 9
• V for Victory! (Anita Moore, O.P., Esq.) >> The Immaculate Conception
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Let Not Your Heart Be Disturbed
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> S. Ioannis Didaci Cuahtlatoatzin
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Priests Who Pray