Afternoon Roundup - 19th Sunday after Pentecost (EF) Or Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (OF) - October 4th, 2015

• ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP (Bishop Emeritus Rene Gracida) >> HILLARY WHITE WEIGHS IN ON THE KIM DAVIS/YAYO GRASSI SCANDAL
• Aleteia (Diane Montagna) >> Pope Francis’ Homily at Opening Mass for Synod on the Family
• Bonfire of the Vanities (Fr Martin Fox) >> Our joy in Christ is the answer to the crisis of our times (Sunday homily)
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Xavier Rynne II) >> Letters from the Synod: special edition, October 4, 2015
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Fr Matthew Pittam) >> ‘Fulton Sheen will be canonised – but when?’
• Catholic Sacristan (Isten Joe) >> Angels and Demons: a meditation.
• Catholic Stand  (John McNichol) >> Talk, Talk: Why Catholics Should Debate on the Internet
• Catholic Stand (Richard G Evans) >> Francis of Assisi — My Saint and Friend
• Catholic Stand  (Don Byron) >> All Those Moves, and Still Home
• Clutching My Rosary >> Saint Francis, Confessor
• Clutching My Rosary >> The Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost
• Communio (Paul Zalonski) >> Transitus of Francis
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Marriage Is a Miracle! A Homily for the 27th Sunday of the Year
• Courageous Priest (John Quinn) >> The Synod: A Real Church Soap Opera
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> St Francis: The Poor Man of Assisi
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> PARRHESIA
• Fr Ray Blake's Blog >> As the Synod begins
• Lectio Divina Notes (Kate Edwards) >> Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
• Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Pope Francis' Homily at Opening Mass of Ordinary General Assembly of Synod on the Family, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
• OnePeterFive (Jeffrey Bond) >> What We May Expect From the Synod: A Brief Synopsis
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> On the Solemnity of Our Lady of the Rosary, First Sunday in October: "The Mass, Prayer, the Rosary — nothing else can avail"
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Synod, first day: "Unacceptable" - the danger of the Great Division has arrived
• Sacred Ground And Sticky Floors (Jami Amerine) >> Dear Pediatrician,
• Sacred Ground And Sticky Floors (Jami Amerine) >> 31 Days of Stuff I Wish You’d Stop Saying: Day 4 “Do you wan’t to go to Walmart?”
• The Catholic Thing (Fr. C. John McCloskey) >> Countering the West’s Growing Death Wish
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> St. Francis of Assisi – October 4th
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> My dealings are higher than your dealings
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> A "Mission In Truth" – At Synod's Start, Pope Returns To "God's Dream"... and "Not Pointing A Finger"